If you like a good mystery book – The Inquisitor’s Key by Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass, HarperCollins, NY, 2012 is a good read. The book’s main character is a forensic anthropologist who helps both the police and others identify people. The book is set in Avignon, France and to give reference to what they are doing many descriptions are given. It is important to note Avignon, was the Pope’s Palaces before they lived moved to Rome. Thus the book has religious inquiries, the art world, and secrets that some want to discover and others really do not want to be let out.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, similar to a mystery novel in order to find out who did it? research needs to be done or homework. Homework to be able to connect the dots and lead you to a variety of different paths and one path will have the best answer. Similarly in investing there are many methods to invest in, one tried and true method which is easier to do and consistently gives good returns is buying dividend paying stocks. If you start with the best dividend paying stocks, it helps make the selection of equals even easier. If you start with dividend paying stocks that have raised their dividends and have paid for greater than 10 years, whether the markets go up (even though that is what we want) or down, the dividends ensure a continuing payout and when markets do rise, dividend stock prices go up faster.

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