Master Limited Partnerships are a useful investment for minimizing your tax bill says Jim Nelson. They are trusts mainly comprised of natural resource, financial services, and real estate assets. Jim picks five small-cap MLPs that should provide steady income without the burden of double taxation.

Jim Nelson says savvy investors can make huge profits in the first 100 days of the Obama presidency. Three sectors facing a makeover under the new administration are biotechnology, renewable energy and defense. Jim says new legislation and funding could mean big gains for these three companies…

There is a way to join a company’s long-term employee benefit program without lifting a finger, says Jim Nelson. Some firms offer Dividend Retirement Plans (DRIPs), which allow you to both receive regular dividend checks and reinvest earnings in discounted stock. And as long as dividend payments keep coming, there is no need to worry about a volatile share price.

Choppy markets have sent dividend yields to “unbelievably high” levels, says Jim Nelson. This makes today a great time to start income investing. Jim says Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS:A/RDS.B) and BP (NYSE:BP) are two cash-rich companies with consistent dividend payments and “absurdly” high yields right now.

Little-known metal molybdenum is essential to a host of fast-growing industries from energy to construction. Companies can’t open mines fast enough. Demand has sent the price soaring 1,000% in the last five years. Jim Nelson says this is still just the beginning for the metal. He expects another surge in the next 12 months.

China is renovating, expanding or introducing public transport systems in nearly all of its major urban centers. This is clearing the way for a revolution in advertising.

Penny Sleuth’s Jim Nelson says small cap VisionChina Media (NASDAQ:VISN) is perfectly poised to profit in this fast-growing sector. The company installs digital TVs and sells advertising time on them.

VISN has an established client base, its revenues are soaring, and it has no debt. Best of all: Its stock has been vastly oversold in a recent correction.

While both presidential candidates are trying to outdo each other by implementing the words geothermal, solar, and wind into every stump speech, oil’s hay day is by no means over.

It can be easy to forget that some of the world’s biggest companies started out as penny stocks. Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to name a few. Penny Sleuth’s Jim Nelson says penny stocks may carry more risk than blue-chips, but the success stories show the rewards can be worth the extra risk.

Penny stock expert Jim Nelson says that, in addition to offering the largest potential gains of any type of stock, penny stocks also offer investors dividend payments just like blue chip stocks. Here Jim explains how you can turn $5,000 into $151,025.76 in five years using penny stock dividends…

Jim Nelson in Penny Sleuth has come across a new way to look at the relationship between gold and silver. It proves why silver is the precious metal to own even if gold jumps to $2,000 an ounce. Jim says, “Many ’silverbugs’ out there use a common price ratio between silver and gold to predict silver’s future price.” Here’s why you shouldn’t only use that…