Microplace, invest change for change

Just found my way to Microplace, a website set up by Ebay to provide investment opportunities into the Microfinance financial industry. I hope this is the beginning of a huge change in how we invest for change. That's fantastic.

Steve Greenberg gets it right.

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Steve Greenberg Ventura County Star Aug 2, 2008 EditorialCartoonists.com

Dividend research links

I'm starting to peel back the layers of the onion, and I'm finding quite a few people who have been doing research on Dividends for a while. Here are a few links that I'd invite you to follow:

The DIV-Net

The Dividend Growth Investor

I will add more as I find them.

Warren Buffett

Found a lecture by Warren Buffett that I wanted to keep handy.

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Ching. Ching. Ching.

I've heard some people liken the concept of dividends like coins dropped onto a pile of money. Every three months, or every month for some, a little bit more change falls onto the pile.

I like to think of it like the hammer of a blacksmith, continually shaping the future, one strike at a time. The higher the dividend amount, the harder the strike, and the more stocks paying dividends, the more blacksmiths working. After enjoying reading the Elfquest saga over the last week or so, it's like I'm hearing the Trolls down in the depths of the mountain, pounding out their future with hammers, anvils and forges.

How many blacksmiths do you have working for you? Are they getting stronger? Are they training future blacksmiths to strike when the iron is hot?

T: $22.18. Holding the iron firm.