washingtonpost.com - InvestingInvestingSin-Based Investing Pays Dividends- April 23, 2005 Vice Fund, which specializes in buying "habit-forming" products, returned 34 percent last year.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28783-2004Mar27.html?nav=rss_business/colum... The Dow Wow- April 23, 2005 After a year in which every stock market in the world has risen handsomely, real estate has gone through the roof, and bonds and commodities have soared as well, the witty and bearish Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, has titled his spring conference, "What's Left to Go Up"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19478-2004Apr17.html?nav=rss_business/colum... What the Boom Will Do In 2010- April 23, 2005 Look for companies that should prosper, and hope that baby boomers provide a delightful kicker.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47277-2004May22.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Fear Factor- April 23, 2005 A terror attack may come, but that doesn't mean that a stock market crash will result.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46995-2004Apr3.html?nav=rss_business/column... Ignorance Can Still Mean Bliss- April 23, 2005 Whichever kind of investor you are, you should not base your decisions to buy or sell funds or stocks based on what the market as a whole is doing.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28723-2004May15.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Hi-Yo Silver- April 23, 2005 One of my heroes is the late Julian Simon, the University of Maryland economist who challenged the conventional wisdom that the world was getting overpopulated and would soon run out of food and other critical resources.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10105-2004Mar20.html?nav=rss_business/colum... Thornburg Built Stairway To Bond Heaven- April 23, 2005 The company's REIT pays a whopping 10.1 percent dividend.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10156-2004May8.html?nav=rss_business/column... Dividends More Dandy- April 23, 2005 When Congress cut the tax rate on dividends to 15 percent last year, American investors got a bigger boost than most of them seem to realize.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36992-2004Mar6.html?nav=rss_business/column... The REIT Stuff- April 23, 2005 Rising interest rates have meant falling stock prices for real estate investment trusts, or REITs (pronounced "reetz"), which are companies that own portfolios of property or, in a few cases, mortgages.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58561-2004May1.html?nav=rss_business/column... 8 Ways to Find His Keepers- April 23, 2005 While the average stock on the S&P 500 has lost value over the past five years, Littelfuse Inc. has doubled.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A111-2004May29.html?nav=rss_business/columns... |