Four out of five stocks yield dividends. Health care and the consumer sector have been growing fastest. An excellent report by McGraw Hill financial suggests looking at dividends when you inves. Catherine Austin Fitts, an important promoter of building wealth, makes the same point. Dividend Investing
Recent studies suggest that people think so. The World Sees China on Top
The consequences of income disparity are ravaging our society. Can anything be done? CEOs Make 273 Times What Their Employees Earn
No way, say the Bloomberg editors. Only the banks themselves want to continue to play fast and loose. Will Capital Requirements for Banks Damage Economies_ 
The head of the Municipal Olympic Company, Maria Sílvia Bastos Marques. She has the perfect background to lead an organisation that straddles the public and private sectors:
a former boss of a steel company and director of Brazil’s two biggest companies,
Petrobras and Vale, she has also held numerous positions in local government
and served as the first female director on the board of Brazil’s huge development
bank, BNDES. Many others are joining her at the top. Schumpeter Discusses Brazilian Women’s Progress in the Economist Maria de grasas Foster heads Petrobas, Brazil’s state owned oil company. 
Regulators are making clear that they know what they don’t know. So in addition to traditional measures, they are also going to emphasize the “leverage ratio.” That’s good news, because the leverage ratio doesn’t allow for such accounting sleights-of-hand as adjusting the value of assets for their perceived riskiness. In that game, some investments — say, picking purely randomly, top-rated mortgage securities or Greek government debt — could be judged less risky than other assets. Can the Banks be Regulated
EU Justice Commissioner and vice-president of the European Commission, Viviane Reding calls for the “troika” of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be dissolved.
According to Reding “the time of the troika is over. Getting the IMF on board in recent years was an emergency solution. In future, we Europeans have to be able to resolve our problems on our own.”
The troika negotiates with countries in crisis, such as Greece, Portugal and Ireland, on austerity and reform measures they have to undertake in return for bailouts. It also supervises the implementation of such steps. Reding said European institutions could manage this without the IMF…
European Commission
The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission has just appointed a new contact for whistleblowers. The agency is committed to helping people report irregularities without threats to their well-being. Christopher Ehrman had a simillar role at the SEC. New Contact for Whistleblowers at CFTC
A subprime mortgage trial has just been started Is this the first of many? Where are the big players? Tourre Trial Commences
