Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, you know Detroit’s once unstoppable auto industry is dying a fast, public death.

Five energy companies made year-highs on your Money Morning sidebar today. We realised with a start that they’re all coal companies. Yep. They all have a little coal property to call their own. The new Australian dream, perhaps.

We love commodities here at IDE. My colleague Rusty McDougal lives and breathes commodities. My other colleague Charles Delvalle is easily mesmerized by the shiny metals. And both have converted their fascination with commodities into huge money-making investment recommendations.