Pay EVERY dime of the clawback to shareholders as a dividend, holding off all future bonuses until such time that bill is paid in full.The nice Judge must have missed those powers among the many not brought to bear on this "save the shareholder/taxpayer" effort.Ain't NONE of the above gonna happen

I wonder if there is a hidden gem among the REITs.While analyzing REITs, I think it is also important to take into account earnings management that often happens with public companies.Let me know if you want to collaborate on a little project to analyze some of the REITs.

The Democracts have been effectively captured by unions and the teachers' unions are among the most powerful.

Do you just include the water in the rent or do you split out the bill among the three units?

(Canada's proven reserves, in fact, are quite vast and among the top 2-3 in the world.)One of the problems with North American reserves is that they are not cheap to extract.

The Inland Empire and Sacramento are among the fastest-growing parts of the country so you will also find some good long-term opportunities there.The reason many investors don't like California is because some of the more expensive coastal areas tend to have very low rent yields, making CAP rates and cash flows low in the initial years.

They generally score much better than us at education.By many measures, among the large diversified economies of the world, we are the wealthiest after considering prices.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;To borrow money on the credit of the United States;To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;To establish post offices and post roads;To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;To provide and maintain a navy;To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--AndTo make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

And as far as poor people not having access to good food, fruits, veggies and grains are among the cheapest foods out there.

So utility companies tend to be among the fastest growing businesses.