Buy These Rock-Solid Dividend Stocks Right Now Regardless of Interest Rate Moves

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Is now a good time to invest in dividend stocks? Dividend stocks returned 10.1% a year over the last 42 years while non-dividend paying stocks returned just 2.6% a year over the same time period. Yet, there are plenty of reasons to put off building your dividend portfolio until the perfect time. Some of the more troubling aspects of putting money to work in dividend stocks now are highly indebted governments in the U.S., Japan, and Europe; conflict in the middle east; abo...