The Best Stock to Own  Do you have a very best stock? A stock
that brings you closer to retirement year in and year out? One
like Kraft (NYSE: KFT  ) , formerly American Dairy Products,
which -- as tracked back by Dr. Jeremy Siegel -- turned $1,000
into more than $2 million over 53 years with dividend
reinvestment? In terms of returns, Kraft has quite literally
been the very best stock of the past half-century.   A
repeatable fortune    A few ideas for you Paying dividends to
shareholders also forces companies to exercise fiscal
discipline. That's great, because being flush with cash tempts
managers -- let's face it, they tend to have big egos -- to
bungle their loads. And even if they don't slip up, they tend to
hoard that cash away from shareholders without putting it to any
use. That's why Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT  ) long-anticipated
one-time $3-per-share dividend payout meant so much to
shareholders, and why cash hoarders such as Sun Microsystems are
underserving their owners. (I love a good tech firm, b