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Panic on Wall Street

You've heard about the home-loan bust, but do you know your derivatives from your tranches? Read Salon's easy guide to understanding the current market freakout.
By Andrew Leonard

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  • Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:25 AM

    Addendum

    IF a company is truly "good" and "increases its value over time" - then it will pay DIVIDENDS. To me this is the only certain way to assess company value. No dividends paid, then likley little or no value or they would deliver the goods each quarter.

    The only genuine stock payoff is and remains dividends. Unless one is regularly receiving those one has no firm feedback on how well any enterprise or company is doing. Plowing money 'back in' is often what the scheisters want you to do, in order to disguise their own red ink.

    Make 'em pay dividends or put the money into CDs.

    —droogoy Read droogoy's other letters

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