# Income Investing

> Your passive income headquarters. Research-only reference covering every way to generate passive income: market income (dividends, preferreds, bonds, options, cash), private and real assets (private credit, commercial real estate, royalties, international), and income you build (side hustles, digital businesses).

Informational only — nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation.

## Sections
- [Dividend Stocks](https://incomeinvesting.ai/dividend-stocks): Yields, safety, growth streaks
- [Preferred Stocks](https://incomeinvesting.ai/preferred-stocks): Fixed-rate equity income
- [Bonds](https://incomeinvesting.ai/bonds): Treasuries, corporates, munis, funds
- [Options Income](https://incomeinvesting.ai/options-income): Covered calls & cash-secured puts
- [Cash Rates](https://incomeinvesting.ai/cash-rates): Savings, money market, CDs, T-bills
- [Private Credit](https://incomeinvesting.ai/private-credit): BDCs, direct lending, hard money
- [Commercial Real Estate](https://incomeinvesting.ai/commercial-real-estate): Cap rates, IRR, property types
- [Royalties](https://incomeinvesting.ai/royalties): Music, film, minerals, oil & gas
- [International Income](https://incomeinvesting.ai/international-income): Income outside the US dollar
- [Side Hustles](https://incomeinvesting.ai/side-hustles): Costs, effort and time to first income
- [Digital Income](https://incomeinvesting.ai/digital-income): YouTube, sites, courses, SaaS
- [AI Agents](https://incomeinvesting.ai/ai-agents): Fillable prompts & document drafts
- [Marketplace](https://incomeinvesting.ai/marketplace): Coming soon
- [Learn Library](https://incomeinvesting.ai/learn): One page per income type
- [Passive Income Course](https://incomeinvesting.ai/course): Six mechanisms, six lessons
- [Course Quiz](https://incomeinvesting.ai/course/quiz): Check what stuck
- [Income Calculators](https://incomeinvesting.ai/calculators): Yield, ladder, cap rate, IRR
- [Ask the Data](https://incomeinvesting.ai/ask): Answers from our own rows, with the basis
- [Screeners](https://incomeinvesting.ai/screeners): Income screens by structure
- [News](https://incomeinvesting.ai/news): Sourced headlines, linked to the publisher
- [Language](https://incomeinvesting.ai/languages): Read the site in 18 languages
- [About Us](https://incomeinvesting.ai/about): Who we are and how we make money

## Learn
- [Learn library](https://incomeinvesting.ai/learn): one page per income type, grouped into twelve categories.
- [Passive income course](https://incomeinvesting.ai/course): the six mechanisms of passive income, with a quiz.
- [Calculators](https://incomeinvesting.ai/calculators): yield, ladder, cap rate and IRR math.

## Data
- Market data: Financial Modeling Prep (quotes, dividends, fundamentals, Treasury curve).
- Rates: Federal Reserve (FRED), including FDIC national deposit rates and ICE BofA credit indices.
- Full sources: https://incomeinvesting.ai/data-sources