"If you focus on stocks that pay you to own them -- you'll get your cut over and over and over again as you really won't have to worry or care what happens to the general market; and that will be true today, tomorrow, next month and next year," says Neil George.

In his income-focused Stocks that Pay You, he says, "I have found seven picks that will pay you 7% or more to own them and are perfect for retirement income as well as just building up your portfolio's value.

"The seven fall into three categories: funds, minibonds and preferreds. But what makes them all fit together is that they have proven themselves to keep paying regardless of what the economy or the markets might throw at them -- even the fiascoes of the past several months.

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