Selected Top Penny Stocks For 2010

Penny stocks can be some of the most lucrative investments on the market. But you need a plan in order to succeed…

That's where the CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy comes into play. This scientific system helps me find enormous gains — and it's incredibly easy for you. I'll tell you when to buy and sell.

My groundbreaking CXS portfolio is stuffed right now with top penny stocks that are poised for huge moves! Here's a sample of the kinds of top stocks I'm talking about:

In December 2008, I recommended to my readers a firm that is leading the way in a cutting-edge Internet technology. This company has just 80 employees and its technology is being used by major companies, governments, and universities. Its clients are projected to one day include some of the most powerful Internet providers in the world.

Wall Street analysts are finally starting to take notice of this revolutionary company — but guess what — they're already too late!

Investors who are already on board with this stock are in line to see enormous returns, maybe even within the next few months! Just like that. And these smart, early investors are going to be around for the profit ride on this stock for a long, long time. The sky is literally the limit.

Does that sound exciting?

I hope so, because in this for-your-eyes-only report, I'm going to show you how you can turn $200 investments into potentially enough to retire on by following my extraordinary, proven CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy. You'll read about one example in which $200 grew to $1 million. In this Special Issue, you'll also discover:

How to prove my strategy works on paper first. Don't risk a single cent!

A theoretical case that literally turns $200 into $1.2 million.

How penny stock fortunes can be made

Why you DON'T need any experience to invest in these top stocks to buy 

And MUCH, MUCH more!

You see, investors often approach top penny stocks of 2010 with a "shotgun" philosophy. They throw a ton of money at a bunch of top stocks to buy, and hope for the best. No one out there is really doing serious research on penny stocks. Why? Because it's too hard for most analysts. The CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy cures that problem — and could put profits in your pocket!

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Here's How the Ordinary Investor Cashes in on Huge Profits

Please read this report very, very carefully. I'm going to show you how we've selected lucrative top stocks of 2010, what experts are saying about top penny stocks, the time to buy them, how much you might consider investing, how to see my strategy work "on paper" before you invest a cent and much, much more only I can tell you.

Look at the Mind-Blowing Profits These Top Small-Cap Stocks Have Handed Investors.

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From 7 Cents to $9.60 a Share. The Amazing Story of the Millionaire-Maker Stock That Turned $500 Into $68,571.43

Few people had ever heard of a company called Integrated BioPharma Inc. (INB:AMEX). It literally went from 7 cents a share to $9.60. This turns every $500 into $68,571, $1,000 into $137,142, and $5,000 into $685,714. These astonishing profits were available to anyone lucky enough to have picked up the stock at 7 cents a share. Very few people knew about it, because Wall Street would rather keep top stocks to buy like these a secret so the insiders can grab all the profits.

A Story Stock That You Get in and out of Quickly

INB is what we call a "story stock." That means it's NOT a long-term investment. What you want to do is get in as early as possible and watch the company like a hawk. That's because investors become too enthusiastic about the company's story and begin bidding the price up, up, up — far beyond what it's really worth when you look at its income statement and balance sheet.

These unique situations have the potential to produce enormous gains. The real secret is to get out before the public changes its perception that the stock could be profitable. While this pick is not part of the Penny Stock Fortunes portfolio, it does show how much money you can make with small-cap top stocks to buy. 

If you can capture the moneymaking power of scientifically selected top penny stocks for 2010, you can make a lot of money and change the way you live. You can start earning money the ways wealthy insiders do. They don't work for their riches. They pick up the phone and buy top stocks for 2010 that they know are explosively profitable. Just imagine...

You could be driving a new SUV. If you'd invested $5,000 in Dyadic Intl. Inc. (DIL:AMEX) at the right time, you could have a cool $17,857. Sit back, relax, turn on the air conditioner and enjoy your trip. And forget about monthly car payments for a while! You made a hefty down payment and have plenty left over.

Why not take that vacation or cruise you've always dreamed of? If you'd invested $1,250 in NaviSite Inc. (NAVI:NASDAQ), you'd be sitting on $4,423.70. You only live once, and the right vacation can be a mini-paradise. Have the time of your life! Do it twice a year if you like.

Put a pool in the backyard and dive in! If you'd invested $1,000 in HandHeld Entertainment Inc. (ZVUE:NASDAQ), you'd have a welcome $4,933. It will remind you of being on vacation — except you're home in a stunning pool of your own. Stay cool, have fun and invite your friends over for a cookout. You can afford it.

Stop worrying about financing your child's education. If you'd invested $3,500 in Acorda Therapeutics Inc. (ACOR:NASDAQ), you'd have an incredible $25,777. School tuition is a major expense — and well worth the investment. But now you've got a nest egg.

Go out to four-star restaurants as often as you like and order what you really want. If you invested $2,000 in International Assets Holding Corp. (IAAC:NASDAQ), you'd have a handsome $4,754.62. That should take care of the bill for quite some time! Don't sit home — get out and have fun.

How I Find Penny Stocks That Can Be Incredibly Huge Gainers: 7 Steps That Could Turn $200 Into $1 Million

It's based on simple but profound profit principles that I've seen successfully demonstrated over and over again. It's EASY: Just look at the top stocks I tell you about and you'll see. I call it my lifetime achievement, I'm so proud... let's take a closer look.

Here's an example of how much money my strategy is capable of making. This is going to be an extremely hypothetical example. And although the numbers are actual numbers of real companies, it probably couldn't happen in real life. But it will show you the power of my strategy so you can appreciate it and evaluate its usefulness to you. Here's how it works:

STEP 1: $200 in Superconductor Technologies Inc. turns into $1132 — a $932 profit.

The CXS Risk Avoidance Strategy advises you to remove your original $200. Using money you've gained, you have now eliminated the risk of losing the investment you started with. From now on, everything you gain is pure profit. You're playing with house money.

STEP 2: $932 in Fuwei Films Co. quickly multiplies to $2,890.

STEP 3: $2,890 is plugged into Akeena Solar, where it becomes $6,838.

STEP 4: Idenix Pharmaceuticals, a perfect Money-Multiplier, takes your $6,838 and grows it to $13,677.

STEP 5: Finish Line Inc. turns your $13,677 into $34,587.

STEP 6: The $34,587 quickly becomes $374,588 with Mexco Energy.

STEP 7: And you will break a million when Micromet Inc. grows your $374,588 into $1,018,048.60

Imagine Turning $200 Into Over $1 Million in 7 Steps

Well, that's not going to happen unless we are both extremely lucky — but you can see the POWER of how money multiplies when you invest in one really good stock, take the profits from that investment and put it into another one, and then another one, and then another one. Economists call this the power of compounding. And because my strategy gets your investment out as you make profits, you'll be able to play the game using "house money."

My CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy looks for top stocks to buy with BIG potential. We have identified certain things about the best stocks for 2010 — things like earnings history, price/earnings ratios, price/sales ratios (all amounting to "good company/great potential") — that give us the best possible chance to hit these BIG, BIG numbers. Let's take a look at this theoretical "fantasy" profit chain.

One Successful Profit Chain Can Make You a Millionaire

The CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy combines the power of the world's oldest, best-kept moneymaking secret and the most profitable section of the stock market to build your fortune.

Finally, a Chance for the Ordinary Investor to GET RICH

That's the idea behind the profit chain, and it's just one of the many secrets we use to make the CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy the best moneymaking strategy ever created for the ordinary person. As you will now see, the CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy combines this miraculous power of multiple compounding with a scientific selection process that IMPROVES AND IMPROVES your chances for the really big money.

Hedging Your Bets: Take Cash Out as Often as You Want!

Remember, at any time, you can remove more of your cash that you've earned if you want to "play it safe." Best of all, the gains are based on ACTUAL performances of ACTUAL companies. And the profit you see in this report is for demonstration purposes only, so you can see exactly what I'm talking about. They are based on a hypothetical trading pattern with precise timing for the same kinds of top stocks for 2010 the CXS Strategy targets. Who else can say the same? No one I know. It's no secret, you could make even more!

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How Do You Find Stocks That Go Up Like This? Answer: You Don't — That's My Job With My Super CXS Rating Strategy!

Breakthrough Products, Soaring Sales and Growing Profits

Penny Stocks Have the Potential to Pile Up Profits MUCH Faster Than the Dusty Blue Chips. They're Relatively Small Companies, Poised to Hit the Jackpot With Breakthrough Products That Often Multiply Sales By Up to 4,500%. Examples:

AutoImmune Inc. (AIMM:Pink Sheets), sales rose 4,533%!

Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI:NASDAQ), sales rose 3,457%!

Metal Storm Ltd. (MTSX:NASDAQ), sales rose 2,894%!

NetWolves Corp. (WOLV:OTCBB), sales rose 2,688%!

Aerogen Inc. (AEGN:OTCBB), sales rose 2,294%!

APA Optics Inc.(APAT:NASDAQ), sales rose 2,062%!

Avigen Inc. (AVGN:NASDAQ), sales rose 887.5%!

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I Studied Past Successes — Like Merck, Where $1,000 Grew to $53,330 — and I Discovered Hidden Signs of Their Rise!

It's no miracle that certain companies made investors fortunes. I am convinced that you can see tiny, early telltale signs of their future success.

After my computer screens out all but the top 2%, I personally pore over the remaining companies and analyze mountains of information. These are the essential factors I use to determine profitability:

1. Top-Line Growth: Many great, undiscovered penny stocks probably won't be making steady profits yet, but they should still be growing revenues like wildfire. Ideally, better margins and profits should follow as the business strengthens.

The more a company grows its revenue, the closer I watch it. And when it comes to top stocks of 2010 that trade for less than $4 and $5 a share, it's not totally uncommon to see 25%, 35% or even 50% revenue growth over the course of a year.

2. Profit Fortress: It's always a good idea to find unique companies that posses some type of "unfair advantage" over the competition. Any business that churns out an ordinary product will eventually lose out to a company that can do it better, faster and cheaper. The most successful companies operate businesses that may have some type of government protection or products and services that aren't easily duplicated.

3. Black Cloud Factor: Sometimes, one or two problems that are weighing down a company's stock can help you scoop up shares cheaply. Other times, it's uncertainty about the outcome of a lawsuit or regulatory issue that weighs the share price down. However, if the company's underlying business is solid, the share price should go up once Wall Street's uncertainty is resolved.

4. Profit Catapult: A profit catapult is a future event that will drive a company's growth. Everyone hears about future prospects for many of the blue chip companies, but many times, investors ignore potential good news for top penny stocks.

A profit catapult for a small biotechnology company could be an action date by the FDA to approve a new drug. An approval of a company's first drug is a major step on its way to becoming profitable — and its first step toward making shareholders big profits.

5. Business Shock Factor: The business shock is simply how revolutionary a company's product or service could be. The great businesses of our time will possess "disruptive technologies" that could potentially change the marketplace as we know it.

This new technology will be patented or very difficult for other businesses to duplicate, giving our technologically advanced penny stock yet another unfair advantage.

That's exactly how I select the best candidates for your portfolio. Here's the best part: You don't have to do anything. The CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy gives a score to each of these categories and then adds them together. 10 is the highest rating. You simply look at the CXS rating next to the stock and you have an instant snapshot of the company. You can tell what your odds are of making a fast profit. It's that simple.

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One Dollar Turns Into $5,104 When Invested in Small Stocks! Scores of Experts Reveal That Small Stocks Can Be the Most Profitable

Tired of Tiny Gains? Sick of Losses? Had Enough With the Stock Market? Fed up With So-So Performance? Every Dollar Invested in Smaller Companies Turned Into $5,104 — Beating the Higher-Priced Stocks

Some call them the greatest secret on Wall Street. Scientifically chosen small top stocks to buy for 2010 can return enormous profits. And best of all, you don't have to invest a lot to get started. Let's say that you're buying a $1 stock. For $500, you (obviously) purchase 500 shares. So every point it goes up, you're making $500. The same $500 buys only a few shares of a giant blue chip. Listen to what the pros say...

$1 TURNS INTO $5,104

"For over 75 years, no investment has consistently produced higher long-term returns than the top stocks of small companies. A dollar invested in small caps in 1926 would be worth $5,104 [70 years later], versus $1,741 invested in large caps." — Elizabeth Ungar, Ph.D., Investing in Small-Cap Stocks

BEATING THE BLUE CHIPS

"A 10-year study of the most profitable top stocks on the New York Stock Exchange revealed that the most profitable top stocks to buy were the cheapest ones that traded under $5 a share. In other words, little companies. The best gains are from top stocks for 2010 that are cheap." — Richard Evans, Finding Winners Among Depressed and Low-Priced Stocks

STUDIES PROVE PROFITS

"The fact that low priced top stocks provide the best gains year after year is a fundamental market truism that investors will see demonstrated time and time again... it is a fact that is proven beyond doubt by several Journal of Finance studies..." — Richard Evans, Finding Winners Among Depressed and Low-Priced Stocks

You Could Have Doubled Your Money in Just Weeks With These Quick Wins!

Here's one of the greatest secrets of top penny stocks: the fantastic instant cash that can be made from them. They can go up so fast that they leave the blue chips in the dust. Can stocks really rise fast? Look at these actual examples.

Sirius Satellite Radio was trading for 65 cents on April 4, 2003. By June 5, it was up to $2.17. That's a 233% gain in two months and a day!

China Development Group Corp. was trading for a lowly $2.18 on Jan. 20, 2006. By Feb. 2, it had shot up to $12.15. That's a 457% increase in a matter of weeks!

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They could blow the doors off the barn... fill up bank accounts with more cash than would fit in 10 large suitcases, with enough left over to pay off your mortgage and credit card bills. These four stocks are so important I've written a report on them entitled Four Penny Stocks Set to Explode. And I'll e-mail it to you so you can climb aboard with the rest of us. Please request yours now. Here's a briefing on a few of them! (Keep reading and you'll learn about the other two super-stocks in this FREE report!)

One of these firms has a head start on technology that helps businesses, governments, and universities connect to the Internet. And now, the giant firms that provide Internet access to tens of millions of homes are about to jump aboard too. This is one of those companies you'll be hearing about on TV in another year or two — after the big money's already been made. You have a chance to grab that big money for yourself!

Another company in the report is a tiny health insurer that's steadily growing its revenues in a tough economy. And its five-year growth rate is more than double the industry average. In an industry dominated by big boys like Blue Cross and Humana, no one's noticing the profit stream this little dynamo is building. Get in before the crowd starts to notice, and the profit potential is amazing!

Any one of these presents a perfect opportunity for you to build your own CXS profit string starting today. And these are just some of the penny stock opportunities that you'll get more details on in your first issue of Penny Stock Fortunes. I want to send it to you right away so you won't miss out on your chance for amazingly huge winnings.

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We All Know the Rich Have Their Private Clubs, Secret Deals and Buddy-Buddy Friendships. But What About the Rest of Us? That's Where the CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy Comes In. Start With a Small Sum — and You Could Get Rich!

So how does the CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy really work? It's a three-step process. First, my CXS Strategy looks for top stocks trading under $15 with a market cap of $100 million or greater and an average daily trading volume of at least 100,000 shares. This eliminates the overpriced top stocks to buy that have already had their run-up — leaving me with the cheap, liquid small-cap top stocks to buy for 2010.

Next, my CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy looks for companies growing their net income and sales from the last quarter. The best way to ensure you make a profit is to invest in companies that are profitable and growing. But of the 9,745 top stocks on the market, only 10 or 15 meet all these requirements.

I Reject Hundreds of Stocks Before I Find the One I Love!

Once the CXS Strategy narrows the field from 9,745 to about 15, it's time to hone in on the single best stock. I apply my CXS criteria — and only the best stocks for 2010 make it past me! This ensures that the companies remaining are not only making a profit, but they're actually undervalued, with room to grow.

Usually, only a handful of companies meet all the CXS requirements. And to get the absolute best company each month, I personally review all the remaining contenders. I go through annual and quarterly reports, read news clippings, call the companies and compare them with their competitors. The company that looks the best is the one that makes it into the newsletter each month.

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Stop Thinking You Can't Get Rich in the Penny Stock Market. Insiders Are Making SO Much It's Disgusting!

Most average people dream about achieving financial independence in the penny stock market, but have no idea how to do it. And I don't blame them. Unless you're willing to devote years of study to it, it's very difficult. But they then go on to make the mistake of believing it's "impossible." Many give up on their dreams. Don't make that mistake. This is where we come in. We do all the hard work for you. You get the chance to profit from OUR experience of finding winners.

Listen to Our Guidance! Buy and Sell on Our Recommendation. It's That Simple. You Don't Have to Figure It Out. We Do All the Work! Like Early Radar, the CXS Strategy Helps Us Spot the Stocks That Are Truly Undervalued. You'll Be First in Line to Cash In!

Sometimes I think you need a Ph.D. in math to figure out what these financial publishers and analysts are talking about when it comes to investing. All this double talk is deliberate. If the stock goes up, they're the first to say, "I told you so!" And if it bombs, they're sure to say that it wasn't their "first choice." Let's stop the nonsense.

If You Can Pick up Your Phone and Say "BUY," You Can Make a Fortune With the CXS Strategy

Our CXS Strategy couldn't be easier or clearer. I promise you that a 15-year-old could follow what we say — because we're not trying to hide anything with double talk. When we are totally convinced that a stock is worth recommending, we say so without hesitation and we tell you when we think you should buy. It's that simple. That's because we've performed highly sophisticated computer analysis on it — scoring it for our three scientifically selected criteria that uncover true value.

We Analyze Stocks All the Time. We Know What to Look For!

The vast majority of people who subscribe to Penny Stock Fortunes — or any other financial newsletter — do not do this kind of stock analysis for a living. I'm guessing that this holds true for you, too. How can you be expected to analyze a stock using a sophisticated mathematical formula? That is what we do for you — and we do it unbelievably well. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the CXS Strategy is right 100% of the time. Nothing is guaranteed, and not every recommendation will come out a winner.

Eliminate Emotional Mistakes That Cost a Fortune!

What's the single worst mistake you can make in the stock market? Following your emotions, hunches and guesses. This may work for a while, but it's never sustainable — and at the first sign of a downturn, you can lose your shirt. The most successful investors in America follow a system they stick with. Why? It guides them through the rough spots like a radar guides a 747 jet through a bad storm. And it helps them identify the hottest and most profitable stocks to own right now. This is precisely what the CXS Strategy can do for you.

When I look for super-stocks, I look for two things. First, I look for companies about to break out and make you a quick profit. I also require that the stocks be fundamentally sound... and not the victim of funny accounting or rampant investor panic.

But what sorts of companies fall into this category of "breakout" superstars?

Home Depot (HD:NYSE) was once a languishing penny stock, just another retailer struggling to grab a regional foothold in the mid-1980s.

Fast-forward to 2009, and Home Depot is the second largest retailer in the United States. It has over 2,000 locations in the continental U.S. and has distinguished itself from Lowe's.

Home Depot focuses on the do-it-yourself weekend warrior, the do-it-for-me middle- and upper-class home renovators, as well as professional contractors and tradesmen.

Home Depot rose from the ashes of anonymity and is now one of the most successful companies in the country. It has exclusive contracts with tool companies, paint suppliers and decorating and remodeling franchises.

Home Depot, in the span of just over 20 years, eliminated the need for you to run all over town on your precious Saturday morning, visiting the window and door store, the hardware store, the paint store, the lumberyard... you get the idea. Its orange façade has become a beacon of simple and helpful shopping in suburban America. And it started its journey as a penny stock.

Home Depot isn't the only example of penny stocks that made good. Penny Stock Fortunes has made some exciting mega-gains for its readers.

If You Were With Us, You Could Have Bought Coeur d'Alene Mines. We POSTED 221% GAINS on This Natural Resources Empire

Penny subscribers who followed our recommendation made 221% on this quietly booming stock that almost everyone else missed! It's a classic example of how we find value when others overlook it. We examined the properties it owned, the prices of the underlying natural resources, the company's expansion potential, the growth of its cash flow — and it all came up looking like a powerful buy.

We Weren't Afraid — We Saw Real Money in This One!

The so-called experts were running for the hills! Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. is a silver and gold mining empire with properties in the United States — in Nevada, Idaho and Alaska — and South America — in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. The majority of its revenues comes from the sale of precious metals.

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1) Stop Trying to Figure Out the Stock Market. Tap the Huge Money-Earning Potential With a Financial Pro Who Knows What to Do!

A rising market can be a trap. Why? It makes investing look easy. Almost everyone investing is making money and is happy. But when top stocks to buy head down, as they have in the last few years, watch out! The financial wreckage can be disturbing. I say, play it safe. Leave the computer modeling, financial ratios, cash flow statements and return on equity analysis to Greg Guenthner.

2) Start With a Small Amount of Money and Don't Take Crazy Risks Like Some People Do.

One big benefit of this kind of investing is that you can start small. You DON'T need a lot of money. The idea is to make some money and then remove the small investment you start with — and let the profits ride. This way you've taken out what you put in — and you're using profits going forward. I will NEVER recommend you take senseless risks like others do!

3) Start Building Financial Security for the Future — and Stop Worrying Like Everyone Else! Don't Miss Your Chance for What You've Always Wanted!

How many dreams have you put on "hold" because you couldn't afford something? Imagine being in the position of being able to live debt free and buy what you want. Most people fall into the "I'll never be able to afford that" trap and give up. A few carefully chosen penny stocks can change all that. Imagine putting $1,000 into a CXS Money-Multiplier selection and walking away with tens of thousands of dollars — maybe more. It's possible!

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You don't buy the vast majority of penny stocks as "long-term investments." They're not. You buy them to make enormous short-term profits beginning with a very small investment. And you do this by capturing the almost predictable profit explosions — often making 2-32 times your money.

I Tell You Which Top Stocks to Buy and When — It's Easy. You Don't Do Any Work! I List My Top Choices in Every Issue!

You can take your profits and run — THAT'S how you can get rich. The key is getting on the right stocks to start off with. And I help you there, too. That's precisely the point of my CXS Money-Multiplier Strategy. Remember, I list my recommendations in each issue of Penny Stock Fortunes so you don't have to select these top stocks to buy yourself. Compare my record of finding these super-profitable stocks with ANYONE else in America!

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This Stock Could Have Handed You an Easy 667% Gain in Five Months When It Soared From $1.52 to $11.66

Here's a classic example of the profits in low-priced top stocks for 2010. On March 14, 2003, American Airlines received a boatload of bad publicity. The press was all over it. Wall Street hated American Airlines because it was worried about the company's business and all the problems that hit airlines.

Guess what? This fallen angel was fundamentally sound. Sure, it had the same problems every other airline had — but do you really think people are going to stop flying? Nope! The time to buy this gem was in March, because by Sept. 2, 2003, it had soared to $11.66. If you put in $2,500, you'd be sitting with $19,177 — almost $20,000!

This Stock Was Once $3 a Share. It Later Hit $35!

The auto company Chrysler is another classic example of a fallen angel from years gone by. Business took a downturn and Wall Street dumped it like a ton of bricks. The stock hit $3. Those smart enough to realize it would survive made over 10 times their money. My point: fallen angels can fly again — and you can ride along.

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Who Building Tomorrow's Electric Cars?

About two weeks ago, Coda Automotive (a new electric car manufacturer), announced that it will have an all-electric sedan hitting the California stocks market in 2010. The Coda electric car delivers a range of between 90 and 120 miles on a single charge, with a top speed of 80 mph.

Tianjin Lishin Battery is supplying the batteries for this particular vehicle. You may be familiar with Tianjin, as this is one of the world's largest manufacturers of lithium-ion cells and a key supplier to Apple, Motorola, and Samsung.

Coda is expected to have about 2,700 vehicles available in 2010, with production capacity set to reach 20,000 by 2011.

Of course, Coda's electric car is just one more option in an ever-growing line of higher mpg (or mpg equivalent) vehicles. Truth is, from the smallest suburban garages to the biggest automakers, these next generation, fuel-efficient vehicles really are being developed quite rapidly compared to where we were just a few years ago...

GM's still committed to getting the Volt out next year.

Ford will be pumping out new electric vehicles in just two years.

Mitsubishi recently announced that it will begin leasing its i-MiEV electric car in Japan, next month.

Subaru's new Stella EV is expected to be available to consumers this summer

Daimler has invested in Tesla Motors Stocks(maker of the electric vehicle sensation, the Tesla Roadster), and will use Tesla's batteries in its Smart electric car...which is expected to hit later in the year in a testing phase.

And don't forget the guys (and gals) that are converting conventional and hybrid vehicles to Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)...right now. While conversion are nothing new, the momentum behind conversions is definitely growing and developing.

We recently saw Raser Technologies (NYSE:RZ) show off its electric Hummer (with a 40-mile all-electric range) in Washington. And a small California company - Plug In Conversions Corp. - has just completed a new software upgrade that enables all-electric driving at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in a converted Prius.

Building Tomorrow's Vehicles...Today

A new generation of engineers is also being groomed to take on the personal transportation challenges of tomorrow. In fact, last Friday, students from Ohio State University took first place in the EcoCAR Challenge - an advanced vehicle technology competition run by the DOE, GM and the Argonne National Laboratory.

Essentially, this challenge requires students to design and build advanced propulsion solutions, utilizing a variety of clean vehicle options. These include...

All-electric

Range-extended electric

Hybrid

Plug-in hybrid

Fuel cell

The students also incorporate lightweight materials, improve aerodynamics and use alternative fuels, like ethanol, biodiesel and hydrogen.

Interestingly enough, Ohio State also announced a 2,000 mpg-equivalent solar car just last month. It's not a practical vehicle you could drive to work everyday. But the technology that these college students are developing is exactly the kind of technology that so many car manufacturers ignored , or simply denied for decades. Of course, that all changed when gas hit $4.00 a gallon.

Nonetheless, we're certainly excited to see what the future holds for a new generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. And while I am partial to electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (particularly because these vehicles more than meet my needs, as well as the needs of more than half the daily commuting population), there are dozens of potential options coming down the pike. From electrification to advanced biofuels to new designs of old ideas - the race is on to take us out of the stone age of vehicle development...and into the 21st Century.

Which stocks do you think will take the lead?

The U.S. Government Refuses to Acknowledge It

April 16, 2009 was shaping up to be a perfect spring day in the great city of Chicago.

Except for one small detail.

April 16 would be the day that Chicago-based General Growth Properties - the second-largest mall owner in the U.S. - filed for bankruptcy in federal court.

History will look back at April 16, 2009 as the beginning of the Great Commercial Real Estate Collapse of 2009... and with good reason.

GGP's bankruptcy filing was simply the tip of the iceberg. With more than $530 billion in commercial mortgages coming due in the months ahead, we could be facing not just another real estate collapse - but also a failure of the banking system... a stock market crash... and even higher unemployment rates.

Here's what the Wall Street Journal had to say in the aftermath of the GGP bankruptcy filing:

"The bankruptcy will have far-reaching implications for the mall industry, including putting pressure on already declining property values of U.S. malls, and subsequently mall mortgages...

"The collapse points to an underlying concern for the commercial real estate industry, too. Developers and property owners that loaded up on debt during the past real-estate boom now face mountains of that debt coming due. But some of those borrowers, like General Growth, lack the cash or the borrowing capacity to refinance or pay those debts."

My colleague Steve Christ has been studying this situation longer than anyone I know. He was on top of the General Growth Properties bankruptcy filing well in advance of the news - and he has a firm grasp on what's about to happen next.

In fact, Steve has prepared a new report that spells out what's about to happen next... and he's also uncovered a specific investing strategy - one that's been around for centuries - that he recommends to take full advantage of this scenario.

Please take a moment to read Steve's report below - with the commercial real estate market poised to collapse at any time... it's extremely important that you take a look for yourself.

It's been around for the last 20 years.

And even though the U.S. Government won't officially acknowledge its existence, it's about to make you an absolute fortune.

It's called the Plunge Protection Team -- and the secretive committee's primary responsibility is to manipulate the U.S. financial markets and prevent devastating collapses.

But here's the critical part:

The Plunge Protection Team - at this very moment - is pushing the U.S. market artificially higher... but not for much longer.

You see - they've exhausted nearly every trick they know just to push the Dow back toward 9000... in search of a solution for an imminent market collapse that could have a devastating effect on the U.S. economy.

But the fundamental collapse of one market in particular is as close to a sure thing as there can be.

It's the Commercial Real Estate Market. And there's nothing anyone in Washington can do to prevent its complete demise.

The potential exists for not only $1 trillion worth of damage and defaults - but also a collapse of the banking system... a stock market crash... and soaring unemployment rates.

The cracks in the foundation of the commercial real estate market are simply too deep for anyone - including the famous "Plunge Protection Team" - to prevent a total disaster.

I've got the numbers and scary details to prove it. But I also want to make one thing abundantly clear...

This crisis doesn't have to wipe YOU out. As a matter of fact - as long as you see it coming and take a few simple steps - you'll actually see it as one of the biggest profit opportunities of your lifetime.

How is it possible for you to actually make a fortune as a direct result of a historic market collapse?

The answer lies in a special type of investment that has been in existence for 372 years. It's a simple investment that allows you to not only survive a market disaster - but also collect double- and triple-digit profits all along the way.

I've just put the finishing touches on four new research reports that spells out exactly how you can take advantage of this centuries-old investment to capitalize on...

I'll show you how you can claim your copy of these reports - FREE of charge - in just a moment.

First, though, I need to tell you why...

The Commercial Real Estate Collapse Could Cripple the Markets

Listen - I'm no doom-and-gloomer. Not by any stretch. I love a roaring economy and a fast-moving bull market in top stocks of 2010 as much as anyone.

But I have to call things the way I see them.

And there's nothing that can prevent the commercial real estate market from an historic collapse. You see, the potential damage of a catastrophic drop in commercial real estate values could total more than $1 trillion.

At best, we're a few months away from this market explosion. At worst, it could be happening even as you read this letter.

But don't just take my word for it. Here's what one of the most respected commercial real estate strategists in the U.S. said on national television recently...

"When you talk about the banking sector, we're talking about a major impact, another blow to the belly of the banking sector when commercial real estate really hits. We've just seen the tip of the iceberg so far." - Phillip F. Blumberg, chairman and CEO of Blumberg Capital Partners on CNBC 5/14/09

It's vitally important that you take the steps needed to prepare yourself now.

Failure to prepare for this coming disaster could lead to devastating losses in the stock market or your retirement account.

But by taking a few simple steps - which I'll tell you all about below - you can position yourself to receive large payouts while the commercial real estate market nosedives. Best of all... these payouts are 100% legal and potentially unlimited in size and number.

Here's what I mean...

Because of a lethal combination of soaring vacancies... declining property values... and an inability to refinance - commercial property owners are in deep, deep trouble.

And with a commercial real estate market currently valued at more than $6.5 trillion - it's easy to see why the U.S. Government is highly motivated to prevent a collapse.

A collapse of the commercial real estate market would serve as a final "death" blow to the nation's banking system (which has nearly $2 trillion worth of exposure)... crash the U.S. stock market... and effectively cripple the operating capacity of the Obama administration.

They've done a fair job of holding things together for the moment... but that's about to all come crashing down in a huge way.

Why the Commercial Real Estate Market is a Ticking Time Bomb

At this very moment, there are three critical elements to this crisis - and they're all bad news.

1. Commercial property values are in a free-fall - In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, four years worth of gains in value have been wiped out since the beginning of 2008. And it's possible that property values could fall by as much as 50% from their peak when all is said and done. Take a look:

2. Vacancies are soaring! - You don't even need me to tell you about this truth. Just take a look around your local mall, shopping plaza or office complex. In many cases, it's like an absolute ghost town.

In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, "The value of offices, apartments, hotels, warehouses and malls has fallen to March 2005 levels."

Below I've listed some truly shocking numbers. According to research firm Reis Inc., delinquency and default rates for securitized commercial real estate loans are expected to continue soaring at an astonishing rate. Here's what I mean:

3. Refinancing is NOT an option - The vast majority of commercial real estate mortgages are designed differently than the mortgage you might typically use to buy a home. In most cases, commercial mortgages are actually designed to be refinanced after a period of 5 to 10 years.

But because of the recession, banks have made the underwriting standards much more difficult these days.

So in some cases, even the best refinancing candidates are having trouble getting new loans as their old loans come due for refinancing.

Here's what I mean:

Bank lending for commercial projects in the first half of 2009 is on a pace to reach about $25 billion. And that sounds like a big number.

But consider this - at the height of the market, bank lending was at $33 billion per quarter for commercial projects.

And as for securitized commercial mortgages? Forget it - as this graph proves... that game is over.

So with roughly $530 billion in commercial mortgages coming due for refinancing in 2009-2011 - and some estimates showing that as many as 68% of loans maturing during that time will FAIL TO QUALIFY for refinancing, I must ask the question...

Why Hasn't This Market Already Exploded?

The truth of the matter is... this bomb likely should have detonated by now.

But thanks to the actions of the Plunge Protection Team... disaster has been postponed - for the time being.

The government is desperate to keep the "other shoe" - commercial real estate - from dropping like a lead balloon. Because they know just how extensive the damage will be.

Before I go any further - let me clarify...

The Plunge Protection Team is not some urban myth or Oliver Stone-style conspiracy theory.

It's real - even though the U.S. Government still refuses to own up to its existence.

But my new research reports - which I'd like to give you FREE of charge - gives you everything you need to know about the Plunge Protection Team, its impact on this crisis, and how you can profit -- handsomely -- from this information.

In the meantime, here's the "Cliff's Notes" version...

The Plunge Protection Team - Interfering With YOUR Financial Markets Since 1988

• The Plunge Protection Team has been in existence for more than 20 years - it was created by the Reagan administration in response to the stock market crash of October 1987.
• The secret standing committee is made up of a mixture of government agencies, stock exchanges, and large, influential Wall Street firms.
• The Team's primary role is to prevent catastrophic market downturns - or, as a 1997 Washington Post article put it, "the group aims to prevent the smoothly running global financial machine from locking up."

Sounds good, so far, right? After all - who wouldn't be in favor of preventing a devastating stock market collapse or a "locking up" of the financial system?

Well, there's more...

In spite of the fact that a former top advisor to the President of the United States acknowledged the existence of the Plunge Protection Team on national television... the U.S. Government still adamantly refuses to acknowledge its presence.

In some cases, the Plunge Protection Team responds to a crisis by "gently persuading" large banks to buy stock index futures - thus stopping the bleeding in a fast-moving bear market.

In other cases, though, the Plunge Protection Team has been accused of going even further - using government dollars to buy top stocks or stock index futures.

And more recently - in April 2009 - a number of observers noticed some unusual patterns in the "program trading" of the New York Stock Exchange - a pattern that suggested someone may indeed be working to "prop up" the market with large amounts of buying.

Even more suspicious in that frenzy of April 2009 buying was the fact that the largest trader - with a volume five times higher than the second-largest trader - was none other than Goldman Sachs.

I don't even have to remind you about Goldman Sachs' extraordinarily "cozy" relationship with the U.S. Government.

Again - I'll spell all of this out in more detail in the research reports I'd like you to have right away.

But here's the important thing for you to know: There's a mountain of evidence that shows that the U.S. stock market has been propped up by the government - and the firms it is "friendliest" with - over the past 12 months.

You see, the powers-that-be have strong motive to cut in and manipulate our markets, and you'd better believe they have the means to effect these changes.

But all this artificial "propping up" is about to come to a sudden - and devastating - end.

Because this time, the crisis is simply too large. At best, the Plunge Protection Team can call in more favors - and use its remaining clout - to keep the market from collapsing for a few more weeks.

But when the staggering number of commercial real estate defaults begins to pile up, there will be absolutely nothing the boys in Washington - or on Wall Street, for that matter - can do to prevent the explosion.

Fortunately, though, there is still something that you and I can do about this collapse. No - we won't be able to prevent it... but we can prevent it from devastating our retirement accounts.

In fact, with one simple phone call - and by taking advantage of a simple technique that has been used for more than 370 years - you can position yourself perfectly for a succession of double- and triple-digit profits as the commercial real estate market collapses.

How the Great Commercial Real Estate Collapse Will Unfold

Truth be told... the fuse has already been lit.

The history books will show that the Great Commercial Real Estate Collapse of 2009 actually began on April 16.

That's the day that General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP) - the second largest mall owner in the United States - filed for bankruptcy.

With that one filing, a company with more than 200 properties filed the biggest real estate bankruptcy in U.S. history.

But here's the problem - General Growth Properties was just the beginning...

Thousands of commercial mortgages - totaling roughly $530 billion - coming due for refinancing in 2009-2011.

But - as I showed earlier - the lending market has almost completely dried up.

In fact, some estimates show that as many as 68% of loans maturing during that time will FAIL TO QUALIFY for refinancing.

And if those commercial buildings can't be refinanced, prices will plunge rapidly... and we'll soon see a bust just like we've seen in the housing market.

Listen... there's a reason why the imminent collapse of the commercial real estate market has been the top priority of the Plunge Protection Team for months.

They know that once the commercial real estate market begins to collapse... the banking system is in grave danger.

All of that hard work - and all those billions of dollars - to help stabilize the banking industry?

Out the window. All of it. And as soon as they're hit with massive commercial real estate defaults - the U.S. banking system will be devastated.

But that's only the beginning. Because bad news from commercial real estate - and the banking sector - will almost certainly cause the stock market to crash... and who knows how low it will go this time.

Couple all of that with the fact that thousands of construction, real estate and other jobs are sure to be lost as a result of this crisis... and you've got a financial crisis of the highest order on your hands.

This is an urgent matter - and it requires your immediate attention. But as I've said... it's possible for you to avoid being wiped out as a result of this collapse. In fact, I've spelled out - in clear detail - in my new reports just how you can...

Protect Yourself from this Disaster - and Make Obscene Amounts of Money along the Way

It might sound a bit crazy - but it's possible to collect regular, substantial payouts in the midst of a historic market collapse.

In fact, it's not only possible... it's actually rather easy.

The key to collecting these payouts is actually a centuries-old investing strategy that was specifically designed to take advantage of crisis situations just like this one. Truth is... this powerful strategy sets up perfectly for this scenario.

The first known instance of this strategy being used came all the way back in 1637. And while it may not be the most popular - or the "sexiest" - investing technique you've ever heard of... it figures to pay off in a huge way over the next several months.

All it takes is one simple phone call to your broker to put this strategy to work for you. And here's the best part - in my new research reports I'll tell you exactly what to say when you call your broker in order to make sure you take full advantage of the profit potential.

I've spent the better part of the past two years examining the real estate market as a whole - and the commercial real estate "nightmare scenario" is the first thing I investigate each morning.

In this letter, I've spelled out some of the details as to how this scenario will unfold in the months ahead... but the truth of the matter is - I haven't done all of this research because I enjoy the "doom and gloom."

Simply put - I want to make money. Lots of it.

And I've discovered a handful of unique investments that will allow us to take full advantage of what figures to be a historic market event.

In my research report - titled Commercial Real Estate: How to Profit When the Other Shoe Drops - I'll show you exactly which investments I think will provide the biggest potential payoff.

And I'll tell you everything you need to know in order to take full advantage.

Introducing... The Wealth Advisory

Before I go any further... I should introduce myself. My name is Steve Christ. Since 2006, I've served as managing editor of Wealth Daily. I'm also the Investment Director of The Wealth Advisory.

I developed The Wealth Advisory as a vehicle for investors like you to capitalize on situations just like the one we're facing right now with the imminent collapse of the commercial real estate market.

With each "Big-Picture" opportunity comes a chance to employ a carefully-selected investment - like the 372-year-old strategy we're using in this case - and get in ahead of the masses.

Let's be honest - the market eats naïve investors for breakfast... especially in turbulent times like those we're living in right now.

That's why it's so important you have an appropriate, rock-solid investment philosophy... as well as sound research and advice.

And that's where The Wealth Advisory comes into play.

You see... The Wealth Advisory goes far beyond winning stock picks. We don't just deliver investment recommendations that can help members build a lifetime of wealth.

Net Cumulative Gains of 648% in the Midst of the Worst Bear Market in Decades

We launched The Wealth Advisory in January 2008.

During the ten months we've been making recommendations, the Dow has dropped 31.9%... the NASDAQ has dropped 25.2%... and the S&P500 is down 36.8%.

How have Wealth Advisory subscribers done during this difficult time?

We've posted a cumulative net gain of 648% on our closed positions... with more gains still to come.

Here's a peek at just a few of those closed positions so you can see for yourself just what kind of gains are possible - no matter what kind of market we're in...

• Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE:NASDAQ) closed with a 32.28% gain in 11 weeks.
  
• Converted Organics Inc. (COIN:NASDAQ) closed with a 42.11% gain in two weeks.
  
• FXP UltraShort FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Proshare (FXP:AMEX) closed with a 27.23% gain in four weeks.
  
• Morgan Stanley China - SHORT POSITION (CAF:NYSE) a 32.51% gain in four weeks.
  
• PowerShares DB Commodity Idx Trking Fund (DBC:AMEX) a 14.26% gain in eight weeks.
  
• PowerShares DB Energy (DBE:AMEX) a 15% gain in nine weeks.
  
• VMware Inc. (VMW:NASDAQ) a 44.44% gain in eight weeks.
  
• Chesapeake Energy (CHK:NYSE) a 15.4% gain in 6 weeks.
  
• UltraShort QQQ ProShares (QID:NASDAQ) an 11% gain 4 weeks.
  
• PowerShares DB Oil (DBO:AMEX) a 49% gain in 5 months.
  
• UltraShort FTSE/Xinhua China25 Proshare (FXP:AMEX) a 16.45% gain in 2 days.
  
• UltraShort MSCI Emerging Markets Proshare (EEV:AMEX) a 19.6% gain in 2 days.
  
• W.R. Grace & Co. (GRA:NYSE) a 72.12% gain in under 3 weeks!

Again... that's a cumulative gain of 727.7% vs losses of only 79.7% or a net gain of 648%!

Not bad for a bear market.

Here's How You Can Get Started Today

The coming collapse in the commercial real estate market will have a potentially life-altering impact on your money. That's why you need to take action now in order to safeguard your wealth - and profit - by taking advantage of a 372-year-old investing technique that is perfect for this very situation.

So here's all you need to do in order to get started right now...

Step One - Sign up for a risk-free, trial subscription to The Wealth Advisory. The minute you sign up, you'll be granted immediate access to my four new reports:

• Commercial Real Estate: How to Profit When the Other Shoe Drops
  
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• Safe Harbor Savings Account - How to Sit Back and Become a Millionaire

Step Two - Read over the reports as soon as you can... and simply follow the step-by-step instructions I've provided. Once you're armed with the information in my reports, one simple call to your broker should do the trick.

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Three Lessons Learned from the Subprime Crash

For investors who had money in the markets last year, October 2008 is a month that will not soon be forgotten. In those 31 days, the S&P 500 — a major indicator of the stock market at large — fell almost 17%, reversing the gains of the previous five years.

But as the markets work their way back into health and investor confidence continues to creep up month after month, we risk throwing away the lessons of the Subprime Crash of 2008:

Lots of very intelligent investors got embroiled in huge losses last year. Bernie Madoff fleeced scores of wealthy, well-informed investors — many of whom lost everything they had built up over a lifetime. The collapse of some of the biggest financial institutions, including Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, thinned out the Wall Street crowd by the millions. And underperforming fund managers hit close to home by taking a bite out of out 401Ks.

In fact, over the course of the last year, the average mutual fund lost 20.95% of its value according to Morningstar. That's a shock for investors who were used to raking in double-digit gains year after year.

If nothing else, there should be some pretty big takeaways from this financial fiasco. Here are three that you should be walking away with:

1. Know What You Own

Knowing what you own is one of the tenets of stock investing. But it means more than being able to name the holdings you have in your portfolio. In late 2007 and early 2008, the general consensus on 2010 top stocks was that the bullish tone of the market was set to continue.

But in reality, stocks had been expensive for quite some time. Just how valuable were stocks before the bottom fell out of the market? Here's a look at historical P/Es of the S&P 500 every quarter since 1936:

The consensus is generally that the average P/E of the S&P 500 is around 10; it's not. Since 1936, the S&P 500 has averaged 15.8.

But in late 2008 the S&P's price to earnings ratio had risen to the mid 20s. In fact, they hadn't touched that 15.8 average in 13 years. For the first two quarters of 2008 before top stocks market went into freefall, the S&P's P/E ratio averaged just over 23…45.5% higher than the historic average.

Now, there are a lot of reasons why the market should have a higher P/E than it has in the past — constituent companies have changed pretty dramatically in the last 73 years, for starters — but that still doesn't explain why companies delivered investors with 39% less earnings bang for their buck between 2005 and 2008.

The information suggesting that the market might be overvalued was easily available, but the investor sentiment told us to buy full steam ahead. 

2. "The Market Can Stay Irrational Longer than You Can Stay Solvent"

That famous quote from economist John Maynard Keynes resounds just as true today as it did in the 1930s. Keynes was qualified to make a statement like that — he was one of a few prescient investors who made a fortune by avoiding the great depression, and picking up undervalued stocks dirt cheap in its aftermath.

Markets tend to overreact to important news. They overreacted to the subprime crisis by slashing stock prices by an average of almost 50%, and they'll likely overreact again as we recover from March 9's market lows.

Those overreactions are only magnified when it comes to top penny stocks. Because the smallest companies have the smallest trading volumes, their true values and share prices are often not reconciled. And while that can provide penny stock investors with a huge buying opportunity, it can also provide us with a huge headache as we wait for our valuations to come to bear.

3. Don't Believe the Hype

The mainstream financial media deserves a share of the blame too… Traditionally, the tone at the major financial networks has been pretty predictable — their pundits sing the market's praises when things are good, and solemnly decry the dangers of stock investing when things turn sour.

And as the first signs of the subprime collapse started rearing their ugly head, the pundits were in full perma-bull mode…

It's time to take what we hear on the financial news with a grain of salt.

Trillions Phantom Economy Finally Ignites

I was shocked. And if you've read my irreverent commentaries on the madness of today's markets in the popular e-zine The Daily Reckoning, you'll know it takes a lot to do that.

I've known, and worked with (and even published) hundreds of financial analysts and economists over the past few decades. And I've been fortunate (mostly anyway) to be privy to a lot of diverse, unconventional and original financial ideas, radical predictions, and unusual investment styles in that time.

But recently one unique and private group of like-minded libertarian global investors has surprised me.

I've been reading financial reports from them for a number of years. And though I was impressed by their prestigious and extensive advisory team who were collected from all corners of the financial globe, and boasted everyone from Swiss bankers to asset protection masters, currency traders to commodity experts, I ignored their direst financial warning…

There was one special report that was originally sent out over four years ago that was truly remarkable. And there is certified evidence by the U.S. Post Office that this report was mailed to investors and influential decision makers in the U.S. and overseas.

You can bet it made its way to the corridors of financial and political powers in Washington and New York. Yet its message and urgent warnings were derided as "fear mongering" by people like the Fed Chief at the time.

Yet this report…published long before the word "derivatives" ever hit the front page… predicted with uncanny accuracy the global financial meltdown stemming from the untamable and unregulated growth of the now $592 trillion global derivatives market―a shadow market they called "the Phantom Economy."

This report warned of hidden financial time bombs, which were lying in America's banks, and which they believed could detonate at any time…setting off a devastating chain of events that would end up causing the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression.

The world now knows these financial time bombs as derivatives. And this rare group of global investors (call them financial shamans or money mystics if you like) were indeed right. For their apocalyptic prediction is of course what we are now bearing witness to on Wall Street and global markets today.

Just below is an updated copy of the original report. It's to warn you of the next great shocks that are about to rock the markets…and show you how to shield your wealth and turn disaster into opportunity in the continued fallout. 

You might have been one of those investors who received the original report, and maybe you'll recognize it. For they have been sending updated versions of this ominous market warning over the past four years. In fact, even well after this summer when many of Wall Street's so-called "best and brightest" money managers were telling investors that the worst was over, this group was warning that on the contrary - the worst was yet to come.

They couldn't have been more terrifyingly right.

As I watched in disbelief at the unprecedented chain of devastating financial events that unfolded weekly, sometimes even daily, in these past months, I remembered that contrarian global investment group. I remembered their warnings. While the world sat in shock and awe, unable to believe what was unfolding on Wall Street, watching their retirement portfolios go up in smoke, along with their credit and faith in the American economy, this group were not even surprised.

On the contrary, they were very well prepared for these financial shocks…and they've watched their investment recommendations fly in the face of falling markets everywhere. Their contrarian global approach, their trust in alternative assets, and in investments that lie far off the Wall Street radar, have rewarded them greatly.

And now investors have started to huddle at the gate of this private investment group. As one reader, John Shook, wrote:

"I used to subscribe to this service several years ago. I also used to get emails…that always warned of bank failures and the derivatives issue that would cause this. I cancelled my subscription back then because it seemed like too much boogie man stuff…well apparently it was all true. I am now watching my brokerage account dwindle away each day feeling very stupid and powerless… I should have listened back then and got my money the hell out a few years ago.  Im afraid most of my financial advice comes from my advisor who just wants me to leave it with him and ride this out forever….if u can send me a link to some sound advice Id appreciate it…" � John Shook, Arlington, VA

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Below is the latest issue of their private investment letter, which is a special edition on the global financial crisis…including their latest predictions for where they see it going next. They urge you (as do I) NOT to listen to the Wall Street and Washington rhetoric…that no matter what kind of false sense of financial security they might be pedaling, the crisis is far from over.

But they also reveal a number of alternative investments that are poised to fly when almost everything else comes crashing to the ground…including one of the most depressed investments of the last generation, which they believe will return 2 to 10 times your money in the volatile years to come. Have a read of this contrarian group's advice, and if you find yourself nodding in agreement, then why not try a no-risk introductory membership to this organization? It might change the way you invest forever, as it's evidently done for thousands of others!

It is estimated that over 700 banks (with trillions of dollars in assets) will come crashing to the ground.  Hundreds of hedge funds will collapse, along with a number of major private equity firms. Corporate bankruptcies will soar. And another $20 Trillion will be wiped off Global stock markets. And no amount of Fat-Chance Packages or Bailout Band-aids from the Fed will help this time.

But this one bombed-out investment (that's been trading at depression level prices for 18 years now) could soar two to ten fold as the world comes undone.

The nightmare scenario has begun.

We've been warning people about it for over 4 years now. And while the powers at be would love you to think that they've got everything under control, you'll soon see that once the next wave of the global derivatives disaster hits, no amount of Fed fiddling will be able to contain the crisis this time.

While we originally warned that JP Morgan might be ground zero for the global derivatives disaster, Jamie Dimon (who's been called the world's greatest banker) was soon employed to unwind their giant derivatives portfolio and reduce their exposure and risk.

Although he managed to do this with some success, other players took up the slack and the derivatives bubble continued to grow unchecked and unregulated.

We later sent out warnings of a new demon derivative that had begun to proliferate like wildfire…which threatened to take down banks like Wachovia, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Deustche Bank, and hundreds of other hedge funds and financial institutions.

Bill Gross, the legendary bond investor, called this particular type of derivative one of the banks' most "egregious concoctions" to date! It's the now infamous investment, which goes by the name of the Subprime CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligation). The investment derives its value from the subprime mortgage markets.

These investments were basically bets on whether or not the average American homeowner with a poor credit rating could make his monthly mortgage payment on his inflated home.

For bankers and mortgage brokers, loan applicants who previously would have been considered bad risks suddenly became great clients. That's because the higher risk these borrowers represented, meant ultimately the lender could charge higher rates and fees…and then quickly sell the loan off to unsuspecting institutions.

And in a world of low interest rates, low inflation and easy credit they were a gloriously effortless way for banks and hedge funds to reach for yield. The risk was low and the reward high…at least until everything started to go wrong…and these miracle bets began to rapidly unwind…

Pop Goes the Largest Leveraged Asset and Credit Bubble in History 

You see, as we mentioned before, these derivative bets are bought on an enormous amount of leverage.

For example, any wealthy individual can go to a broker these days and put down $1 million, and then leverage this amount 3 times. The resulting $4 million ($1 million equity, $3 million debt) can be invested in a fund of funds that will in turn leverage this $4 million another 3 or 4 times and invest them in a hedge fund; then the hedge fund will take these funds and leverage them another 3 or 4 times and buy derivatives like subprime CDOs, which are often themselves leveraged 9 or 10 times!

At the end of this long credit chain, the initial $1 million of equity can become a $100 million investment, out of which $99 million is debt (leverage) and only $1 million is equity. So we get an overall leverage ratio of 100 to 1.

It was this kind of new Super-Leverage which helped create the largest asset and credit bubbles in the history of humanity, including a global real estate bubble, a mortgage bubble, a bond bubble, a credit bubble, a commodity bubble, a private equity bubble, a hedge fund bubble and the mother of all economic bubbles: the global derivatives bubble.

It's how global stock markets grew from $25 trillion to $50 trillion in just 5 years, and how the global derivatives market leapt from $100 trillion to almost $600 trillion. In economic terms, these bubbles grew in the blink of an eye.

And now they've all begun to bust at the same time―plunging us into the deepest de-leveraging since the Great Depression.

You see, when you have this kind of monstrous amount of leverage built into the system, a mere 1% fall in the price of the final investment (the CDO) can wipe out the initial equity, and create a chain of margin calls.

And here's where the real problem lies: The one we've been warning investors about for over four years now…the one at the very core of the credit crisis. 

The amount all these traders have to put down in order to place their derivative bets is based upon their credit rating. The stronger their credit rating, the less they have to put down.

Now if their credit rating is downgraded, they have to put up more money to cover the bet. In order to do that, the bank, hedge fund, money market fund, private equity fund, etc. must sell its investments. Problem is, it's unable to sell many of its investments (like CDOs) - because nobody wants them, so it has to sell its good investments (like its top stocks). And naturally when things sell, prices drop, which causes further selling, and further downgrades and so on…

And that's what we are seeing in global markets right now. It's why top stocks investments and markets that seem far removed from the subprime mortgage meltdown are being affected by it.

But the worst is yet to come.

The Catalog of Crises

It's not only that we have a financial crisis, we also have a banking crisis, a credit crisis, a food crisis, an energy crisis and a commodity crisis.

We've already seen $10 trillion wiped off global stock exchanges in just a month. And that was after trillions of dollars had been injected into the system from central banks the globe over…

And now the next demon derivative is about to whip down Wall Street and wipe a further $20 trillion off global exchanges, spinning the world into what might end up being a global deflationary collapse.

We'll tell you about this demon derivative in this Special Crisis and Opportunity Issue on the derivatives time bomb…and we'll show you how you can not only protect yourself from it, but multiply your wealth many times over by buying the small clutch of alternative investments, which are poised to leap 2-10 fold when the derivatives bubble finally blows. 

We'll tell you about the countries that leveraged the most, and those that leveraged the least, and we'll show little-known ways to make money off them all…more money than you may have ever made in your life.

We'll introduce you to radical new financial innovations that can give you access to exotic currencies, booming markets and opportunities that were once reserved only for the world's richest investors. We'll show you how to invest more like the world's best-performing university endowments, but for no more than it would cost you to purchase a best stock to buy or mutual fund on American markets.

But before we do, let me first tell you why no amount of fed fiddling, bailout band-aids or fat-chance packages will save the markets this time.

Wall Street's Next Demon Derivative Delivers Final Blow

You've heard of the subprime CDO (the derivative at the core of the current crisis). Now another kind of demon derivative is about to take the spotlight. It's called the CDS (Credit Default Swap). And you'll soon understand why, no matter what central banks do, it will deal the final blow to the global financial system. 

At its very simplest a CDS is an insurance contract. And it's made between two parties, one of whom is giving insurance to the other in hopes that he will be paid in the event that a financial institution or corporation, fails. However, Wall Street big-wigs have been very careful not to call this investment an insurance contract because if it were insurance, it would be regulated. So instead they use a magic substitute word called a 'swap,' which by virtue of federal law is deregulated.

And this is where we run into trouble. Because what was originally intended as insurance has now often become once again a highly leveraged speculative bet. Now in a typical CDS deal, a hedge fund will sell protection to a bank, which will then resell the same protection to another bank, and such dealing will continue, sometimes in a circle. And this practice has the potential to put investors into webs of relationships which are not transparent.

Since the U.S. Treasury has not classified these derivatives as "insurance," they trade free of any government regulations. Because of that, the firm selling the CDS is not required to set aside any reserves from the premiums received to insure against possible future loss claims.

This obviously makes the sale of the Credit Default Swaps potentially very profitable. But if the bet goes sour, and the company defaults or goes bankrupt, then that small bet can get very expensive.

So what was essentially supposed to be a safe insurance contract is now a series of highly leveraged dangerous bets. And in the past seven years trading in this market has leapt a mind-boggling hundred-fold.

This new CDS market now stands at a size larger than the entire capitalization of all the world's top stock markets combined.  

And since these bets are all based on the future credit worthiness of a country, company or consumer (basically a bet on the ability of a party to repay his debts), they're all about to go horribly wrong.

In a global economy made up of thousands of corporations and institutions, many of which borrowed 10-100 times their capital in the past few years, most will be un able to repay their future debts � meaning these new demon derivates are going to unwind at a rapid rate…with fall-out so large it will dwarf the current damage caused by the crisis so far. 

Why Bailout Band-Aids Won't Save the System

Central banks around the globe have already injected trillions of dollars into the system. And while these bailout band-aids have helped, the problem is too big now. A band-aid might be good to cover a blemish or an abrasion, but we now have a gaping hole in the financial system: One that is growing larger every day.

Plus the government's ability to deal with a crisis of this magnitude is unfortunately limited. Over 700 banks are already in critical condition…150 of them (with a trillion dollars in assets alone) have Texas Ratios of 1:1. (A Texas ratio is a measure of the banks' credit troubles. And historically when banks have reached 1:1, they fail.)   

While the Fed does have the ability to bail out banks, how many more will they have to bail out before investors start to lose faith in the whole American financial system. But even if they were to take the unlikely action of bailing out every bank, it still wouldn't be enough.

They'd need to bail out the hundreds of non-banking institutions too, including all the hedge funds, money market funds and private equity funds that are also on the brink. And they'd need to bail out the thousands of crashing corporations and the millions of already bankrupt mortgage holders. That's what is needed to save the system…to prevent a tsunami of foreclosures, an implosion of the corporate sector, not to mention the coming torrent of defaults on credit cards, auto loans and student loans.

And the tragic reality is it can't be done. These kind of non-banking bailouts lie beyond the abilities of the Fed.

In fact, in another urgent investment bulletin we sent out to investors in the summer of 2007 entitled "Gluttons at the Gate" we warned about the coming bursting of the Private Equity bubble. Ten of the biggest Private Equity outfits (Ex-president's clubs, as we called them), were busily buying up hundreds of companies on extravagant amounts of leverage. And they weren't just buying up small firms, they were buying up some of America's most iconic brands, including: Hertz, Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Music, Neiman Marcus, J Crew and Toys "R" Us.

They de-listed these companies from the public exchanges, stripped them down, cut their costs and their workforces, loaded them up with debt, charged them questionable fees and rushed them back to public markets at warp speed.

To quote industry insiders, they "bought them, stripped them and flipped them."

But the success of this buyout binge hinged on one very important factor: a booming economy.

You see Private Equity firms use the rising sales of the companies they acquire to pay back their enormous debt loads. But in a recession when sales tumble, they will be unable to make the crippling repayments. They will default. This is what we're starting to see happen. Since they bought up trillions of dollars worth of companies (a significant swath of the global economy) the impact will be enormous. Corporate bankruptcies will soar. Private Equity firms will be unable to launch them back onto public exchanges. They'll be stuck owning ailing assets. And many will get crushed under the burden of their huge debt loads.

Global Stock Market's Next $20 Trillion Culling

Corporate default rates were a mere 0.6% in 2006 and 2007. But in a typical U.S. recession these rates surge above 10%. In a severe recession they'll soar even higher. 

And once the tsunami of corporate bankruptcies start to flood the market, it is then that we will bear witness once again to the devastating power that these demon derivatives carry. For the intricate web of relationships, including all the banks, hedge funds, money market funds and investors that bought insurance on these faltering companies, will want to be paid. Problem is, many won't have the funds to pay up. They'll go bankrupt.

It's why AIG � the world's biggest insurance company― fell and had to be bailed out by the banks.

And it's why Lehman Brothers also went bankrupt. And even if the Fed had saved them it would've only slowed down the meltdown. It wouldn't have stopped it. Because this time, the bets have been too big, and they've burrowed too deep into the global financial system…

Nothing will be able to stop the coming catastrophic implosion of the Credit Default Swap market. Even if the Fed could inject funds into every hedge fund, money-market fund and corporation (which they can't), the sums would need to be so large that it would destroy the very fabric of the American financial system anyway. 

Once the CDS marker starts to implode, there will be a run on the banks…and a run on top stocks to buy for 2010. And expect the coming CDS―driven global stock market crash to dwarf the last crash, which saw $10 trillion wiped off global exchanges in a matter of weeks, as investors priced in a global recession. This time they'll be pricing in a severe recession and maybe a depression. Expect a further $20 trillion to get wiped off. And because of the lack of transparency in the CDS market, everyone will hoard cash, making the credit crunch even worse…leading to a complete systemic financial collapse. The curtain will have finally fallen on the Wall Street era.

In this time there will only be a few profitable money havens left: A small clutch of markets who were not built on phantom finance…whose stock, real-estate and bond markets were not pumped up on super-leverage and hot financial air…whose governments support massive surpluses NOT crippling deficits…and whose citizens rank among the world's greatest savers, not the world's greatest spenders. Some of these economies are also awash in natural resources, others are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash. Their banks are among the best capitalized in the world. They barely dipped their toes into the risky subprime CDO and CDS markets. They are thus far better equipped to weather the coming financial storm than most other bubble economies.

And thanks to The Sovereign Society, and their vast array of global contacts, you'll be able to access them more easily and cheaply than ever before, including:

"The One Investment that ALWAYS Flies When Almost Everything Else Falls!"

The world's biggest credit and asset bubbles ever created in the history of humanity are all starting to burst at the same time. So where do you go for safety and profits?

I'll tell you where: The one investment on Earth that didn't get pumped up on cheap credit and phantom finance…the one investment that didn't boom when almost everything else did…the one investment that went nowhere in the last 18 years, only enjoying brief booms when the rest of the world started falling apart � like in 1998 after the collapse of LTCM, 9/11, etc.

This investment thrives on chaos…flies when everything else falls…dances when everything else dies…

I'm talking about the Japanese yen. Ironically it was the yen (and the Bank of Japan) that was also the single biggest source of cheap money, which helped fuel the recent and unprecedented bull markets in top stocks to buy for 2010, real estate and commodities. But it didn't do it to inflate global asset bubbles. It did it in hopes of jump-starting its own depressed economy. So it offered investors the globe over the cheapest source of financing on the planet…loans at near 0% interest. It was basically FREE money. And so irresistible was it, that investors came from everywhere to dip their toes into the deep waters of this enchanted money pool. Everyone from Private Equity firms to hedge funds…from money market funds to Japanese housewives dived in.

These firms and investors borrowed up every cent they could � some estimates say the sums reached as high as $2 trillion.

Problem was, instead of plowing this money back into Japan's depressed market, as the authorities had hoped, the bet back-fired. Instead these investors took the cheap money and plowed it into greener financial pastures, which largely was anything that could offer them a bigger yield than 1%. They piled into New Zealand and Australian dollar currency CDs, Chinese, Brazilian, Russian and Indian stocks, emerging market bonds, Eastern European banks, oil, gas, copper, corn, Google, global real estate, DOW stocks and a whole lot more.

And why not? If you can borrow money at near 0% interest, then deposit it elsewhere and reap 3, 10 even 20% annual returns, it's a license to print money. And for a long time it was.

The market has a name for this kind of fairy-tale bet.

It's called a carry trade.

Problem is this carry trade is coming to a tragic end.

Make 2-10 Times Your Money as the World's Biggest Bet Unwinds

You see in order for the Japanese yen carry trade to continue, it depends on one very important factor.

Japan and the yen have to stay depressed.

Japan in effect has to sacrifice itself in order to save everyone else. For if its market and currency start to take off, so too could its interest rates, which would be catastrophic for the thousands of betters who borrowed these cheap Japanese yen loans. Their loan payments would quickly soar.

All those who become unable to make their higher monthly payments would have to start to cash out of the investments they bought with the loan. Many would start to panic too, in fear that their interest rate would continue to climb and the yen would continue to strengthen, making their payments increasingly harder to make.

This would lead to a massive global sell-off of all these high-yielding bubble assets, and money would flood back to Japan, which would in turn enforce the trend even more. And the cycle would feed on itself.

The world's biggest bet would rapidly unwind, deflating asset bubbles the globe over, but it would also finally turn one of the world's worst-performing investments (the long-depressed Japanese yen) into one of the world's best.

And that's what we're seeing happening in global markets right now. But it's only just beginning. When the Credit Default Swaps market implodes, it will spin the world into deeper chaos, and more and more money will flood back to Japan, setting off a yen currency rally like the world has never known. 

The yen is the ultimate crisis-proof investment.

And we'll show you the best ways to play it, including revolutionary new financial instruments that can allow you to invest in the yen currency just as easy and as cheaply as you would a DOW stock. Plus we'll show you little-known ways to magnify the returns on this currency play 10, 20 - even 30 times. That means every 10% that the yen appreciates against other major currencies, you could make up to 300%.  

You'll learn all about it in a special investment alert we'll send you absolutely FREE when you sign up for a risk-free trial membership to The Sovereign Society. It's called The Great Unwind: How to Make 100-1000% on the Collapse of the Carry Trade.

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Easy Profits on the "Recession Currency" When the DOW Goes Down, the YEN Goes Up

(You see, whenever the DOW takes a hit, the yen rallies. Few investors know this: but the yen has been an almost fail-proof hedge against sputtering best stock markets. This isn't some random coincidence. In truth, Japan is the "black market" of credit that funds the DOW - to a very large degree. And when that credit becomes more expensive, the world's biggest investors have no choice― they MUST sell off assets and repay their loans. This cycle feeds on itself: As yen loans are repaid, the value of the yen rises― pushing other debtors' interest rates higher. And as more and more debtors sell off investments to repay their ballooning loans― a massive deflationary effect spreads across the world.  Cash becomes scarcer... Nearly everything is worth less. Except the Japanese yen. It flies! 

The Harder the Crash the Bigger Your Yen Currency Gains Will Be

In the last 21 years, three major market crashes were coupled with huge rises in the yen's value.

The One Investment that May Even Trump Japan's Juggernaut

In times of crisis, people grasp for tangible investments, things like gold and silver, and other essential commodities that the global economy simply can't do without.

In the last commodities bull market, gold went up a staggering 23-fold. That was through the inflationary '70s � one of the worst periods for U.S. stocks in economic history. In times of uncertainty, investors rush to gold. And in the oil-credit-confidence and commodity-shocked-times ahead, gold will shoot to the stars.

This won't be like the gold bull market in the '70s. It will be much bigger. For we now have a lot of new players on the global stage. And as energy shocks, commodity crunches and derivatives disasters continue to rock global markets, these new players will get very hungry for the immortal metal. The 2.3 billion Chinese and Indians have already begun to show their voracious appetite for the metal. But this is only the beginning. When gold lust spreads from the contrarians to mainstream investors to the general public, then you'll truly see that there is no rush like a great global gold rush.

What's more, there hasn't been a big gold discovery for many years. And despite soaring global demand, the World Gold Council expects gold production to stay flat or even decline over the next few years. The infrastructure is already woefully inadequate to meet current demand. But once demand really heats up, a massive supply gap will open up, causing the price of gold to skyrocket.

The argument for gold today is so compelling, there really is few greater investments for the volatile times ahead. In a special investment alert we'll rush you when you sign up for a risk-free trial membership to the Sovereign Society you'll learn all about some of the best ways to invest in this precious metal. It's called: Dirt Diggers: 7 Great Ways to Profit from $2500 Gold and $75 Silver!

Plus, in the special private monthly bulletins and daily e-letters we'll send you when you join, you'll also learn about many more little-known ways to profit safely from gold, silver, silver bullion coins, precious metal mining top stocks to buy and mutual funds, platinum, rare coins, colored diamonds and other commodities…

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Sign up for a 2-year membership to The Sovereign Society and we'll also send you another investment alert called Four Steps to Depression-Proof Wealth.

In it you'll learn about:

The European telecom giant that is about to explode into the emerging energy empires of the East.

The world's most cash-rich, debt-free, lowest-cost mining company.

How to trade one of the world's greatest investors entire portfolio with one simple investment!

The World's Most Explosive Exotic Currency Play. The Chinese yuan is still not traded on foreign exchange markets. Retail investors, hungry for a piece of what they're confident is sure to be an historic currency play, have no clue how to get in on this amazing investment opportunity. Most think it's only for billionaires like Buffet and Soros. But anyone with even as little as a few hundred dollars can play the meteoric rise of the Chinese yuan. Just like the yen rose to a stunning degree against the dollar as it leapt from an economic backwater to the center of global commerce, so too will the yuan enjoy a similar rise, but the yuan's will be even bigger, faster and stronger. And we'll introduce you to a little-known way to get in on it way before the crowd � even before the yuan officially hits the Forex market. 

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As a member of The Sovereign Society you'll get access to information from our unrivalled team of over 30 financial and professional researchers, many of whom are masters in asset preservation. They will show you what to look out for…and help steer you through the volatile times ahead…

You're probably thinking that access to these experts' research is going to cost you a small fortune. But don't worry. It's not.

Through the Society's special monthly research advisory letter (The Sovereign Individual) and the daily e-letter (The Offshore A-Letter) you'll learn from this unrivalled team of financial and professional researchers. In The Sovereign Individual and The A-Letter you'll find out the latest updates from banking and financial insiders about what's unfolding in the global derivatives markets. Plus you'll learn how best to prepare for it, including specific investment recommendations in global gold stocks, offshore funds, emerging market investments, foreign currency plays and precious metal investments.

You'll also find out about private banking strategies, computer privacy techniques, offshore tax management, second passports, global business opportunities, offshore e-commerce strategies, asset protection techniques and many other things that can help protect you…your capital…your business…and your investments in the volatile times ahead. And offshore investment research is just one part of The Sovereign Society. The Society's global network of contacts scour the globe each month for the finest opportunities the world can offer you…opportunities that can make your life richer, safer and better.

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In addition to The Sovereign Individual, The Offshore A-Letter and your offshore bank introductions, you'll also get four revolutionary investment reports.

The Derivatives Time Bomb: How to Turn the Coming Mega-Catastrophe into Explosive Profits. This special report details the series of events that are about to unfold…that will burst the greatest economic bubble in history. It clears up many of the greatest mysteries and myths that surround these controversial financial instruments. It will help you understand why derivatives are the most important and dangerous financial development of the past decade. But above everything this special hot-off-the-press exposé will show you how you could turn the mega-catastrophe into explosive profits. Through offshore bank accounts, foreign annuity policies, special types of funds, commodity investments and foreign currency investments you'll be able to ride safely through what could be the most cataclysmic period in economic history. You could come out of it richer than before.  

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You may be wondering how the Sovereign Society has managed to maintain such an impressive track record in the midst of all this market mayhem. As I said, we've merely paid homage to history…and taken advantage of major new economic mega-trends. However, our unrivalled financial team of more than 30 international experts has had something to do with it. This is your unique opportunity today to learn from them…and to start profiting from their wisdom. My colleagues and friends will help guide you through the volatile times ahead…and help you pick up gains of 1,794%…797% … 150% …when world markets crash around us!

Society's Chairman and Economic Forecaster, John A. Pugsley. I have written many books and reports on economics, investing and politics.My first book, Common Sense Economics (1974) accurately predicted the inflationary explosion that followed the final abandonment of the gold standard in the early 1970s. In 1980, my second book, The Alpha Strategy, accurately warned that the United States would experience "the largest deficits in the history of the nation in the next five years" and showed investors how to protect themselves. I am now honored to sit as the Chairman of The Sovereign Society � one of the world's most powerful private financial publishing alliances.

Our Investment Director…Eric N. Roseman is also editor of Commodity Trend Alert, a weekly eletter which focuses on the strongest global trends in commodities-based securities. Eric is a shrewd value investor. From him you'll discover many unusual foreign investment strategies that you may otherwise not get to hear about. These are high-value strategies you won't learn about in the Wall Street Journal or Barron's…They've been showing our members excellent returns amid extended periods of stock market declines and economic distress..

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Why Smart Traders Are Short the Market

The financial media would have you believe that everything is okay, that a second-half recovery is upon us.

Whatever.

We're nowhere near a sustainable recovery, regardless of what the media says.  Fortunately, there's a simple way to profit from it, which we explain below.

Look, we're not here to rant about politics. We're simply pointing out how the financial media is missing the real story with their religious-like faith in Obama. Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, for example, once said: "Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world. He's sort of God.''

Such hero worship could lead Obama to believe his own press. Heck, I'd be inclined to believe it too if I were praised as much.

But what the press won't tell you is we're headed for a minefield of financial catastrophe that could end in a double dip recession.

The current Administration is re-inflating the old Bush bubble by pumping up asset prices, re-inflating the popped credit bubble, and hoping for some sort of economic recovery that's still a ways off.

They're basically kicking the can down the road, hoping for the best.

Greenlight Capital fund manager David Einhorn agrees, noting that the Administration is "trying to stretch things out in hope that time will solve the problems." They've "adopted an attitude that "what's good for the banks is good for the economy."

But Einhorn questions that view of "what's good for the banks is good for the economy," "because the best interest of the banks is to buy time so that future earnings can outrun embedded losses, while the best hope for a rapid economic recovery rests on insolvent borrowers. . . A corporation, homeowner or consumer that has more than manageable amount of debt is not going to hire people, invest or spend."

And, unfortunately, no amount of new capital will force banks to provide credit to consumers and businesses that carry far too much debt.

It's also why smart traders are short the market...

...And betting on the possibility of a double dip recession, as unemployment skyrockets, bank bailout funds begin to dry up, and interest rates rise.

You see, there's increasing concern that when the flow of money dries up (beginning in 2010 when much of the stimulus package is spent), the economy won't be as strong as we think it is. And at the core of the double dip scenario are the consumers, who have barely left a dent in their debt.

Consumers have witnessed an unprecedented destruction of wealth over the last two years. They won't be prepared to face any more challenges like rising mortgage rates, an end to stimulus spending, and high rates of unemployment.

By the end of 2008, households were on the hook for more than $13.8 trillion in debt. And households owed about 130% of disposable income at the close of 2008, proving a willingness to spend well beyond means.

Add this to crippling credit card defaults, high unemployment, and mortgage reset problems over the next three years, and you'll see we're nowhere near the end of the economic woes.

(As economically pessimistic as this may sound, there are bright spots to be found in this market, too.  There's always a bull market opportunity somewhere.)

So how do investors like yourselves profit in a debiliating situation?

One way is to buy LEAPS on the major indices (as we're about to in Options Trading Pit), credit card companies like American Express (AXP) and Capital One (COF), or even consumer discretionary top stocks to buy. It's only a matter of time before each of these come tumbling down.

And as we said above, there's a very easy way to profit from the possible "double dip", using LEAPS.

And for those of you new to LEAPS, here's a bit of background from Options Trading Pit. . .

How to Buy LEAP Options. . . and Maximize Your Gains. . .

There are two ways to fully maximize your potential gains. One is to buy the underlying stock in each, diversifying your portfolio. Another is to buy long-term options LEAPS.

Say you're anticipating an advance in the price of a best stock option of 2010 - 2012, but don't want exposure to time decay issues.

Buy LEAPS.

LEAPS cost only a fraction of owning a best stock. And they've been known to rocket higher as the underlying price moves. Say you own a $50 stock, and it goes up $5. Your gain is 10%. But say you own the January 50 calls, for example, at $1 and the best stock to buy went up $5. You could now be sitting on 400% gains.

That's how you maximize your potential gains. Not by worrying about time decay, or making scant gains from holding overpriced top stocks to buy.

Plus:

Your risk is known.

You can buy LEAPS calls if you think a best stock is rising. You can buy LEAPS puts if you think a stock is heading lower. There's a lack of time decay.

You can play "big picture" trends, using commodities such as gold. Say the dollar gets weaker. Investors run to gold as a safe haven, and you own the XAU LEAPS that'll leverage your gains when gold moves in "your" direction.

Smart plays for tough economic times.

Learning to Leave Well Enough Alone

'Committee to Save the World' Fails Twice!

It was 10 years ago this month that Time magazine gave us the Committee to Save the World:

 

Looking proud, confident...Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers proposed to save the world from the Asian debt crisis... They should have left well enough alone. Because of them, we now have a crisis that is far worse.

But the longer the rally goes on, the more people think it is permanent. They think the crisis is over already.

Last week, the Dow took baby steps...but mostly up the stairs. On Friday, the index rose another 28 points. Oil held steady at $72. The dollar rose a little, to $1.39 per euro. Gold was the big loser - down $21, but still in the mid-$900 range.

When the baby finally gets to the top of the steps, the poor lil' fella will fall backwards... and bounce all the way to the bottom.

Why? C'mon, dear reader, you're not paying attention. We have explained why many times. But the more we explain it, the more it doesn't seem to be true. Stocks should be going down; but they're not. And the more they don't, the more people think they never will. Feelings change. The naked fear of the crash period yields to a calmer, more 'reasonable' outlook...where people think 'this isn't so bad'... 'we can live with this'... 'we'll muddle through; we'll be all right.'

Thus does a dangerous complacency take over. Like the Donner Party, when the first snow flakes fell:

"The mountains are so pretty when it snows," they said to each other. And while they were admiring the view, the passes filled with drifts.

"Six Flags" is broke, says the news report from the weekend. Las Vegas casinos are going broke too.

Foreclosures are still rising; they're expected to top 3 million this year.

The unemployment rate in the US 9.4% - officially; it will be over 10% by the end of the year.

Global trade is collapsing - with exports from all the major exporting nations down by double digits. Exports are even going down in the US. Remember how the dollar's decline was supposed to be a good thing, because it made US exports more competitive. But with global trade declining, US manufacturers - along with everyone else - are finding it harder to sell on the world market.

Why all this bad news?

Because, once a bubble has exploded, it can't be reflated. The feds can put out new money and credit - but it goes somewhere else.

What blew up in '07-'08 was the bubble machine itself...the compressor that the Committee to Save the World built. It pumped up property prices. With rising property prices, consumers had so much credit that almost every investment seemed like a good one. In China, they built factories to make geegaws... In the US they built malls to sell them. Americans would buy anything!

Naturally, many of the financial decisions from this period proved to be bad ones. And now they're being sorted out. Investments are being written down, written off...and good riddance! Consumers are sorting out their own balance sheets too - cutting spending and paying down debt.

Until these things are sorted out, there will be no real boom on Wall Street.

Ray Dalio explained it to Barron's two months ago:

"It is very clear to me that we are in a D-process...different than a recession... Everybody should, at this point, try to understand the depression process by reading about the Great Depression or the Latin American debt crisis or the Japanese experience so that it becomes part of their frame of reference. "

The D-process is a long process. It takes time to sort things. Just imagine how long it takes to pay off debt...or it takes for GM to become a profitable business again...or how long it takes Six Flags to find a new business model. These things don't happen overnight. Fortunately, you still have time to act...to protect your investments...with the strategies outlined here.

And while they are happening, people - who have no experience with the D-Process - think they see 'green shoots'...or think another bull market is beginning...or think the feds have fixed the problems. Time after time, they come back into the investment market...time after time they lose money. And then, eventually, they make peace with the D- Process and put their affairs in order. Then, and only then, can a new cycle begin.

Here's more from Chris Mayer, making an appearance in The 5 Min Forecast...

"Inflation - rising prices, or a drop in the purchasing power of the dollar - will soon rise to the very top of economic concerns," writes value investor Chris Mayer. "I can't understand why there are pundits who insist we can't have inflation while the economy is weak. There are plenty of examples of weak economies with high inflation. After all, I don't think they are hitting on all cylinders in Zimbabwe, where inflation is thousands of percent.

"Look at food prices. Soybeans hit a nine-month high of $12.50 a bushel. The Department of Agriculture said that inventories would drop to only 110 million bushels - the lowest level since 1976-77, when inventories hit 103 million bushels. There were about 2 billion fewer mouths on the planet then. At today's 32-year low, we can eat through that stockpile in about two weeks. Not a lot room for error; hence, the nine-month high in prices.

"We have a similar tight market in corn. In corn, we're down to about a four-week supply, the lowest in six years. Corn has rallied also. In fact, the prices of a variety of grains are now at levels not seen since the last food crisis:

"During the last food crisis, rice traded for $1,000 a ton and there were riots in different parts of the world. The financial crisis took the headlines away from the unfolding food crisis, but now we are looking at act II."

Chris has been studying the agriculture situation closely and has outlined a strategy to help you capitalize on these opportunities in his publication, Mayer's Special Situations...available here.

And back to Bill with more thoughts...

The New York Times reports that Mr. Tim Geithner is defending the stimulus program wherever he goes.

The Washington Post reports that Larry Summers is doing the same thing.

Isn't it interesting, dear reader? There were very few people who understood what was happening during the bubble years. Neither Summers nor Geithner was among them. Summers was one of the original members of Time magazine's 'Committee to Save the World.' Along with Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin, Summers saved the world from the Asian debt crisis. That was 10 years ago this month.

Of course, the three didn't really save the world - they set it up for a much bigger catastrophe. In the meantime, Summers went on to a disastrous interlude in academia. Robert Rubin went to Citigroup, where he pushed the bank in the wrong direction - towards dangerous derivatives. When the debt bombs blew up, Rubin was then pushed out of the firm. And Alan Greenspan went on to manage the Fed in an almost unimaginably clumsy way - practically single-handedly bringing about the biggest bubble in world economic history.

But now, there's a new Committee to Save the World. Summers is back. And he's joined by Bernanke and Geithner. What a great committee! Innocents and insiders... who neither saw any evil, heard none, nor spoke none. The three were deaf, dumb, and blind to the biggest bubble in all time.

But now they are taking the lead in fixing the problems they never saw. How?

With stimulus! A $100 billion here. A $100 billion there. They've put at risk an amount of money nearly three times as great as America's expenses in World War II.

They bail out a bank in North Carolina. They take over an auto company in Detroit.

Hey, what about the casinos? Aren't you going to bail them out too?

What makes these three fellows think that this will make Americans richer? More prosperous? Or more secure? Has this sort of meddling ever actually made people better off? They should follow Ray Dalio's advice and read about similar crises in history. Can you make those crises go away by spending trillions? If so, there's no evidence of it in the histories we read. Not in the Great Depression. Not in the Latin debt crisis. Not in the Japanese experience.

And what about this time? The evidence we see tells us that the underlying economy is getting worse, not better. In addition to the figures cited above, there are the inflation rates. Inflation in America and Britain is coming down...to around 2%. In Europe it has already fallen into negative territory...with rates heading to minus 1%.

Meanwhile, oil is over $70 this morning - 7 times higher than it was when Larry Summers, et al, saved the world the first time. Gold is nearly 4 times higher.

In other words, the feds' easy money is not reaching the consumer and not stimulating the consumer economy. Consumption is down...and with it, business earnings are down too.

"Dow 1 million," says our old friend Jim Rogers. The feds' phony money can stimulate speculation, he points out. But it can't stimulate real growth.

This second 'Committee to Save the World' is destined to end like the first one - in disgrace and disaster. It will try to cure one disaster by creating a worse one.

$1.9 Million with the “Zero Stock Solution”

The "Zero Stock Solution" started with small circle of "private clients."

This was in 1950. Some folks made up to $50,000 just five weeks after learning how it worked. And $50,000 is a lot of money ― no matter if it's 1950 or today.

In fact ― the full power of the "Zero Stock Solution" is astonishing. It still works to this day, better than ever. It's raked in nearly $1.9 million for a select group in just the past 10 years...

Please do read on, and find out how you can put the "Zero Stock Solution" to work for you. But hurry ― this offer expires tomorrow at midnight…

I'll never forget what my dad told me on that cool autumn walk in 1976.

I was young and hardly knew anything about money... but it didn't matter. The secret was just that simple.

In easy, gentle words, he told me the secret that eventually could have made as much as $1 million in just five years. And nearly $2 million in under 10 years...

You could do that, he told me, without "buy and hold"... without waiting for the stock market to "wake up."

Years later, I saw his private method make vast sums of lasting wealth without buying a single best stock.

That's why he called it the "Zero Stock Solution." And he taught it to me, all those years ago, on that brisk afternoon.

And it can help you now. But my publishers have forced my hand.

I have to stop doing this at my special friend-of-the-family rate at 11:59 PM on Thursday, March 19th.

In fact, they're raising the price, because the information is just that powerful. How powerful is Dad's "Zero Stock" secret?

I had no idea how earth shattering his "Zero Stock" secret was until many, many years later.

But really, who would believe you could make multiple millions in the market without touching one share of stock?

Especially since he told me that you could fully harness the "Zero Stock Solution" to do it in ― get this ― about three minutes a day.

If this was a "job," it'd have hourly wage of about $10,400 an hour!

So you can see why I was skeptical... until I saw it work for myself.

The success I've found from dad's advice has shielded my family from great financial misfortune, and given us a life more comfortable than I'd ever dreamed of.

It can do the same for you, too. And I'll tell you how...

Dad Could Do It, But What About You and Me?

I always knew Dad could conquer the markets for outsized gains.

Ever since I was a kid, I saw him use the Zero Stock Solution to make fortunes for a small circle of private clients.

Take the Zero Stock Solution seminar he gave in the '50's; he charged $25 for three hours of information in a packed and stuffy hotel room.

A total of 22 people showed up.

Just 5 weeks later, some of the ones who followed his advice were as much as $50,000 richer!

That's over $300,000 in today's money. And as much as a 199,900% return on the attendee's $25 seminar fee just five weeks later.

Sure, I'd seen Dad achieve all of that.

But he was a genius. One of a kind.

That's why when Dad passed away ten years ago, some people thought no one could fill his shoes.

BUT... I plugged away at the Zero Stock Solution he entrusted to me. I had worked closely with him since 1995, and when he suddenly passed away, I knew I was prepared to step in and continue his service.

And you know what? The family secret worked, and then some. To the tune of $1,898,052 in just under 10 years.

I'll show you exactly how in a minute, and how you can still get it at a special friend-of-the-family discount if you act by 11:59 PM on Thursday, March 19th... But first let me make this clear:

"I tell you all this because Dad changed my life with the Zero Stock Solution.

He changed an awful lot of people's lives.

And as long as I can keep flesh and bone together, I'll keep that legacy of teaching people how to become millionaires going strong."

So (if you choose) I'm going to show you what's happened since I took over Dad's groundbreaking Zero Stock Solution.

Back on that walk in 1976 I never imagined this could happen.

But fast forward 33 years and here are the Zero Stock Solution gains I've found for readers. Unbelievable success for ordinary people, just like you...

How Dad's Secret Led to Success ― For Me and Hundreds Of Lucky Friends Around the Country

I took over the Zero Stock Solution in late 1999 ― right around the tech crash.

You remember those brutal days in the market ― and even though I'd been managing my own research company for nearly a decade, it was enough to give anyone pause...

But I took Dad's old family secret and plugged away at it.

And look what happened!

If you had put just $5,000 into every one of my Zero Stock picks since I took over from my dad, and rode it to its highest possible point, this is what you'd be sitting on...

In just the last three months of 1999, I recommended my first nine Zero Stock trades. Eight of them shot up. With just $5,000, you'd be up an extra $87,000 just 12 weeks later

In 2000, following my simple Zero Stock picks could have grossed you another $173,215, bringing your cash horde to $260,215

By the end of 2001, you could have nearly doubled your take again, packing on another $216,164 for a total of $476,379

And then for 2002, you could have tossed another $205,101 onto that pile of cash. You'd now be at $681,480

In 2003, you could have socked away another $189,463. That would take your Zero Stock portfolio to $870,943 in cool profits

In 2004, we hit the million-dollar mark. You could have used my picks to add ANOTHER $221,300 to your total, in a single year. You'd have a cool million dollars, plus ― for an added bonus ― $92,243 and change.

Not bad for a few years' haul, with barely three minutes of work each day... $1.09 million.

Yes, $1.09 million in pure cash profits.

Who would've thought I could do that, even with the power of the Zero Stock Solution?

Certainly not me... but I guess the old man thought different.

Yes, there were some huge individual Zero Stock high points that helped us get those big numbers. Like 1,011%... 898%... 1,202%... 472%... 858%... 589%... 838%...

We also had plenty of smaller, faster gains.

And sure, a few losers too.

But overall, even though about 15% of the Zero Stock plays I recommended didn't work out during that period... over 85% of them did, well enough to give us an average high point per play of 104%... well enough to turn your initial investment of $5,000 into as much as $1.09 million.

But it didn't stop there. I didn't think it could get any better, but it did ― in spades. Again, by putting $5,000 into each of my recommendations and riding each one to the highest possible point, here's how you would have fared:

In 2005, you could have followed my recommendations for $217,524... bringing your total to $1,309,767 by year's end

In 2006 there was another $150,375 haul by years' end, taking you all the way to a comfortable $1,460,142

In 2007 you could have reeled in another $202,635 profit from this easy Zero Stock strategy. That brings your portfolio to $1,662,777

And, for just the first four months of 2008, add a $235,276 cherry on top of that stash. That takes us to $1,898,052 total.

Since it would take incredible timing and phenomenal luck to get out at the best exit price every time, you would have realistically logged profits shy of these recorded best gains.

But even if you did only half as well... that's still an amazing $949,026 in the bank!

So, you see, the old man was spot-on with his Zero Stock Solution.

And if I can do it ― anyone can do it.

In fact, "anyone" does do it nearly every week of the year.

Here's how this no-hassle secret works for real people, all over the world...

How These Stellar Zero Stock Solution Returns Change the Lives of Real People

I can barely keep up with the letters I get about my readers who use dad's Zero Stock Solution.

Take this one for example: I used to think letters like this came once in a lifetime...

But now I know better.

Now, I get letters like that all the time ― from ordinary investors from all over the country.

Just look: they're seeing their money multiply two, three, even eight times or more.

If I didn't open the letters myself I'd hardly believe life-changing profits they report...

Hard cash returns for people just like you. Imagine what gains like this would mean for your lifestyle. If you started with a small $5,000 position...

Jim H.'s bold 300% gain means a new deck, a hot tub, a walk-in humidor, or your membership in a luxury golf course

A fat 92% return like Bill P. from California made more than covers your subscription with enough left over for a five-star weekend getaway

Or take Eddie L.'s amazing 750%...that huge cash profit could be your down-payment on a sparkling-new dream home for retirement.

You can buy all that stuff and more.

Or, you can save it for retirement, your kid's education... or use it as a base of wealth that could last for generations.

You could do all that and not even break a sweat. Just three minutes of your time each day.

I think that's why so many readers call this "the best decision they ever made."

And you can make that decision today. In fact it's even easier if you act right now since your special friend-of-the-family discount rate will expire on Thursday, March 19th at 11:59 PM.

But it's not just my readers. Take a look at what Wall Street experts and respected journalists say about that old Zero Stock family secret...

Why This Old Family Secret Has Stumped the Experts

Even before I made this knowledge available to ordinary readers, my time-tested strategy garnered praise from some of the top professionals in the industry.

For years Michael Green of Market Talk talked to all of Wall Street's top analysts and traders.

He was looking for something special. The strategy that really worked. The guru who really had the goods ― the most accurate guy on the Street.

What did he find? The answer might surprise you...

"Over the past few years on 'Market Talk' I've had the opportunity to interview Wall Street's major investment letter writers. Steve Sarnoff has emerged as the most accurate. He has truly made some astounding calls."

And it doesn't stop there... Richard Russell, editor of Dow Theory Letters and an old hand at stock analysis, praised my technical research as "constitut[ing] an extremely valuable lesson."

It's not just journalists, either. The pros in the trading pits ― guys who could depend on my recommendations to feed their families ― tell us the same thing.

Bernard Savaiko, Senior Futures Analyst at PaineWebber, says I provide "a dispassionate approach to markets, with amazingly accurate results ― a must for traders."

The testimonials from Michael Green, Richard Russell and Bernie Savaiko are all from when I was starting out with my research company (prior to Options Hotline), and the kind words of those professionals helped give me the confidence to succeed.

I wish I could claim all the credit but I can't. I owe most of it to dad. But I'm proud to carry the torch, giving lucky readers the chance to become millionaires by using his Zero Stock Solution...

So just what was that secret he told me in 1976, and how is it that all these ordinary people have turned it into spectacular gains?

Now Here's Where I'm Supposed to Tell You the "Secret" Behind the Zero Stock Solution. . .

But you won't find it here in this letter.

That's not a sales come-on. I won't tell you even if you pay me big money.

You could pay me all the money in the world. You could shock me with an electrified cattle prod.

I'm not telling. Anyone. Ever.

But here's why you can reap all the benefit anyway...

Dad felt strongly ― I feel strongly ― that regular people should have the chance to profit from what we've been blessed with.

So, I use my proprietary "Zero Stock" method (combining the best of Western technical analysis with ancient Japanese charting techniques)... and send out specific plays for you to have a chance to gain your own million.

I hope you find that fair. Because you don't need to know how the Zero Stock Solution works to use it. In fact, using it is so simple it could take you only three minutes a day!

That's why every week I send out one Zero Stock play based on that secret dad told me 33 years ago.

I do all the work; you take all the profits...

Take a look for yourself: Here's my uncut track record since I took over from dad a few years ago...

*Occasionally, a recommendation moves out of range before it is published. In those rare cases, when recommendations are not "triggered," we exclude them from this track record. This service recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point. The size of the potential gain is calculated using the highest possible exit point that option reached after the buy recommendation was issued.

**Gains and losses calculated based on a $5,000 initial investment in each play.

You're reading those numbers right: an average of 104% on every play. And that's over a total of 342 plays. For almost a full decade! I doubt you can find another analyst that has such a long term, profitable track record...

Now, how is it we can claim such a stellar achievement?

Simple. It takes just two steps...

1) I recommend that you buy a Zero Stock position

2) I give you a general strategy to help you determine a good closing point to take your Zero Stock profits

You use your own judgment in exiting a position.

That way, you're completely in control of your position and your risk.

You can make the most informed decision on when to take the best profits that personally suit you...

Because of this personalized exit strategy, I calculate my Zero Stock Solution track record based on the highest possible point the play hits after I alert our readers.

If you had the incredible luck and timing it would have taken to sell every one of these picks at that point since 1999, you would have cleared $1 million in only five years, like I showed you above.

Today, you would be up $1.89 million.

That's an average $15,817 in extra income every month.

Or $520 every single day of the year.

Since it's up to you to decide when to sell and you might choose to take a more conservative exit strategy, you'll almost certainly log sell prices shy of the highest possible gain.

But even if you were to do only half as well... $949,026 ― or $7,908 per month, or $260 per day ― still isn't bad. And those stellar numbers become even more shocking when you realize that it takes only three minutes a day to do all this...

There's only one investment that can deliver such enormous gains in so little time, and by now you may have guessed it: options.

That's why I call it the "Zero Stock Solution" - because you never need to buy stock shares to make consistent triple-digits gains!

Now, you've probably heard that options carry risks. And it's true ― any investment does. But options also let you do something most investments don't:

Here's exactly what that means: if the underlying stock moves 5% or 10%, the related options contract could easily shoot up 200%, 300%, even 500% or 600%.

If the stock fails to move the right way, you merely write off the small amount you paid for each option (often pennies on the dollar) and that's it.

Your upside is many times your original investment. Your downside is never a surprise.

That's why it's quite possibly the best way to build lasting wealth with limited risk.

It's why it was so important for my dad to pass it on to me.

Now let's dig around in some actual trades to see how it's done in practice. I'll show you four specific Zero Stock plays I've sent to my readers at Options Hotline, the research advisory service my dad started and I've continued.

Here's a great example of the "Zero Stock Solution" at work: a pick that soared while the rest of the market was getting hammered...

"Zero Stock Wealth Strategy" #1: "Recommend Plays That Go Up Even When the Market Goes Down"

One great advantage of my system is it can make huge Zero Stock gains whether the market goes up or down.

When I predict a stock will tank, I recommend you buy a put option on it.

The put option goes up in value as the stock's price goes down, so you win while the other guys lose ― all without the risk and hassle of selling short.

A few months ago, my proprietary forecasting method told me UPS was about to go down the drain.

That UPS option could have pulled in 1,011% for readers who followed my buy recommendation and got out at the best possible time.

Can you imagine making more than 10 times your money on a single play?

$5,000 would turn into $50,550!

And best of all, winning big Zero Stock gains when a company goes down is just as easy as when it goes up: the same three minutes of work each day. It's that simple.

Here are some more examples of maximum potential gains from an individual stock's falling price:

1,202% on GM puts

257% on Newmont Mining puts

210% on FedEx puts

168% on Caterpillar puts

87.5% on eBay puts

55% on Ingersoll-Rand puts

52% on Texas Instruments puts

And here are some puts on entire stock indexes that profit when the general market goes down:

189%, 45% on S&P index puts

253%, 25%, 135% on Dow Jones index puts

335%, 258%, 54%, 50% on long-term bond index puts

27% on Nasdaq index puts

This way, you can take advantage of every move ― up or down.

And you could still take outsized triple-digit profits in a market downturn.

In fact, here's how we did in two of the most challenging years in recent memory...

While the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 All Lost Money in 2002. . . Our Biggest Winners Gained 170%. . . 186%. . . 212%. . .
292%. . . 360%. . . 858%. . . and 898%. . .

Remember America and the markets in 2002?

I sure do.

Enron was on trial. Global Crossing, ImClone and Adelphia were all under investigation.

Argentina's banks had just collapsed. A bomb had just gone off in Bali...and this whole mess in Iraq had just then started looming darkly on the horizon.

Not exactly the most stimulating times for stock investors.

But as tough as it might have looked for everyone else, you could have done extremely well that year... just following the options strategy I'm laying out for you today.

How well?

In fact, out of our 40 plays that year, 31 were winners... with an average highest possible gain of 103%.

By investing $5,000 in each of these plays and riding each one to the highest possible point, you could have ended the year ― one of the toughest in recent memory for regular investors ― UP by as much as $205,101!

In 2001, 37 out of 46 Winning Plays. . . And an Extra $216,164 for Your Portfolio

Even back in 2001, the same year as one heck of a lot of gut-wrenching news in the world... plus some very rattled stock markets... you could have turned an initial $5,000 investment into as much as $216,164... in a single year of trading. We made 46 plays total that year, 37 of them came up roses.

With an average maximum possible gain, on each and every play (with the few losers included in the calculation), of 94%.

Can you imagine if you averaged 94% gains on every play you made?

Thirty-five of those plays were double-digit winners... more than half of those plays returned better-than-50% gains... 16 of those plays were money-doublers or better... and at least five of those plays all returned better than 200%.

Just $5,000 invested in the General Motors put options play alone, the day after I recommended it to my Options Hotline readers, could have given you as much as a $60,100 windfall.

And quickly, too.

Now that the markets are tanking again, I expect you could have a field day with put options. And those would protect your downside.

Here's why: During the record-setting year of 2007, my average best possible gain was 113%. That's good. But in 2008 that record was 130%.

In other words, I did 17 points better in the biggest crash since '29 than I did when the Dow was at 14,000.

In both cases, my readers saw the opportunity for gains of better than double their money.

Up markets. Down markets. It doesn't matter: Because I'm not recommending a single share of stock.

With that kind of success, I can offer this knowledge at a special friend-of-the-family discount rate. But like I said, my publishers are twisting my arm to raise the price. That's why I have to cancel your discount if you don't respond by 11:59 PM on Thursday, March 19th.

Now, even with the incredible Zero Stock knowledge my dad passed on to me, once in a while a play doesn't pan out as expected. That's why the second thing my Dad told me is so important...

"Zero Stock Strategy" #2:"Your Gains Overpower Your Losses"

The second secret is the most important one.

And it's simple: Your gains overpower your losses.

You aim for a 60%-40% win-loss ratio.

You aim for bigger gains than losses.

Told you it was simple...but it's VERY important.

So let's drill down to some recent specifics... here are a few recent Zero Stock plays:

Like I said, it's up to you to decide when to exit your play, and those numbers just represent the highest possible exit point. I send you the picks and give you general guidelines for making successful trades.

And with a record like that, you can win 60% of the time, lose 40% of the time, and still come out way ahead.

But if you do far, far better than that, like I have been giving my readers the opportunity to do for years with this time tested family profit key...well, that's just icing on the cake!

88%. . . 92%. . . and Now 100%   Win Record

A few months ago, I got a shocking call from my publishers.

They'd just checked their records, and found my picks had averaged 104% maximum gains since I took over from my dad in 1999.

Even more shockingly, my win record suddenly climbed from an already stupefying 92% in 2006 ― to a stunning 100% perfect record since the start of 2007. They were stunned.

But we checked the records and not a single pick had failed to gain value, or at least break even, at some point after I recommended them and before they expired...

You can see my full record of wins and losses right here:

I bet you won't find a record like that in the entire world of financial publishing.

Because of that I've been driven to get results like these:

92% wins against 8% losses, like I did in 2006...

78% wins against 12% losses, like I did in my least accurate year, 2001...

Or even an incredible 100% win record and no losses whatsoever, like I did in 2005, 2007, and in 2008...

That's why I say your potential gains could overpower your losses ― it's the secret behind the Zero Stock Solution.

And it's a secret that could be yours for no money whatsoever if I don't pass some pretty demanding thresholds. I'll explain that in a moment...

But that's not all ― not by a long shot. Here's another piece of father-son wisdom I need to tell you about.

"Zero Stock Strategy" #3:"Recommend Only Plays That Have a Good Chance of Doubling"

I will only send you options plays that I feel have a chance to double ― or more.

If I dig up something that promises to go up only 15% or 25%, I trash that play and look for something else.

Now, a gain is a gain. And I see nothing wrong with double-digit gainers.

It's just that I feel the risk in playing options is justified only if your potential gain is in the triple digits or higher.

The upside must clearly crush the downside.

How does it work in practice? Let's take a quick, specific look at one recent play...

In November 2006, I sent out this clear recommendation to my readers: "Buy the Bristol-Myers Squibb March 2007 $25 call for $115 or less."

As you probably know, a call option goes up in price if the stock it's based on goes up. It's really that simple.

But the great thing about options is that the option shoots up far, far higher than the stock does. That simple fact hugely increases your profit potential.

"Just how much profit potential?" you may ask...

Take a look. Here's what happened with Bristol-Myers Squibb after my specific recommendation:

The stock went up a bit. But the call option exploded. That's the sheer power of the Zero Stock Solution.

It hit a high of 300% in just two months. That's enough to turn $5,000 into $20,000 ― with $15,000 pure profits in practically no time at all. Now you see how I give members the opportunity to make a great deal of money very quickly...

In fact, since 1999, I've pumped out 112 plays that topped out at a maximum of 100% or more.

So you've seen the power of options trading and how I used it to produce an average maximum gain of 104% over nine years.

Can you imagine the wealth you could make if every play you made more than doubled in value?

Well, now you can join a research service that has done just that for almost a decade!

That long-term consistency is why I'm so comfortable guaranteeing your money back if I don't surpass the very high bar I've set for myself. (Yes, I'll get to that very soon!)

And finally, let's go over the very last "Sarnoff Wealth Strategy":

"Zero Stock Strategy" #4:
"Be Consistent: Recommend Only One Play per Week"

This one's pretty simple ― but it's also important.

I constantly scan each one of the nearly 15,000 stocks on the U.S. markets all week long.

I crank away, batting around the numbers and boiling down the massive list of stocks and indexes to a short list of the ones that seem poised to make a strong move up or down.

Then, I take this short list and apply my analysis to each possibility... cutting the list down until we have one single opportunity that I think will double or better.

So from the entire universe of stocks and indexes ― and options you can play on them ― I drill down to just one pick per week. I then send you an e-mail on Sunday night telling you exactly what the play is. That way, you have the time to look it over and place the order before the market opens on Monday morning.

And all that could be yours entirely risk-free AND at a special friend-of-the-family price (over 50% discount) ― but only if you act by 11:59 PM on Thursday, March 19th.

That's how little you have to risk, and how much you have to gain.

Don't you think it's time to get in on the action?

Start Making Your Own Million-Dollar Plays Right Now:Consistent, Hefty Gains Over the Long Term:Options Hotline's   Performance Laid out Year by Year

Before we finish up, let's see just how the Zero Stock Solution my dad taught me has performed over my entire nine-year tenure with Options Hotline...

*Occasionally, a recommendation moves out of range before it is published. In those rare cases, when recommendations are not "triggered," we exclude them from this track record. This service recommends opening positions and gives a general strategy to help readers determine a good closing point. The size of the potential gain is calculated using the highest possible exit point that option reached after the buy recommendation was issued.

**Gains and losses calculated based on a $5,000 initial investment in each play.

Wouldn't you like to grab some of those gains for yourself?

You can! And it's easy.

One recommendation per week, one call to your broker on Monday morning, and then just three minutes per day tracking your positions.

Let's get down to the details of what you'll receive with your membership to Options Hotline:

Options Hotline Delivered Sunday Night via E-Mail

This is the very heart of the service, when I send you my specific play for the week.

Your one-page Options Hotline Alert is delivered Sunday evening in plenty of time for you to read it, digest the information and phone your broker first thing Monday morning if you want to get in on the action.

You'll find my recommendation of the week, written out exactly in words you could say to your broker, to ensure accuracy.

Midweek Updates on Open Positions

Since options can move fast, I also send out midweek update alerts every Wednesday so you can review again where you are on all of your open positions.

I'll talk about the direction of the option price, the underlying stock price, resistance and support levels (concepts thoroughly explained in your THREE FREE BONUS REPORTS), and where I see it all trending.

Important Bonus! Exclusive Free 24/7 Access to the Subscribers-Only Web Site

You get unlimited access to the Options Hotline Web site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This password-protected members-only access is FREE with your subscription.

Here you can download the latest recommendations, midweek updates, and frequent alerts.

It's a valuable offer that can put you on the road to the next million dollars in options profit.

Look what Options Hotline has done for Randy Norton: "My first trade made me $6,540 in profits. You are the first newsletter I have tried out of hundreds that actually delivers what it promises." But wait ― there's more:

Subscribe now and I'll also give you...

3 BONUS GIFTS That Are Your  Crash Course on Options!

In addition to the comprehensive source of information you will find on our subscribers-only Web site, I'm offering you three FREE handbooks that will help you use the Options Hotline research service to its fullest.

Start your options education today with these easy-to-read guidebooks, both written in everyday English, so you're up to speed on options in no time:

1. The Options Buyer's Handbook

Click the subscribe button below to join and download this FREE handbook immediately. Inside its pages, you'll discover just what you need to know about buying options.

Learn the basics of options, how they work, when to buy and sell, and what it all means in this informative handbook... FREE and instantly available with your subscription.

2. Secrets of a Master Trader: Tips and Strategies for Making a Fortune in Options

The secret to winning at options is to keep playing. Options are not like the lottery or the luck of the draw (especially since I'm recommending what to buy each week).

To really succeed, you need a plan of action. And Secrets of a Master Trader is your playbook. It contains the secrets of two of the best options analysts the business has ever known...my dad, options genius Paul Sarnoff, and me, Steve Sarnoff.

3. The Options Hall of Fame

Of course, there's no better way to learn something than by doing it yourself. Second only to that is seeing what others have done in the past. And this is exactly what you'll find in this third FREE gift report.

I'll walk you through some of the biggest and best options plays ever made. Together, we'll take them apart, down to the nuts and bolts. Then I'll show you how they work by putting everything back together, step by step. You'll see unmistakable patterns of profit.

You can't get secrets like this at any bookstore or Web site or "learn to trade options" weekend seminar. They're reserved only for subscribers to Options Hotline. You'll receive these exclusive Secrets via e-mail the moment I hear from you.

Please don't pass up this chance to profit on the unlimited potential (but limited risk) of options trading with your subscription to Options Hotline.

Put briefly, here are the key benefits Options Hotline can offer you:

A chance to grow your money into as much as $1.71 million in
less than 9 years

More-than-double-your-money average maximum gain on
every single play

A chance for as much as 6 figures in pure profits every year.

How could you pass that up?

Especially when you can get your membership 100% RISK-FREE, my compliments...

Now, how can I offer this valuable information RISK-FREE?

Easy: If I don't give you at least one "doubler" every single month, you pay nothing.

Just check my recommended portfolio. After the first six months of your membership, if at least one of my recommendations per month hasn't shot up 100% at some point after I recommended it and before it expired, I'll refund every penny of your subscription.

I take on all the risk ― and I feel comfortable doing that as I look at our incredible long-term track record.

So how much is this unique offer worth?

You'd expect to pay $5,500... $7,500... even $10,500 a year to get options plays with million dollar profit potential like I just showed you. But you won't pay anywhere near that ― IF you act now.

Like I said, your special friend-of-the-family rate will no longer be available after 11:59 PM on Thursday, March 19th.

Simply click the "Order NOW" button below to see your insanely low price for a guaranteed doubler every month ― starting right now.

So if you want a chance to hit the next million-dollar milestone... if you want to join the "Zero Stock" research service that averages maximum gains of over 100% per play... if you want the opportunity to see as much as six figures in profits per year... now's your time.

Ridiculous Gain From Top Stocks



Here at The Daily Reckoning we provide analysis and insights into the always-complicated world of economics. And from time to time, you, dear reader want a little something more...say, specific advice on how to profit from our analysis. In this case, you have to pay for a subscription - but we always do our best to make it worth your while.

Take our resource and commodities letter for example. Resource Trader Alert's Alan Knuckman has been on an absolute tear lately - one recent Treasury bond put spreads made 70% gains in two weeks, and another made 152% in less than one month after the original purchase.

And that's just a tiny snapshot of Alan's killer track record. If gains like this sound tempting to you, keep reading for the full report.

But act fast - until Thursday, June 18 at midnight, you can get Resource Trader Alert for half of the normal subscription price. Don't miss out...

I know, turning $5,000 into $90,000 in a year sounds ridiculous.

Especially in today's market.

But, give me just two minutes and I'll prove it — the numbers speak for themselves:

On June 2, 2009, my readers closed out a position for 200% gains

Three days later they closed out another one and made 148%

And then five days after that, they took 152%

Let me put that into perspective for you: $1,000 in each of those plays would have landed you a cool $8,000.

And if you'd put $5,000 into each of those plays, you'd be sitting on over $40,000 today.

All told, we held those positions for less than four and a half months.

That's right: three positions… four and a half months… $40,000 cash.

All of a sudden, raking in an extra $90K in a year sounds perfectly reasonable.

Still think I'm blowing smoke?

Here's what a few of my readers had to say:

"It appears you are kicking some A** and I am very impressed. As they say, you are THE MAN."

— Robin A.

"I feel like we are on a rocket ship and taking off. Alan is the right guy at the right time."

— Ken S.

"My commodity trading account is up over 80%—just in the month of May!!! Today, I just closed out…for a gain of 163%!!! I am very, very happy".

— Thomas B.

"Alan has been knockin' em out, and I have been watching the dollars knock and come in. Most recently $1000 in 2 weeks. I have been very impressed…here's cheers for more of the same."

— Alan A.

As I type, I have two open positions sitting at 120% and 133%.

If we closed them both out today, $5,000 in each would be worth $11,000 and $11,667 respectively.

So, your entire pot would now be worth $62,673.

That's more than two thirds of the way to $90,000 and it's only June.

And, by the way… you wouldn't have had to buy or sell a single stock to get in on these plays.

No top stocks to buy…

No bonds…

No funds of any kind…

Yet, it's a proven strategy with more than seven years of consistent money-doubling performance.

Want a piece of the action?

Get on board today and I'll show you how to double your money at least nine times in a year — and turn your $5,000 investments into at least $90,000.

Use Commodities for a Chance to Double Your Money At Least Nine Times by June 16, 2010 — Guaranteed

I like to think of this strategy as playing an "Anti-Stock Market."

That's because commodities are priced purely by supply and demand… and they can never ever go bust.

It's a market that doesn't care about earnings reports, clever accounting, analysts' upgrades or downgrades.

A market that is totally unrestricted, operates 24 hours a day on a global scale and is 100% immune to dirty CEOs, lies and corruption.

Perhaps best of all, assets in this market are virtually certain never to hit zero.

And the upside to the commodities market?Virtually Unlimited Profits.

The nastier the stock market gets, the more money readers have the chance to make in commodities.

For example, just as the poop hit the fan on Wall Street last September, readers closed out a position for 186% gains.

A position they held for just over three months.

What would that 186% mean to your wallet?

That's almost triple your money in three months!

And this past February they banked 100% returns on a play recommended back in November.

That's another quick double.

And this morning, my readers took 67% on a play held for just two months… that was before 9:30 A.M.!

What do readers think about gains like these? Just take a look…

"Thanks for another amazing trade.  My broker was initially skeptical…now he's amazed at the results we've had in these past 5 months."

— Stephane C.

"I opened a brokerage acct with $15,000…I had absolutely no knowledge about [the Anti-Stock Market]. Since opening the acct I've withdrawn $30,000 and the account value as of today is over $123,000. So as of now I'm up over 10x. Money isn't everything, but all things being equal, I'd rather have some than not."

— George C.

"The best way that I can say how helpful [the Anti-Stock Market] has been to my trading is to tell you that on January 1st my account was worth $3,366, as of June 30th it is worth $19,395. That's a 576% profit in 6 months."

— Christian H.

So, while everyone else took a whipping in the stock market, readers dove headlong into commodities plays.

And they're making money hand over fist.

I'm Talking About 19 Plays In 2008 Averaging 71% Returns —A Year Considered By Most to Be the Worst In Three Generations.

There are no secrets here: that average contains both winners and losers.

And, in case you think that great performance was just a fluke, let me give you a little history. 

We started publishing just over seven years ago.

And the overall average gain for those last seven years?

A staggering 56.3%. Once again including the occasional loser.

To put it another way, if you'd put $1,000 in each of the 212 total plays, you'd have made almost $118,000 in pure profits.

$5,000 in each would have landed you more than $589,000 — over half a million dollars.

Can you imagine making that kind of pure profit money in such a brief period of time?!

Want a piece of the profit action?

How would you like to see $1,000 turn into at least $18,000… or watch $5,000 turn into at least $90,000 in a single year? With virtually no work on your part.  

I'm talking about no less than nine chances to double your money in the next 12 months — guaranteed. But if you want in, I must hear from you by midnight, Thursday, June 18th.

So, give me just two minutes of your time and I'll tell you everything you need to know to profit from the commodities market.

But first, allow me to introduce myself…

This Former "Trash Picker" Can Make You Millions

My name is Alan Knuckman. I grew up in Chicago and started my career as a glorified trash picker working for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT).

The CBOT was created in 1848 as a centralized exchange for people to buy and sell commodities — it's the world's oldest options exchange.

You see, before people were able to make all of their trades online, brokers wrote their buys and sells on little cards. And once each transaction was done, the floor traders would just toss the cards on the floor and move onto the next one. 

My job? Basically, I spent eight hours a day picking up those trade cards so the clearing house could settle the books at the end of the day.

I was making about $2.85 an hour, in the crowded mayhem of the grains floor at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)…

It was the worst job. But it was a perfect chance to see capitalism at its finest.

And it was a start. It helped me learn all the ins and outs of profiting commodities.

I eventually moved up from garbage picker to floor trader — giving me an inside view of the markets. A view that most investors will never see. And the edge I needed to profit in all market conditions.

Just a few years later, I created a brokerage division specializing in powerful and unique investments where clients would pay $600 — $900 an hour just to talk to me on the phone.

I had developed a trading strategy that balanced discipline and absolute risk-control with the ability to make my clients millions.

Don't get me wrong. Playing commodities isn't a sure thing.

But I think the track record speaks for itself.

As you've seen, we spend most of our time finding opportunities for our readers to make a lot of money — our gains far outweigh our losses.

Just ask the readers who've already seen 85%, 72%, 67%, 100% and 80% gains so far in 2009:

"As a member…I must say you are really an asset. I have purchased all of your recommendations and could not be more pleased. "

— Raymond G.

"Thank you, Alan, for the great profits this month. I have been [investing] since November 2004 and it has been blessing. Thank you again for all the great profits and wisdom you bring us."

— Rob L.

"I love what you have done…both in learning and profits."

— John M.

Why are these people so pleased?

Because those happy folks subscribe to my high-powered, commodity options research service, Resource Trader Alert.

And today they're making money, hand over fist, using commodity options — making high-powered gains, completely outside the stock market.

Resource Trader Alert Can Double Your Money, Quickly, Safely and Easily With Just A 5-minute Phone Call

Are you ready to profit along with them?

With Resource Trader Alert, it couldn't be easier.

Because I'll tell you everything you need to know, every step of the way, for maximum commodity options profits, with minimum risk.

When I see a play with potential, I'll immediately fire off an email, right to your inbox.

In other words, I do all the work — you sit back and watch the profits roll in.

All you have to do is read your email and decide if you want to get in on each play.

For example, last February, Resource Trader Alert readers got the following recommendation when they opened their email in the morning:

What do you do after placing the play? Nothing.

Once you get into a play, your "work" is done.

So you can sit back, relax and plan your next vacation while I keep my eyes glued to dozens of social, political, economic and meteorological indicators.

Then, about two and a half months later, it was time to take some sweet profits.

So, Resource Trader Alert subscribers got another simple email.

Resource Trader Alert subscribers could've pocketed 108% profits on a position they held for just six days.

So far this year, they've also had a chance to pocket:

In other words, $1,000 in each play could have turned into $14,040 total.

All without ever buying or selling a single stock.

And that's just since this January.

Plus, we have open positions sitting at 77%, 102% and 104% as I type this letter.

That's why I feel confident offering you an unheard of profit guarantee: you'll see no less than nine chances to double your money in the next 12 months.

Yup, imagine making at least double your money nine times in a year…

Imagine what you could do with all that dough…

How can I be so sure you'll take gains like these in the next year?

"Thanks for the great tips. I made over $8000 in less than 4 days. Cheers!"

— Kent K.

"Just a brief note to thank you. I am up over 200% since I started."

— Phyllis B.

Of course, never, not once, did we try to make these gains messing with top stocks of 2010.

Why?

Because the time for playing the stock market is over. If you want to see consistent triple-digit gains, it's time to move your money into high-powered commodity options.

I'll show you how to double your money nine times in a year Guaranteed!

As you know, top stocks to buy had their day in the sun.  It was a long and respectable run.

But that run is over and I'll show you the proof.

"Buy low, sell high" was the winning ticket for a long time. But that strategy only works if your company's stock is guaranteed to go up.

And these days there are no such guarantees.

Meanwhile, Resource Trader Alert has averaged nine triple-digit gainers every year since 2002.

That means you could have doubled your money (or better) every six weeks!

What's more, I can tell you from experience that readers have used the commodity options to outperform every major fund and index since 2002.

I'm not talking about a couple percentage points, here. I'm talking about a chance at serious money.

As you see, Resource Trader Alert's recommendations stomped all over the S&P500 for seven years running.

In fact, if you'd put your money in the S&P500 back in January of 2002, you'd have made a -1% return at the end of 2008. Of course, when you consider inflation, it's an even bigger loss…

Meanwhile, on the average, Resource Trader Alert has delivered annual returns of over 56% in that same time — 212 plays between 2002 and today.

Let me ask you a stupid question:

Would you rather turn $5,000 into $4,950… a $50 loss?

Or would you prefer to see your $5,000 grow into $7,800?

If you'd put $5,000 into every play published, both winners and losers, you'd have made about $589,000 — well over half a million dollars — in pure profits.

The Power of Options Means Unbelievable Double and Triple-digit Profits With Resource Trader Alert

Options are a powerful investment. They're a way of making boat-loads of money with just small movements in a commodity's price.

If we think the price of a commodity is going up, we recommend call options. While, if we think a price is headed down, we recommend put options.

It's really that easy.

For now, what's important is that playing options means that you have a chance to make money whether a commodity's price goes up or down.

For example, on February 6, 2008, readers were alerted to buy sugar calls. Like I said, call options make money when the price of an asset goes up.

And over the course of just 20 days the price of sugar went up — from $11.87 to $14.

That's a price movement of only $2.13… a gain of about 18%.

But the lucky readers who got in on this play made 195% in less than three weeks.

That means the money-multiplying power of options turned.

How would you like to triple your money in under a month with only about 10 minutes of "work"? But you can also profit when the price of an asset drops.

On December 9, 2005, readers were alerted to buy cattle puts. Remember, put options make us money when the commodity's price goes down.

And down they went.

In just about three months the price of cattle dropped from $92 to $86.76. That's a price movement of just $5.24 and a tiny 6% loss.

But readers who used the power of commodity options took 93% gains on that same price movement.

Not too shabby.

And best of all, you can never lose more than the price of an options contract.

That means you always know exactly how much is at stake — it's 100% in your control.

Don't worry if this sounds a little new. Because, the moment you sign up to start receiving Resource Trader Alert I will send you a FREE copy of, Playing Commodities Options Like a Champion.

In it, I'll show you the ins and outs of profiting with commodities options.

But I don't think you'll need it. Because each and every recommendations is spelled out in extremely easy-to-follow terms.

Terms you can read to a broker, over the phone, in about five minutes, if you want in on the action. You can even get into these plays online with just a few clicks of the mouse.

I'll be with you every step of the way… through winners and losers alike.

But we don't see too many losers around here.

In fact, Resource Trader Alert readers have seen about nine money-doubling plays a year since 2002.

And if I hear from you by midnight on June 18th, I tell you how to pull in at least nine triple-digit gainers of your own in the next 12 months — guaranteed.

The "Experts" Called 2008 the Worst Year for Investors in More Than a Generation Yet, Readers Had a Chance to Stuff Their Wallets On 15 Out of 19 Plays

And our average gains for the year? An astonishing 71%.

What would that have meant to your account?

Well, if you had put $1,000 into every play published last year — both winners and losers — you'd have made about $13,500 in total profits.

While $5,000 in each play would have you sitting on almost $67,500.

In just one year.

Was it just a fluke? Hell no…

Since 2002 Resource Trader Alert Has Picked 159 Winners Out of 212 Total Plays That's An Unbelievable 74% Success Rate

So what do you think?

Ready to double your money (or better) at least nine times in the next 12 months?

Since Resource Trader Alert first launched, in 2002, readers have seen triple-digit gains, on the average, about every six weeks.

That's an average of nine triples a year.

And it means, if your average investment is $1,000, you'd be sitting on at least $18,000 at the end of the year.

Put $5,000 into each of my suggestions, and you could be looking at over $90,000… just 12 months later.

There isn't a single market, index or fund that can brag nine chances to deliver 100% returns (or more!) in a year.

If it sounds like I'm bragging, that's because I am.

But in just a minute, I'll put my money where my mouth is and show you how you can grab nine doublers for yourself — guaranteed.

More on that in a minute… for now, just take a look at the chart below… the numbers don't lie!

As you can see, in 2008, a year considered by most to be the single worst since the Depression Era, Resource Trader Alert readers averaged 71% returns.

And even in 2004, our "worst" year, Resource Trader Alert subscribers still saw 35% annual gains and 10 opportunities to double their money — including two plays that hit 270% and 285%.

Of course, 2009 isn't even half over yet. But with 51% average gains and two open plays sitting solidly over 100% we're already poised to have one of the best years yet.

If that isn't proof enough, let me spell it out in the simplest of terms:

If you'd put $1,000 in every single Resource Trader Alert play, from 2002 through the most recently closed position — winners and losers alike — you'd be sitting on $117,909.82 in pure profits.

That's almost $118K just for reading your email and making a couple of five minute phone calls to a broker.

Certainly nothing to sneeze at, right?

But tune that up to $5,000 per play, and you're looking at, $589,549.11.

That would mean an average of:

$79,497 every year

$6,624 each month

$1,656 a week

Without ever buying or selling a single best stock to buy. And without ever risking more than you're comfortable risking.

Plus, we have open positions currently sitting at 77%, 102% and 104%.

So, as you can see, we're already well-positioned to close out a couple more triple-digit gainers!

Put the Resource Trader Alert to Work For You —See Your Money Double in as Little as Six Weeks

How would your account look if you made 100% gains on your money nine times in one year?

Of course, your total take would depend on how much you plugged into each play.

But whether you put $1,000 into each play and took $18,000 or you put $10,000 into each and made $180,000, I'll tell you this much:

You'd be way ahead of anyone counting on top stocks to buy, bonds, mutual funds, hedge funds or storage in their guest-room mattress to pull them through these tough times.

The Resource Trader Alert's track record speaks for itself.

Through good times and bad, readers have seen average annual returns of over 56% a year… for seven straight years.

And in 2008? Considered the worst year for investors since the Great Depression?

Subscribers saw a staggering 71% average return for the year. Including the rare play that went south…

That means $1,000 in each of last year's plays — both winners and losers — would have you sitting on almost $13,500 in pure profits.

And $5,000 in each play would have meant almost $67,500…

For checking your email once a day and doing a grand total of maybe an hour's worth of "work" over the span of a year.

2009 is already gearing up to stomp all over 2008's track record… and I want you to get on board and profit along with us.

But I'm not going to lie — a research service like this doesn't come cheap.

And the truth is, if you can't afford the subscription price, then the plays would probably blow your mind anyway.

Because, with a record of success like the Resource Trader Alert, and the unbeatable multiple money-doubling guarantee I'm about to offer you, I could easily charge $10,000 a year.

Remember, I do all the work and you can reap all the benefits.

All you have to do is check your email, decide if you want to get in on the play and then make a five minute phone call to a broker.

You can actually read my email to him word-for-word. It's that simple.

7 Reasons to Subscribe to Resource Trader Alert Right Now

Let me lay it out for you in plain English. When you become a subscriber to Resource Trader Alert you can expect:

1.	Two to three easy-to-follow trade alerts every month, sent right to your inbox
2.	Detailed recommendations for how and when to cash out of each play
3.	Detailed market and portfolio updates every Mondaymorning, right in your inbox
4.	I'll do all the work, you'll see all the gains
5.	Your risk will always be fixed and 100% in your control
6.	The FREE report Learning to Play Commodities Options Like a Champion
7.	THE SINGLE MOST INCREDIBLE PROFIT GUARANTEE I'VE EVER OFFERED (more on this in a minute)…

With a laundry list of benefits like this, heck, $10,000 would be a steal.

Sound steep?

Well, my brokerage division specialized in options trading. And our clients would pay $50 — $75, minimum, for a five-minute phone call.

That's about $600 — $900 for an hour of options research — my knowledge and expertise was worth every penny.

Now, imagine paying a rate like that over the course of a year. All of a sudden, $10,000 doesn't sound so steep, does it?

But, through a special arrangement I've made with Agora Financial, if I hear from you today, I won't charge you even a quarter of that.

You'll get a full year of Resource Trader Alert, 24-36 market-crushing trade recommendations, alerts, insights and one of the most unbelievable track records in the industry, for just $1,495.

You read that right: only $1,495.

You'll have the opportunity to make that back in as little as six weeks when we hit our next triple-digit gainer!

Still not sure? That's alright…I've got an airtight guarantee you couldn't possibly pass up…

You'll See NINE Chances to Double Your Money (Or Better) In the Next 12 Months Or Your Money Back

No, I'm not crazy…I'm just sure that I'll make you rich.

No matter what the market conditions are.

Since 2002, Resource Trader Alert readers have seen an average of nine money-doubling opportunities a year… sometimes triple… sometimes quadruple… sometimes more!

And I'm sure we'll do it again.

But, if my recommendations don't produce at least nine chances at 100% returns in my track record, in the next 12 months, all you have to do is call me, tell me you didn't see nine doublers, and ask for a refund. 

Even if you "only" see a chance to double your money just eight times. Even on day 364 of your yearly membership!

It's as simple as that.  I take on all the risk — and you get everything for free unless you see a chance to make 100% nine times in one year.

So, Let Me Hear From You by Thursday, June 18th and Save Even More Off the One-year Price, Plus 100% Gains Nine Times in a Year — Guaranteed!

I can't tell you the exact price here — you'll have to click through to the order page to see your final discount.

But I can tell you that we may never offer Resource Trader Alert for such a low price again.

Of course, you're free to call and cancel at any time. But if you should ever decide to sign up again, I can't guarantee you'll see a deal this good.

The price will surely be $1,495… or more.

So, why miss another opportunity to profit. Our next triple-digit gainer could come at any minute… don't wait, order now!

Because it all comes back to commodities

Smart Grid Stocks

It's been dubbed the energy internet.

Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy is pursuing it.

So are Google, Cisco, IBM and every other tech giant you can think of.

I'm talking about the smart grid. And GE thinks it'll be "the biggest investment of the first half of the century!"

They've put down billions already... all to get a place at this $2 trillion table.

And I've reserved a seat for you right beside them. I've uncovered three specific ways for you to profit from the emergence of the smart grid. Each one could easily double in value.

It's called the Smart Grid.

And, in case you haven't heard, it's "the 21st century's answer to our hundred-year old network of powerstations, transformers and powerlines."

Covering millions of square miles from coast to coast. . . the Smart Grid will utterly transform the way we buy, receive and use our electricity in the coming years.

It's effects are so wide-reaching, so universal, that Cisco has boldly claimed it will be "100 to 1000 times bigger than the internet."

In fact, over the past 10 months, GE, Google, IBM, and Cisco have quietly invested $3 billion in a new technology that Energy Secretary Steven Chu has called an "urgent national priority."

It's so essential to the survival of our modern energy infrastructure that Obama has wasted no time in ponying up $11 billion just to get this technology deployed.

Without it, our national power grid network will crumble in a matter of years.

But if you make the investment today, you'll get in on the ground floor of a technological revolution that will single-handedly alter the entire global energy economy, while generating. . .

More Than $2 Trillion By 2030

And that's figuring conservatively!

According to a 2009 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers (which was issued to the U.S. electric utility industry), $2 trillion will need to be invested in our electric infrastructure by 2030 - just to maintain current levels of energy service for consumers.

We're not talking about exceeding goals or expectations here, folks.

We're simply talking about making sure we can still turn on the lights and heat our homes.

And while we're constantly hearing about new power plants being built to meet our rising energy needs - if you can't move that electricity - it's completely worthless!

And that's why energy utilities, global governments and some of the largest corporations in the world are tripping over themselves to develop a new Smart Grid that'll keep the power flowing - and generate billions in revenue.

Now I'll get to the particulars of the Smart Grid in just a moment. Because you're going to need these particulars to get a piece of this action. But first, you have to understand why the development of the Smart Grid is so pressing. . .

America's Electric Infrastructure is on the Verge of Collapse

When most folks flip a light switch or turn on their computers, they don't give a second thought about where the power comes from. And really, who does?

It's not something we really have to think about because our modern power grid consistently sends us all the electricity we need at any given moment. It's a luxury that most of us take for granted.

But what few people realize is that our "modern power grid" is anything but modern.

Truth is, nearly all of our entire electric infrastructure is based on the ideas of the same man who perfected the light bulb more than 120 years ago - Thomas Edison.

I'm serious.

Thomas Edison actually laid the plans for the power grid we have in place today. The same plans that were used when the entire nation's appetite for electricity could be sustained by about a dozen or so power plants.

Clearly, times have changed. Take a look. . .

While the energy needs of today's modern world have changed dramatically from the past. . .

Our grid has remained the same.

Now think about that for a moment. . .

Everything that requires power today - from the computer systems that track our satellites to the pumps that bring fresh water into our homes - relies on basically the same technology that was invented back when indoor plumbing was considered a luxury!

So is it any wonder that today's electric infrastructure is falling apart before our eyes?

The infrastructure that we rely on today was never meant to handle today's demands.

In fact, according to The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 62% of the power generated in the U.S. is lost - either through transmission or by poorly optimized appliances, lights, and other devices.

Can you imagine filling your gas tank, paying for 10 full gallons - but only receiving 4?

That wouldn't fly for one second.

Yet for years, we've been consistently losing more than half of the electric power we generate.

And this comes at a cost of more than $100 billion a year!

Or a better way to put it. . .

$100 Billion Up for Grabs - Every Single Year!

At least for those who are developing and investing in Smart Grid technology right now.

You see, using the latest in automated meter technology, advanced sensors and artificial intelligence software, Smart Grids are essentially making the delivery of electricity, much more efficient - and exceedingly more economical.

Blackouts and brownouts will soon be a thing of the past

Consumers will save nearly $1.5 billion annually

U.S. businesses will save in excess of $100 billion by reducing unscheduled downtime

And of course. . . the Smart Grid is going to make us an absolute fortune.

Let me explain. . .

Google has already spent millions funding Smart Grid start-ups and providing software for Smart Grid projects in partnership with GE.

IBM has "committed $2 billion to fund start-ups and utilities working on smart-grid and green technology projects."

And just this past February, during Super Bowl XLIII, General Electric paid the highest advertising rates out there for their now famous Scarecrow Ad - just to show to you that they've staked their future on Smart Grid technology.

These are major players, my friend. And they're not doing this just for kicks. They're doing it because there are literally billions to be made by rebuilding the nation's electric infrastructure.

But here's the catch for investors. . .

The Smart Money isn't on Google or IBM or GE. . . even they're investing other companies.

Truth is, investing in any of those companies will only net you a fraction of the Smart Grid profits you could be making at this very moment.

You see, for the big payout you have to go beyond the obvious behemoths, and. . .

Play these 3 Smart Grid Stocks

It doesn't take a genius to know that Google, IBM, GE, Cisco and others stand to make tens of billions in pure profit from the development and utilization of the Smart Grid.

But the fact is, that still only accounts for about 10% of the market.

Listen: No matter how much they push the Smart Grid, and no matter how many billions they rake in - these companies are simply too big and too diverse for this single initiative to make a noticeable difference on their balance sheets.

In fact, even with IBM's $2 billion investment. . . even with contracts in the hundreds of millions awarded to GE and Cisco. . . it all still accounts for less than 1/10th of the estimated $100 billion per year market.

And the remaining 90%?

Well, that's falling into the hands of a few dozen, under-the-radar companies that specialize in Smart Grid technology.

But there are only a few in particular that are looking to take the lion's share. . . now that the effects of Obama's promises (and funding) to support this technology have begun to kick in.

You can look to the charts below for proof of that. . .

 

And this is only the beginning.

Of course, you can still play the bigger names. . .

After all, major media outlets like MSNBC - who are owned by GE - would only stand to gain from your support.

But doing that would be like getting in on the top floor and waiting for them to build more onto the roof.

Besides, there's no point in wasting your time with the obvious. We're going right for the real money here. The double and triple-baggers!

And there's no reason you can't get a piece of this action, too!

I'll even show you how, in our new report. . .

Smart Profits from the Smart Grid:3 Guaranteed Game-Changers

And it's yours. . . absolutely free.

But first, let me introduce myself. . .

I'm Nick Hodge, and I'm the managing editor of the Alternative Energy Speculator.

Last year - while investors across the globe lost fortunes and watched helplessly as their wealth slipped away - I was delivering double, even triple-digit winners for my readers.

From a 110% gain on a Chinese solar play last August. . . to the dozens of winners we've closed since, Alternative Energy Speculators were cashing in while the rest of the market took its biggest hit since the Great Depression.

That's part of the reason I get e-mails like this one all the time:

I made a respectable/nice profit on JA Solar per your recommendations and missed the market close today for SOL [as I live on the other side of the globe] but have my sell order in and will hopefully have a very respectful, short term gain at the opening -- again thanks to your now clear expertise.

Nick - I really want to communicate my respect for your doing what you have by contacting me. . . clearly you care and took to heart my concerns about a particular recommendation in the face of a negative, disconcerting press release I read, which you personally addressed and today's signal supported your analysis which I seriously questioned. As they are very fond of saying here in New Zealand: Good on ya Nick! --Y. Ornstein

Listen: It all boils down to profits. And the fact is, readers of Alternative Energy Speculator have realized 27 winning positions so far in 2009. . . while we're still very much in the thralls of recession.

That's more than one winner per week. . . on pace for 60 winners this year!

Take a look for yourself:

Closed Winners

Company	Symbol	Exchange	Date	Initial	Sold	Status	Sold Date	Percent
GT Solar International	SOLR	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$2.87	$4.10	Sold	2009-01-15	42.86%
Comverge, Inc.	COMV	NASDAQ	2009-01-15	$4.60	$5.48	Sold	2009-02-06	19.13%
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.	ENER	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$25.18	$26.01	Sold	2009-02-06	3.30%
SunPower Corporation	SPWRA	NASDAQ	2008-11-13	$25.01	$35.74	Sold	2009-02-06	42.90%
JA Solar Holdings	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-03-03	$1.83	$2.08	Sold	2009-03-04	13.66%
JA Solar Holdings	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-03-05	$1.82	$2.00	Sold	2009-03-09	9.89%
LDK Solar Co.	LDK	NYSE	2009-03-05	$4.52	$5.00	Sold	2009-03-10	10.62%
Renesola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-03-05	$2.16	$2.38	Sold	2009-03-10	10.19%
Shaw Group Inc.	SGR	NYSE	2009-01-07	$22.24	$24.60	Sold	2009-03-10	10.61%
Comverge, Inc.	COMV	NASDAQ	2009-02-17	$5.13	$5.94	Sold	2009-03-12	15.79%
Flowserve Corp.	FLS	NYSE	2008-11-06	$51.92	$58.94	Sold	2009-03-19	13.52%
ReneSola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-03-13	$2.15	$2.68	Sold	2009-03-19	24.65%
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd.	STP	NYSE	2008-12-11	$9.56	$10.80	Sold	2009-03-26	12.97%
American Superconductor Corp.	AMSC	NASDAQ	2009-01-07	$15.01	$19.08	Sold	2009-04-09	27.12%
Calgon Carbon Corp.	CCC	NYSE	2008-11-06	$14.90	$17.31	Sold	2009-04-09	16.17%
Johnson Controls Inc.	JCI	NYSE	2008-12-16	$17.25	$17.45	Sold	2009-04-17	1.16%
First Solar, Inc.	FSLR	NASDAQ	2008-10-07	$135.75	$146.68	Sold	2009-04-28	8.05%
JA Solar	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-04-07	$3.31	$4.52	Sold	2009-05-06	36.56%
Renesola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-04-07	$3.75	$4.38	Sold	2009-05-06	16.80%
Solarfun	SOLF	NASDAQ	2009-04-07	$4.30	$5.79	Sold	2009-05-06	34.65%
Ormat Technologies Inc.	ORA	NYSE	2009-02-26	$27.08	$37.06	Sold	2009-05-14	36.85%
Veolia Environment	VE	NYSE	2009-04-09	$23.13	$28.01	Sold	2009-05-14	21.10%
Yingli Green Energy	YGE	NYSE	2008-05-14	$7.69	$9.08	Sold	2009-05-15	18.08%
Intellon Corp.	ITLN	NASDAQ	2009-04-30	$2.62	$3.42	Sold	2009-05-19	30.53%
JA Solar	JASO	NASDAQ	2009-05-08	$3.95	$4.35	Sold	2009-05-27	10.13%
Tetra Tech, Inc.	TTEK	NASDAQ	2009-03-30	$20.26	$25.81	Sold	2009-05-27	27.39%
Renesola Ltd.	SOL	NYSE	2009-05-08	$3.95	$5.15	Sold	2009-06-02	30.38%

I'm confident that the Smart Grid plays I'm going to tell you about will be the next companies on that list.

That's why I've made them the focus of my brand-new special report: Smart Profits from the Smart Grid.

You see, I've uncovered 3 specific Smart Grid stocks that could realistically deliver gains in excess of 62%. . . 87%. . . and 112% - all within the next 4 to 6 months.

I'm absolutely serious about this!

And everything you need to know about these top stocks to buy - from who's getting Federal dollars to which technologies will be the most widely used - can be found in your free report - Smart Profits from the Smart Grid.

Of course, these 3 Smart Grid stocks are really just the tip of the iceberg.

At this very moment, we have 7 new top stocks for 2010 in our queue.

That means at any moment, we're going to issue as many as 7 new recommendations. . . across all sectors of the alternative energy industry. . . from solar to wind to water.

That's on top of the 27 winning positions we've already closed in 2009 and the dozen or so other winners that we're sitting on. . . just waiting to take higher gains.

And I want you to profit from each and every one of these. Starting with our latest Smart Grid plays.

Just accept a no-risk charter membership to the Alternative Energy Speculator right now, and I'll immediately send you our latest report: Smart Profits from the Smart Grid.

Plus. . . I'll also send you a username and password for the Alternative Energy Speculator web site - where you'll have unlimited access to past issues, our complete portfolio, and our entire library of research reoprts, including. . .

Infrastructure Investing: Sky-High Underground Profits

Blue Gold: Profiting from the "Energy-Water Nexus"

Wind Energy: 3 Top Stocks To Buy NOW

In addition to these reports, every week you'll also receive detailed updates on the companies in the Alternative Energy Speculator's portfolio. You'll learn how they're doing, the latest in their research, and any breakthroughs that come through in the sector.

Plus, the second we decide to add or sell a company, I'll contact you - immediately.

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The Swine Flew: Indian Stock Markets

When you land in China, they send two teams of medical crew wearing spotless white attire from head to toe, looking a bit like astronauts heading towards the rocket for a lift-off.

The silent crew parades the aisles, examine your eyes and flash a beam on your forehead to check your temperature. They are looking for symptoms of swine flu.

Only after every passenger has been checked and approved, they allow the pilot to move the plane to the parking gate and offload the passengers.

You land in India and are back to Indian-ness: passengers coming down two escalators and one flight of stairs quickly fill a makeshift queuing system. Within minutes, the continuous stream of people coming down the escalators can no longer get off - the space ahead of them is a stationary wall of people. A lady on crutches falls - the escalator blades disappear from under her feet and she has nowhere to stand.

There is chaos. The airport staff looked on - and did nothing.

I alert them. "We will tell the management," they respond.

Once you get to the people behind the desk with your medical form, they stamp it - without even looking up. You then proceed to immigration and you are cleared to officially enter India.

If you had swine flu, the Chinese would catch you. In India, the swine flu would catch you.

China, said a friend, has learned from its mistakes.

He was referring to the SARS epidemic that reached frenzy in March 2003. When the medical team from the World Health Organization landed in China to inspect the patients, the hospital administrators bundled all the affected SARS patients in ambulances and made them circle the city.

The WHO inspectors found nothing in the hospitals.

China got a clean chit.

But the Chinese ended up living through the horror of SARS.

Do you think, my friend continued, it is a coincidence that WHO is the only international body that is now run by a Chinese person? China really wanted its nominee as head of WHO - Dr. Margaret Chan. And, within China, there are only two ministries that are run by people who are not from the Communist Party: the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Science & Technology.

Having made a mistake, the Chinese gulp a bit - and then go on to ensure it does not happen. So going forward China will have fewer cases of swine flu, I guess.

India will have more cases of people's clothes, shoes, and limbs stuck in escalators as they queue up to go through the motions of a useless medical "examination".

But no, this is not about swine flu - but about investors that flew out of the Indian stock markets in the year 2010.

The Participatory Note, or "P-Note" investors - the sub-set of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) who have caused havoc in the Indian stock markets on the way up in the year 2006 and 2007 - and on the way down in the year 2008.


These flows (Table 1 above) represent the total net foreign money entering the best stock market for 2010. On average, the foreign money flows are 4 times those of the money flows from the domestic mutual funds.

However, we don't know what percentage of this foreign money flow belongs to P-Notes. The P-Notes are a strange animal in the Indian capital markets.

As an Indian, if you want to buy shares, the government wants to know everything about you. As an Indian, if you wish to buy a mutual fund, the government wants to know everything about you.

If you are a U.S., European, or Japanese pension fund, university endowment, or charitable foundation, then the government also wants to know a lot about you.

But if you are a P-Note holder, heck no one cares at all about who you are!

Foreign investors who have a long term interest in investing in India - and by "long term," I mean a minimum 5 year time horizon (if not twenty and thirty year time horizon) have not yet come into the Indian stock markets in a big way.

I know this because some of them are my clients.

And I meet many of these long-term investors many times in a year. The "genuine foreign institutional investors" (long term pools of capital) painstakingly fill in the foreign institutional investors application forms and sit on the plane as the Indian authorities thoroughly check them out, to ensure they are sound people.

On the other hand, the P-Note pool of money - hot, short-term money - that gets India exposure via Participatory Notes does not even have to fill in that health examination form. Their broker fills it out and confirms they are good people!

Imagine an airline crew in Shanghai airport vouching that the passengers are not affected by swine flu - and signing the form on their behalf. The Chinese would take the crew out of the plane and shoot them or send them off to the hinterland.

In India, we worship these unknown pools of capital - and shoot ourselves in the foot.

Finance Ministers of this country have, time and again, made trips to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, and New York to pay homage to these great hedge fund and P-Note owners.

Rather than being suspicious of short-term money, India welcomes it. We don't seem to understand that we need pension fund money to build India's economy over the long term.

Our Indian ministers have probably never visited many of the pension funds. They generally don't sit in exciting cities. And the brokers don't really want those pension fund folks investing in India. Because they buy shares and hold them for 5 years or more, the brokerage commissions will collapse and the brokers will be out of jobs.

Unlike China, India is not willing to learn from its mistakes.

When questions are asked about P-Notes, the treatment is similar to that of the ambulance incident with the SARS affected patients.

We will ooh, and aah, and steer the discussion towards thoughts on building a world-class and open capital market.

Our intellectuals mislead us and get caught in their own web.

After the election of the Congress-led coalition, many commentators and representatives of the intellectual community came on TV and said, "We hope this new government will allow higher foreign equity ownership in insurance companies".

Why? Pray tell, why?

Because, they said solemnly, India needs long-term capital to sustain its development.

I was laughing - and crying.

It is true that India needs long-term capital.

But then - this same set of people - go about saying that banning P- Notes is a bad idea.

On the one hand, they say India must have long-term capital and yet - with a very straight face - they want the Indian stock markets to be reliant on short-term capital via unknown pools of P-Notes.

Having seen the Indian election results, the P-Note owners are now ready to head back to India to ride the gravy train - and add their own flavor to it by sloshing around playfully with their gambling money.

"P-Notes need to be banned." The Reserve Bank of India wrote in December, 2003.

And, they were finally, thankfully, in a limited ban and phase out by October 2007.

But by October 2008, P-Notes were back in action.

We are back to the future, and looking at an ugly past

India should only accept long-term foreign capital via "genuine" foreign institutional investors. This is not about making the markets a more "perfect" place and advocating "price discovery".

Speculation and price discovery is not an end in itself. Markets are not gods to be worshipped. They are created to help an economy reach its goal.

But, in India, we will continue debating and discussing and throwing intellectually stimulating arguments to explain why what we did in the years 2006 and 2007 was not wrong - and therefore there is no need to learn from the past.

Because the past mistake was not a "mistake", it was just an event in time that occurred and had to do what it had to do.

I stand by what I said in October 2008 - and reiterated again after May 15th - one can make a case for the Bombay Stock Exchange's BSE-30 Index to head back to a new peak of 21,000 by June 2010.

A better economy, better company results - and higher foreign institutional investors flows are all positives for the market. It could happen.

But if P-Notes are a part of that rise - god help us. Because some event in the United States will frighten the owners of short-term capital and then we will see how pigs can flap their wings.

Swine flu or swine flew - I don't know which one is more frightening. But India is vulnerable - and could be attacked on two fronts.

Easy Way To Profit from Surging Oil Stocks

If you're noticing gas prices moving north again, brace yourself.

They're going higher... much higher.

Crude oil already nailed a six-month high last week, thanks to a significant drop in oil inventories ahead of the summer driving season. And it's likely to spike even more. That is, if the Saudis are right.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah thinks $75-to-$80 oil is a fair price. And he says, "we are now seeing a quick recovery in the global economy, and see indications of increasing demand for this material (oil)."

Oil minister Ali al-Naimi says the price of oil will climb to $75 as demand picks up. "We'll get there eventually," he adds. "It will be achieved as demand rises and the fundamentals are better than they are now."

And yes, there are even fears of revisiting $100 oil and $3+ at the pump, which once aggravated the global economic slump.

Sure, the pullback to $33 was a relief while it lasted. But the days of cheap oil may be numbered, possibly giving way to another historic oil spike that could send us into a "double dip" recession.

But we'll worry about that if and when it happens.

Even economists think oil is headed higher. "As the economy picks up, spare capacity will start to erode, and the oil market could tighten up again in the first half of the decade," dean of world oil economists Daniel Yergin said in a U.S. congressional testimony.

Even James Hamilton of the University of California at San Diego added, "If demand in China and elsewhere returns to its previous rate of growth, it will not be too long before the same calculus that produced the oil-price spike of 2007-08 will be back to haunt us again."

And there's Ed Yardini who suggests, "oil traders are expecting that once the global economy recovers, supplies will tighten up quickly relative to demand."

Even legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens recently told Fox, "You're going to be back to $75 oil by the end of the year, and $200 per barrel within five years."

Worse, when global demand comes back ― as it will in China, India, and other emerging countries ― there's no telling how high oil could run. And it doesn't help that within OPEC as many as 35 new projects have been delayed.

"I've often described unsustainably low oil prices as carrying the seeds of future spikes and volatility," Ali al-Naimi said, according to TheStar.com. "If we place a low priority on preparing for the future, that lack of action can come back to haunt us through supply shortages and another round of high prices."

Truth is, we're headed much higher.

And there's a very easy, very cheap way to profit from the rise.

The Crude Oil Market: The Easiest-Paying Bottleneck of a Lifetime

Most Americans' economic woes are only going to get worse.

That's because in the coming months as the economy turns around ― and yes, it'll turn around on its own in short order ― oil prices are about to face the fastest price spike in history.

We know the spike's just around the corner. But here's what you might not know. . .

In fact, some of the richest, most savvy traders around don't know about this little gem of a play.

We've uncovered a rare investment that could pay you gains just as astonishing as any jackpot oil resource company out there ― but without the risk!

Here's how it works.

You see, this investment (which most investors know absolutely nothing about) doesn't even follow oil producers or risky exploration companies. It strictly follows the physical oil market.

And thanks to the unique nature of this investment, not only can you bask in the riches of the oil futures market ― you actually get paid double the gains that oil makes!

In other words, a 10% gain pays you 20%. . . a 20% gain pays you 40%. . . a 100% rise in oil prices pays you 200%.

So, if oil shoots 50% this year, which is our gross-underestimate, you'll double your money!

If oil shoots up to the $70 range, every $5,000 invested will suddenly turn into a $10,000 payday!

With oil trading in the $60 range, this unique opportunity just doesn't get any easier.

A Window of Opportunity Opens

This is your opportunity to join the contrarian investing elite.

For the first time in two years, the best economic minds and analysts are opening their doors to new members.

I hope you'll take advantage of this rare offer.

When the San Francisco earthquake sucked insurance companies dry in 1906... and share dumping sheered nearly 9% from the Dow that next spring...

Four wealthy New York businessmen and a Boston economist decided to form a "secret" financial club that went on to include presidents and prime ministers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and billionaires.

Then there was famous economist John Maynard Keynes, who lost a bundle — nearly three-quarters of everything he owned — in the great Crash of '29.

He went on to form his own little cult of economic ideology, become a living celebrity, and went on to build personal investing wealth of nearly $30 million.

In 1947 and in the wake of World War II recovery, economic giants Friedrich von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman quietly pulled "people with money" together again... in a small mountain town near Montreaux, Switzerland.

The influential group still meets today.

And as stagflation sapped the strength of the U.S. economy in 1978, another "secret" society formed. It was strictly limited to the top 30 investors, entrepreneurs, and economists of the day.

They call themselves the "Group of Thirty" and of course, they still meet today, headed up by none other than Fed Chairman and start economist Paul Volcker.

I'm guessing already that you had no idea some of these "secret" societies even existed.

In the past, they included some of the richest and most elite money minds of a generation... not just to help members rebuild and grow their personal fortunes... but with the goal of changing the course of history.

And I have the same ambition for the "secret society" I'm about invite you to join today.

Let me explain...

Your Chance To Get Rich While Making History

What I'm about to tell you about has been almost two years in the making... and I've already invested over $532,171 to make sure this day arrived. But now it's finally ready.

Introducing a new alliance of high-end "Big Picture" thinkers. People who not only seek ways to heal the damage this market has done, but who can appreciate a much larger, more intelligent approach to figuring out exactly what's going on in the markets today.

I'd like to invite you to join this new alliance.

And here's the thing: I'd like to invite you to join free for a full year.

That's right. I'll simply waive your membership dues... and send you everything full members in this new society will receive, at no charge for a full 12 months.

You'll find out how in just a moment.

First, here's a glimpse of what you'll receive if you accept my invitation...

You'll start immediately with what I call our Parachute Portfolio Library, a double-pronged wealth protection resource centered around the only two kinds of market moves you should consider making over the next 12 to 16 months ahead

Then you'll also get a copy of my 218-page book, The Demise of the Dollar and Why It's Great For Your Investments, which you'll want to read before the inevitable greenback implosion ahead

You'll start receiving published updates every single week... plus additional members-only briefings every month... both with updates on everything in the recommended portfolio plus advanced private research on the markets, the world economy and — of course — this unfolding crisis

Plus an immediate private conference call that shares insights and answers vital questions about the evolving state of this market

Access to more of these live conference calls every single financial quarter, featuring one of the two most experienced and intelligent working economists I've met in the last nearly two decades of market research

Online and personal networking opportunities where you can interact with your fellow society members, both to exchange more market insights and to build the bonds that can be so vital to your financial survival in turbulent times like these

Access to a precious archive of nearly 18 years of research from one of the greatest financial minds of our generation — and worth nearly $6,947 — yours free

Plus, you'll also be entitled, as the newest member of our elite new wealth-protection society, to help nominate recipients of a prestigious new award in economics... as well as a memorial scholarship, dedicated to teaching the next generation to help us steer clear from these kinds of debacles in the future.

Again...

All of this — worth an estimated $9,554 — can be yours free for a full year.

But I need to hear back from you before Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M.

Accept by that deadline and all the above can be yours at no cost for a full 12 months. I'll simply waive a year's worth of membership dues and you'll start getting everything I just mentioned.

"On me."

I'll explain it all at the end of this letter.

Now why on earth would I want to do that?

Before you scroll down to find out, just give me a moment and I'll explain. Starting with the story of the great man who inspired this me to write this letter to you today in the first place...

The Smartest Investor You'll Never Meet

He was a friend. He was a legend.

He was also one of the smartest — and richest — investors I've ever met. In fact, he was so successful, I happen to know he twice paid cash for luxury apartments on the French Riviera.

He collected valuable antiques... drove a classic Mercedes well into his 80s... and carried an ornate silver-tipped cane with him everywhere he went. He was a character you don't forget.

When he spoke, everyone listened. He dominated every room he ever entered.

Once, in my office, he borrowed the phone... and in four minutes chattering away in German to his broker... made a trade that, by our best estimate, netted him around $8 million.

How? It was a hedge on a slide in the U.S. dollar.

"That," he said as he hung up the phone, "was for my grandchildren..."

And then we went to lunch, to talk economics over thyme-roasted chicken and bottle of French Bordeaux. Not your average day for most people. But no surprise for this gentleman.

His name was Dr. Kurt Richebächer.

You may already know his story. Or maybe you don't.

A survivor of Nazi Germany... the former chief economist of the Dresdener Bank... and so controversial, former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt once tried to silence him.

By the time we'd first met, Kurt had already advised billionaires, financial ministers, and market makers. Former Fed Chief Paul Volcker had been a big fan and personal friend. So was the late, great economist Murray Rothbard.

Bill Fleckenstein, a regular columnist for CNBC and MSN Money, regularly recommended Dr. Richebächer's research to other investors. Other gurus lined up to praise him too, including the legendary Richard Russell... plus best-selling authors Doug Casey and William Bonner...

Along with Barron's contributor James Grant... CNBC's David Tice... famous analysts Dr. Martin Weiss, Doug Noland, Dr. Marc Faber, and Michael Belkin... and a host of other market "luminaries."

During his lifetime, some had even compared Dr. Kurt Richebächer to visionary financial geniuses like John Templeton, Stephen Roach, Ben Graham, Charles Dow, Robert Prechter, and Benoit Mandelbrot.

Sadly, We Lost Kurt In 2007

Sadly, we lost Dr. Richebächer at the fiery age of 88.

But not before he managed to publicly and forcefully predict almost every detail of today's mess... before it even began to unfold... and certainly not before he'd already dedicated a lifetime — a full and fascinating 67-year career — to studying markets in a way that no green sub-40-year-old Wall Street lackey could even begin to imagine.

In the 67 years Dr. Richebächer researched and reported on markets, money, and economies, not only had he witnessed the booms of the 1980s and '90s...

But he'd also seen — and survived — the '73-74 market bust... the '87 "Black Monday" collapse... the massive S&L crisis of 1989 and '90... and the infamous junk bond blowout and early '90s recession...

Not to mention, the 1997 Asian and Russian currency collapses... Internet-mania and the Dotcom Bomb... and, of course, 9/11 and the subsequent stock market aftermath.

Kurt had been through it all. He's seen it all. And he's survived it, financially speaking, with huge personal success... even while others saw their accounts flattened.

But of course, in his monumental career, Kurt had ALSO served as analyst and living witness to the "Go-Go" fund jockey wipeout of 1969...

He had even seen and survived the world-flattening recession of 1958... and had lived in the middle of the post-war financial chaos in Europe just after WW II...

He was even around long enough to have living memory of the '29 crash itself, and the near-decade of stagnant years that followed.

I don't know about you, but I can't think of a SINGLE Wall Street analyst or grinning TV commentator that could ever produce anything even close to that kind of pedigree.

Yet there was "Dr. Kurt," as we loved to call him, not just seeing us through it all... but drawing out the details and making forecasts even about this current economic catastrophe...

Right up to when he left us, in August 2007.

A Timely Warning Only a Few Had the Sense to Follow

A few of us were lucky.

We got the chance to hear Kurt's warnings in time. We also had the chance to take steps to protect ourselves. Had you been with us, you would have had that chance too.

See, not long after Dr. Richebächer and I met in Paris that afternoon, I pushed my team to put together and send out a special report. It looked a lot like the one you're reading now. It was early 2006 and, inside that report, Dr. Richebächer repeated for our readers what he'd told me...

"I am dismayed at the low level of U.S. economic thinking. Elementary insights into economic processes that have been accepted by all schools of thought for more than 200 years are unknown, discarded or even put on their head. The facts are that you have serious structural problems that exclude any possibility of a sustained economic recovery... A profits decline, a record savings shortfall, a capital spending collapse, an unprecedented consumer borrowing and spending binge, a massive current account deficit, ravaged balance sheets and record high debt levels."

I'm sure you'll remember, that's when Americans still believed property would always go up. The Dow had just hit 11,000 too. And the Gross National Debt? It was high... but nobody then even dreamed it would rocket nearly $3 trillion higher by today.

For his readers, Kurt went on to warn that the ultimate "credit trap was about to spring shut"... and that the U.S. economy was headed for an imminent and enormous "fundamental breakdown."

Of course, that's exactly what happened.

Said the report...

"The U.S. consumer... the U.S. government... in fact, the entire U.S. economy... is living on borrowed time. The credit trap is about to snap shut. The wall holding back a tidal wave of financial pressure is about to collapse."

Could General Motors go broke, we asked in the 2006 forecast report. Could Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac survive, saddled by $4 trillion in loans to questionable borrowers?

Of course, those events sounded impossible to most people then. But Kurt warned us that it could happen more easily than anybody imagined. And he remains right about that too.

Back then, experts at the Fed talked about "positive inflation" as a tool to fight off an economic collapse. Kurt warned against it. Yet today, the Fed is actively doing it... dumping trillions into a black hole.

Kurt warned too about the insane debt leverage we were handing over to China and other foreign lenders... today, our government has ignored his warnings and we're in deeper than ever before.

Of course, Dr. Richebächer — a rich investor himself — was too much of a gentleman to reveal what he did with his own money. He wasn't just an advisor. Kurt was a serious economist with a "big picture" view no penny-ante Wall Street broker or hot-tip jockey could match. A class act.

His circle of readers and admirers were happy enough just to hear his analysis.

But knowing that he was forecasting a major economic crisis... and that Dr. Richebächer himself wouldn't be with us much longer... I arranged for Eric Fry, one of our best analysts, to travel to the Riviera (a dream assignment) and interview Dr. Richebächer in person.

Days later, Eric came back with Kurt's famous "Last Interview"... and five powerful, simple wealth-fortifying strategies were grounded on what Kurt had revealed...

In one visionary detail after another, Kurt laid out his map of the now infamous credit bust... from the deadly dangers of "zero-money-down" mortgages... and the billions that would disappear from banks and property values... to the rising risk of shameless U.S. debt and evaporating U.S. industry... and how, in Kurt's convictions, the treasured American way of life was surely on the brink of extinction.

Just as importantly, we discovered how to turn that vision into opportunity. As I'll show you, in ways that could have made a few individuals very rich.

For instance, the 46% his readers could have made in just 13 months playing Eurodollar puts... or the 96% in six weeks they could have piled up with puts on the dollar... Plus another money-doubling U.S. dollar spread in just 10 weeks not long thereafter. Then there's another 292% in three months, again with puts on the dollar... and 425% in just eight weeks on brilliant euro calls... the list could go on.

Of course, the window on those opportunities has since closed. However, Dr. Richebächer's stunning "last" forecast continues to unfold, almost to the letter of what he told Eric in that six-hour interview back in 2006.

Perhaps even more amazing, is that what he revealed offers you — even now — another chance to avert or even recover from these later stages of financial catastrophe.

How? Allow me to explain...

A Second Chance to Escape Even Today's Market Collapse

See, I'm so certain now of both the value and timing of the deeper kinds of insights Dr. Richebächer shared with his readers... that I'm writing you today with a very special invitation.

I'd like you to be a part of a brand new "wealth-protection" society we've just formed.

We call it the Richebächer Society, named after man who inspired us.

And as I said, this project is so important to me, I'm willing to waive membership for a full year, for anybody who answers my invitation by the cutoff date — Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M.

As a member, you'll get all $9,554 worth of benefits that I mentioned — at no charge for a full year. Like I said, I'll explain it all at the end of this letter. That includes, by the way, the full transcript of Dr. Richebächer's "Last Interview".

And of course, it also includes much more...

The Only Two Market "Bets" You Can Count on This Year

As soon as you accept my invitation, you'll also gain members-only access to the Parachute Portfolio Library I mentioned earlier. Inside, you'll find two "paired" research reports.

In the first report, The Parachute Portoflio, Volume One: Seven Super Hedges Against the Coming Market Catastrophes of 2009-2010... you'll see how even regular market followers can hedge their wealth against each of the "toxic timebomb" events ahead.

In the second report, called The Parachute Portfolio, Volume Two: The Only Five "Long" Market Moves You Need to Make This Year, you'll see how to take the strategy one step further... to where you could actually double or triple your money, even as the crisis unfolds.

This library isn't for sale.

And you'll never find it offered anywhere else.

But it's yours to download directly from the private Richebächer Society website, just as soon as you tell me you're ready to try a full year of FREE membership in the Richebächer Society.

These strategies won't take years to pay off. And you won't need to "wait" for the recovery. Just about everything you'll find inside involves a 12 to 16 month move.

Of course, NOT making these moves now could cost you much more... in lost ground and lost opportunity... which is why I urge you to let me hear your answer by the Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M. deadline.

And yes, this deadline isn't the only reason you'll want to move quickly.

See, we've been hard at work continuing the good Doctor's research. And what we've discovered, as you're about to hear, is even more troubling than the shocking forecasts Dr. Richebächer himself shared just before this mess first started to unravel.

Let me just show you the first of the three coming "toxic timebombs" we've uncovered and you can judge for yourself...

Toxic Timebomb #1:The "Recession Multiplier" That Could Double the Impact of This Downturn by 2010

Forget, for a moment, about the bankers, bailouts and bureaucrats.

And simply sink into this idea instead...

In the bedrooms and boardrooms across America, we're waking up to a very scary realization. All those big houses we bought... the cars and fancy techno gadgets... the fancy clothes and furniture... the $100 dinners and $5,000 vacations... and suddenly we're looking back and realizing... we've got so little to show for it.

Over the last three decades, we've taken one of the greatest industrial nations in history... and traded it off piece by piece. In it's place, we became the world's #1 shopping nation.

Not makers, but buyers.

Even now, consumer buying is supposed to drive more than 70% of the U.S. economy. What happens when the buyers and their credit cards just stop showing up?

Ask yourself this...

How many people born into a real bust do you know? Not like the '87 crash or even the market collapse in 1973... but on the scale of the 1930s? Over seven decades later, the survivors still rinse off used tinfoil... save string... and keep rusty nails in a jar.

Little busts don't change consumer behavior... but the big busts do.

The lesson Americans learned then, they're learning all over again today: That the law of personal and financial responsibility is as irreversible as the law of gravity. It's the egg that no bureaucrat or multi-billion dollar bailout can unscramble.

Bills piling up on the table. Expensive toys gathering dust. Calculators whirring, as the Americans who felt "rich" just over a year ago... figure out how they'll get by if their incomes disappear.

Luxury and indulgence are out.

And the classic virtues — thrift, value, prudence — are back.

In short, the hearts and minds of the American consumer have been thrown into reverse. And it's this total psychological "snap" that's a much tougher obstacle to a real recovery.

Saving is good. It's essential. But with the death of the American consumer culture, expect a force that multiplies the force of this downturn... and could very well stretch out for many, many years to come.

How so? Just take a look at Japan.

Japan's big market breakdown — and it looked a lot like this one — happened over 17 years ago. To this day, the Japanese consumer culture hasn't recovered.

Already high savings rates soared even higher... car sales plunged by half... cabbage replaced meat on Tokyo dinner tables... middle class Japanese started washing their clothes in used bathwater.

And yes, these are the Japanese with good jobs and incomes.

Working as though they could lose those paychecks again at any time.

What happens if the same level of consumer breakdown grips the U.S.? The news nobody in Washington or on Wall Street wants to own up to... is that it already has.

The Big "Buyer Breakdown" Already Underway

See, a recession where credit is tight is one thing. But a recession where consumers stop buying, that's a much bigger deal. And much harder to turn around.

Yet, that's exactly where we are right now.

Take private consumer debt. Whipping out the credit card was as natural as breathing for a lot of Americans, up until as recently as a year ago. Yet, with houses and stocks down... and that "wealthy" feeling gone... soaring household debt has just hit a concrete ceiling.

Right now, total private consumer debt is nearly $2.5 trillion.

Nobody worried much when they felt rich.

But they're worried now. That's why the U.S. savings rate, once actually negative, has completely turned around. Instead of shopping, Americans are saving. Just in the last year, they socked away $545.5 billion — the biggest level since tracking started in 1959.

Like I said, savings are great in many ways. But when you've got a country that's 70% dependent on people going out to spend, spend, spend... it can spell even greater catastrophe. Just like they've seen for more than 17 years now in Japan.

But a lot closer to home...

On New York's Madison Avenue, shops that used to sell $2,390 bed sheets and $2,400 handbags have packed up and slapped "For Rent" signs in their windows...

Penny-pincher clubs are back. And coupon-clipping sites are getting some of the highest traffic on the Web. Discount sales and all-you-can-eat buffets have lines going out the door

Last holiday season was the slowest in four decades. Meanwhile, luxury products are "out," showing off how budget-wise you are is back "in"

Big "box" stores continue to close at record rates too, while department store sales are down as much as 24%. The Gap? Sales are down 23%. Other clothing chains are down 22%

What's more, U.S. cars sell slower than in 1982. For the first time in history, China sells more cars that we do. Keep in mind, about 20% of all the retail in the U.S. comes from car sales

Planes can't sell seats in business or first class either. Not to mention a 20% drop in airline freight shipping. Meanwhile, train and truck shippers are in absolute freefall

Even FedEx and UPS — slammed by the double-whammy of crashing buyer demand and no-shipment digital book, document, and movie delivery — have seen overnight shipping profits vaporize.

Consider... total U.S. retail sales have rolled back to levels we haven't seen since 2005. Can you imagine if every single retail shop opened in the last three years... going dark?

It's already that bad.

Here's how the consumer-collapse is about to get a lot worse...

From Bad to Worse: Vanishing Jobs and Disappearing Paychecks

Since the start of the downturn in December 27, we're already out 4.4 million jobs.

How much deeper could this go?

Well, today's crash is already bigger dollar-wise than anything that we lost in 1974. And even back then, 1% of U.S. jobs disappeared. Do that today and you're talking about a total 13.2 million Americans out of work.

That's 13 million people not buying cars or new houses... 13 million cutting back on groceries... 13 million not buying flat screen TVs or going to strip malls... in fact, it's the same number of Americans who lost their jobs during the 1930s.

You've seen pictures.

The jobs that disappeared were the "multiplier effect" that turned a stock market bust until a decade-long downturn. Today's record setting job losses could do the same.

With over 650,000 disappearing in each of the first couple months alone... we're on pace to lose a total of 7.8 million jobs just this year.

Boomers cancelling retirement... middle-aged workers swarming college job fairs... at one Ohio high school, over 700 people showed up for a janitorial job... these aren't people set to dive back into impulse shopping anytime soon.

In your members-only Parachute Portfolio Library, I'll show you the two best ways to protect yourself and your money from the complete "consumer collapse" ahead.

But first, let me show you another atomic "multiplier effect" ahead that makes a 2009 or even 2010 recovery unlikely for America's consumer-driven economy...

From Bad to Worse, Part Two: The Second Surprise Mortgage Bust Ahead

When "subprime" blew up in the faces of bankers, brokers, and derivative traders... it lit a powder keg under the whole global financial system... and sparked every bit of the catastrophe you and I have seen so far.

What would happen if a whole new wave of toxic loans were to slam into bank balance sheets? We could see just as many or more billion-dollar writedowns... and more stock market pain ahead.

You can see that subprime "resets" — when some loan payments doubled and defaults soared — have started to wind down. And that's good. But there's a whole new wave of bad loan "resets" just now starting to hit.

These are the so-called "option ARM" or "Alt-A" loans.

These were the fancy mortgages snapped up by middle Americans... to buy homes nobody imagined would be worth a fraction of their selling price, just two years later.

Just like subprime, these loan contracts also carry a "reset" risk in the fine print, when already high monthly mortgage payments could as much as double — right at the height of the second biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression.

Millions more consumers will freeze up as their finances go over the cliff... more bank losses will drag down even more so-called "blue chip" retirement portfolios... and the impact of the consumer bust I've told you about will get "multiplied" yet again.

Millions more Americans could lose everything.

But that doesn't have to happen to you...

The Two Simple Moves That Could Protect You

If there's a silver lining to the next round of meltdowns ahead, it's the strategy you can use not only to protect yourself... but to actually grow your money faster as this unravels.

The first move is a classic hedge play against the next domino to fall. Almost every American stock and sector driven by consumers — from construction to retail — has already taken a fat hit.

But few realize how far this next sector is about to fall. In the Parachute Portfolio Library, you'll see why... but you'll also see how to play it on the downside as a kind of "insurance" against the coming collapse.

You'll also find a second report in the Parachute Portfolio Library that names a "way out" and even a "way up" from all the chaos — in the handful of opportunities bound by demographic destiny to still go up over the years ahead.

I can't go into the full details here. That's reserved for Richebächer Society members only. But accept my special "full-year-free" invitation and you'll find everything you need in your Parachute Portfolio Library reports.

And of course, you'll also get the society's weekly portfolio updates... our monthly members-only briefings... and a lot more... yours free for a full year, provided I hear back from you before Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M. Why then? You'll find out in just a moment, along with exactly how to get started.

Personally, I believe this could be the most valuable decision you make this year.

And it couldn't come at a more critical time...

Toxic Timebomb #2:Asian Ghost Towns and the "Chinese Miracle" Meltdown

With American consumers in hiding, can China's economy survive?

Beijing wants you to think so.

So do a lot of our own Wall Street "experts."

It's China, they say, who will lead us out of this mess.

But we're not buying it.

Get ready as the world's next industrial ghost towns — the next Detroit —turn up not in America, but in the Chinese provinces of Shenzhen, Guangzhou, or Dongguan.

Over 15,000 factories in those areas alone have already shut down... with more slated to close. And it's an epidemic that's happening everywhere.

Remember the lead paint scare?

Since then, half of China's toy factories have shut down. In fact, at least 67,000 factories overall closed in the last six months of 2008. With another 60,000 factories in the Wen Zhou Province alone about to shut down.

As many as 27 million Chinese are already out of work — with 20 million of them streaming out of the cities and back to the abandoned farms of the Chinese countryside.

What's going on?

It's simple. China needs exports.

Yet, with the West choking on debt... America bleeding jobs... and the financial markets still in the "third or fourth inning" of history's biggest mortgage meltdown...

The Chinese miracle has all but ground to a halt.

China's Secret "Stealth" Depression

You wouldn't know any of this if you take the "party line" coming out of Beijing. They still claim growth as big as 8% for 2009. But the facts on the ground tell a different story...

According to Merrill Lynch, China's economy didn't grow at all in the last quarter of 2008. And it's still contracting fast, ever since the start of this year

Of course, official Chinese growth last year topped 9%. But if you did the math the way we do in the U.S. and they do in Europe, the real growth rate — for the last three months of 2008 — was zero

Keep in mind that China needs at least 9% growth to soak up the 24 million new Chinese workers who come of age each year — something even the Chinese Premier doesn't like to mention.

Even Chinese analysts will tell you their homeland is already deep into recession.

Says expat Prof. Tian Xie of Drexel University, China's elaborate campaign to falsify GDP numbers "is all part of a sophisticated strategy to cheat the world."
But they can't keep up the deception much longer...

In one huge textile factory — as big as 31 football fields and with 4,000 workers — the owner racked up $200 million in debts. Afraid to tell Beijing, he burned his records and fled the country

Officially, nobody's protesting about losing their jobs or going broke. Unofficially, dozens of riots have broken out in front of closed Chinese factories

1,000 schoolteachers clashed with police over wages in early January. Hundreds of workers swarmed a city government building in Foshan, demanding back pay

In Northern China, a TV journalist covered a story about a hostile labor takeover in a textile mill. Local authorities immediately punished him and pulled the story

Creditors showed up to seize equipment from deadbeat borrowers at a factory in southern China. Police broke up a dozen riots in the aftermath, all of which they hid from the newspapers.

Padded revenue reports... fake production numbers... overstated employment... keeping a double set of books in China isn't just common, it's too often considered "good business."

In the days of emperors, Chinese generals lied about battle kills... to keep from losing their own heads. In the days of Mao, farmers lied about crop results... even as 20 million Chinese starve to death.

Today, local bureaucrats fudge the books to get ahead in the Party... and the top dogs in Beijing lie to hang onto foreign investors.

Meanwhile, northeast China — home to 110 million people — looks more like rusted-out Detroit by the day... only it's a bigger rustbelt, by a factor of ten.

You've also got under-regulated Chinese banks hiding as much as $500 billion in bad debts — China's own "subprime" loans to small businesses and Asian property speculators...

Plus, you've got a $40 billion tab left over from the Beijing Olympics... and a $140 billion tab for rebuilding Sichuan after their 2008 earthquake…

How Long Can China Hide the Truth?

Here's the bottom line:

China — with 80 different car makers to bail out... tens of thousands of huge socialist-era factories... and 100s of millions of workers to support — has a big problem.

Much bigger than they're letting on.

And it's not just China about to take an even bigger hit.

Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam. Thailand. Malaysia. And Indonesia... just to name a few, all soared thanks to the China boom. Now they're going bust in kind.

Korean production alone is already down 14%. Japan is off 20%. Taiwan's exports have dropped 28.5%. Singapore is already deep into recession. Thailand's decayed into political crisis.

Until U.S. and European consumers come out of their shells, the new Asian meltdown doesn't end any time soon. But that doesn't mean there's nothing you can do. In fact, taking the opposite position could be the quickest way to protect yourself...

How to Turn the New Asian Meltdown Into Triple-Digit Safe Haven Gains Instead

While Shanghai stocks haven't yet collapsed anything close to what we're seeing on this side of the ocean... it won't be long before they catch up.

Before that happens, you could use the move you'll find in one of Parachute Portfolio Library reports to lock in as much as triple-digits gains... that could soar as the dragon-driven markets fall apart.

The move is a downside play on a single stock... that acts as a near-perfect proxy for the entire Chinese manufacturing market. It's down already. But has much more room to fall.

Play it the way you'll discover in your members-only report, and you could see a substantial gain as the Asian markets unwind even further than they already have.

As you'll read in the Parachute Portfolio Library, this is a "set and forget" move... and doesn't take more than five-minutes for you to set up.

At the same time, you'll find a second perfect move in your Parachute Portfolio Library that reveals a surprise currency gain you could make... as panicking Asian governments raise to save sagging exports with a radical new unraveling of their own currencies.

Remember the '97 Asian Currency contagion?

That sell-off sheered 35-40% from Asian indexes, sent oil prices plunging to $8, and forced a $4.6 billion collapse over at Long Term Capital Management.

Most market players took a battering.

Had you been on the right side of that move, you could have made a fortune. And this opportunity you'll find in the Parachute Portfolio Library shows you how to do it this time around.

I'll send you this private library of reports at no charge, included with your full free year of membership in our new elite Richebächer Society.

Again, this full free year of membership I'm offering you includes not just this library of special reports... but a total of at least $9,554 in additional benefits.

And it's yours if I hear back from you by Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M.

A Total of $9,554 in Benefits The Moment You Decide to Join

Of course, none of what you're discovering right now would be possible... if Dr. Richebächer himself hadn't spent 67 years studying economics and markets... not to mention, had he not spent the last nearly eighteen years of his life sharing that research with people like me and you.

That's why I sincerely hope you'll accept my invitation.

Who are we exactly?

We're not just a handful of stock market hopefuls and armchair prophets. In the circle of Richebächer fans and followers, you'll find some of the world's richest, most educated and successful members...

Entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, high-ranked advisors, international speakers, working economists and academics... all sharing their insights and their secrets.

As I said, some of the greatest minds in financial history paid close attention to Dr. Richebächer during his lifetime. With the help of his generous family, we've even assembled a complete archive of all 18 years of Dr. Richebächer's research.

And that complete and searchable resource is also yours, as part of Richebächer Society membership. This alone is worth a considerable figure.

And it's yours to tap as often as you like.

Just take a look at some of the uncanny calls Dr. Richebächer made, which you can find captured in this enormous and impressive body of work...

In September 1996, Dr. Richebächer warned that the Asian Tigers "were teetering on the edge of a cliff." And in March 1997, he alerted his readers these countries were about to face "tremendous currency turmoil"

Sure enough, by July 1997 those currencies fell like dominoes... and French national newspaper Le Figaro began calling Dr. Richebächer "the man who predicted the Asian crisis"

In July 1998 Dr. Richebächer saw debt spiraling out of control in Brazil. The country's currency was in serious jeopardy. He warned his readers about the coming market shock

By early 1999, the Brazilian real crashed to the ground. Anyone who heeded the warning had the chance to get out of Brazil's stock market... and escape the catastrophe

In January 2000, Dr. Richebächer warned frenzied investors that the days of dotcom stocks' days were numbered. "Next Christmas," he wrote "very many of them will no longer be around"

Sure enough, the Internet bubble popped in March 2000 and over the months that followed, tech companies declared bankruptcy in droves. By the end of that year, $8 trillion of investors' wealth had already disappeared

In November 2006, while millions of Americans still believed in high property values, Dr. Richebächer wrote, "The housing bubble... has barely started. Wealth effects have disappeared and with falling house prices will soon turn substantially negative." And he went on to warn of the great deleveraging that a bust in huge, hidden derivative markets would bring

I don't have to tell you that he was right again. As the bubble popped and loan-backed derivatives crushed Wall Street and choked off credit, consumer confidence — and spending — slammed into a wall. The downturn he'd called started right on schedule.

As an honored Richebächer Society member, you'll have unlimited access to the entire searchable archive. Included with your full free year of membership.

Not only will you see how Dr. Richebächer helped enlightened the market elite about the increasingly insane cycle of credit-fueled asset bubbles... but also how one could have easily used those same insights to save and even grow countless fortunes.

Including the 46% his readers could have made in just 13 months playing Eurodollar puts... or the 96% in six weeks they could have piled up with puts on the dollar...

Plus another money-doubling move using a U.S. dollar spread over a 10 week span... and 292% in three months, again with dollar puts... along with 425% in just eight weeks on euro calls...

This list could go on.

And so can Dr. Richebächer's legacy.

Which is why I hope you'll accept my invitation today, while there's still time to get a full year of membership — including at least $9,554 in member benefits — absolutely free.

See the end of this letter for full details.

But be sure you do so before time runs out — in more ways than one!

Toxic Timebomb #3: America's "Minsky Moment" And the Coming Dollar Collapse

What's a "Minsky Moment?"

It's what America can't avoid, now that both our own consumer-powered economy and China's fabled growth "miracle" have so clearly hit the skids.

See... when times are good, said great American economist Hyman Minsky, it's easy to take on big risks. That includes big debts. But pretty soon, the risks get bigger than the reward... the bills come due... and you have to start dumping assets just to cover your tail.

That's the big secret behind today's endless cycle of booms and busts.

It's what's already happened to real estate. It's what's happened with the big selloff in stocks. And now it's what will happen to the U.S. dollar... and the idea of America itself.

The Giant Pin About to "Pop" the American Bubble

The U.S. dollar has been the world's "go to" currency for decades, backed by faith in the U.S. economy. But if you get paid in dollars or save in dollars, you have to ask yourself...

How much longer can that last?

With just shy of $11 trillion in debt already piled up... another $8.5 trillion already committed to the bailouts... and $3.6 trillion more in new spending on the table...

Not much longer. Think about it.

How much faith would you put in an I.O.U. from a friend with shrinking job prospects, a sky-high credit card bill, a chronic gambling problem, nervous creditors, and a bad habit of lying about the balance of his bank account?

Even Obama admits this can't go on forever.

He recently told 60 Minutes, "If we don't get a handle on this and also start looking at our long-term deficit projections, at a certain point people will stop buying those Treasury bills."

You'd better believe it.

China alone backs U.S. spending with dollar reserves worth nearly $2 trillion. These are the loans we use to fund our bailouts and more. What happens when those loans no longer look like a good deal?

With China slipping into crisis mode, that day could come a lot sooner than you might think. Already, China's prime minister Wen Jiabao says he's "worried." And both China and Russia have already called for a new world reserve currency.

All it would take is a shift of opinion...

And the dollar could go into freefall overnight!

In fact, no matter what our overseas lenders say in public... privately they've already started slinking toward the exits. Three times in the last four months of 2008, they dumped U.S. long term securities. Not just the Chinese, but Japan, India, the Saudis, and Europe... just to name a few.

When even your dollar savings aren't safe, what should you do?

A Much Better "Exit" Strategy: Dollar Super-Hedges That Go Beyond Gold

Both the reports you'll find inside your members only Parachute Portfolio Library...

Including The Parachute Portoflio, Volume One: Seven Super Hedges Against the Coming Market Catastrophes of 2009-2010...

And The Parachute Portfolio, Volume Two: The Only Five "Long" Market Moves You Need to Make This Year...

Will show you not just how to escape the dollar collapse with savings intact, but also how to turn the situation around to actually make gains. Even as the Fed liquidates the wealth of anybody holding greenbacks outright.

As a new member of the Richebächer Society, you'll also get a free copy of my own 218-page book, The Demise of the Dollar and Why It's Great for Your Investments.

Inside you'll read more about the actions that have made this dollar unraveling so inevitable. You'll also read some very real and forward looking solutions.

Naturally, one of the options you'll read more about is gold.

Consider that right now, just 1.1% of China's "other" foreign currency reserves are in gold... compared to nearly 80% gold in our foreign currency reserves here in the U.S.

China would need to seize three-quarters of the world's total gold production for an entire year, just to match our same GDP-to-Gold ratio. Impossible?

They're talking about it. Hou Huimin, vice chair of the China Gold Association says, "China should have at least several thousand tons of gold in its reserves, five to six times the officially announced 600 tons."

Even if China switched over to 3% gold reserves, that would send the bullion price through the skylights. But just holding physical gold isn't your only option.

In your copy of the full Parachute Portfolio Library — including my published 218-page book, The Demise of the Dollar and Why It's Great for Your Investments — you'll find at least seven more protective and wealth growing moves you can make.

I just hope I can hear back from you soon.

The Only Financial "Playbook" Worth Following During 2009-2010

Look, here's the bottom line.

I know you can easily find "experts" out there with two-bit explanations of what's going on. I know you're already swarmed by headlines and financial shows, newsletters, magazines and more.

Every one of them with something to say. With some who are right on the money and others who haven't a clue. But the brand new Richebächer Society isn't any of that.

The idea behind our alliance is much more simple...

See, we don't plan to wait for someone else to "fix" this mess. We don't plan to sit by and watch it ravage our wealth, either. We're not "hot stock" day traders. We're not looking for tin-pan insights or cheap thrills.

Instead I've organized what could be the best team of analysts in the business — lead by a real economist with 26 years of top analysis experience — to take a whole new kind of look at what's really going on.

This is not insight for timid men.

It's full and it's direct. It's advanced. And it's serious.

Most of all, what you'll have exclusive access to as a member of the new Richebächer Society is what could be the only thinking out there clear enough to help you both sidestep the damage and turn even the worst of these events into real and sustainable opportunity.

Look, Dr. Richebächer wasn't just someone I published for years. He was also a close personal friend. He met my wife. He met my children. We even spent time working together, side by side, on the book he was writing just before he passed away.

So launching this society isn't just another "project" for me.

It's a personal mission. One I take very seriously.

I've written two New York Times #1 bestsellers... I've made an award-winning theatre release documentary... I've even interviewed Warren Buffett, Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan and Steve Forbes in person and one-on-one... yet I still consider this invitation I'm offering you today one of the most important moves of my entire 16 year career in financial research.

I hope you'll take it just as seriously.

In fact, I'm already confident you do.

Which is why I hope to hear back from you about this special inaugural invitation as soon as possible, preferably before the Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M. deadline. Again, if I hear from you by that crucial date... all of this can be yours free for a full year.

Here's how this works...

Join the Ranks of the World's Elite by Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M... and I'll Waive All Your Dues for an Entire Year

On Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M., we're going to broadcast a very special interview with Dr. Richebächer's natural successor and the editor of our new Richebächer Society, economist Robert Parenteau.

Rob was the chief U.S. economist and investment strategist for RCM, one of the investment management firms of Allianz Global Investors. And has over 20 years experience guiding global asset allocation, sector research, and equity selection for that same firm's top portfolio managers.

Rob has also founded and runs his own market analysis firm, rooted deeply in the same kind of disciplined macroeconomics Dr. Richebächer subscribed to in his lifetime.

In his members-only April 21 interview, he's going to tell you exactly how to read these three "toxic timebomb" events we talked about. He'll also walk you through the entire strategy you'll find in the Parachute Portfolio Library I'll send.

In fact, I've arranged for you to receive the full library on the same date of the interview, so Rob can explain it all with the full grounding of his considerable expertise.

If I hear from you before the date of this members-only broadcast, you'll receive a full year of membership in our brand new Richebächer Society, absolutely free.

As publisher and founder, I'll simply waive your dues for one year.

Is there a "catch?" Of course, but it's one I don't think you'll mind much at all.

Because, you see, there's much more to your membership in the Richebächer Society than just the library of reports, the 218-page book we talked about, and Rob's special interview...

Let's Run Through Everything You'll Receive One More Time

Once you accept my "full year free" special invitation, here's what you'll get...

1) First, You'll Immediately Receive the Complete "Parachute Portfolio Library"...

The most urgent thing I can do for you, the moment you tell me you're ready to join, is to rush you the complete Parachute Portfolio Library we talked about.

This is the set of two straight-talking special research reports that reveal exactly how to hedge yourself against the remainder of this crisis... and how to find the handful of recommendations you actually can still count on, even during the rest of the turbulence ahead.

Here's what you'll find inside the Parachute Portfolio Library...

The Parachute Portoflio, Volume One: Seven Super Hedges Against the Coming Market Catastrophes of 2009-2010 — This is your definitive guide to the seven most toxic economic trends of 2009-2010 and how to hedge yourself and your wealth against them.

The Parachute Portfolio, Volume Two: The Only Five "Long" Market Moves You Need to Make This Year — In a time of almost evaporated opportunity, these five market plays could be the only five safe enough for you to make over the next 12 to 24 months ahead.

The moment you join us, I'll even send you a private password and a web link where you can download these reports.

Your two-volume Parachute Portfolio Library is conservatively worth $98. But both reports in the library are yours free, just as soon as you accept my invitation to join.

And of course, there's more...

2) Next You'll Get a FREE 218-page Copy of My Popular and Newly Updated Book, "The Demise of the Dollar and Why It's Great For Your Investments"

With a wall of bailout reserves backing up in the vaults of stingy banks... and U.S. consumers too terrified right now to spend... we're watching prices fall in most big assets, not take off.

Yet gold is creeping upward. Why? And what's the truth about gold and the role it could play in protecting your wealth from the rest of this crisis? Many experts are getting it wrong.

This book not only sets the record straight, it also outlines a total of seven ways to protect and grow your wealth — not just in spite of a coming U.S. currency collapse, but as a direct result.

This book debuted on Amazon.com at $20.

But I've made a special arrangement to get you a complimentary copy, as one of the gifts you're entitled to as a charter Richebächer Society subscriber.

3) You'll Immediately Start Getting Weekly Portfolio Updates:

Rob Parenteau has agreed to email you targeted updates every week on everything vital that's happening with the "parachute plays" outlined in your member library... with the economy... or with the other opportunities you'll discover as a Richebächer Society subscriber.

Given that Rob is not just an economist with 24 years of experience as a global investment manager... but also the senior proprietor and sole founder of a macro-strategy investment firm... that's an enormous "members-only" advantage right there.

And worth a fortune, all by itself.

Easily, a research service like that is worth at least $549 per year. However, you'll get Rob's weekly briefings free for a full year, along with everything else, when you accept my special Richebächer Society invitation.

4) You'll Also Start Getting Our Elite Monthly Bulletins:

For nearly two decades, the Richebächer Letter has been a trusted "insider's" resource to some of the world's most intelligent and advanced investors and market commentators in the world.

With Dr. Richebächer gone, we had to withhold the letter until we could find someone as skilled at stripping away the mainstream fluff... and as brilliant at unearthing and revealing the kinds of powerful, one-of-a-kind insights the good doctor himself used to produce.

But with economist Robert Parenteau guiding the Richebächer Society, we finally have someone who help the great tradition of the Richebächer Letter continue, bringing fresh new and in-depth analysis to our small circle of elite readership, every month without fail.

I know of no resource like it.

When Dr. Richebächer was at the helm, the letter itself cost members $497 per year. But it's yours right now, as the cornerstone of my invitation, free for an entire year... the moment you accept membership in the newly formed Richebächer Society. I'll explain how in a moment.

But first, there's still more...

5) You'll Also Have Unlimited Access to The Society's New "Blog & Daily Dialogue" Forum:

Dr. Richebächer pounded out his first issues and analysis on a typewriter. Today, we have access to technology the good Doctor never imagined.

Who could guess, for instance, what he would say as we launch our entirely new members-only "Blog & Daily Dialogue" forum.

This is your online space where Richebächer Society members can read new market insights and launch into exchanges with other Society members.

Frankly, this is too new for me to know how to value it. But it's clearly worth at least $49. However, it's yours as a member. Use it as often as you like, whenever you like.

Free for an entire year, as long as I hear back from you by the Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M. deadline.

What's more...

6) Every Quarter, You're Invited to the Private Society Conference Call

Each financial quarter, we'll gather on a member's only conference call.

You can participate from anywhere. And you can listen live as Rob and other financial experts dissect what's happening now — and next — across the markets and the world economy.

If the timing isn't convenient, you'll have the option of listening online or downloading an audio recording. You'll also get the chance to download and print out the full transcript.

A ticket for this kind of session with a top financial analyst and seasoned economist — live — would be worth at least $249 for even just a single call. As a member, you'll get four of these members-only conference calls per year, for a total value of $996.

And it's also included with your Richebächer Society membership.

Just in case you're keeping tabs, that's already $2,109 in value. However, you can have all this free for a full year just by accepting my invitation by Tuesday, April 21 at 5 P.M.

And there's still more...

7) You'll Also Get Dr. Richebächer's Famous "Last Interview"

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Triple Crown of Financial Catastrophes

What a great time to be an economist!

Yesterday was another dull day in the markets. The Dow was steady. Oil rose a buck. Gold went up $3.

But there's nothing dull about the economic news. Already, we've been able to see things we never thought we'd see. It is as if our strange neighbors had invited friends, and even some animals, over for a night of fun - and left their curtains open.

So far, we've seen a best stock market crash and what looks like the beginning of another depression, already marked by the biggest bailouts and nationalizations in history. We're getting an eyeful! And with a little luck we'll probably see a bout of hyperinflation too. Crash, Depression, Hyperinflation - this is the Triple Crown of Financial Catastrophes!

It is remarkable enough that we have been able to witness a genuine market crash. The crash of '87 barely counts. It sent prices down as much as a third all around the world. But it was a very short-lived affair. Bread put in the oven at the beginning of it was still doughy when it was over. Then, it kept rising for the next 20 years.

The last real crash in America occurred 80 years ago. We never thought we have the privilege of seeing another one. Especially since nearly three generations of economists and financial authorities have been working to prevent them. They set up their safety nets and perfected their formulae... Fed monetary policy was thought to be such a finely tooled instrument that it was widely believed that the feds had mastered the business cycle - thereby eliminating the need for crashes or recessions. When the economy heated up, the feds turned on the air conditioning - higher rates, stricter credit standards, and even higher taxes. When it cooled down, the switches were thrown in the opposite direction and on came the heat. The economy was supposed to maintain a constant temperature all year round.

With such perfect climate control systems in place, many thought the cold shivers and hot sweats were over. But something seems to have gone wrong....

And now we're enjoying the show. From one spectacle to the next...you can't say it isn't entertaining. But what might keep us from realizing our goal - and seeing all three major catastrophes that give economists the willies?

Uh-oh...what's this?

"US banks to repay $68 billion to Treasury," says the lead headline in today's Financial Times. "Move marks turning point in economic crisis."

The banks are now feeling healthy enough to give the feds back their money. All is well, we guess.

And what's this...?

"OECD says statistics point to recovery," begins an item in the Financial Times. The organization says most advanced economies are indeed past the worst part of the downturn. The "possible trough" was reached in April, it says.

OECD is looking at the same data as everyone else. They say it points to growth and prosperity. We wonder; how could that be? What about all those investments that still haven't been written off...written down...and restructured? What about all that debt that is still carried on tired shoulders? What about all those homeowners still yearning to sell - as soon as they can catch a break? What about all that debt that the feds are adding to the system? What about the credit contraction? What about the de-leveraging? What about all those balance sheets - household and corporate - that need to be cleaned up? What about those falling corporate earnings? What about...what about...

Richard Russell tells us that the Transport Index has still not confirmed a new bull market - well, that's a good sign - but that the usually reliable Coppock Index is signaling an end to the recession and rising stock prices of 2010 ahead.

Oh my...what if we're dead wrong? What if something is going on that we don't understand at all? What if there is no depression...no hyperinflation...no Triple Crown of Catastrophes that we were yearning to see?

"There's more under heaven and earth than is contained in your philosophy," wrote Shakespeare. No matter you think, things are always more complex than you imagine...with interpretations very different from those you impose.

But what really could go wrong on the road to the Triple Crown? Will we go to our graves without ever having seen a real depression or a real hyperinflation?

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More news from Ian at The 5 Min. Forecast:

"The Dow crashed 1.4 points yesterday, wiping out Monday's 1.3 point moonshot. Desperate for something beyond these 0.014% 'swings,' the market's putting China in the driver's seat today...and these guys still have quite a lead foot:

"Chinese auto sales soared 34% in May, year over year. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the Red Nation scooped up 1.12 million vehicles last month, outpacing any nation in the world. Consider the course of the last 12 months, and then look at this chart...is China even part of the global slowdown?


"We don't want to get too excited about this growth, as much of these sales are a product of Chinese government stimulus. But I.O.U.S.A. is certainly throwing a bunch of money at this crisis as well, and the same measure of auto sales here fell 34% in May...so they must be doing something right over in Beijing.

"Chinese property sales rose 45% in the first five months of 2009 compared with the same period in 2008, their National Bureau of Statistics announced today. Heh, notice a trend?

"Again, these numbers are manipulated by government intervention...but 45%? That's pretty big. We also note that real estate investment over the same period rose 6.8%, a rise the U.S. certainly can't claim.

"Thus, the market story today is 'buy whatever China wants.' Namely, commodities. Oil's up to $71, a 2009 high. Copper is at an eight-month high of $2.36 a pound. Aluminum, lead, zinc and nickel are all in the same boat.

"Stocks like Alcoa and Exxon Mobil helped the Dow to open up 1%."

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What if we are wrong?

For example, we believe best stocks to buy are getting ready for another big fall. As we wrote yesterday, the smart money is short the best stock market for 2010.

"If you think that, how come you're not 100% short the best stock market?" asked a friend.

In fact, we've still got about a quarter of our family wealth in top stocks to buy. Why?

Well, the simple answer is: we may be opinionated, but we're not crazy. It's one thing to have an idea about what will happen. It's another thing to stake your whole financial future on it. Also, we treat our family money differently from our own, personal money.

Why do we own hot stocks to buy, even though we think the best stock market will probably go down?

1) We know someone who is at least as smart as we are who believes that buying best stocks - at bargain prices - is the safest, surest way to wealth over the long term. He and his team spend all day, every day looking for extremely undervalued companies. He operates a private, family office...not available to the public...and only buys when they're priced so cheap that even if they had to be broken up and sold off in parts the shareholders would still come out ahead. We figure our children's money is at least as safe with him as it is with us.

2) While we expect a downturn in top stocks for 2010, we're not sure how this downturn will be expressed. A big increase in inflation could send stocks' nominal prices up.

As we explained yesterday, you can deleverage in one of two ways...the old-fashioned honest way...by repaying your debts. Or, you can inflate your debts away. If the feds succeed in causing substantially higher rates of inflation, stocks could go up as investors buy them in order to escape inflation.

Of course, the best defense against inflation is gold. But gold doesn't pay dividends. And gold has no earnings. And gold doesn't send you quarterly reports that you can use to light a fire.

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We think there will be no recovery...that the feds WON'T succeed in causing inflation soon...and that stock prices will fall. Still...we hedge our bets in some very cheap stocks...just in case.

While the private sector deflates and deleverages...the public sector is building the biggest debt bomb the world has ever seen. Here are the numbers we promised yesterday:

US private debt is at a record high, about $44 trillion.

Compared to that, the federal government's $11 trillion of official national debt doesn't seem so bad.

And, the states have about $2 trillion more - which, in round numbers, doesn't seem like a cause for worry.

But last week, Gov. Schwarzenegger said California's 'day of reckoning' had come. He's looking at a $24 billion hole in the Golden State's finances. And at least he's proposing to close the gap honestly - by cutting back on services and raising taxes.

What else can he do?

The federal government has options...and a little "technology called a printing press," as Ben Bernanke famously put it. But California can't counterfeit the money to pay its expenses; instead, it has to borrow it from willing lenders or steal it from unwilling taxpayers...there's no other way.

The feds are convinced that they can spend as much as they want. This week alone, for example, they're selling $65 billion in Treasury bonds. And this year, a total of about $2 trillion are to be auctioned off. Who's going to buy these things? Beats us.

And consider this: in addition to the fed's 'official' debt, there's some $100 trillion more of unfunded liabilities, commitments and obligations. Those are mostly things such as Social Security and health care commitments that the government has sworn to honor. If all those "debts" are put together...well, it comes to one helluva number - about $157 trillion of debt in America, or more than 10 times total annual GDP.

"Ymmmm...this lamb is very good," we said at a dinner party in France the last time we were there.

"Oh...yes...it is good," said our old friend, Pierre. "It's from New Zealand. And it almost got me arrested.

"Back in the '80s, I was raising sheep. Even then it wasn't a great business. Sheep are a pain in the neck. You can never turn your back on them. They are either getting stuck in the fence or coming down with a terrible illness. You have to be on the job 24 hours a day...7 days a week. No vacations. No holidays. Never a day off.

"And to make it worse, you don't earn any money. At least not in France.

"Anyway...as poor as the sheep business was, it got poorer in the '80s. The British exported lamb to the French market...and they undercut our prices. Because they were part of the European Union, we couldn't do anything about it. It's a free trade zone. But the British couldn't produce lamb that cheap either. What they did was import it from New Zealand and then sell it all over Europe as 'British lamb.' It was outrageous. And I was very mad about it.

"So about a dozen of us decided to take political action. We found out where the British lamb was shipped from...a place in Poitiers...and we decided to block the roads.

"Well, it didn't go so well. We drove up and waited for one of their trucks to come along...and then we put our cars in the middle of the road. But we left a little gap...actually, a fairly big gap between a couple of the cars... Then, when the truck came up, the driver stopped...and he yelled... 'What the Hell are you guys doing?' Or something like that. We explained that we were blocking the road so he couldn't distribute British lamb. Well, he got back into his truck...put the big rig in gear...and smashed through our cars....

"The next time, we did stop one of the trucks...and we decided that we were going at least to let them know in Paris that we were upset about these lamb shipments... So we took the truck to the train station...dumped the lamb out onto the tracks and set fire to it. It was a huge fire...so hot the rails glowed red. We had the police...fire department...news media... But...it was nighttime...and we just pretended to be spectators when the police arrived.

"Then, we really decided to go big time. We planned a commando raid on the British embassy in Paris. I was supposed to distract the guards...while one of our trucks got through the gates. It was all planned out to the second. And we even had one an insider...someone who had a pass to the embassy...I don't know how he got it...

"But that went bad when there was a terrorist attack in Britain...and all the embassies were on alert...so we called it off. Instead, we decided to target the French minister of Agriculture. What a waste of time. The media didn't even cover it. They were used to it. The chicken farmers had been there the week before. And the dairy farmers tried to demonstrate the same day we did. You practically had to get in line and take a number if you planned to do a demonstration at the Agricultural ministry...

"Later we tried one last thing at home. This time we stopped one of the trucks with British lamb and set the whole truck on fire. This time the gendarmes were really mad. They came and surrounded us. They took our names and addresses and let us go. They were planning to arrest us later. But that just shows how the police operate in France. We knew someone in the police headquarters. He went on the computer and erased our names... So I was never charged with anything..."

Two Ways to Deleverage an Economy

The dumb money is fairly easy to spot. It's the money that always shows up late to the party, wearing yesterday's fashions. It watches TV and thinks the reality shows show reality...it thinks Ben Bernanke is a great economist...that the SEC protects investors from fraud and misrepresentation...and that Tim Geithner makes sure the economy keeps running smoothly.

It's the dumb money that thinks you can correct a generation-long period of credit growth in 24 months...with less than 10% unemployment...

Top stocks have now been in a rally for three months. The longer this goes on, of course, the dumber money gets. People come to think the bounce is a permanent bull market.

Yesterday, not much happened. Stocks market held steady. Oil too. Gold fell $8...closing at $952. And the dollar rose to $1.39 per euro.

But while the dumb money has its eyes on the best stock market of 2010, the smart money is watching the economy.

Unemployment has risen to 9.4 million in the United States. Experts think the rate of job losses is slowing. But month after month, more and more people are not collecting wages. Instead, they're coming to rely on handouts from the government. The press reports that one in every six Americans is now on some form of government life-support. (More on that...tomorrow...)

Same thing in the housing sector. Robert Shiller says the housing slump has already knocked prices down 32%...and has a long way to go. This alone guarantees a long period of adjustment. Bad decisions - usually those with huge debt bombs attached - will blow up...then they need to be cleaned up...and then, after the destruction, comes the constructive rebuilding. All that takes time...years.

People whose houses are going down in price...and whose incomes are falling...do not buy more stuff. Sales go down...profits go down...and dividends go down. Why would investors buy top stocks when earnings and dividends are falling? Good question. Pull your shorts up, dear reader...pull your shorts up.

House prices are still going down - but not as fast. Still, big resets, defaults and foreclosures are still on the way - in prime and Alt-A mortgages. But there is still time to protect yourself from this second wave of defaults.

Meanwhile, when companies don't sell...they don't ship either.

The trucking industry says traffic is off 13% from a year before - the biggest drop in 13 years.

Airplanes are carrying 21% less cargo. And the commercial airline industry says it is losing $9 billion this year.

As for shipping...well, don't even bring it up. Shipping has been in a catastrophic slump since last year - with cargo rates down 90%.

Obvious conclusion:

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More news from Ian at The 5 Min. Forecast:

"The national average gallon of the cheap stuff has risen 41 days in a row, to $2.62," writes Ian in today's issue of The 5 Min. Forecast.

"That's a $1 rise, or 61%, from the average gas price at the start of 2009. Certainly enough to scuff the luster off those economic 'glimmers of hope,' don't you think?"


"'This hits everyone,' famous Yale economist Robert J. Shiller told the NYT. 'It has the potential to affect your confidence.' According to Shiller, a few months at these prices could offset President Obama's new $400-800 middle class tax cut. The Oil Price Information Service claims today's gas prices costs consumers $400 million more every day compared with January's ultra low prices.

"Will it go higher from here? If oil's price is any indicator, maybe. While gas prices are up 61% from their lows, crude oil has more than doubled.

"'Consumer behavior has changed,' adds Dan Amoss. 'The typical basket of consumer goods is also changing. Most consumers are smart and adaptive and realize they need to save a lot more out of their paychecks, and will do so despite the government currently encouraging as much spending and risk taking as possible. This trend will last for years, and we should not underestimate it.

"'Consumers will still spend more wisely on things that provide good value, and on affordable luxuries like gasoline (the talking heads still underestimate how strong gasoline demand will remain throughout this recession). Yes, I consider gasoline a luxury, and more probably will as the rest of the developing world increases gasoline consumption - recession or not. Governments are printing money and running deficits, and as long as this is happening, this new money will chase goods that every human demands - like refined oil products.'"

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And more thoughts:

The blogs are chattering about poor Lee Mozilo. He's no Angelo, they say. The SEC claims he told investors that all was well in his company, Countrywide, while he was dumping shares.

We don't know the details, so we wouldn't rush to judgment. But our guess is that the SEC is trying to recover its reputation by putting on a few show trials. The SEC has a pack of watchdogs on the payroll. But somehow thieves stole every decent part in the junkyard without a single one of these mutts bothering to bark. Now, they're indignant...and out for justice!

Did Mozilo do something wrong? We don't know. But the question would never have come up if it hadn't been for the crisis in housing debt. As long as housing was going up, everyone was happy with Countrywide's business model. Yet didn't everyone know that the mortgage finance business was a dangerous place to be at the end of a housing bubble? Didn't the SEC know it, too? If we recall correctly, Mozilo said so himself...

But the SEC watchdogs slept through the biggest heist in history. And now the people who lost face and lost fortunes are eager to pin the blame on someone other than themselves.

But that's just part of the whole process of deleveraging. That's how capitalism works. People lose money...then they lose jobs...and houses...and businesses go into chapter 11 and a few of their CEOs go to jail.

All that takes time. And betting against deleveraging is probably not a smart thing to do. Not until it's over...which is not until the leverage built up in the bubble era has been removed. And with total debt levels at 370% of GDP...and the government adding even more debt...we're a long way from there.

But what do you do, dear reader? Buy Treasuries in anticipation of another crash in best stocks to buy? Or mortgage your house, long-term fixed-rate, in anticipation of fed-caused inflation?

Ah, there's the tough question. We know where the dumb money is...but where's the smart money? Jeff Clark says it's short stocks to buy. But there's some very smart money that is betting that the government will turn this around. They're putting their money on inflation...or even hyperinflation. Our old friend, Marc Faber, for example, says he is sure the United States is headed for hyperinflation. If so, shorting stocks to buy may not be such a shrewd move. Stocks could soar too - as investors try to buy anything and everything that didn't have dollar signs on it.

You see, there are two ways to deleverage an economy.

The obvious way is the traditional, honest way - in which people actually try to pay their debts. This causes the problems we see as falling asset prices, bankruptcies, joblessness and the other hallmarks of a Great Depression.

But the feds have their hearts set on preventing a depression. And they're doing it the only way they can...by the old 'hair of the dog' technique. The economy suffers from too much debt - so they're going to give it more! Much more. The whole pooch! The whole kennel! Then, they round up every stray mongrel in town. What happens when they run out of dogs? Well...that's a discussion for another day.

We have had many laughs following the feds and their war against capitalism. They're gambling an amount nearly equal to the entire U.S. GDP to try to prevent people from getting what they have coming. In the process, they're almost certain to make a mess of things.

The smart money is betting that they fail to stop deleveraging. But the very smart money is betting that they create a new, worse problem - inflation, maybe hyper-inflation. Inflation reduces the real value of debt...but in a perverse and unpredictable way. Debtors don't pay their bills; savers pay them. Inflation - like bailouts - rewards the least responsible players...those who have gotten themselves heavily in debt...and punishes those who have done the 'right' thing. As Germany saw in the '20s, it de-stabilizes the whole society...leading to extremely unwelcome outcomes.

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Very few investors know about it. But those who do are quickly amassing their own fortunes, which are likely to be around for the next 2,000 years.

The Phoenician Edge has built fortunes for centuries.

It's made regular folks richer than they ever imagined. Over and over again.

The Ancient Phoenicians first used the Edge to ship their goods across the Mediterranean.

Then the Greeks used it to make a killing on olive oil.

Centuries later, flower growers in Europe used the Edge ― and got rich.

Rice merchants in 17th century Japan used it too… to make fortunes no matter what happened to their crops.

Shipping, olives, flowers, rice ― thousands of years of massive profits. Starting right now, you can harness this same Phoenician Edge with two quick clicks of the mouse in your hand…

Sounds intriguing? I'll show you everything...

Including, how the 2,309 year-old Phoenician Edge can make you serious money today.

What I'm about to reveal is fast and easy ― you can do if from home, in minutes.

And it doesn't require any special knowledge or skills on your part.

In fact, once I show you how this shocking Edge works, I'll even tell you exactly what to do and when to do it.

Here's what I mean…

FACT: Every Successful Culture in Human History Has Used The Phoenician Edge

Thales, an ancient Greek wise man, used the Phoenician Edge to control olive presses.

Using the Edge, he grabbed the rights to the presses months before the harvest came in.

His strategy was cheap. He didn't spend much.

And he made a killing when the crop came in.

Today, I'm going to show you how this ancient Edge first pioneered by the Phoenicians could make you as much extra money as you'd like.

It's not hard at all. It's simple ― and lucrative. You could use the Edge from home, with a few mouse clicks or a 3-minute phone call.

In fact, once I show you how it works, you might wonder why no one told you about it before. Because…

Successful people have used the Edge for centuries. To protect their family income. To make extra money. To establish long-term security and peace of mind.

What I'm about to reveal could do the exact same thing for you.

Starting this Monday. I'll show you how in just a moment...

First, here's the details about how I've recently used the shocking Phoenician Edge to deliver huge gains for a small group of folks…

After I show you these recent plays, I'll pull back the curtain and tell you exactly how it could make you rich… this year.

How I Use a 2,309 Year-Old Edge to Make Huge Gains for Folks Just Like YOU…

On Sept. 16, 2008, the Dow rose 153 points.

That same day, I directed my group of readers to close one simple Edge position.

The result? 150% gains.

Even better, the 150% gain came from a 14-day old play.

Two short weeks. 150% gains. Easy as pie.

Then, on Oct. 6, 2008, the Dow actually fell 367 points. 3.6% of the Dow disappeared in just one trading day.

That same day, I directed my group of readers to close another simple Edge position.

The result? 168.75% gains.

Here's the best part ― this second position was only seven days old.

168.75% gains. One week.

In a moment, I'll show you how my readers did it.

I'll show you how I find such lucrative gains using the Phoenician Edge.

Again, what I'm about to show you requires no special knowledge. It doesn't involve anything complex or technical. It's easy to do ― and the gains can roll in fast.

No matter if the markets go up, fall down, or slide sideways.

Because the Phoenician Edge I'll reveal works like gangbusters… each and every day.

Forever.

Intrigued? I hope so. There's a pile of cash out there for the taking…

The Phoenician Edge ― Your Ticket to Huge Gains in ANY MARKET CONDITION

In 17th century Japan, rice growers used the Edge to make huge profits no matter if their rice crop looked good or bad.

It only took one simple move to play rice for gains ― no matter what they expected.

How? Because the Edge lets you stake a claim for the future. Here's how it all started…

The ancient Phoenicians shipped their goods throughout the Mediterranean. And the ships that carried those goods were, obviously, an expense.

However, by paying a small amount of money up front ― Long before it was time to set sail with their cloth or minerals…

The Phoenicians could cheaply secure the "rights" to use the boats… And not face stiff competition from other shippers when the time came to set sail.

In a nutshell ― the Edge lets you buy cheap gain potential…

It's a way to buy protection… safety… and still rake in gains. After all, since these shippers paid so little to gain control of the ships ― they "locked in" their price long before everyone was clamoring to grab a ship.

Today, however, people don't use the Edge on ships or olives or rice.

Today, we use it on top stocks to buy.

I use it every day, in fact. To snag huge, fast gains like the 150% and 168.75% you saw above… sometimes in just days. Overnight, even.

I can put the Edge to work for you too, and return some potentially staggering gains. Now here's how it all works. You'll be amazed at how simple it is…

The Phoenician Edge, REVEALED ― Easy Gains Stretch From Ancient Greece to Your Account

The Edge has changed a lot in the last few centuries.

Now, rather than tiny slips of parchment from one rice farmer or shipper to another ― we trade it another way ― through best stock options.

The Phoenician Edge I've been describing is simply the "old world" way of talking about how best stock options got their start.

Today, pros use options to pump out gains on the biggest, safest top stocks to buy in the world.

In fact, in just a minute I'll show you how the options I use actually work best on big, well-known companies like Procter & Gamble, McDonald's, Best Buy and Amazon.

Starting today, you can use companies just like these to rake in huge gains ― sometimes in just days ― with best stock options.

Using the Edge of options doesn't require you know anything (or anyone) on the "inside".

And you don't have to stay up all night watching your computer screen. This isn't one of those "tiny moves" ideas.

Even better ― options work in any market condition. Up, down ― it simply doesn't matter.

Just like how the old rice farmers could make big money no matter how their crop looked. How's that possible, you ask?

I'll show you. Today. But before I get there, I must make something 100% clear…

I Do More Than Deliver Phoenician Edge Gains ― I'll Also Guide You Every Step of the Way

Not only are Edge gains like the ones above easy for you to make ― I'll also guide you every step of the way.

I'll tell you when and what to buy. I'll tell you when and what to sell.

It's so easy ― you can start making huge Edge gains from the comfort of your own home. In just minutes a week.

You don't have to "do" anything. You don't have to "learn" anything.

All you do is decide whether to put the trades in place and wait for the email from me telling you to cash out the gains.

Pretty easy, right?  It is…even if you've never tried options, in fact…

In a moment, I'll share my reader emails ― from people just like you who use my recommendations to grab effortless cash over and over.

I want you to join them today. For just pennies per day…

When you do, you'll receive my next weekly alert this Monday ― giving you the details on my latest play, and telling you exactly what to do to get in position for the biggest gains.

To help you reach a decision if Edge is for you, let me explain how I use options properly...

Used Properly ― With Discipline and Precision ― Stock Options Could Make You Rich… This Year

When I show gains I've made for my readers with the Phoenician Edge options strategy, I'm certainly not trying to brag.

I'm just telling you the truth. And here's some more truth.

In 1999, 507 million options contracts changed hands. By 2006, that number had grown to more than two billion contracts.

Last year, it was almost 3.6 billion total contracts.

However, nearly 40% of all options expire worthless.

That's a shame. Why?

Because most people would never even consider putting in the work and research it takes to play options the right way. The profitable way.

And some that have tried options have gotten burned. Because they can be risky…

So rather than work hard to "get it", these poor investors immediately dismiss options.

And leave the big money on the table.

But when you use my specific Edge recommendations, you WON'T have to work hard.

In fact, you won't have to work at all ― because I give you the specific plays to make at the right time.

After all, if the theory behind options has been working for over 2,300 years ― don't you think there's really something to it? All you need is the right guidance toward success…

And I hope you'll give me the chance to put my 25 years of options success to work for you. In fact, I'll even make you a guarantee right now.

If you try what I'm about to reveal and it doesn't work out, you don't pay a dime.

That's saying something ― especially when you consider your profits could start with my next alert this Monday night. Plus…

I'll show you exactly what I say to my readers. (I'll even show you what some of my readers have written back to me…)

I'll also show you exactly what I tell my readers when it's time to grab their gains…

When it's time to buy, I tell you. When it's time to sell, I tell you that too.

That's why my readers could be some of the happiest people I know.

Here's an example of what I mean, step-by-step.

Procter and Gamble Makes Coffee, Razors, Batteries, Detergent… And 89.47% Gains in Just Eight Days For My Readers

I'm sure you're familiar with Procter and Gamble.

They make dozens of products that are probably all over your home.

And my readers recently used one simple, 8-day Edge play on Procter and Gamble to make up to 89.47%.

Here's how it went…

On Aug. 4, 2008, I recommended one simple options play to my readers. In just one short email, I told them exactly what to do to get in place for gains.

On Aug. 12 ― I recommended the close of our simple position.

The result ― 89.47% gains. In just eight days.

Here's the best part.

Suppose you saw all the same indicators lining up just like I did ― but instead of using the option I recommended, you just bought the best stock. During the eight days, you would've made 6.9% holding Procter and Gamble stock. That's a healthy gain in just over a week.

But compare 6.9% to 89.47% ― which would you rather grab?

So you can turn small gains on great companies into huge gains ― sometimes in just days.

This is an important point… it goes a long way to proving why the right option at the right time isn't "risky"… it's money in the bank.

Here's another way to look at it. 6.9% gains by simply holding the stock turns $1,000
into $1,069. Or $2,500 into $2,672.50.

That's great…but it's nothing compared to the power of options. The 89.47% my readers could've cashed turned $1,000 into $1,894.70.Or $2,500 into $4,736.75.

Keep in mind too ― this is just one example.

I have many more to show you. But before I do, I know I ought to introduce myself.

Because after all ― what good is knowing exactly what to do and when to do it if you don't know who's behind the information you're getting…

After 25 Years In Finance, I've Seen It All ― Including Why Options Return the Biggest, Fastest, Easiest Gains

My name is Wayne Burritt. I write the widely-read options research service called Easy Money Options.

Like the name of my service says, I'm devoted to helping people just like you rake in easy money from the right options.

How I arrived at options as the best strategy for making big gains over and over is a story worth telling…

See, my first job out of college was as a controller for a small company.

Part of my job was migrating the company's books from a manual system to one of the first automated accounting systems ever invented.

Yes, that means I started out doing my analysis by hand.

No fancy "spreadsheets." No computer that did all the math.

I had to constantly stop and check my work. Check my results.

Now I didn't know it at the time, but I was actually learning how to do the kind of analysis you need to pick the best options ― the ones with the most gain potential.

And I admit, I didn't graduate from college and step into some cushy brokerage job like some finance guys. I didn't start with "connections in high places".

Nobody ever gave me a thing.

The experience of working my way up changed my life.

Here's how my early work translates into making options profits for you.

And why it's so urgent you sign up to receive my next alert on Monday night…

FACT: I Built My Career on First-Hand, In-The-Trenches Experience ― Anyone Who Can't Show You That Is a Faker

Only a few years after starting out as a controller, I was helping manage investment portfolios for Pan-American Financial Advisors.

At Pan-American, I was half of a two-man team who managed $22 million in assets.

My clients didn't pay me to be charming. They didn't care how much sleep I got at night.

It took everything I had ― every ounce of experience and knowledge, to consistently make the safe, effective returns they were looking for.

That included using top stocks of 2010, options, bonds, exotics… you name it.

It was during that time I had a realization.

You could even call it an awakening. Because after studying options for years ― and realizing long they've been making people money ― I developed a simple plan…

How I Developed the Perfect Argument In Favor of Options ― And Why It's Bulletproof

Let's say you and me met years ago. While I was a portfolio manager.

Say you had $2,500 dollars. And here's what you wanted to do:

1.Make maximum gains…

2.…In a short amount of time…

3.…While strictly limiting risk

I would've said ― "Sorry, you're out of luck. That's impossible."

Right? Wrong.

Way wrong. Here's why. Now we're getting to the beautiful part… check this out:

If XYZ stock sells for $25 a share, and you have $2,500, you can buy 100 shares.

If XYZ grows over the next few months to $30 a share, your $2,500 becomes $3,000.

That's a 20% gain.

But, let's say back at the beginning you thought XYZ was a strong company. That's why you bought it in the first place.

This time, however, instead of buying 100 shares ― you bought call options.

Heck ― let's say you didn't even use the whole $2,500 to buy options.

Let's say you only used $2,000.

And let's say you bought 20 contracts at $100 apiece ― for a total of $2,000.

Now, six months later, the contracts are worth $250 apiece. That's a gain of 150% ― enough to turn your original $2,000 into $5,000.

So ― hold the best stock for 2010 and you turn $2,500 into $3,000. Or…

The Beauty of Options ― Turning Less Money into More Money…

You know how everyone says, "We have to figure out how to do more, with less " ― well options are a way you can do exactly that.

Simply. Safely. In minutes. From the comfort of your own home.

I've said this same point several times now ― but it's really worth hammering home. Options, used the right way, like I use them…

…could make you incredibly rich. This year.

I'll show you some of my track record. And I already told you my complete story.

But I'm going to do you one better.

I'm going to show you, step by step, how I pick the options contracts I recommend to my readers.

After all, experience is one thing. Money in the bank is another. So I'm going to walk you through my entire process.

I'll show you each and every step of my Phoenician Edge strategy for giving readers the best options picks.

I'll even show you exactly what I tell my readers in simple emails… which you can start receiving as early as this Monday.

Easy Money Options Readers Speak Out ― "Bread-And-Butter-Easy" Gains, Over and Over

What you're about to read are actual emails from my readers.

Out of respect for their privacy, I've changed their names in this note.

But the gains they're raking in speak for themselves…

Yes, KNOWING when to sell a winning trade really is the heart of the matter! When I read your recommendation to sell, my contracts were good for a $4,600 profit!

― John, Kansas City

In at $1.75 and out at $3.60 in one week. When you said sell, I did.

―Natalie, Shreveport LA

My profit in a week from these two transactions was $2,154.02.

― E. Pronger, Charleston SC

I made 80% profit in five days. Thank you for your recommendation.

― M.X., San Diego

Thank you so much! I've made $2,720! I like your swift and solid action. I'm looking forward to your next recommendation.

― J. Sherman, Nashua NH

Easy Phoenician Edge options gains can be yours. Starting today. Starting right now.

In fact, I'll even give you direct access to a report I put together ― called Blue Chip Options Made Easy … for FREE.

It outlines every single step of my thinking. It tells you more about how options work. It tells you how to make sure you always pay the cheapest possible price.

I'll even go over the guts of my process for you in just a moment…

First, here's a bit of "between you and me" info about what really makes options so incredibly profitable…

The Old Carpenter's Saying is 100% True: With a Long Enough Pole, You Can Lift the World…

You can do more work with less force if you're using the right amount of leverage.

The longer the wrench or the pole, the more leverage you create.

This is simply another way of saying what I've already shown about how options work.

Why buy $2,500 worth of best stock to buy and book a 20% gain…

When you can, if you choose, only spend $2,000 and turn it into a 150% gain ― turning your $2,000 into $5,000.

That's the power of leverage. Simple as it gets.

Leverage lets you do less ― and see even bigger gains.

That's the power of options. And that's only half the story.

Not only does the leverage options let you do more with less � but, in a way most people never even stop to consider, it actually gives you protection too.

Here's how. With top stocks to buy ― you pay more and so you can lose more.

With options ― you pay less and so you can lose less.

Worst case: the option contract you purchase can expire worthless… and that's it.

Your risk is known. It never changes. Now here's the sweetest part…

Options gains are nearly unlimited. They can run to the THOUSANDS of percent… sometimes in just days.

Leverage ― doing more with less ― known risk ― unlimited potential…

The stats in favor of options are lining up…

I hope by now you're beginning to see how I rake in fast, Phoenician Edge options gains like 150%, 168%, and 89.47% for my readers.

It's not tough. It doesn't even really require you to do anything other than make a few simple mouse clicks or one short phone call if you want to put the trades in place.

Starting with my next alert this Monday, you could begin raking in historic, life-changing Phoenician Edge options gains like…

A HUGE One-Day Gain: Options Make Select Folks Like You Fortunes… Every Single Day

The sorts of easy, fast, options gains I've shown you can sometimes pop up in a hurry.

I mean really quickly. Sometimes in just one day. Here's what I mean…

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 wasn't anything special in the markets. Just another middling day.

But those who knew the huge power of options could've made a killing.

First, there was the CME Group Inc. call option that increased in value a staggering 1,460%.

That's a one-day gain.

1,460% is enough to turn $1,000 into $15,600.

Or $2,500 into a jaw-dropping $39,000.

How's that for a bang-bang gain. In and out. Get in ― get paid ― get out.

From 9:30 A.M. to 2:05 P.M. ― the chance to turn just $2,500 into $39,000.

Wed. March 18 was just another day … unless you were trading options…

In fact, there were over a DOZEN different call options that day which increased in value 200% or more.

Some of them were on safe, established, respected companies like Best Buy, McDonald's and Amazon.

Big, established companies. Companies you know. Companies with a strong history.

Gains like 486%, 325%, 283%, 260%, 245%, 212%… all in one average trading day.

Now, it's time you start grabbing gains like these for yourself.

And I promised I'd show you exactly how I make the recommendations I do.

So in the interest of honesty ― and full disclosure ― I'm about to reveal how I make my picks. I'm not going to hold back here.

Because I know I need to show you the guts, the real strategy behind how I make my picks ― using the Edge strategy that's been making gains for over 2,300 years.

Plus, if you're going to join Easy Money Options and receive my next alert ― set to hit your email box this Monday, I know I need to show you everything.

By that I mean not just the happy stuff. I need to show you the science too.

Here's how I find your gains… explained in three basic steps.

My Phoenician Edge Strategy for Picking Options… STEP 1: Find the Theme

First, I research possible market themes for the next 3-6 months…

Investment fads come and go, so I need to zero in on one that has staying power.

Truth be told, finding themes is pretty easy. If you read the news, stay current on economic indicators like housing, inflation, employment… you can pretty much do this kind of work for yourself.

But again, you don't have to. Because it's my job to do it for you.

For example, maybe "defensive top stocks to buy" are good play at the moment. That's a company ― like Procter and Gamble ―  that makes things people buy no matter what.

Of course, there are dozens of defensive stocks. But instead of examining all of them, I focus on the 10 biggest companies inside my theme.

Once I have the theme, I squeeze these 10 companies hard to find the most potential for huge gains. Here's how…

STEP 2: Weed Out the Losers and Focus on Bang-For-Your-Buck Gain Potential…

I take the list of 10 top stocks to buy and crunch the fundamental indicators. For instance, if one of the companies I'm looking at has weak earnings or profits, I toss it out.

But then I go a bit further, because at this point I'm looking for a play to jump out at me.

Sometimes it might be earnings growth… or great sales growth… even a new product.

As you can imagine, very few top stocks to buy remain at this point. And I'm still not done.

Because now I test the best-of-the-best with technical analysis …

You might know some of these terms: Exponential moving averages, MACD, the weekly and monthly chart trends.

I look at all of them and more. More importantly, I explain them to you. So even if you've never looked at a stock chart in your life, you can easily follow along.

For example, here's part of an alert I wrote to my readers about the VIX index ― an index of market activity that tracks volatility.

The alert above described how the VIX can signal the right time to buy options. Other alerts explain how other technical indicators can pay off, too.

All in all, it's a rigorous process: Establish a theme… Select 10 companies that fit the theme…Weed them out with fundamental and technical analysis…

By now, only one or two top stocks to buy have made all the cuts.

… Now I have to pick the option contract for the best stock market that stands to make you the biggest Phoenician Edge gains ― in the shortest amount of time.

Here's how I do exactly that…

STEP 3: SUCCESS! The Right Option The Right Stock = Huge Bread and Butter Gains For You

Only two things matter with options ― strike price and expiration date. Both impact the gains you stand to make.

The good news is that you don't have to worry about strike prices and expiration dates ― because I do all that work for you. And my goal is to get you in as cheap as possible.

For instance, I look for options with six months or more until the expiration. This keeps the options I choose cheaper.

Plus ― it gives the play time to work its magic, even if it hits bumps at the beginning.

Choosing a solid strike price is important, too. The cheapest options usually have the worst strike prices. And options with the best strike prices are often too expensive. To deliver the best gains, I target comfortable, realistic strikes.  

Again, don't worry if this seems like a bunch of static to you.

Because you don't really need to know any of it.

All you have to do is receive the emails from me and make one simple phone call, or a few clicks of your mouse, if you want to put the trade in place.

Then, you wait. It's that easy…

That's the heart and soul of the Edge strategy I use to make huge gains ― gains like 150% in 14 days and 168% in seven days…

… Plus gains like the 89% in just four days I made for my readers with Procter and Gamble.

And when it's time to sell, I'll tell you everything.

It's so easy ― you can cash out gains in just minutes. I can prove it.

Because I also promised I'd show you EXACTLY what I tell my readers…

I tell them when to buy. And I tell them when to sell. Point is ― You're never alone. I've got you covered. Always. Here's how…

Join Easy Money Options Today, And Start Receiving Profitable Alerts ― Like This One

I've edited this actual alert a bit ― but you'll get the idea…

Step 3 of my strategy ― recommending the option with the lowest price and most potential is always right at the end of my alert. You'll know exactly what to do ― and why to do it ― to put yourself in line for the biggest gains.

You could've made that play as quickly as two clicks of your mouse ― or one 5-minute phone call to your broker…

The Procter and Gamble play I recommended, as I've shown, ended up an 89.47% winner in just eight days. How's that for fast and easy? But there's more…

Here's EXACTLY What I Told My Readers When It Was Time To SNAG OUR GAINS…

Here's exactly what I recommended to my readers when it was time to close the play and take gains off the table. Look at how easy it was to snag these 89.47% gains…

It's that simple. Five minutes on the phone with your broker. Or a few simple mouse clicks.

In-out-and paid. It's fast, it's easy ― and it requires no work or knowledge on your part.

Now, all you have to do to start receiving Phoenician Edge options picks like this is to let me hear from you today.

Your huge 2009 profits could start as early as with my next alert… all ready to arrive in your email inbox this Monday.

Here's everything you get when you join me at Easy Money Options.

How to Get My Next Phoenician Edge Alert ― Ready to Hit Your Email Inbox This Monday

Here's the complete list of everything you get the moment you start receiving options picks from me:

Monthly Easy Money Options Issues: This is where I make my specific buy recommendations. I tell you what the best play of the moment is. This is the keystone of your service and where your options gains start. I also tell you why I think each play is the best play and EXACTLY what you should do to get in position for the biggest gains. ($99 value ― all by themselves.)

Urgent Trading Alerts: If one of our recommended positions is bolting higher and it's time to take our gains off the table ― I'll send you an urgent trading alert email. In short, you'll never have to wonder how our positions are doing. ($99 value ― FREE.)

Weekly Trading Wrap-Ups: I'll show you the "big picture" story for all our open plays, tell you what I expect for the coming week, and maybe even throw in a new recommendation if I think the situation is prime for big gains. ($99 ― FREE.)

Members-Only Website Access: This is the heart and soul of Easy Money Options. As soon as you sign up, you'll get a unique members-only ID and Password for the Easy Money Options site. There, you can read all the issues, alerts, trading bulletins ― look at the complete portfolio, read the special reports. Everything. This is your exclusive home base. Everything you need is right here.  ($249 value ― FREE.)

But you get more… tons more…

Easy Money Options gives you more than just great options gains… You also get a chance to "go to school" on options.

But, here's the great part ― you'd don't have to if you don't want to.

If all you want to do is read my trading alerts and make a decision to act ― you can.

Simply pick up the phone or visit your Internet broker and you can trade my picks in five minutes or less.

However, if you want to get inside info on how I pick options better than anyone…well, Easy Money Options does that for you too. Here's how…

FREE SPECIAL REPORT: Blue-Chip Options Made Easy ― I'll tell you more about how I select my recommendations. I give you the inside scoop on how the option markets work ― plus how I can help you make maximum gains with each and every play. (This report, by itself, could sell for $149. You get it Free.)

FREE FIRST-READ Status for ALL Future Reports: Rather than weigh down one of my alerts or issues to you with new report information ― I'll simply send you an email telling you a new report is ready for you to read. All new reports I write will always be absolutely FREE for you. ($149 value ― again, yours Free.)

FREE Subscriptions to News the Experts Use: You'll also receive free subscriptions to Penny Sleuth, The Rude Awakening and The 5 Min. Forecast each business day ― giving you the latest news from Wall Street to Washington.

***PLUS ― As soon as you sign up, you'll have your name added to my urgent alert list ― set to hit your email inbox this Monday.

By this time next week, you could be sitting on profits. Life-changing profits…

Yes, big, fast, easy options gains can be yours. Starting today. Starting right now.

The question is ― how much is all this shocking gain potential worth… to you?

Get Easy Money Options Picks From Me ― Satisfaction Guaranteed, Or You Pay Nothing

I've shown you examples of how regular top stocks to buy turn $1,000 into $1,069.

While options on the same top stocks to buy could turn $1,000 into $1,894.70 ― just like my Procter and Gamble play could have done for readers.

Just like the recent CME Call that returned 1,460% for anyone who was lucky enough to spot it ― in less than one day. That's $1,000 into $15,600 ― in only a few hours.

Money in the bank.

$1,000 to get started ― and you could easily double it again and again and again with the right options plays.

If you ask me, $1,000 to join Easy Money Options ― and start receiving all the gain potential above ― well, it'd be a steal. In fact, just the value of all the different parts to Easy Money Options adds up to $844.

You could easily spin an $844 membership price into tens of thousands in profits.

And there are options "gurus" out there ― guys who don't have half the knowledge or experience that I do ― who charge more than $844 ― in fact $1,000 (or more) for access to their picks.

I'm not one of those guys, however, as I hope I've proven to you today.

It doesn't cost $1,000 for you to join me at Easy Money Options.

It doesn't cost $844. Or even $750. Or $500. Nowhere near that, actually…

My publisher demands $159 for a year of Easy Money Options.

But you don't pay $159. Not today. Not considering how profitable the next few months could be with my bread and butter picks delivered right to your email…

Respond right now ― to GUARANTEE you get my next profitable alert on Monday and you pay just $129 for a full year of picks, guidance, analysis, and support.

EVERYTHING I offer. The total package. The very best of Easy Money Options.

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If soaring gold feels good... when this "other" metals investment makes its next big move, it's going to feel even better. With much greater potential for high returns.

Look, I don't know about you.

But I'm already feeling vindicated now that gold has taken off.

After all, the group of potential investors I work with closely has already had the chance to make gains as high as 332% on Glamis Gold... 263% gains on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 83% gains on Placer Dome... 156% on Newmont... 540% gains on American Century Global Gold... and 668% gains on Metallica Resources...

In fact, that's just a sample of how well we've done.

We expect to make a heck of a lot more, too. I'm telling other potential investors right now to hang on for gold bullion trading 198% higher than today's already high levels, within the next 12—24 months.

But there's another, "alternative" investment to gold I want to talk to you about first. One I'm certain should soar even FASTER and FARTHER than gold, on a percentage basis, over the next year.

In a Good Year for Gold, This "Other" Metal Will Do Even Better

In case you haven't guessed, I'm talking — of course — about the "other" precious metal, silver. In a good year for gold, especially with the cycle we've just locked into right now, silver can give you even greater gains... driven by the same precise megatrends.

I'm going to show you my current favorite silver play in just a second. I also want to send you a FREE report that explains huge alternative investing strategies for both the gold and silver markets over the next year or two ahead.

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Inside, you'll discover an exceptional way to play the huge boom ahead in silver, plus four more completely new ways to protect and grow your wealth with gold... and for both, a full explanation of the powerful "megatrends" driving this once-in-a-lifetime, wealth-fortifying opportunity.

How high could this really go?

The key to this is that when gold jumps, silver almost always follows. Because both respond to many of the same trends. There's even what's called the gold-to-silver ratio built into the price.

Over the long term, gold has sold for about 30 times the price of silver. But right now the ratio is way out of whack... gold sells for about 53 times the price of silver.

Just on that basis alone, to rise to the historical mean silver would have to climb 75%!

But if gold soars to the levels I'm predicting... and silver returns to its average historical relationship with the gold price... now we're talking a breathtaking gain of at least 303%.

That's three times every dollar invested.

Could it happen?Absolutely.

Because many other forces drive the price of silver, specifically, even beyond those driving megatrends the white metal shares with gold.

Just take a look...

The supply-and-demand dynamic for silver looks even better right now than for any other metal, including gold and platinum, because more and more industries want silver, but fewer mines are producing it

Maybe you've heard, however, that the huge rise in digital photography spells doom for silver demand. Not so. In fact, only 8% of world silver demand ever came from the photography market

What many amateur investors don't realize is that silver is one of the best electrical conductors in the world. But it doesn't corrode like other metals. Virtually all modern electrical switches, from batteries to computer circuit boards, use silver-based solder

That means you need silver to make digital cameras. And iPods. And laptop computers. Not to mention dishwashers, microwaves, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and more

The electronics industry alone uses up 44% of all the silver produced each year

You need silver to make solder for most metal pipes, because it's also temperature resistant. And smooth. Which has also hiked up silver demand because it's an excellent lubricant for jet engines

Silver has anti-bacterial properties too. The water you drink or use to fill your pool was filtered using silver. Silver is used to help process almost all pre-packaged food, too

The $300 billion plastics industry couldn't exist without silver. It's the perfect chemical catalyst. You use it to make everything from adhesives and heat-resistant surfaces to toys, car parts and more

Even the U.S. Mint churned through 15.5 million ounces of silver in the most recent year on record, to make coins and medals. We haven't even touched on jewelry demand, which sucks up another 30% of the total annual silver production.

We're not alone on this. Not at all.

George Soros and Bill Gates also own huge positions in silver.

Meanwhile, my group of private, potential investors has already had the chance to lock in gains like these on silver's surging performance:

270% on silver calls

177% on one of the oldest silver producers around

111% (and counting) on an up-and-coming silver miner.

But as you'll see in this letter... and in the FREE copy of Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead! I want to send you... you can easily make a lot more.

How so, and why now?

For one thing, there are only 22 pure silver mines around the world. For 15 years straight, they've fallen short of meeting total silver demand. In the last two years alone, they were off by nearly 76 million ounces.

So why have silver prices stayed so low, relative to gold's amazing rebound?

Well, silver, like gold, is a metal governments like to keep in reserve. That matters because over the last few years, governments have dumped millions of ounces of silver on the market to raise cash... which has, until recently, kept down silver prices.

Today, most of the U.S. silver stockpile is gone. And other governments are running low, too. And here's something else: Unlike gold, when silver goes into industry, it gets used up. Burned away. And that's happening now at a rapid pace.

The world once had about 2.2 billion ounces of silver aboveground.

Now it has only about 300 million ounces. In other words, total world silver supply has plummeted by over 86% just in the last few years... while silver demand has gone UP!

When the Gold-to-Silver Ratio Slides Into Balance, You Get Rich

You can look at it this way, too.

The world has about five times more gold than silver.

What if silver cost one-fifth the price of gold?

It would skyrocket over 950%!

I'm not saying it will soar that high. I'm not ruling it out, either. At the very least, I'm convinced you'll see the white metal price rocket above the 300% level very soon. Even the pressure from rising gold prices alone demands it.

Here's the tricky part.

You'll have a much harder time finding ways to get into the silver boom than you would with gold or some other investments. Because it's just not practical to buy only the physical metal. Even $10,000 will get you considerably less than 1 pound of gold... it would get you nearly 34 pounds of silver right now.

That's just too much to store or insure safely.

So what should you do? Sure, you can invest in the silver exchange-traded fund (ETF). It's like a proxy for owning silver, only you buy in with shares. Just like owning a piece of the best stock market through an index fund. It has the same sort of 303% upside potential of the bullion.

Or... you could go for even bigger gains. You could do what one of my most experienced analysts — a Harvard-trained geologist and expert stock-picker — is recommending: Buy shares of a silver producer with an advantage none of its competitors can touch.

That's why, even before we get into the rest of this letter, I URGE you to read our report, Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead! Again, it's FREE. I'll show you how to send for it at the end of this letter.

I'll give you a little preview...

The silver company you'll find in the report is a powder keg play... with a solid track record going back to 1891. This firm recently took 100% control of Alaska's largest silver mine... doubling its annual silver output and growing its silver reserves by 150%.

That might sound impressive enough. But here's the real opportunity: The mine is so rich in other minerals — gold, lead and zinc — that production of those metals alone covers the mine's operating costs. Whatever silver comes out of the ground is gravy.

That means the company is pulling silver out of the ground at effectively no cost, right?

Actually, if you run the numbers, it's better than that. For every ounce of silver that comes out of this mine, the company actually puts $7.42 of cold hard cash on its balance sheet.

Multiply that by 9 million ounces per year and you start to see the enormous potential.

It's like a triple play on silver. You could profit from the rising price of the metal... plus the appreciation in the share price... plus the chance for growing dividend income.

Do this now and I see you tripling or quadrupling your money overnight. Read all the details in your FREE report.

And be aware, it's obviously not just silver that's going to make a few smart investors very rich over the next couple of years. Because, as I said, many of the core forces pushing up silver right now... are also the driving influence behind much-more-valuable gold!

Here's another way those facts can also help you make a fortune...

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Nationally Ranked as the No. 1 Investment Letter in America Over a Five-Year Period

In 2002, our readers locked in 84% gains on Corner Bay... 96% gains on EOG Resources... 75% gains on American Water Works... 136% gains on R.J. Reynolds... and 137% gains on KeyWest Energy.... plus another 151% gain on Wheaton River Minerals... 162% gains on Intrepid Minerals... a solid 332% gain on Glamis/Francisco Gold... and 668% gains on Metallica Resources

In 2003, our readers socked away another 88% gains on Northgate Exploration... plus 105% gains on Gentry Resources... 151% gains on Tocqueville Gold... 235% gains on Niko Resources... and 263% gains on Coeur d'Alene Mines... just to name a few

In 2004, Outstanding Investments readers closed out PetroChina with a solid 174% gain... plus another 55% on Atacama Minerals... 116% gains on Cameco... 24% gains on the Canadian Oil Sands Trust... 32% gains on Southwest Water... and 270% gains on the July 2005 silver calls... plus a slew of small and fast winners

In 2005, we took in another 43%, 44% and 45% gains on Harmony Gold, Schlumberger and PetroKazakhstan Inc. and posted 50% gains on CONSOL Energy just a few weeks later. We hit with a fat 55% gain on both Suez SA and Petro-Canada... and 73% gains on Wheaton River Minerals and Anadarko Petroleum Corp., plus 85% on Precision Drilling... 86% on Kerr-McGee... 88% on the INVESCO Energy Fund... 101% gains on the ICON Energ y Fund...107% gains on Norsk Hydro... 108% gains on Anglo American PLC... 160% gains on Western Oil Sands.... and an impressive 179% gain on Talisman Energy

In 2006 and 2007, we booked 83% gains on Placer Dome... another 177% on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 147% gains on BG Group... 78% on OMI Corp.... and 87% on Walter Industries. We didn't close very many positions in the last two years because they're still holding up so well despite the recent downturn. Take a look...

As of March 31, 2008, we're up 277% on EnCana Corp... with 123% returns on Cemex... 136% gains on Tesoro Petroleum... 144% on Jacobs Engineering... 150% so far on Newmont Mining... 399% and climbing on Valero ... 539% gains so far on American Century Global Gold... and 679% so far on Suncor Energy!

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Epic Boom Opportunity #1:HOW TO SNAP UP RAW GOLD...AT JUST 1 PENNY PER OUNCE!

What if just before the biggest gold price surge in recent history, you could get your hands on a large stash of the yellow metal... for less than one penny per ounce?

There's no alchemy involved. No secret technology. And no smoke and mirrors. But a small upstart new mining company is doing exactly that.

Its technique is simple.

But it's just about the only company across the entire mining industry that's able to do this right now.

In 2005, it mined about 100,000 ounces this way. For 2006, it quadrupled that haul, using this same technique. Now it's on track to be a million-ounce producer... with at least 12 million ounces of gold still in the ground.

The math is simple...

Four Times Your Money Even if Gold Prices Don't Budge Another Inch

Think about it.

Anybody who can get gold out of the ground for a penny...

And sell it for even $500 per ounce or $400 per ounce stands to make a handsome return. And so do their shareholders.

What I'll show you here is gold hitting as high as $1,000... or even $2,000 per ounce... over the next 12—24 months.

Owning shares of this company could mean at least a 400% gain in that time period, even if only half of what we're calling for comes through.

So here's how this works.

For most miners, getting gold out of the ground is done in pretty much the same way across the industry. But not for this wily little company I've been telling you about.

What it's done is invent a way to mine the gold — and rich veins of raw copper — at the same time.

The copper mining is so lucrative the profits more than cover the cost of pulling the gold out of the same hole. And that means close to 100% upside potential on the gold, no matter the current spot price on the market.

Any way you slice it, it's booking massive profits.

At Least 2 Years of Locked-in Value,No Matter How High Gold Actually Soars

Right now, this "little" undiscovered, new mining company already has five mines up and running. Plus, one more under construction. And three more projects after that heading into development.

It also has enormous land holdings with lots of undisclosed mineral potential. Plus, it just swallowed whole another holding with as much as 2 million more ounces of gold in the ground.

Add that to measured and recorded reserves of 12 million ounces... plus another 14 million ounces that are either "inferred" or "proven and probable."

Sounds rich?

Don't forget, I haven't even said anything yet about the nearly 2 billion pounds of copper tucked under this company's territory. And copper is the key to this whole secret.

Because it's the steady flow of cash from the copper — remember, this company has innovated a way to get both the copper and gold out of the ground at the same time — that's making the gold production, in relative terms, possible for less than one penny per ounce.

Here's the best part...

This little company's savvy management had the foresight to hedge the entire copper reserve by making deals that locked in its copper sales at record levels for essentially the next two years.

So even if the global economy keels over and copper prices, in general, fall, this company will keep on raking it in on its copper discoveries... which means it keeps on getting the gold out of the ground for next to nothing at the same time.

Did I mention?

This company has no debt. It's also sitting on a massive pile of cash. And that pile just keeps getting bigger. This is partly why the best stock not only has huge upward potential, but it also pays a dividend.

This is a powder keg waiting to pop. With gold prices creeping higher... and then accelerating... this isn't going to stay off mainstream radars for long. You'll need to make a move on this soon.

I want you to have everything you need to make the call, as educated about the pros and cons of this as possible.

So I've commissioned the best experts on my team of analysts to write it up in a FREE special report I want to send you. It's called Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!

I'd like to get this into your hands as soon as possible. At no charge. Inside, you'll find out everything you'd want to know about "penny-per-ounce" gold. You'll also discover even more brilliant and innovative new ways to get in on the sudden new surge in the yellow metal, inside this same free report.

But maybe you're already asking yourself...

Why Gold, and Why Now?

Before I rush you that FREE report, let me ask you this...

Do you remember the last time gold sold for over $2,000 per ounce?

Of course you do. Maybe you didn't think of it that way. But actually, gold has already sold for more than $2,000 per ounce. Let me show you.

First, you have to think for a moment as if it's 1971. Gold is selling for $35. This is the year Nixon breaks it from ties to the dollar. Gold prices start climbing. By 1975, it's hit $196. And by 1980, we're talking $850. Sure, you say, that I remember.

But maybe you also remember back then you could you could also make $27,700 per year and it was a pretty decent living. About as good as making $100,000 per year today.

You could also buy a house for $50,000 then and, just on an inflation basis, it would be worth $250,000 today. (In real estate terms, it might sell now for $500,000 or more.) And back then, you could retire on $270,000 in savings... and it would be as good today as being a millionaire.

So you can see, trying to compare yesterday's gold price to today's — on an even basis — is like trying to compare apples and armadillos!

In today's dollars, 1975 gold at $196 is more like $750 in the current market. And 1980 gold, the peak year at the historical price of $850, would now clock in closer to $2,176. And remember, this is what you get using only the most conservative market calculation of gold's worth. There are other, even more telling ways to value gold.

Try this on for size...

$38,349 per Ounce!

Remember, for a good part of America's history, every dollar in your pocket was a dollar backed by gold. So it's not so crazy to ask yourself... if America has 8,180 tons — nearly 261.7 million ounces — of gold in reserve... how many dollars does that buy?

The answer will shock you.

When dollars became unhinged from gold, the printing presses at the Fed cranked up. By 1980, for every ounce of gold in America, the financial system carried $6,966 in cash. That's $1.8 trillion total. But get this — by the end of 2005, the total real money supply shot to over $10 trillion.

That's $38,349 in circulation for every ounce of gold in reserve!

Of course, it's even higher now. The printing presses are still cranking, well into 2008. Only now, it's much harder for you to know how fat the actual money supply has gotten. See, by March 23, 2006... the number had gotten so embarrassing... the Fed actually "retired" a number, "M3," which was the most broad-reaching measure of how much cash floats around in the system.

Yep. Instead of fixing the problem, the politicians just stopped talking about it. Is that any surprise? Fortunately, you don't need Washington's help to get the real picture of what's happening today in the economy... or to find out what's next for the price of gold.

Because you can just read on and see for yourself...

Precious Metals Megatrend: 3 Charts and the Truth

A hundred different snapshots could show you the mess we're in. Soaring personal and government debt. A plunging savings rate. Record-high mortgages as a percentage of GDP. Plunging yields on 10-year Treasuries. Soaring but "hidden" unfunded government liabilities, to the tune of $53 trillion...

But none show it better — and more plainly — than these two charts I'm showing you right here, above. The first is our skyrocketing money supply. The second is our plummeting purchasing power. That's about as plain as you need to get.

How so?

Because this is the starkest vision you'll ever get of the absolute carnage that's piling up in a "secret war" Washington's fighting right now... and has fought, unsuccessfully, for the last 20-plus years. No, not the war in Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or even some possible future conflict with Iran.

This is another kind of war... right here at home.

The enemy is a dark nemesis — a dead and stagnant economy. And the Fed secretly fights to hold it off desperately every single day. This is a worse enemy than recession. It's the enemy called deflation, an economy in which nothing moves and nobody buys a thing.

The weapon of choice in this ongoing secret war is flooding the market with cash and easy credit. Because regular cash and credit injections make everyone feel rich. The theory goes, when you've got cash and low-priced credit, companies borrow and expand. Consumers borrow and spend. Families borrow and buy homes.

This is why, since 1950, the total amount of money in circulation has soared well over 3,000%! And it's all good... or seems good... until it goes all wrong.

See, the trouble is even money can't escape the natural law of supply and demand. When there's too much of it floating around, each dollar is worth that much less relative to the whole. Suddenly, you've got price inflation.

Suddenly, every dollar you have in the bank is worth less.

Hemingway called it the "first panacea of a mismanaged nation."

And in our case, it's helped plummet the purchasing power of our dollars by a mind-blowing 96%. The dollar's worth today is just pennies compared with what it bought a century ago. In fact, its worth is just a fraction now — as we just demonstrated — compared with the last time gold prices boomed, in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Only now, unlike then, the "wiggle room" we have left now between us and a complete dollar implosion is so thin it's practically transparent. Could total implosion actually happen? Absolutely.

Take what relatively new Fed Chairman professor Ben Bernanke famously said in a speech at the National Economists Club in Washington, in November 2002:

Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent) that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost... We conclude that under a paper money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and, hence, positive inflation.

In other words, if you want to juice an economy... turn on the printing presses and make it as easy as all get-out to borrow money at a low, low rate of interest. Bernanke and others in the Fed think that's no problem. They think they can handle it, just so long as short-term interest rates don't go to zero.

But a brilliant and famous colleague of mine — someone I'll introduce you to in just a second — completely disagrees. Flooding the market with easy money, he recently told me in private, is more like burning your furniture to keep warm. It cannot last as a stopgap measure. It's courting disaster.

He and I both like to think an even smarter economist, Ludwig von Mises, got it right instead, when he said:

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

See, thanks to all that Fed-driven loose credit, consumer debt has soared. It's never been higher. In 1987, when Alan Greenspan first took his job in Washington, consumers were in the hole by about $10 trillion. Where are they now? An unbelievable $37.3 trillion in the red — or nearly 350% of GDP!

Think about that.

As a whole, Americans owe 3½ times more than the entire U.S. economy — the largest in history — produces in a year. If you or I owed that much on a personal level, we'd be suicidal.

Meanwhile, the government doesn't seem to worry. It spends money even faster. It borrows even deeper. Even this administration now, with full knowledge of the implications of a credit disaster, has already borrowed more money since 2000 than every White House since the time of Washington!

By 2017 — says the Heritage Foundation — our federal deficits should be soaring by at least $1 trillion per year. After that, it will jump to $2 trillion. That's not how much we'll owe. It's how much we'll add to what we owe... every 12 months, for as far as the eye can see.

Doesn't that sound to you like we're at a turning point?

Then, they had Paul Volcker, who crushed inflation. Today, we've got Ben Bernanke, who embraces it. Then, they had a national debt of just $845 billion. Today, it's between $8.2 trillion and $53 trillion, depending on whom you believe.

Then, we had a hostage crisis in Iran. It ended. Today, we've got Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Nigeria, Afghanistan... and an unending "war on terror." Plus bin Laden still hiding in caves and Chavez mouthing off in oil-rich Venezuela. Then, you paid 78 cents for gas. Last summer, it hit as high as $3.20. Oil cost $38 per barrel. Today, it's closer to $120. Then, the oil shortage was political. Today, it's physical — supply just can't meet higher demand.

Then, the weak dollar still bought more than the dollar today. And our only real economic competitor was Japan. Now we've got China, India, the euro... and a resurgence in Japan.

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If There's a Crossroads on the Way to Catastrophe... This Is It!

And though you might not know it at first glance, this one is a doozy...

This is what's called a "yield-curve inversion."

The one you're looking at above first happened on Dec. 28, 2005... And stayed that way for several months.

It inverted again on July 31, 2006... and stayed that way until May 2007. That's a 41-week yield-curve inversion — the third longest out of nine inversions since 1962.

Maybe that sounds like econo-gibberish to you.

But this is bad. How bad?

Think dynamite and a tripwire.

See, normally, a yield-curve inversion should be an extremely rare event. But here's the thing. Over the last 46 years, six out of seven recessions happened an average of 10.3 months after a yield curve inversion. Only once, in 1966, did the yield curve indicator "get it wrong." Even then, only massive government spending cuts helped prevent disaster. And there was still a massive slowdown.

This is so precise an indicator of recession, in fact, one study published by the New York Federal Reserve pegged it as a better measure of what will happen to the U.S. economy than the U.S. stock market or any other general index of other leading indicators.

Translation: When the curve flips, we'd better listen.

Right now, as I write, we're 20 months out from the beginning of the last inversion. And Bernanke is trying desperately to prevent another inversion by slashing interest rates to the bare-bones minimum.

But he's trapped between a rock and a hard place.

See, slashing the rates further means an even bigger dollar collapse than what we've already suffered. And even higher credit debt at a time when most Americans can least afford it. It also means losing the last shred of overseas confidence in the U.S. economy. And that alone could spark a whole new wave of disaster.

When all those overseas bondholders out there see the United States disintegrating its economic base, that's all she wrote! They'll start dumping the dollar and our debt investments with abandon. I'm sure you're smart enough to see where this is headed...

That kind of unraveling is the perfect recipe for $2,000 gold. Which is why I want to make sure you're in a good, strong position before this next radical power move in gold unfolds... Even if it doesn't rise half that much, here's a way you can lock in very substantial gains... while getting in on the yellow metal for much less than other investors pay...

Epic Boom Opportunity #3:THE "BLUE CHIP" GOLD MINING SHARE NOBODY'S TALKING ABOUT

When gold takes off, major "blue chip" gold producers like Newmont, Barrick and AngloGold grab lots of headlines. But there's another of the top 10 producers that's not getting nearly as much attention — yet.

Now is your chance to grab it before soaring gold prices push it higher.

This company owns one of the five largest inventories of gold deposits. Plus, it owns nine operating mines in five different countries, including the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Chile and even Russia.

But here's where it has its biggest "undiscovered" edge.

This major miner has three very promising projects in development that could easily up its output to levels 60% above where it is right now. That's a lot of new gold. And coming online over the next two years.

What's more, this company does it all with an extremely tight rein on costs, with profit margins running an impressive 18%.

And by the way, this company is also one of a few beneficiaries of a 131-year-old federal law that literally gives it the U.S. land it mines and all the deposits underneath for only $10 per acre.

That's given this company more mineral-rich land holdings than 99.5% of its competitors. At the same time, this company trades for $174 of market capitalization per ounce of gold reserves, which is one of the lowest premiums among major mining companies.

Call it "cheap gold."

Especially considering what you would have to pay for those other major gold stocks to buy I mentioned.

It's no wonder this one company recently attracted some of the top talent from every corner of the industry. It's also no wonder that more than 57% of this company's shares are in the clutches of institutional investors.

And that trend is only going to speed up, given the top-quality deals and acquisitions this company has already cooked up, which should send its total gold production soaring even faster over the next three years.

You can read all about this "undiscovered" mining major, along with all the other opportunities we've already talked about, in your free copy of Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!

Send for it today.

But before you do...

Allow Me to Come Clean: Why I'm in Love... With Gold

My name is Addison Wiggin.

I'm sure you've guessed gold is more than a "fad" investing idea for me.

I've followed these market forces behind the yellow metal for years. I've even written about it, in a New York Times best-seller that maybe you've read, Financial Reckoning Day.

I wrote about these forces again in a second New York Times best-seller, Empire of Debt. And again in a quick little book, also a best-seller, The Demise of the Dollar.

This is not, in short, new territory for me.

I've hit the radio circuit to talk about this, too, appearing on over 350 local and national interview shows. Maybe you've also seen me talking it up on television, from ABC News and Forbes on Fox to Bloomberg Television.

I've even just put the wraps on a new feature-length documentary called I.O.U.S.A. — with a team from Hollywood — to get this message out to the public. It debuted at Sundance just recently. And should be in theaters very soon.

And at least part of that documentary shares even deeper proof of all the reasons I'm giving you here about why a major move into gold will be essential for growing and safeguarding your wealth over the years ahead.

I don't say this to brag. I just want you to be clear that this isn't coming from out of the blue. In fact, I also head a multimillion-dollar international research organization that's very much focused right now on the exactly the same opportunities we've just talked about.

And really, that's why I'm writing to you today.

See, finding and assembling the world's best experts in this field is what I do. It's my life's calling. I've been at this for the last 15 years. And in that time, nothing has made me more proud than what we've managed to do with one of those ventures, a powerful, major force in the resource advisory industry, called Outstanding Investments.

Mark Hulbert, the no-nonsense industry watchdog, ranked Outstanding Investments as the No. 1 performing investment advisory letter over a five-year period in 2005. In 2006, he put us among his top-ranked performers yet again.

And it's no wonder. Especially with the winners you could have found in Outstanding Investments over these last several years...

Like the 332% we logged on Glamis/Francisco Gold... 668% gains on Metallica Resources... 249% gains on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 83% gains on Placer Dome... 156% already on Newmont... and 540% gains already on American Century Global Gold...

Plus plenty of nongold gains, too.

Like 137% on KeyWest Energy... 174% on PetroChina... 270% gains on the July 2005 silver call options... 160% gains on Western Oil Sands... and 179% gains on Talisman Energy...

One of the biggest reasons for our success is the string of brilliant analysts we've been able to entice on board to lead Outstanding Investments readers to that top-performance position.

Maybe you've already heard of our current top analyst, Byron King.

When it comes to gold and other metals, oil, gas, energy — even the politics and trends that move resource markets — there's a good chance nobody is as qualified as Byron.

See, unlike most market analysts, Byron actually has in-the-field experience.

He's even what you might call a "rockhound."

Byron's a geologist with a degree from Harvard.

After graduating with honors in the 1970s, he broke into the oil industry. Byron worked as a geologist in the exploration and production division of a major oil company — one of the Fortune Top 20.

When he got tired of that, he did what no other analyst would do — and joined the U.S. Navy, logging over 1,000 hours flying Navy bombers as a tailhook aviator... including more than 127 death-defying carrier landings.

(Ask your broker if he has that on his resume!)

Not one to sit still, after leaving the Navy, Byron worked as a practicing attorney in Pennsylvania for 17 years, during which time he became one of the most sought-after resource experts in the country.

He's been invited to give speeches across the U.S. and Canada, he's written countless articles for major publications and he's been interviewed by even more, from small-town journals to national newspapers like The Globe and Mail and the Los Angeles Times.

Byron once even met with M. King Hubbert himself, the genius who discovered the Peak Oil crisis that would plague world petroleum... 20 years before it actually happened. Again, that's not a claim your average energy market analyst can make.

You couldn't ask for a better pedigree.

What's Byron Saying Right Now?

Byron and I are both pretty excited about the future of most commodities. But we're very excited, right now, by the future of gold.

In your FREE copy of Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!, you can see what Byron and his Outstanding Investments team are recommending right now to readers.

Just give me permission to send you a copy.

And then I'll ask you to do something for me. With your permission, I'll ask you to let me also start sending you — at no risk to you — up to a full year of FREE issues of Outstanding Investments, too.

Inside those issues, you'll read about all kinds of ways to make money — not just on gold, but on surging new alternative energy investments, oil and gas, corn, sugar, soybeans and the China-driven resource boom... plus plenty more.

All FREE for up to a full year. You can find all the details at the end of this letter. The thing is, however, Byron and his readers are already moving on these opportunities I'm telling you about. So time is of the essence.

Let me at least rush you a FREE copy of this groundbreaking report, Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!... so you can look over these simple recommendations and see for yourself.

All five picks are geared for 2008 and beyond. And you'll find all the information you need on each of them packed into the report. Which is, as I've said, yours free just as soon as you tell me you're ready. Just follow the steps at the end of this letter.

But don't wait too long.

If only because the pressure behind gold prices just keeps increasing by the hour. For instance, take a look at this...

Precious Metals Megatrend:China's Secret Endgame

Fan Gang, director of China's National Economic Research Institute, stood in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

In halting English, he said:

The U.S. dollar is no longer, in our opinion... a stable currency. It is devaluating all the time, and that's [making] troubles all the time. So the real issue is how to change the regime from a U.S. dollar pegging to a more manageable reference, say, euros, yen... those kinds of more diversified systems...

And it's not just China. Malaysia is also shifting from the dollar. So is Indonesia. And Thailand. And possibly Japan. But who could blame them?

China and Japan alone own about $906 billion of the $1.1 trillion of U.S. Treasuries held overseas.

But a weak dollar is a wasting asset. To the Chinese, it's starting to look like a giant pile of liabilities. Yu Yongding, who sits on the Chinese central bank's monetary policy committee, told the China Securities Journal he was worried America would drop interest rates in 2006, putting pressure on the dollar and the yuan.

"More seriously," he said, "China's economy would take a big hit if the U.S. dollar weakened sharply due to such factors as a bursting of the U.S. property bubble. The loss for China's foreign exchange reserves would be extremely serious."

They won't hang on for long.

Publicly, the talk is of China moving more of its currency reserves away from the dollar and to the euro. And that might happen. But the euro is only paper too, backed by its own debt problems at home.

The real story is China quietly converting those dollars into... you guessed it... GOLD.

China just recently cashed in about 2.4% of its dollar reserves to buy gold. It has a better track record than the dollar. In fact, gold has a better track record — historically — than any paper currency.

On Dec. 28, 2005 — the same day as the first in a series of recent U.S. yield curve inversions that we just talked about, an economist at China's biggest brokerage firm, China Galaxy Securities, quietly hinted China's central bank should quadruple its gold reserves in the very near future.

Japan's central bank has also talked about cranking up its gold reserves. So have the central banks of South Africa, Argentina and Russia. In November 2005, Russia said it would hike up its gold reserves from 5% of total financial reserves to 10%.

That's double what it's already holding now.

To get it, Russia would have to absorb its own entire gold output for the next three years. That's a long time for the rest of the world to go without Russian gold production.

Any more whispers on the news about this and the China gold reserve hike could send gold prices skyrocketing overnight. You'll want to be ready to profit on this surge as soon as you can.

Here's a way most other investors will miss...

Epic Boom Opportunity #3:THE SAFEST WAY TO OWN GOLD

What's the safest way to own gold today?

It has to be the new gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

These did not exist two decades ago, the first time legal gold investing in the United States set the markets on fire. And now they've completely revolutionized the market for gold, in more ways than one.

The way they work? You buy shares, just like you would in a mutual fund. Each share is as good as holding a title to real gold. When you put money in, the gold ETF buys physical metal and stores it to back your shares.

As if you had the gold itself in your own safety deposit box. Only the ETF saves you the trouble of ever storing, transporting or insuring the metal.

I recommended my Outstanding Investments readers get in the more liquid of the two main gold ETFs on the market. And I've got some recommendations to share with you on how to get started on this yourself, in your FREE copy of Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!

But here's something you might not know about ETFs.

By cracking open the gold market to more marginal metal investors, all the fundamentals of gold investing have changed forever.

Suddenly, pension funds, young investors and retirees who want to dabble in metals can do so. More easily than they ever could before. But all these millions of dollars in new electronic gold transactions have to be backed — by law — with real gold.

So the success of the gold ETF is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The more investors it attracts, the more gold it buys. That cranks up pressure on the rest of the gold market. And gold prices tick higher, making the ETF look even more attractive all over again.

Take the ETF we have recommended in our Outstanding Investments portfolio.

It first came out in October 2004 with a float of about $200 million worth of gold holdings in its portfolio. In the first year, the total float ballooned to $1 billion worth of bullion.

Now it's over $9.94 billion!

That's $9.94 billion worth of physical gold that has to come off the market, just to back the fund's investors. The bigger that fund gets, the higher the gold price rises. And around we go.

If you don't own a chunk of this ETF, now would be a good time to get in.

Meanwhile, we're tracking another gold fund right now — not an ETF — that you should also own. Since it was first added to our Outstanding Investments portfolio, it's already up 540%. But you can still get in now and watch it go still higher. This select fund has averaged 77% gains over the last seven years. In one recent year, it soared 81.2% in less than 12 months.

Buying it now may be the simplest and safest way for you to take up positions in all the biggest gold shares — like Newmont, Barrick and Placer Dome — without paying commissions on all those separate trades.

Plus, this particular fund also takes a stake in physical gold. So this is a way for you to safely take a position in bullion too.

Read all about it upcoming issues of Outstanding Investments. But be sure first to send for your FREE copy of the report Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!

I can drop this report into the mail for you immediately. Or you can download it for yourself right now, just by following the steps at the end of this letter. No charge.

But first, here's something else most investors don't know about...

Precious Metals Megatrend:The Hidden Cost of Terror

The Milken Institute did a study that estimated the short- and long-term costs of Sept. 11.

Outside of the loss of human life, the immediate hit was about $53 billion. In the weeks that followed, another $47 billion disappeared thanks to lost economic output in the U.S. economy. Plus another $1.7 trillion that disappeared from the U.S. stock market of 2010.

Then the costs REALLY started to add up...

Airlines and aerospace, tourism and travel, hotels and motels, restaurants, the Postal Service and the insurance industry all suffered. Just in the first month, at least 125,000 people lost their jobs. Another 1.6 million jobs evaporated over the next year. And businesses retooling for the new "terror economy" had to spend an extra $151 billion.

This is when what's called the cost of distortion comes into play — the ripple effect from a shock event like this can cause people to behave in strange ways for a long time to come.

Think about it.

Governments wasting billions they otherwise couldn't have, because every new security bill gets passed. Nations fighting battles they otherwise wouldn't have, because every conflict suddenly looks connected to the war on terror. Individuals and businesses not spending money in ways they otherwise would have, because they're afraid to take the risk.

Air travel falls. Tourism falls. Trade suffers and foreign investment dries up. In 2002, 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast shut down for two weeks. Two hundred ships, carrying over 300,000 shipment containers, just sat in the water.

Waiting.

Rail cars and warehouses all over the country waited too. Along with freezers and grain elevators and companies that had to shut down their production lines. More jobs disappeared. And the added insurance costs against security shutdowns tacked on another $30 billion to the cost of doing business in America.

You might remember pundits having plenty to say about how we recovered so quickly from the attacks. Yet new estimates put the uncovered costs, so far... at close to $2 trillion!

And remember, this is only one event we're talking about.

You and your family pay roughly $450 extra every year in taxes to cover the cost of a bloated Homeland Security agency. The same agency, by the way, whose air marshals have been caught sleeping on planes... and that holds up flights with huge security lines... and whose airport inspectors still let weapons and even dummy explosives slip through security.

You can never know how much a "war on terror" will cost.

Because fighting terrorism is like fighting a hurricane. You can see it forming on the radar screen. You know when it's headed your way. But you don't know what to expect when it lands. Or how much it will cost you over time.

Every enhanced cockpit door on a plane costs $30,000—50,000. Screening every bag carried by airline passengers will cost taxpayers an extra $4.7 billion just for this year.

Ten million dollars to teach bus drivers how to deal with terrorist passengers. Twenty-two million dollars to teach terrorism safety techniques to truck drivers...

Two and a half billion dollars for highway security. Seventy million dollars for a student Homeland Security fellowship program. Twenty million dollars to renovate Homeland Security headquarters.

As I said, it all starts to add up. Along with the undetermined future costs of Iraq... Afghanistan... and now maybe Iran... over the next decade, it could set us back as much as $5.7 trillion!

Nobody knows for sure.

But the true hidden cost is the risk premium this creates for the foreign investors who lend us money for all this extra spending. This is how instability destroys faith in the dollar.

It's also why, in unstable times, the values of hard assets like gold, oil and other real resources are even more likely to take off. Here's one more way for you to get rich on that reality...

Epic Boom Opportunity #4: THE SINGLE BEST GOLD STOCK TO OWN IF YOU'RE ONLY BUYING ONE

Which gold stock would you buy if you wanted to own only one? Well, so far, our Outstanding Investments readers have already seen 235% gains on Newmont Mining.

They've seen another 249% gain on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 332% gains on Glamis Gold... and 668% gains on Metallica Resources. Just to name a few. But these opportunities have already sailed by.

Your best bet is the gold company I'll tell you about right now. It's not small. In fact, it's one of the mega-producers I'm sure you already know by name.

What you might not know is this one gold producer will land leagues beyond competitors in 2008 and beyond...

Turn Every $1,000 Into $30,000

See, just a couple years ago, this company was on its back. Mines were dying. Gold production had collapsed.

Then this company did something.

With just a little under $600,000 invested in a whole new wave of gold exploration technology... it took the entire mining industry into the innovation age.

Applying new discoveries in applied math, advanced physics and computer graphics... to the age-old business of digging holes in the earth and calling them mines... it got its payoff.

Within months, this company discovered 110 new pockets of undiscovered gold on property its own geologists had once given up for dead.

A shocking 80% of those new deposits turned out to be jammed with gold. Enough to crank out over $3 billion in new discoveries over the years that followed.

R&D costs into over $3 billion is stunning. But that wasn't all of it.

The shares in the company also took off.

Every $1,000 invested in this company's stock soared, over that same period, to a stunning $30,000. That's impressive. But here's why this one innovative little mining company is just beginning to hit its stride...

Ten Steps Ahead of Every Other Gold Producer

There's already the usual stuff going for this company that you'd imagine for any world-class mining share. For instance, it has no company debt. Zilch. It also has $300 million in cash sitting in its bank accounts.

But it's this company's surprising move to "new tech" mining innovation that's really given it the edge. And quietly put it ahead of just about all of its mining competitors.

Take what it costs this company to get the gold out of the ground — just half what major mining companies like Newmont, AngloGold, Barrick and Harmony pay for the same product.

Meanwhile, this company is also producing gold faster than its competitors, too. More than 10 times faster than Newmont...triple the production rate of Newcrest... and better than five times the rate of AngloGold or Gold Fields.

In short, this one company crushes the nearest competitor.

Which makes it a perfect share for you to own as gold soars over the 12—24 months ahead. Political risk for this company is minimal. And all its gold is what you call "unhedged" — which basically means it'll start reaping even greater rewards as gold values go up.

And did I mention this stock also pays a dividend. Annually, 18 cents per share. And the company promises to hike up that rate even higher as the gold price goes up. It's like getting paid to own one of the best and safest gold stocks to buy in the entire industry.

Just send for your FREE copy of Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead! to find out more.

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A nearly undiscovered and unique way to snap up a position in gold for less than a single penny per ounce. And this advantage is pretty much locked in for the next two years, no matter how high gold prices fly

The "undiscovered" blue chip gold share that's on the verge of boosting its production by 60%. What's more, it has acquired prime mining property from the government for just $10 per acre

An easy way to buy a stake in virtually all of the most stable and well-known gold companies... with a savvy move that's already given my readers hefty gains of 539%

The one best gold stock to own right now and for the long term, if you're set on buying only a single gold share. It'll churn out more gold at a lower cost, faster, than just about any producer in the world — plus, this one stock pays a handsome dividend.

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I Also Want You to Try Byron's Best Picks FREE for up to a Full Year

I believe you are like me.

I believe you know, as I do, that while $1 million worth of dot-com stock certificates isn't worth much more than kindling these days...

Raw real resources like copper... cotton... platinum... silver... natural gas... steel... oil... coal... and especially gold hold real and tangible value for civilization.

And that's what Outstanding Investments is all about.

While some best stock investments can crash and fall to zero... we cannot exist or do business more than a few weeks, a few days or even, in some cases, a few hours... without the commodities that matter...

Oil to burn... land to stand on... copper pipes and wires in our walls... circuitry in our computers... electricity to power our lights, our appliances, the Internet... lumber, steel and grain... and precious metals like gold and silver to help us protect our wealth.

We've always stood for making a fortune in rich resource plays, even when it wasn't popular. But over time, the strategy has consistently paid off...

With a 151% gain on Wheaton River Minerals... 162% gains on Intrepid Minerals... a solid 332% gain on Glamis/Francisco Gold... and 668% gains on Metallica Resources, all in 2002...

Plus another plus 105% gain on Gentry Resources... 151% gains on Tocqueville Gold... 235% gains on Niko Resources... and 263% gains on Coeur d'Alene Mines, all in 2003...

116% gains on Cameco... 174% gains on PetroChina... and 270% gains on the July silver calls, all in 2004...

In 2005, 107% gains on Norsk Hydro... 108% gains on Anglo American PLC... 160% gains on Western Oil Sands.... and an impressive 179% gain on Talisman Energy...

In 2006 and 2007, 147% on BG Group, 83% on Placer Dome, another 177% again on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 87% on Walter Industries... and 78% on OMI Corp.

And so far in 2008... 150% and counting on Newmont Mining... 136% gains on Tesoro Petroleum... 399% and climbing so far on Valero... 539% gains so far on American Century Global Gold... and 679% and climbing on Suncor Energy.

What I'd like to ask you to do — in return for giving you all five FREE picks in Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!... is simply agree to give the award-winning Outstanding Investments monthly advisory letter itself a try.

As I said, right now, you can have this trial subscription FREE for up to a full year. FREE, I'll show you month —to month what Byron's watching, what he's recommending and what to do next with the holdings we'll track each issue in our No. 1-ranked, resource-focused Outstanding Investments portfolio.

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(Yes, there's a catch. But it's one I'm confident you'll like very much.)

See, it's not free — on my end — to send out these newsletters. Or to put together, print and mail out the library of five special investing picks I'll be giving you, at no cost to you.

So just to be sure you're as committed to these ideas as I am... here's what we're going to do. I'm making this possible by simply slashing the subscription rate I'll offer you by half.

So let's say you sign on for a year's worth of Outstanding Investments. It's like getting six full months of issues, FREE. Gratis.

What you pay to sign on need cover only the second half — by which time, you'll have had six FREE issues, all the FREE picks and the rest of my gifts to you, to make money and decide if this is for you.

Doesn't that sound fair?

And then, if you decide right away to sign on for two full years of issues, the same kind of deal applies — you get the whole first half of your subscription, or 12 full issues, FREE. You're getting a two-year membership, but at only the one-year price.

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My Revolutionary "3-to-1 Silver Gainer Guarantee"

At the very start of this letter, I said something you might have found bold. I said to you that I see silver ultimately soaring even HIGHER and FASTER than gold... yielding gains as high as 3-to-1 for every dollar invested.

I even said I would put a guarantee behind that outcome.

Now, obviously, I haven't cornered the silver or gold markets. Or you would have read about it. And I wouldn't be writing this letter. I'd be sipping Bombay martinis on the deck of my yacht.

But I have cornered something else — a stake in what I believe to be the best resource investing insights and recommendations source available — the Outstanding Investments investment newsletter. And I'm so eager for you to give it a try this is what I'm going to do...

I'm going to guarantee you that if I'm wrong in my prediction, if silver doesn't outpace the coming spike in gold... or if none of the opportunities I've shown you here today give you the opportunity for 3-to-1 gains, as reflected in our track record... then I invite you to cancel anytime, and you'll get a FULL refund on your entire subscription. No questions asked.

All I ask is you read the issues... study the picks... visit the Web site and dig into the archives and extra materials... and then decide for yourself what Outstanding Investments can do.

In fact, if you decide to cancel for any reason, even up to the very last day of your very last issue... you just let me know and I'll still give you a full refund. Even if silver has crossed the milestone mark Byron and I say it will.

Why?

Because I know already it's no accident Outstanding Investments wins awards. And it's no accident Hulbert ranked it the "No. 1 Performing Advisory Letter of the Last Five Years" in 2005 and 2006, either. We're onto something. And I'm confident, after you give Outstanding Investments an honest try, you'll think so, too.

You won't want to cancel at the end of the subscription period. In fact, I'm confident you'll beg to renew. Because you'll have the chance to make too much money on these opportunities not to.

Sign up, read and profit if you like. Share what you find with your family.

Then wait. Watch the gold cycle. Watch the other rich resource opportunities we'll talk about in upcoming issues. And then you decide what you'd like to do.

You risk nothing by giving this a try. Your only risk is sitting on the sidelines. Even if you don't decide to stay on, everything we send is yours to keep. This is entirely up to you.

I hope that sounds fair.

More importantly, I hope this sounds like something you're ready to do. Byron's other readers are already locking into these soaring trends for the long term. I hope you'll decide to act on them sooner, rather than later, too.

Big Profits from this Small-Cap ETF

My friend Frank couldn't believe I missed Rio's most famous symbol.

"You didn't see Christ the Redeemer?," Frank challenged after I got back to Baltimore. His face twisted in disbelief.

"I saw it from a distance plenty of times," I told him calmly, since I had indeed beheld the 100-foot tall statue while trucking around town.

But what Frank didn't get was that the small things matter most to me. I prefer the feeling of the streetside stalls, hearing old men  shout to sell their wares.

The most obvious destinations are often a distraction...

And the same goes for the most obvious investments.

Which is what brings me to a brand-new Brazilian small-cap stock ETF available to U.S.-based investors.

It's full of just the kind of high-powered consumer plays that I found down on the ground in Rio.  Here's what I mean...

The Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap ETF

On May 12, 2009, Market Vectors added to its growing assortment of international ETFs by launching its Brazil Small-Cap ETF (NYSE:BRF).

There are other Brazil ETFs, including the gigantic iShares MSCI Brazil Fund (AMEX:EWZ).

EWZ enjoys average volume of over 22 million shares per day. And its main constituents are heavy-duty Brazilian companies like Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) and Vale (NYSE:RIO) that can be found as ADR shares on U.S. exchanges.

BRF, for comparison, holds companies with a base market cap of $150 million—they're not micro-caps, but BRF's holdings are far from household names on a global scale.

You know what, though? Sometimes you don't want to trade a country's 100-foot stock statue. It may stand strong over the years, but a national emblem like Petrobras can also take a beating on bad news if it's the first local best stock to buy in foreign investors' minds.

Those Brazilian behemoths are also far more subject to the whims of global commodities markets than are small caps.

So instead of EWZ's allocation of over 62% to energy and materials best stocks to buy, BRF managers have formed a fund that's heavy on consumer discretionary shares and domestic trends in the Brazilian market.

We find industries like health care and IT in BRF that are totally absent from mega-ETFs like EWZ.

And those low-profile, consumer-driven industries cannot be ignored in a top developing country like Brazil.

Though consumer confidence, i.e. willingness to spend, has dropped in South America's leading emerging market, Brazilians have largely weathered the storm better than Russia, China, and India—the other members of the BRIC club coined by Goldman Sachs back in 2003.

As investors grow more accustomed to seeing ADRs and international ETFs as top performers, they're up for a little more risk... for a lot more reward.

A Growing Taste for Global Small Caps

Overall, the fact that a top ETF provider is delving deeper into the Brazilian stock pool says a lot about the safety of investing there.

And to show you the potential returns from this international approach, look at the Claymore/AlphaShares China Small Cap ETF (NYSE:HAO).

HAO, which means "good" in Chinese, is actually the best in China since December, gaining 71% against an impressive 32% average for leading large-cap Chinese ETFs NYSE:CAF and NYSE:EWH!

Time will tell how HAO's Brazilian counterpart performs against its mega-index counterpart EWZ.

The track record for S&P's Emerging Markets Small Cap ETF (NYSE:EWX) reflects positively on BRF too.

EWX is up by more than 59% since December, compared to just 2% for the S&P 500!

Whatever the case may be in the early going, expect big things from this small-cap ETF.

An Early Crack at Easy 2009 Profits

I only have two things to say on this first day of trading: Happy New Year and to buy stocks for 2010.

Last year was certainly one to forget. Now, a change of presidential administration, an emerging trough in stock prices of 2010, and the growing investor confidence that comes with a new year. . . means it's time to get back on the horse and start to buy energy stocks.

A second economic stimulus is coming down the pike. It will likely be ready to sign when Mr. Obama takes office. And it will lob about $850 billion at projects to create jobs and spur spending.

Most notably, the coming stimulus will focus on updating our severely outdated electricity grid. An article I wrote last week for Green Chip Review hones in on investment opportunities arising from a smart grid transition.

With these top stocks to buy about to take off, I thought this piece would be of interest to Energy & Capital readers as well.

Enjoy.

I've been talking about the smart grid for well over a year now.

Two Novembers ago, I wrote about three companies doing business in the realm of energy efficiency, which now goes by the pet name 'smart grid.'

As it happens, I may have had my prognosticating dial set a year too early.

Those three companies got swallowed up by the financial tsunami that was 2008, losing more than half their value, which is even worse than the Dow and the S&P. Here's the chart:

Now, 2009 is being hailed as the year of the smart grid. It may be too early to tell, but with a change in administration, a renewed focus on energy efficiency, and continued tightness in the credit markets, things are looking good when it comes to investing in the smart grid in 2010.

What is The Smart Grid?

As I've written many times, there is really no single way to define the smart grid. It basically comes down to overlaying the power delivery system with an information system that allows a utility and its consumers to constantly monitor and adjust electricity use.

Right now, the process of getting electricity to your house from the generation point is antediluvian. All you know is that the electricity is on. You're happy as long as the drinks are cold and the TV is on.

The same holds true for the utility. In fact, they usually aren't aware of a power outage until they receive calls from their customers. Even then, they aren't able to pinpoint the source of an outage without sending out an entire crew.

It's primitive. But it's changing. And this change is going to be profitable.

Smart Grid Potential

The benefits of a fully functioning smart grid are innumerable.

One of the earliest to emerge is a niche smart grid segment called demand response. Demand response is the voluntary reduction of electricity demand in response to grid instability, high wholesale prices, or peak load.

Companies involved in this sector—like Comverge (NASDAQ: COMV) and EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC)—aggregate electricity by reducing demand at thousands of end-use customer sites to provide significant and immediate megawatt capacity when high peak demand compromises grid stability.

So, for example, all the homes in your neighborhood could be part of an EnerNOC program that voluntarily reduces demand from your heaters and air conditioners when the grid needs excess capacity. Of course, you're entitled to compensation for that service, and could either receive a check or a reflective discount on your utility bill.

This type of program is going to be commonplace in a few years. It's beneficial because during times of peak demand, utilities can pull from the grid instead of turning on a coal- or natural gas-fired peaking plant. Not only are those plants expensive to run, they're emissions will also have rising costs as a cap-and-trade scheme is established to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

That's just for starters!

Other companies are engineering products that allow consumers to monitor every aspect of their home's energy use. . . even when they're not home.

Start-ups like Greenbox—from the guy who brought us Flash—are taking a networking approach to the smart grid, designing systems that allow you to turn on your dishwasher from a remote location, when you know the electricity price is cheapest. You can also turn your lights on and off and adjust your thermostat to maximize efficiency.

For utilities, the advent of wireless communication embedded in substations, transformers, and other power management equipment will mean increased efficiency and reduced costs, as maintenance schedules and warning signals become automated.

Profiting from the Smart Grid

Many companies are in hot pursuit of commercial viability in the smart grid sector. And investors seem to think there is room for plenty of them.

Over the past 10 quarters, smart grid companies raised slightly under $30 million per quarter at the venture level. But last quarter (Q3 2008), a record $202 million flowed into the sector. . .a clear indication of its future profitability.

Leading smart grid recipients of venture capital in the third quarter include:

Gridpoint, $120 million

Trilliant, $40 million

BPL Global, $23 million and

Eka Systems, $18.5 million

On the publicly-traded side, Comverge, EnerNOC, Echelon, and PowerSecure International remain the few pure plays. Exposure can also be had through Itron, GE, Siemens, Honeywell, and Johnson Controls.

But stay cautious. Even though this sector is slated to be hot in 2009, the financial waters are still murky. You have to know which companies stand to offer you the best returns, and then decide when to buy them and sell them.

Simply knowing that smart grid companies are hot isn't enough.

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We already have a few smart grid plays in the portfolio, but I'll be adding more to take advantage of their pending popularity in the coming year.

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This Is Not a Science Fair Project

At energy and climate bill hearings this week, Rep. Jay Inslee was quoted as saying, "the bad news is that Thomas Edison would actually recognize our current grid system."

Time Magazine this week called our grid "a dinosaur, a leaky, money-wasting, carbon-dioxide-spewing system that remains shockingly vulnerable to accidents and terrorist attacks."

What this means is that improving the grid is the low-hanging fruit when it comes to cleaning up our energy act. Even before switching energy sources, we can reduce emissions and improve efficiency and transmission by giving a century-old system a 21st century update.

It's called the smart grid. And in addition to alleviating all costly energy bottlenecks, blackouts, and the inability to communicate in real time, the smart grid will also make smart investors lots of easy profits.

(For background info on the smart grid, click here and here.)

Blue Chips Seek Billions of Smart Dollars

The Obama Administration and the Department of Energy recently announced $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funding. T