Floyd Brown at Investment U says Pickens has a history of being in the right place and the right time and profiting handsomely. Floyd has picked four stocks to help you follow Pickens’ lead into natural gas and wind energy…

Much of the recent drop in oil prices is due to the rally in financials, says Byron King. But the black goo is still double the price it was two years ago. Worse still, the US is now coping with chronic inflation. Precious metals are the best way to your savings and purchasing power…

Are market fundamentals to blame for sky-high crude oil prices? Of course not, says Andrew Gordon. It’s the tens of billions of dollars pouring into the oil futures markets are. Sure, demand is high – but the high-end costs of producing oil are $70 max, so a barrel of the black goo should cost about $110.

Banning speculators will bring down crude oil prices says Congress. But they’re missing the point, says Dave Gonigam in The Daily Reckoning. This will not address the imbalance in the oil market… “In ’speculators,’ everyone from members of Congress to the king of Saudi Arabia has found an excuse to ignore the supply-demand imbalance that’s at the heart of $138 oil,” says Dave.

Sometimes, it pays to look the other way behind the trail of a blazing bull market in energy prices. In this case, some airlines will reward investors with big profits over the next 6-12 months.

It is a mantra of the Peak Oil movement that oil production in the United States peaked in the 1970’s, and that this production peak has, or soon will occur in worldwide production of oil.

There’s a great wish for American finance to return to business-as-usual — raking in fantastic fees for innovating new modes of tradable paper, and engineering mergers and buy-outs that generate huge fees plus $100 million kiss-offs for corporate CEOs in the noble struggle to dismantle America’s productive capacity — but apparently events are still out of hand.