Find out why 3M is a Top 25 stock based on the 8 Rules of Dividend Investing in part 21 of my 54 part series on Dividend Aristocrats.

The start of every month is exciting as we look back at the previous month and see how much passive dividend income our portfolios generated. This update brings me to a happy milestone.

Apple is becoming one of the most shareholder-friendly companies around when judged by the amount of money it returns to shareholders. Peter George Psaras discusses Apple's free cash flow yield and whether or not it is attractive.

A while back I wrote a couple articles highlighting my very first dividend stock that I owned along with some scanned images of the very first stock trade I placed back in 1988 along with my first dividend check received for $5.00 also in 1988.

“You shouldn’t get to call yourself an American company only when you want a handout from the American taxpayers,” said Obama, referring to American corporations acquiring foreign companies in order to become non-American and reduce their tax bill.

A basic investment concept is to that high quality stocks fare better in down markets than low quality stocks, and therefore in late stages of a Bull market with generally fully valued stocks, tilting equity allocations toward high quality is prudent.