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15 Attractive Stocks for Increasing Dividends

I amalways searching for companies that respect shareholders' interest by increasing dividend along with executive pay!

A Closer Look at the Unemployment Numbers

Good charts & discussion. It would be interesting to breakout skill levels of "long unemployed" vs "short term unemployed". Are such individuals taking longer to find employment at prior compensation, or to accept lower compensation with more competition? Duration of unemployment used to be explained in terms of information costs leading to pervasive disequilibrium for some job seekers. With computerized employment data bases and so on, the information costs should be lower, which results in shorter unemployment.

Kinder Morgan to Benefit from Increasing Natural Gas Consumption

I've owned KMP since 2002 and enjoy the return. I did own KMI, the GP, until it was acquired by private equity guys, so that IDR payout was captured in part.

Dividend Stocks for Retirement Portfolios

The selection criteria appears to exclude alternative income producing assets such as REIT, MLP, preferred shares, etc.

Dividend Stocks for Retirement Portfolios

The selection criteria appears to exclude alternative income producing assets such as REIT, MLP, preferred shares, etc.