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2011 was the year of the utility stocks offering investors high dividend yields of well over 4.0%. 2012 has not gone so well for the sector, with 25 of the 34 S&P 500 Index utilities down for...
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Dividend investors potentially have a lot to lose in the 2012 Presidential election. While the real crux of the matter may boil down to which party rules the House and/or Senate in 2013 and beyond,...
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The White House and some in Congress favor tax breaks for companies that bring back jobs from overseas. It appears that most Americans do as well, which sets up a tension between job creation and an...
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The gap between what taxpayers owed the IRS and what was paid on time in 2006 was $385 billion. Multiply that by the five years since, and one year of the national deficit would be more than paid...
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24/7 Wall St. has just released its 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio for investors. While we have many names we have featured as buys in our income and defensive stock sectors, this is the first time...
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New York governor Mario Cuomo has set a new system to tax high-income earners and give tax relief to middle-class state residents. The program looks quite a bit like a plan set by California...
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If the rich will not be taxed at the federal level, perhaps they will be state-by-state. California Governor Jerry Brown has suggested that state residents who make more than $250,000 should pay a...
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There is a problem with tax collection in a country that has instituted austerity measures while simultaneously trying to attack tax evaders, and that is there may be no one to collect the money owed...
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Yet another study shows that the largest U.S. companies pay very little in taxes. The problem, if it is one, has gone without a solution for years. There is nothing on the horizon that would indicate...
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More than 2,00o Americans made in excess of $10 million last year. Most of them probably earned it, perhaps at investment banks or hedge funds. Some may be rich farmers who paid themselves well as...
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Leveraged ETFs and ETNs are not new to most investors. They are also not new in all cases when it comes to precious metals. You are likely familiar with the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) for...
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The Greeks smoke and drink too much, or the supply of alcohol and tobacco has contracted considerably. The National Statistical Service of Greece put out its September consumer price data. One of...
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It is more tiring each day to consider how much Europe has the world by the throat. Everyone in the U.S. is looking for a flash point, or a flushing sound, or something that signals the beginning...
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President Obama wants millionaires and billionaires taxed at a rate as least as high as the one school teachers pay. That plan is among the key issues between the Administration and Republican...
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S&P put out another report on US sovereign debt and the likelihood of a default if an increase in the debt cap isn’t passed. S&P lays out three scenarios for whether and how the debt...
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