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Dividend Cuts: Time to Sell?

Tough call on when to sell. Clearly you were smart with disposing of all those stocks, but what if you hadn't? I would think that as a dividend investor you would sell a stock on principle after a dividend cut and if over the long-term the company again began to increase it look at re-initiating a position at that point.

Paulson and Bernanke: A Conspiracy of Dunces

Read Bernanke's 1983 work titled, "Nonmonetary Effects on the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression" and get back to me on how much of a dunce you think he is.

What looks good on paper doesn't always work well in the real world, but he's done a much better job than anyone else put into this situation. It's all about the supply of money for credit - bottom line, and he gets that. Politically though his hands are tied and this is an arena he was likely not well prepared for.

Dividend Aristocrats Survived September

Great table David, thanks!