Plummeting prices last year brought many stocks down 50% or more, so that their yields now look extraordinarily high. My database now shows 63 stocks with annual yields of 20% or more. Allied Irish Banks is yielding 88.7%. Ashford Hospitality (a REIT) is yielding 54.9%. Atlas Pipeline is yielding 68.9%. And those are just a few of the A’s. But there’s something wrong with these stocks–business at every one of these high-yielding firms is faltering. The stocks’ plunges tell us that. And while the yields may look high today, they’re based on the past 12 months. If business shrinks,...