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The Stingy News Weekly (12/26/2010) "A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson Stingy Links The power of vulnerability "Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity" The disposable academic "There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is unrelated to the number of job openings. Meanwhile, business leaders complain about shortages of high-level skills, suggesting PhDs are not teaching the right things. The fiercest critics compare research doctorates to Ponzi or pyramid schemes." Merry Christmas! "Wishing you, your family, and friends the best of the season." Bargain Junkies Beating Retailers "'I wonder why they waste money on advertising,' she muses. 'We'll buy whatever they want us to buy—as long as they pay us to buy it.'" Bank Leverage Limits "Crises are often compared to drinking binges, where excessive exuberance is followed by hangovers. Following that analogy, if you try to say, 'we don't want people drinking to excess, so we will stop everyone at 6 drinks', well then, they will switch from beer to wine, whiskey, or grain alcohol. But the drinking problem is potentially soluble because you can measure alcohol, and say allow people one 12 ounce beer, one 5 ounce glass of wine, etc. Basically, the key unit is 'ethanol, which has measurable properties. In contrast, we don't know what 'risk' is. Beta? Volatility? Skew? Get back to me on that. You can't regulate what you can't define." Day of Reckoning "60 Minutes recently did a short program on the looming municipal bond problems, with a focus on Illinois and New Jersey, plus an interview with Meredith Whitney..." DOW 30 Value Screens High Dividend Yield Stocks P/E P/B P/S P/D Yield AT&T (T) 5 5 3 5 5 Verizon (VZ) 1 3 5 5 5 Pfizer (PFE) 1 4 2 5 5 Merck (MRK) 3 4 2 5 5 Kraft (KFT) 4 5 4 5 5 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 4 2 1 4 4 EI DuPont (DD) 2 2 3 4 4 McDonald's (MCD) 2 1 1 4 4 Chevron (CVX) 5 4 4 4 4 General Electric (GE) 1 4 4 4 4 Notes | More Info... Value Ratio Stocks P/E P/B P/S P/D VR AT&T (T) 5 5 3 5 1.34 Travelers (TRV) 5 5 4 3 3.01 Merck (MRK) 3 4 2 5 3.34 Chevron (CVX) 5 4 4 4 3.38 Kraft (KFT) 4 5 4 5 3.42 Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) 4 2 1 4 3.65 Intel (INTC) 5 3 1 3 3.75 EI DuPont (DD) 2 2 3 4 4.47 Pfizer (PFE) 1 4 2 5 5.02 Microsoft (MSFT) 4 1 1 2 5.30 Notes | More Info... Graham-Lite Stocks P/E P/B P/D G$ dG$(%) Travelers (TRV) 5 5 3 97.06 74.95 JP Morgan Chase (JPM) 4 5 1 58.28 38.49 AT&T (T) 5 5 5 39.89 36.63 Chevron (CVX) 5 4 4 98.24 8.34 Kraft (KFT) 4 5 5 34.09 6.93 Notes | More Info... Top US Stocks Yield V.R. Graham AT&T (T) Y Y Y Chevron (CVX) Y Y Y Kraft (KFT) Y Y Y EI DuPont (DD) Y Y Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Y Y Merck (MRK) Y Y Pfizer (PFE) Y Y Travelers (TRV) Y Y General Electric (GE) Y Intel (INTC) Y JP Morgan Chase (JPM) Y McDonald's (MCD) Y Microsoft (MSFT) Y Verizon (VZ) Y Notes... S&P/TSX60 Value Screens High Dividend Yield Stocks P/E P/B P/S P/D Yield Transalta (TA) 2 5 4 5 5 BCE (BCE) 4 3 4 5 5 Bank of Montreal (BMO) 5 4 3 5 5 Sun Life (SLF) 5 5 5 5 5 Husky Energy (HSE) 3 5 4 5 5 Telus (T) 4 3 4 5 5 CIBC (CM) 5 2 3 5 5 Power Corp (POW) 2 5 5 5 5 TransCanada (TRP) 2 4 2 5 5 Shaw Comm Cl.B (SJR.B) 3 1 2 5 5 Notes | More Info... Value Ratio Stocks P/E P/B P/S P/D VR Bank of Montreal (BMO) 5 4 3 5 2.35 Sun Life (SLF) 5 5 5 5 2.69 BCE (BCE) 4 3 4 5 2.94 National Bank (NA) 5 3 3 4 2.99 CIBC (CM) 5 2 3 5 3.02 Telus (T) 4 3 4 5 3.39 Encana (ECA) 5 5 3 4 3.55 Rogers Comm Cl.B (RCI.B) 5 1 4 4 3.67 Transalta (TA) 2 5 4 5 3.71 Husky Energy (HSE) 3 5 4 5 4.03 Notes | More Info... Graham-Lite Stocks P/E P/B P/D G$ dG$(%) Encana (ECA) 5 5 4 39.94 37.62 Nexen (NXY) 5 5 1 29.33 32.59 Sun Life (SLF) 5 5 5 39.28 29.69 Bank of Montreal (BMO) 5 4 5 61.03 6.53 Canadian Tire (CTC.A) 4 5 3 70.05 4.44 National Bank (NA) 5 3 4 69.42 1.34 Notes | More Info... Top Canadian Stocks Yield V.R. Graham Bank of Montreal (BMO) Y Y Y Sun Life (SLF) Y Y Y BCE (BCE) Y Y CIBC (CM) Y Y Encana (ECA) Y Y Husky Energy (HSE) Y Y National Bank (NA) Y Y Telus (T) Y Y Transalta (TA) Y Y Canadian Tire (CTC.A) Y Nexen (NXY) Y Power Corp (POW) Y Rogers Comm Cl.B (RCI.B) Y Shaw Comm Cl.B (SJR.B) Y TransCanada (TRP) Y Notes... 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