Wall Street would like us to believe that a 3% dividend is a good yield on your money that competes between bonds and stocks.

That’s because we’ve been in such a low interest rate environment for so long that venturing out from traditional income vehicles like blue chip dividend paying stocks, CDs, bonds and money markets into alternative investments is just not how most brokerages and banks are geared for.

Do you know how many 3%-paying big name stocks are big-time losers? A lot! After working for some of the biggest wire houses in the business, looking back, I can see how the brokerage community gets comfortable with such low yield equity investments.

I just posted a short video I think you’ll find interesting on “Dead Dividend Stocks”

Maybe you have a “dead dividend stock” in your portfolio. The year-end is a great time to sell it (especially if it’s a tax loss) to raise cash and put it to work in a “double digit income investment” for 2007.

I’d love to hear from you. If you own or have owned any “Dead Dividend Stocks” in the past year, let me know what they were. Please post below your “dead dividend stocks.”

Posting your comment is easy; here’s all you do:

1). Click on the Comments link at the bottom of this post.

2). Enter in your name and e-mail address, but you can skip the URL field.

3). Post your “dead dividend stock” in the big box labeled “comments.”

A more complete list of “Dead Dividend Stocks” is available by clicking the button on the lower right side of this page, “Last Decade's Darlings Are This Decade's Duds—Dead Dividend Stocks.”

Thanks again and Happy Holidays.

Bryan Perry

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