Although most of the financial media is fixated on the European debt crisis, income investors should pay close attention to China. That’s because a strengthening Chinese economy will bolster markets along with dividend-paying names. Read More

Natural gas has come way down from the days of 2008, when it traded north of $13. Read More

It's hard enough to preserve and build wealth these days without a bunch of hyperbolic partisan hacks coloring the conversation with out and out nonsense, particularly when this energy could be directed toward exposing real perniciousness. Read More

Here’s our list of utility stocks with the longest histories of consecutive dividend increases. Read More

Coal is both necessary and burdensome, but a combination of reasonable regulation and market dynamics will help the US transition to cleaner fuels. Read More

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. Read More

TRC Capital would tell you that what they're doing is entirely within the rules. But that doesn't make it right. Read More

The US will probably slow--or maybe even halt--nuclear plant construction in the wake of Japan's crisis. Natural gas is primed to fill the power-generation void that's likely to result. Read More