The economy has a segment in every newscast but the reality is many listeners do not know what the person has said. John Lanchester in the book How to Speak Money offers descriptions of many of the phrases you hear on the news. In theory with the internet, people can look the descriptions up; however most of us do not. We hear, we read and eventually get it; but if you do not read as much as you should. what to do? The book How to Speak Money is a dictionary of financial terms and if you regularly read or hear financial news you will catch on soon.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, since the 2008 bank crashes lead by mortgage back securities, there have been multiple terms to describe something regulators are trying to get the economy back to what was normal. It has been the financial markets even more interesting and ideally the world goes back to normal and the financial markets are boring once more. Boring or concentrating on profitable companies never needs to be boring, just profitable. Depending on what is hot or not, makes the selling of securities more interesting, but as a buyer you are more interested in making money yourself. Still to the profitable companies as they manage their way through the different aspects of the economy and let them do the heavy work. Your task is to celebrate their continuing market share and high margins through higher share prices and collecting dividends along the way.

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