Brian HicksPosted March 27, 2012
It has the unglamorous and nondescript title of U.S. Patent No. 59,936. It might be one of the most valuable patents ever awarded to an American... and it holds the key to untapped fortunes and...
Christian DeHaemerPosted March 26, 2012
Kenya doesn't have just 2.5 billion barrels of oil... Nobody knows for sure how much oil there is in Kenya, but U.S. government geologists estimate the East Africa Rift contains 72 billion barrels...
Jeff SiegelPosted March 20, 2012
Thanks to M.I.T. researchers, we know exactly which mining stock we want to buy next. Jeff Siegel explains.
Brian HicksPosted March 13, 2012
The distance between Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Ithaca, New York, is 123 miles. At first glance, both towns seem almost identical, but the two towns couldn't be more different... Williamsport's...
Christian DeHaemerPosted March 8, 2012
According to The Economist, Uganda expects to earn $2 billion a year from oil by 2015. But there is more oil in South Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia... lots of shallow basin oil that has never...
Brian HicksPosted March 1, 2012
Everyone leaning strongly against fossil fuel exploration has been sounding off on the topic of hydraulic fracturing, known now to popular culture simply as fracking. But it seems the Federal...
Christian DeHaemerPosted February 25, 2012
Gasoline prices are now above $6... the Dow Jones is ready to break out... East African energy companies are involved in bidding wars... Welcome to Wealth Daily’s Weekend Edition.
Christian DeHaemerPosted February 23, 2012
Somalia has a lot of oil. Kenya has oil. So do Mozambique, South Sudan, and Uganda... All of these countries are on the Indian Ocean side of Africa, which is very likely the last great non-frozen...
Christian DeHaemerPosted February 21, 2012
Time to dump the natural gas producers: buy the infrastructure plays instead. Plus gold, Obama's housing chart, and much, much more...
Brian HicksPosted February 20, 2012
Towanda is a Native American name meaning "burial ground.” And for the past few decades, Towanda was exactly that: a dying old industrial town that lifelong residents were fleeing as if it were on...
Briton RylePosted February 19, 2012
The United States has the resources to offset a spike in oil prices: an immense surplus of natural gas that is highly valued by other countries.
Brian HicksPosted February 16, 2012
Purely on an economic basis, the widespread recovery of American oil shale will be about 20 times greater than the costliest event in human history...