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According to Dividends: U.S. Entering Recession

Lav66 Wrote: Sep 25, 2012 4:49 PM

Unlike some of the liberal trolls on this site I do see reality. People are not sitting on money out of greed, they are simply sitting on their money because of the uncertain increase in taxes on the middle class to pay for what should have been an unconstitutional law. Obama has created so many regulations that business owners do not know how much more they will have to start paying in 2014. All of us should send a message to Obama in November Thanks but no thanks we want somebody new one who has actually had to make payroll to keep his business alive.

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According to Dividends: U.S. Entering Recession

Last month, we stumbled across a unique potential indicator for measuring the current health of the U.S. economy: the number of publicly-traded U.S. companies acting to cut their dividend payments each month.

Since then, we now have data for two additional months, July and August 2012. Our chart below, focusing on the number of U.S. companies declaring that they will acto to decrease their dividends in each month since January 2004.

The chart represents data collected and published by Standard and Poor for U.S. companies whose common stock is traded on...

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