If you were to invest stock in a company which company would you chose?

I am not an investor - I haven't got the money - but I do watch the financial news and programs on tv, and I also follow certain people on YouTube and Twitter. You should try watching Max Keiser (the Keiser Report) on RTTV (Russia Today) and on Press TV (On the Edge - Press TV is an Iranian news channel). Max is an ex Wall St broker who rips into all the criminal scandals that seem to typify the Wall St ethos these days.

Generally I would say that it isn't a good time for a small investor to be getting into the market. Many commentators reckon that share prices are over inflated: by high frequency trading performed by computers, and that the share price bubble that has been created will burst in the near future. Also, because you are up against computers that buy a tranche of shares and then sell them again within 7 seconds (I kid you not) you are forever behind the curve.

This kind of trading also creates wild swings in the market so it is a lot easier than you think to lose all your money. This is one reason a lot of banks are going under in America.From what I can see the smart money is getting out of traditional stocks and shares altogether. Many traders are now, in fact, trading food futures which is forcing up the price of food.

The safest bet seems to be commodities: with silver and gold being the best options. But even here you have to be careful - the price of gold, for instance, can be manipulated and for every ounce of physical gold being traded there is another ten that only exist on paper. It's a minefield out there and the continuing de-regulation of the markets is making worse all the time.

I'm mad I didn't invest in Google when it first offered. Would-to-God that I was one of those Walmart luckies!

Thanks for asking! Right now I like companies that are big names that provide a good/ stable dividend yield. I own stocks like Johnson and Johnson, Hasbro, Eli Lilly, and Disney.

These are all companies that have been around for a while, have some room for growth and also pay a dividend!

If you are new to investing, I would recommend investing in Exchange Traded Funds. Most of the index based products of these ETF's offer diversification, low costs and liquidity. Check out DIA (Follows the Dow Jones 30), the MDY ( Midcap 400) or the big SPY (S&P 500).

You should read first something like: William O'Neils' "How to Make Money in Stocks" Classic text on investing. I think there is free versions of this book on the web.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.