That car in your garage should be running on natural gas. With oil prices around $100 and unlikely to fall much lower in coming years, and natural gas selling for less than $3 per thousand cubic feet (MCF), the cost differential is far too big to ignore. Read More

Last week, I told you about Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust (NYSE: CHKR) — a royalty trust paying a double-digit yield. Royalty trusts boast some of the highest yields on the market… Read More

Sometimes it’s best to wait for the dust to settle. After the earthquake in Japan last March triggered a deep sell-off in all stocks related to nuclear power, a number of investors started to bottom-fish. Any buying turned out to be premature, as key industry stocks fell… Read More

Check out some numbers on one of the most widely owned energy stocks in the market and see what you think. For starters, shares of this $37 billion oil and gas producer have… Read More

In case you didn’t already know… it’s a tough time to be an income investor. Ten-year treasuries yield 2%, the average dividend stock in the S&P pays… Read More

Just a few weeks ago, we released our newest piece of research — “The Top 5 Income Stocks for 2012.” These five high-yield stocks represent our favorite income ideas for the new year, and they pay dividend yields of 7.0%… 8.8%…… Read More

I’m always happy to discover a high-quality stock sporting a rich dividend. But what really makes my day is finding both of these features in a company that also produces double-digit income growth. It’s this rare combination that makes Tesoro… Read More

Back in November, I told readers of my Scarcity & Real Wealth newsletter about the aberrant relationship between gold and platinum prices. I thought the opportunity was so compelling that more people needed to know about it. So on Jan. 9, I shared it with StreetAuthority.com readers. To recap…… Read More

The Department of Energy estimates that the United States holds as much as 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which is enough to meet domestic energy demand for at least a century. Great advances in extraction techniques, including fracturing, or “fracking” of shale rock formations by drilling sideways, have… Read More

Our inboxes have been overflowing following our recent talk about silver. At last count, 1,565 readers requested more information, or otherwise wrote in to ask questions or make comments. There’s definitely something about the bullish case for silver that gets peoples’… Read More