China's desire to dominate the seas of Asia is being challenged by an emerging regional rival - India.
With this shift in the balance of power in Asia, those who know how to invest in India's military and economic rise stand to profit handsomely from a real "ground floor" opportunity.
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There are staggering numbers coming out of the energy world - numbers that explain how to invest in natural gas now...
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in the United States alone is parked over roughly 862 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves. That's over a century's worth of domestic supply.
Better yet, there's plenty of domestic demand for that supply -and it's growing.
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As Money Morning Global Energy Strategist Dr. Kent Moors told us yesterday, the United States on Aug. 7 finally approved its third application to export LNG (liquefied natural gas).
The delays in the U.S. LNG export approval process have been frustrating an industry that's ready to capitalize on the price differences between North American and Asian natural gas prices. Asia LNG sells for about $16 per million BTU versus less than $4 per million BTU in the United States.
While the U.S. Department of Energy streamlines this lengthy approval process, our neighbor to the north is also using its abundance of shale gas to race into LNG exports.
You see, Canada has a lot of natural gas.
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It's hard to overstate the importance of intellectual property, the creative side of industry, to the United States economy - especially in an era when there is a (mistaken) perception that the United States can no longer compete.
It's a complex, interwoven subset of the economy, and it consists of more than just royalties for music and television - although that's part of it. Software, hardware, entertainment, medicine, science, technology - all of these generate immense quantities of intellectual property revenue.
You must consider that...
...More than 50% of the world's total intellectual property revenue flows directly into the United States. ...Intellectual property rights touch nearly every facet of our immense economy.
...Employment, either direct or indirect, in 313 IP-intensive industries account for some 40 million jobs, nearly 28% of all jobs in our economy.
...And those are good jobs; they pay on average 42% more than non-IP-intensive work.
...IP-intensive industries add $5.06 trillion in value, nearly 35% of the United States' GDP in 2010.
...Nearly 61% of American exports, $775 billion, come from IP-intensive industries.
The figures, from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, more or less speak for themselves.
They point to the United States as possibly the most creative and innovative society on Earth. Even as the overall economy wheezes along, intellectual property continues to grow, playing an ever more vital role.
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I wasn't more than 30 minutes outside of D.C. the other night before my cell phone started ringing.
The calls involved breaking new developments overseas that promise to have a big impact on the global energy markets. They concerned a major global energy situation that is likely to create a domino effect that will have consequences for U.S. domestic policy.
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If you want to know how to invest in the most lucrative area of energy, just focus on U.S. shale oil production.
In fact, we just uncovered the next wave of "millionaire-maker" shale oil plays.
It's hard to believe that an advancement as profitable as this one was practically non-existent merely 10 years ago.
Fast forward to last year, when domestic oil production marked the largest single-year increase on record, thanks in large part to increased U.S. shale oil production, according to BP's Statistical Review of World Energy. Oil production, including U.S. shale oil, grew by about one million barrels a day last year to about 8.9 million barrels per day, reported BP.
That's up 13.9% from 2011.
And, in turn, the increased U.S. shale oil production caused U.S. crude oil imports to drop to the lowest level since 1997, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Crude imports in 2012 were about 8.5 million barrels of oil a day, down from a peak in 2005 of 10.1 million barrels per day - again thanks to rapidly growing U.S. shale oil production.
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Global commodity woes increased again on Tuesday after Russia's Uralkali broke up one of the world's largest potash partnerships and ended a marketing venture agreement with producers in Belarus.
This development changes how to invest in agriculture- as it has already sent investors fleeing from nutrient and fertilizer stocks this week.
In addition, the impact will likely crash global potash prices by 25% to 30%, as the collapse of an international duopoly will end a price-fixing agreement that benefited other producers of the key commodity by artificially inflating prices and keeping supply off the market.
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When many Americans think about Mexico, they consider widespread poverty, endemic corruption, undocumented immigration, and an ongoing domestic drug war that has claimed more than 100,000 lives. And, to a greater or lesser degree, that's true. On the very surface of things, it seems investing in Mexico is the last thing anyone would want to do.
But to consider only these blighted facts is to miss out on the whole picture - a picture that, overall, looks very promising. Americans should be investing in Mexico.
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As I wrote up this analysis of the best investments in oil, a familiar saying came to mind: "Everything old is new again."
A truer statement could not be said about the Permian Basin, which is a geological formation roughly 300 miles long and 250 miles across that stretches across west Texas and eastern New Mexico.
After banking some very hefty profits for Energy Advantage and Energy Inner Circle subscribers on refining stocks earlier this year, the entire sector now is about to land "between a rock and a hard place."
Once a high-flying place for investors to earn substantial profits, refiners have been under pressure for the last two months. But that's actually just the beginning of what's to come.
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The Fed is taking its foot off the gas, stocks are reacting wildly to any news, and no one knows if the market can function independently of quantitative easing.
No one but Shah Gilani, that is.
Ah, summertime, and the virtual traveling is easy.
Indeed, booking your getaway has never been easier: It's just a few clicks away, what with all the travel websites competing for your business.
But there's also money to be made from travel websites if you know how to invest in them.
With fierce competition for U.S. travelers, travel websites have increasingly taken on a more global approach, expanding their businesses or establishing partnerships in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, where eMarketer says online travel sales are expected to increase 15% to $91 billion this year and per-capita consumer spending is expected to increase about 37% in the next seven years.
Internet penetration remains low in Asia compared with Europe and the United States, but is growing rapidly, paving the way for travel sites' push into the region.
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The latest annual Statistical Review of World Energy from energy giant BP PLC pointed out how the U.S. energy landscape has changed in just a few short years - which changes how to invest in oil for maximum profits.
In the Review, BP said that the expansion of both oil and natural gas production in the United States was the fastest in the world in 2012.
In fact, U.S. oil production in 2012 grew at the quickest pace since BP began keeping track of the global oil scene in 1965.
The increase of about one million barrels per day was due, of course, to the exploitation of unconventional sources such as shale and tight oil.
Pair the increasing production numbers with where oil prices will be trading in the near term, and we get a clearer picture of how to invest in oil in 2013... here's why.
Prices are down, but it pays to know how to invest in precious metals in 2013. In fact, the right choices – like these – will yield huge gains. Read more...
Most investors have followed what the Fed's QE policy has done to gold, but few realize its impact on oil prices.
Recently, I talked about how crude was beginning to occupy a position as a store of market value ("Why Oil Is Becoming the New 'Gold Standard," May 20, 2013). The development has been a direct consequence of the flight from holding gold.
That flight may be tapering and a new floor established for the next major spike by the metal.
The problem is there is no agreement on which direction that move will be...
These days, a sudden improvement in gold prices may only extend as far as hedge funds and institutional investors covering shorts.
Nonetheless, there is an interesting parallel developing between the plight of gold and crude oil prices.
