Dividend Double-Take

Deck: 

What happens when the Bush tax cuts expire?

Fortnightly Magazine - October 2012
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While putting my thoughts together for this editorial, I was tempted simply to re-publish the text from my October 2010 column, “Dividend Debacle.” That piece could stand nicely in this space with just a few changes—namely, today we’re approaching a presidential election, not the mid-terms. But aside from that, Congress again is embroiled in another hyper-partisan food fight that threatens to blow up into a fiscal crisis. And once again dividend-paying companies like utilities are caught in the crossfire.

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