Coal is both necessary and burdensome, but a combination of reasonable regulation and market dynamics will help the US transition to cleaner fuels.
If you focus too narrowly on how Uncle Sam gets his bite, you’re going to miss the real opportunity to build wealth through dividend investing.
This headline is serviceable every year around this time. Use seasonal weakness to establish positions in high-quality utility stocks.
GM (NYSE: GM) is the poster child for industrial policy gone right. But for this one bright spot there are at least two creeping shadows of regulatory overreach.
Dividend-paying essential-service companies continue to report solid fourth-quarter and full-year results, and the macro situation is firming. Be alert as expectations rise.
“Momentum dividend investing” is a recent trend soon to die as those who practice it realize its money-losing potential.
Master limited partnerships (MLP) are one of the surest groups for solid growth and sustainable distributions.
Natural gas is priced at levels not seen since the 1990s. Abnormally warm weather in key regions suggests they’ll remain depressed. Here’s how natural gas prices impact dividend-paying energy stocks.
There’s plenty of impending-doom-related nonsense associated with 2012 without taking the extraneous and often intellectually compromised step of comparing our current year to the Great Depression’s 1932.
But low expectations will prove easy to beat for solid businesses.






