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Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 124 on July 13th of 2023.  Today, I will be answering 7 interesting investment questions.

QUESTION (1)
Is i ethical to invest in startups that you know are stocks being set up to go  bankrupt as soon as the promoters have fleeced naive investors

QUESTION (2)
What is the reason for the recent popularity of dividend yielding stocks?  Is this a bubble that is going to pop?

QUESTION (3)
Are CEOs required to  act in favor of the company  or the shareholders?

QUESTION (4)
How can buying preferred shares of a company remove the higher risk of common shares in the event of bankruptcy?

QUESTION (5)
How would historical dividends help predict future dividend payouts?

QUESTION (6)
Are REITs a good investment and should  I keep  them in my regular trading account or my tax-free investment account/

 QUESTION (7)
Referring to your book, "New York Stock Exchange's  106  Best High Dividend Stocks", I am having trouble determining how to work out operating margins and in finding good solid stocks with high earnings-per-share ratios to invest in. Do you have any suggestions/



      FIVE INVESTMENT  BOOKS BY IAN DUNCAN MACDONALD
(ALL BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM  KINDLE BOOKS)

(1) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE'S  106 BEST HIGH DIVIDEND STOCKS
In this 334-page book there is a 2-page report for each company scoring 11 data elements. It also lists 23 years of historical share price and dividend payouts so that investors can judge the stock's reliability. 

(2) AMERICA HIGH DIVIDEND HAND BOOK
                                              &
 (3) CANADIAN HIGH DIVIDEND HANDBOOK 

in these two books, pages of charts are sorted four ways by stock score, share price, dividend yield percent and alphabetically. A page for each stock provides eleven facts which created each stock's total score. 

Both books list all common stocks that were paying dividend yield percentages of 3.5% or more on  the New York Exchanges and  the Toronto Stock Exchange. 

(4) SAFER BETTER DIVIDEND INVESTING:
All 628 stocks paying dividends of 6% or more on the NYSE and the NASDAQ,  are scored and sorted by score, price, dividend % and alpha. Plus 199 high dividend Canadian stocks.  The answers to 128 questions asked by investors are provided. This instructional reference book will make building a better investment portfolio faster and easier.

(5) INCOME AND WEALTH FROM SELF-DIRECTED INVESTING

In this, his first investment book, in easy to understand language, Ian MacDonald reveals the serious concerns you should have about entrusting your money to investment advisors.  Step-by-step he shows you how you can realize an annual 6% income while your portfolio continues to grow year-after-year. 654 stocks paying dividend yields over 3.5% or more on the Toronto Stock Exchange are scored and listed.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE 5 BOOKS, HIS 3 NOVELS,  AND 2,300 PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS  AND DIGITAL ART VISIT:
                           www.saferbetterdividendinvesting.co

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M9P 3R7
Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
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