Executive Optimism: 5 Dividend Champions Being Snapped Up by Insiders

In recessions past, economies have taken a V-shaped path toward recovery, where the GDP bounces back at a rate of somewhere between 6% and 14% growth. But this time around, the economy lacks the spring in its step of comebacks past, as we tread water at a projected 3% GDP growth rate in 2011. With unemployment expected to remain sluggish indefinitely, MFS investment officer and portfolio manager Erik Weisman predicts a "paradigm shift," bringing dramatic fluctuations from inflation to deflation, and even a possible return to the gold standard. And as a result, the stock market will continue toward becoming entirely unlinked from the GDP.... Read more