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It’s one of the few investments today that looks poised to outshine gold. As the years roll by, and as the inflation monster is unleashed and begins to wreak untold havoc on almost every part of the economic universe, we expect this most precious of all investments will only grow in value and importance… Yet today, barely a single American investor knows its name… despite the fact that without it…you could kiss your plasma TV, your computer, your cell phone and many of your other hi-tech gadgets good-bye… The solar age would soon grow dark and cold. The nuclear age would split apart. The green car revolution would roll to a stop… And the exhilarating new gust of growth that the wind energy industry is currently enjoying would quickly die. This investment even promises to outperform the traditional big winners in the coming new inflationary environment like oil, gold and precious metals. In fact, so vital is this investment, that without it, we would have very little hope in making the successful transition from an economy based on dirty old industrial resources to one based on renewables…and we would have very little hope of licking the inflationary monster. We would be at its mercy. It would just eat away into the quality of our lives, the value of our homes, our stocks, our bonds, our currency until it entirely devoured us. What’s more, the fundamentals for this investment are so strong, that even if by some freak of economic nature, the global economy switched back to a deflationary environment, it would still do well. It’s the ultimate investment (and financial sanctuary) for the terrifying economic era ahead. Inflation/deflation/recession/depression, no matter what happens, this investment will shine. The future hinges on it. Green tech would turn gray without it. If I had to make one bet today, this would be it. I’ll tell you all about this extraordinary investment in this special issue of The Complete Investor. But first let me tell you why now, more than ever, its time has come…
Few investors know this but inflation is the most destructive force in the economic universe. It’s been called “the retiree’s worst enemy”… “the cruelest tax on your wealth”… “The notorious Kryptonite of fixed income investments.” Most people think the Great Depression was the worst time in economic history. But it wasn’t. It was the ‘70s. In fact from 1967–82, U.S. stock markets went through their worst 15-year period ever. We experienced 5 bear markets. Investors became irrational. They punished even the era’s greatest growth stocks. The P/E ratio of the S&P crashed from 16 to less than 8. Retail stores, cosmetics, beverages all plummeted, with cosmetics leading the way, losing 45.6%. Pepsi, Avon, Gillette, Kellogg’s, Hershey, Wal-Mart, Ford, GM, Dow Chemical, DuPont all watched their stock prices crash 10-90%. And if you think the oil-shocked, inflation-afflicted ‘70s was bad, the coming era will be much worse. You will experience inflation like you’ve never known before… A perfect storm of factors are brewing today that will drive inflation up to levels never before witnessed in American history… We are at a strikingly similar point to where we were at in 1976. Unfortunately the five years that followed were among the most destructive economically. But the savvy few, who understood the big trends at the time, made more money than they’d ever made in their lives. For example, back then, in just 5 years, you could’ve made:
You could’ve turned a $100,000 portfolio into half a million in 5 years flat. Unfortunately most retirees in 1976 had retreated to the “safety” of bonds, CDs and money-market funds…and the soaring rate of inflation turned these traditional sanctuaries into financial death traps, just as they will do today. In fact a $100,000 portfolio made up of 50% stocks and 50% bonds in 1976 was worth just $48,393 in 1981. Yet a diversified portfolio of oil, gold and other precious metal stocks could’ve been worth as much as $450,000.
We believe a similar financial opportunity is open to you today. But this time, the difference between the winners and the losers will be even more dramatic. Inflation will ratchet up to much higher levels than the 12% it reached in 1982…and it will decimate the returns on your stocks, bonds and CDs far more than it ever did in the late ‘70s. But on the flip side, you have a number of extraordinary opportunities that are available to you today, that simply weren’t available back then. Back in the inflationary ‘70s, you were doomed to be stuck in investments denominated in crashing dollars…doomed to be invested in struggling American companies who were in the throes of dividend-slashing massacres…doomed to watch the returns on your fixed-income investments shrink more and more, buying you less and less. But today, a whole new world is at your fingertips. The investment arena is plush with new exotic global growth opportunities and inflation-proof investments…that can help you flourish—even through these dark days. And in this special issue of The Complete Investor, I’ll tell you about some of the best of these options including:
But before I tell you about these extraordinary opportunities, let me tell you about the forces that are building right now in America (and the global economy) that will lead to an inflationary explosion we’ve never known…
As I said, we are at a
strikingly similar point to where we were in 1976. For example:
But investments like oil, gold, precious metals, commodities and oil service stocks, proceeded to march into their next and biggest legs of their bull markets.
And while the collapse in stock and commodity markets around the world, caused by the global credit crisis, went even deeper than we expected, these devastating events have not crushed our argument for inflation at all. Rather the case for inflation is now stronger than it has ever been. That’s why we’re repositioning our portfolios right now…so we’ll be ready to capture historic profits on the small clutch of alternative investments, which are hardwired to benefit from inflation’s next great eruption.
The same powerful forces that caused inflation to erupt in 1976 are about to erupt again. But last time it was a Mount-St-Helens-like eruption. This time it’s going to be like Krakatoa.
Through inflation’s worst period (1976—1981) the Monetary Base increased by 13% annually…compounded it came to 71% over the 5-year period. Today, the picture is much worse…by an order of magnitude. Not only have we built up massive deficits because of the Iraq war, we are recovering from the worst financial crisis in history. We have within a decade flipped from AAA-rated lenders to sub-prime borrowers. In order to reduce our massive debt burden and prevent a deflationary collapse, the Fed has cranked up the printing presses. Recently, it doubled the Money Base within just a single year…that’s the largest increase in generations—by almost a factor of 10! The magnitude of the Fed’s actions today has been unparalleled. And it’s not done yet. In order to jump-start the economy the Fed has put together a stimulus package that currently amounts to the staggering sum of $12.8 trillion (that’s an amount approaching the value of everything produced in the country last year.) While the majority of all this money has not yet hit the streets, it soon will. And when it does, it will in turn reignite yet another great inflationary force, which will inevitably lead to what Jim Rogers, one of the world’s greatest investors, is predicting will be the “inflation holocaust.”
You see, it’s not just America’s $13 trillion stimulus package we have to worry about. There’s also $9 trillion more of global stimulus packages too. In fact, it is the first time in history where every central bank in the world is printing money. When all these stimulus dollars kick in, it will indeed give a giant boost to global economic output. But even though this paper money will bring real businesses and industries back online…the returns they will seemingly offer investors will be illusory…and in many cases they’ll even be negative—after taking into account exploding inflation. And as a lot of this stimulus is ear-marked to build bridges, highways, buildings, oil refineries, oil tankers, pipelines, power grids, ports, ships, trains, rail-tracks, steel mills, waste management plants…it will fuel a giant new global building boom, so we’re going to need a LOT more oil, copper, gold, silver, platinum, uranium, lead, iron and zinc. Demand will soar once again for these precious resources… But supplies will run extremely tight. And all these things are going to get very pricey…very quickly…once again! And when they do, they’ll continue to eat into the real value of everything you own—your dollars… your stocks…your home… your bonds…
You see commodities are the stuff of which the Industrial Age is made. And when commodities go up, most other investments go down. While rising commodity prices might be great for their producers (and those invested in them), it’s terrible for the economy, and the broader market. They begin to bear down on corporate profits. Take oil for instance. Virtually everything you own or consume today has been touched by oil in some fashion, whether it was used in the transport of goods, or the fertilizer on your foods, or the plastics in your products. Everything from deodorants to dresses…shoes to shower curtains… toothbrushes to trash bags has been touched by oil. When oil prices remain low, it doesn’t just keep the price of our gas and our heating down, it also keeps the price of almost everything else down too. That’s the inflationary or deflationary power that this black gold holds. Now when the price of oil and many other commodities start to ratchet up they will spill over into every part of the economic universe. Industries and businesses dependent on them for their profits will wheeze. We already got a taste of this earlier in the decade, when oil briefly peaked at $147…and inflation ratcheted up to 5%. It was only the global financial crisis that depressed demand and plummeted the oil price back into the ground again. While everyone was fearing the possibility of a global deflationary collapse, we knew deflation wouldn’t last too long.
But this time the commodity crunches we’ll experience in the years to come will be far worse. In the ‘70s, commodities skyrocketed largely because the Eastern Asian nations began to industrialize. South Korea, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan quickly rose to become economic powerhouses that took the West by storm. The same story, of course, is happening today. But this time it’s much bigger. This time we have emerging economies many times the size that are industrializing at an even faster pace. In fact 3.3 billion new capitalists (half the entire global population) are all industrializing at the same time… And these new capitalists are hungry to taste all the fruits that the grand American Experiment can bring. But this is placing enormous strains on an already stressed system.
What’s even more terrifying is that a New Scientist study reveals that we will run out of key resources far quicker than we had previously thought. In fact, the supplies of 16 of the planet’s most important natural resources—which are absolutely critical to the future of not just capitalism—but civilization itself—are far more depleted than we have been led to believe.
The reserves of antimony, indium, lead, silver, tantalum, tin and uranium will run out in the next 4 to 20 years. Within 40 years we’ll be out of chromium, copper and zinc. Nickel and platinum will soon follow. For the 16 metals and minerals as a whole, on average we have roughly 25 years of in-ground supply left. This new intelligence has rocked commodity-dependent industries (and governments) across the globe. Governments are now finally starting to wake up to the fact that the short-term fixes that they’ll garner from their misguided and misdirected $22 trillion global stimulus plans, will have dire long-term inflationary consequences… All these forces are building at the moment, and are about to cause a Krakatoa-like inflationary eruption. While this will be devastating for the broader market, for those who understand the curious nature of an inflationary market, they’ll make more money in the next 5 years than they made in the last 20.
As I said, oil and oil stocks…oil service companies…gold, silver and precious metals (and the companies that mine them)…commodities and resource stocks…all stand to do very well in the inflationary times ahead. These investments are hardwired to benefit from inflation… And I’ll tell you about some of the best of them in a moment… But today, there’s an even better investment opportunity. This one promises to outshine gold and all the traditional winners in an inflationary environment. This investment is the one thing—even above oil, gas, copper and silver—that’s in critical supply—but that we desperately need in order to make it through the tumultuous transition ahead. Surprisingly few Americans know its name—yet. But the importance and value of this investment is about to leap to the center of global commerce. Governments and corporations have tried to monopolize mountains and mines full of the stuff. Monopolies are being formed. Powerful multi-national corporations have quietly scoured the globe to secure deals and lock-in supplies and prices for it. I’m talking about the Rare Earth Metals. We call them the Technology Metals. They are those weird-sounding elements near the bottom of the periodic table. And our modern civilization has quietly but assuredly become entirely addicted to them. We have transformed our economy into the Age of Technology Metals. For example, without them, we couldn’t make solar panels, windmills, batteries, electric cars, photo cells, lasers, iPods, computer chips, computer monitors, Prius’s, rockets, jet engines or flat screen TVs… In fact, one of the most important developments of our modern age was when GM and Sumitomo created the alloy for permanent magnets in 1984. This alloy is based on the Rare Earth Element neodymium. And that magnet is now the basis for all modern electric motors. It basically allows us to make very small electric motors with the highest possible power density. Without it we’d have no cell phones, no Blackberries, nor any of the new top-performing energy-efficient domestic appliances… Tantalum is also another critical Technology Metal used as a fundamental component in many of the electronics we use today, including iPods, computers, camera lenses, Swiss watches, radio transmitters, surgical instruments, implants and more… Rare Earth Metals are also vital Military Metals. For example, we couldn’t make hi-tech military armor or ammunition without tungsten. We can’t make rockets or jet engines without rhenium. Rare Earth Metals are also essential components in underwater mine detection, anti-missile defense, communications systems, missile guidance systems and aircraft parts.
Even more important is that these most precious of all metals are essential components in many of the emerging new green and clean technologies, and alternative energy sources that we are developing today… It is these new green resources that are our best hope of licking the inflationary beast, and getting us to an economy based on renewable resources rather than dirty old industrial resources. For example, we can’t make high-efficiency cooling systems for our power plants without molybdenum. The Prius needs a nickel metal hydride battery based on the Technology Metal lanthanum. The new generation of solar panels is dependent upon indium, gallium and cadmium. Windmills rely on neodymium. Hybrid cars need lithium. Automotive catalytic converters and energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs rely on palladium and rhodium. The microchip needs indium and hafnium. The thing is these Technology Metals have unique properties that make them indispensable for numerous devices—many of which play a pivotal role in reducing green house gasses…They make things run greener, cleaner, smoother, faster and cheaper! Without them the world would run a lot more slowly and a lot less efficiently. Even those devices that can operate without Rare Earth Metals the performance of the device diminishes dramatically! For example, without lanthanum, which is used in the catalysts for oil refineries, the yield of oil refineries would drop by 7%. That is the equivalent to turning the oil off from Iraq, Kuwait and UAE! Problem is, we can’t produce enough of these Technology Metals in a single year even to meet current demand. And with the breathtaking expansion plans by government and private industry to get alternative energies and green technologies online, the situation is only going to get worse. And when dwindling supply in all these metals starts to kill off promising new technologies in wind, solar and hybrid cars…then so much money will be plowed into getting them out of the ground. That’s why the money to be made in these metals will be breathtaking. They’ll be among the few sure bets in the years ahead.
All the investors that are gushing into all sorts of new investments in wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, wave and BioFuels (hoping to strike “green oil”) are setting themselves up for disappointment… The smarter, surer way to play this game is by investing in the raw materials that the industry will rely on to get these new energy sources online. And the king of all these materials will be the Technology Metals. The coming gains to be made in Technology Metals will make the oil investments of years past look like the runt of the commodity litter, and the sweet profits that investors have reaped in sugar taste sour by comparison. In fact one of the first big benefits you’ll receive when you sign up for a risk-free trial subscription to The Complete Investor is a special Rare Earth Metals investment alert we’ve just published showing you the best ways to ride this historic bull market…
At The Complete Investor we’ll be following the evolution of this extraordinary commodity market, including the investment opportunities erupting in it, and how its supplies (or lack thereof) will impact our economic future… You’ll learn all about them in your FREE investment alert, plus your monthly issues of The Complete Investor. But while the fundamentals for Technology Metals are so strong, and while we expect them to be among the biggest winners in the inflationary times ahead, we don’t want to downplay gold. In fact, gold is your quientessencial inflation and deflation hedge. And we suspect its big bull market run hasen’t even begun yet.
Gold is traditionally one of the best performers in inflationary times. In the ‘70s it leapt 23-fold, and enjoyed one of the greatest bull markets any asset class has ever enjoyed. And now gold is about to leap into the second leg of its latest bull market. And just like the last time, this next leg will move much faster and grow far bigger than the one before it. In fact at this point in the ‘70s, the gold price proceeded to leap from $105 to $823 in 5 years flat. But as we said, we expect the New Inflation to be much worse than the last. Due to $22 trillion in global stimulus packages hitting the streets (a powerful inflationary force on its own) but coupled this time with colossal commodity crunches of all sorts, gold will shoot back to the stars once again… These forces will send inflation to levels far above the 12% we experienced in 1982. Within 5 years it will likely reach 20-25%. That means a house worth $600,000 could be worth as little as $157,000 in real terms. That’s how inflation above all other economic forces destroys wealth.
Throughout economic history investment sentiment has swayed back and forth from stocks to gold… But every few generations or so, the amount of economic weight on the seesaw hits a critical point when it starts to tip dramatically in favor of one investment over the other. The last time it did this was in 1973 soon after Nixon abandoned the gold standard…and gold went from $35 an ounce to $850…and stocks proceeded to have one of their worst periods ever! Now for the first time in 36 years, that critical point has been reached once again. For example, when the price of gold rises to a certain level it starts to make the miners of this immortal metal extremely attractive—as their profit margins begin to go through the roof. That point is usually reached when gold starts to trade at a price that exceeds the level of the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index by about 5-fold. We recently reached that point too. And gold stocks from here should really start to outperform the metal itself, as well as most other investments.
In The Inflation
Survival Guide we’ll tell you how to build the ultimate
gold portfolio, revealing our #1 pick for each of gold’s specific
investment categories…
And that’s not all you’ll learn about in The Inflation Survival Guide, you’ll also learn about some of the best oil, copper, commodity and emerging market investments to buy today too.
In The Inflation Survival Guide you’ll also learn about:
These investments are already profitable, and already rising. But once the energy crisis starts to heat up, and inflation starts to exceed 5%, these investments should ratchet up to dizzying heights very quickly. Wall Street will gape in awe as the broader market gets blown to bits, and these alternative plays reach valuations they haven’t seen since the inflationary seventies. This may be your last chance to get in on them cheap. Sign up for The Complete Investor today, and we’ll rush you a copy of The Inflation Survival Guide. Just fill in the Charter Membership Savings Certificate today, and send it off in the Reply-Paid envelope enclosed.
While bonds, CDs, money market funds, and big Dow blue chips are what most investors and retirees traditionally retreat to in times of uncertainty, in inflationary times, these investments will crush you. The limited income you’ll receive from them will not be able to keep pace with the soaring rate of inflation. If you stay in these investments the quality of your lifestyle will quickly erode. While we completely recommend you overweigh your portfolio in gold, precious metals and commodities today, we also stress the necessity of holding a diversified group of powerful global blue and red chips, whose revenues and profits are largely denominated in rapidly appreciating currencies. And in the years ahead, five countries are poised to stand out far more than the rest. And they are those countries that are most endowed in natural resources. You see, the West was once rich in resources. But it used up most of its supplies in order to build up its own economy in the 20th century. And now it doesn’t have enough left in order to maintain the lifestyle to which it has become accustomed. So it will increasingly need to import more and more of these resources from the developing countries and emerging markets that have only just started to industrialize, and that have not yet squandered their inheritance. And now while America and the industrialized West stand to get crippled by soaring oil and commodity costs, a number of these developing nations stand to get gloriously rich off them. Trillions and trillions of resource revenues will continue to slosh up against their shores. Their oil and gas, mining and agricultural industries will flourish. It will bring vast new wealth. Their currencies will rise to a stunning degree against the U.S. dollar. And as the world gets increasingly more expensive for us, it will get cheaper for them. Their currencies will harden. And their purchasing power will grow. The good news is there is an easy way you can get a piece of this growing purchasing power. In fact, with 5 simple investments (available on the U.S. exchanges) you can buy into over 100 of these nations’ most powerful mining, energy, telecommunications, financial and technology companies. Some of them already dwarf their American competitors in size, yet most Americans have never heard their names. But they are the new global leaders. The new global powerhouses. And in 5 simple investments they can offer you more safety, more diversification, and bigger profits than any U.S. stock portfolio could’ve ever offered you!
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The markets have been in turmoil. And it’s not over yet. Not by a long shot. As the energy war heats up, and commodity prices along with inflation start to spin out of control, the markets will continue to zig and zag. P/E ratios will plummet. Investors will become irrational. While most people will panic (buying when they should sell, and selling when they should buy), you can be safely invested in the corporations hardwired to benefit from the gut-wrenching, tumultuous times ahead. Now is not a time to be out of the markets. Otherwise the world’s greatest investors like Warren Buffet wouldn’t have recently doubled their stock holdings. But these investing legends aren’t buying the broader market. They’re investing in the companies poised to thrive in the inflationary times ahead. They are poised to end the era many times richer. And so can you.
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Dear Investor,
We’ve been predicting the
repeat of these events for a decade now. So far the first five years of
this new oil-strapped, inflation-afflicted era unfolded just as we
forecasted. A quick flick through any of our back issues of The
Complete Investor or any of the books we’ve published
since the launch of Defying the Market in
1999 will show you this.
The most immediate inflationary
force building right now in the economy is the exploding Monetary Base.
Thanks to the Iraq war, massive deficits, unfunded Medicare and Social
Security obligations, and the global financial crisis, America needs to
print a lot of dollars.
And even though commodity
prices did experience a major correction due to the global financial
crisis, they’ve already begun leaping back. The same thing happened in
1976. Commodity prices collapsed after a 5-year bull run. But the
collapse was only short-lived, and they soon went on to rack up their
biggest gains in history.
This study reveals that—even
if we use up these resources at just HALF the rate we’re using them in
America today, we may be out of them within an average of 25 years.
It’s called More
Precious than Gold: How to Dig up Meteoric Profits in the Age of
Technology Metals. In it you’ll also learn about some
other top base and precious metal investments.
Another great benefit you’ll
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Complete Investor is The Inflation Survival
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gold portfolio made up of revolutionary new gold investment accounts,
gold stocks, rare gold coins and new ways to hold the metal itself.
You’ll learn all about them in
another FREE report we’ll send you when you sign up for your risk-free
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It’s called The New Global Powerhouses: How to Own Over
100 of the World’s Biggest New Companies in 5 Simple Investments.
