The other day, an university sent a supplement in the mail, it was designed to raise its profile and act as funding vehicle. The university is located to the west of the city the writer lives in and I have been to it a couple of times in the past, once to see where it was. The reason it is noted to the west, when I typically leave the city, 95% of the time I go east towards the sea, which means the familiarity with those institutions is higher. Looking through the supplement, leads me to believe the services, programs and people are of the same high quality as the eastern institutions but still the car typically drives east.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, we all have biases and it is ok. We have biases in where we live, in the stores we choose to spend our money at, and the way we live. It makes us who we are. The trick is recognize the biases, and every once in a while see what you are missing because of them. The writer remembers when Wal-mart came into the market area, some people said they would never shop there, others looked at the consistently higher number of cars in the parking lot and bought the stock. They both saw the same thing and both were correct.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions