Dividend Investing

Dividend investing is one of my favorite types of investing, and I probably will not do it justice with this post.  Needless to say, I will talk about this more in the future because I think dividends are a great source of income now that banks do not pay any interest for savings and checking accounts.  By investing in large cap established mega corps that pay good dividends, one can make a decent return on their money and be relatively sure that their principal investment is not going to be susceptible to great volatility.  For a quick guide on divided investing, I would recommend checking out the The Dividend Guys Blog for his 2013 recommendations.  An  excellent resource for picking out some stocks.  Use your favorite low cost stock brokerage to invest into these dividend stocks.  The good news is that the tax on dividends is still at the lower 15 percent tax rate for most people with the recent legislation that was passed to prevent the 'Fiscal Cliff'.  Only those individuals making $400,000 or $450,000 for couples have to pay a higher 20 percent tax rate which is still much better than the old school marginal tax rates.