Check out the Market Blaster video above for a couple of stock ideas: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters for its hyper-growth that is suddenly on sale, and Altria, because the fatyield and the potency of nicotine addiction are good things for a portfolio regardless of the economic cycle.
Investing has sunk to this: People are willing to pay a big premium for the privilege of getting their own money back, after fat fees, without interest apparently because it gives them the illusion of earning a high yield.