We’re not on the verge of another great depression. The sky is not falling!

No way. Not even close, for a lot of reasons. It’s worth taking the time to compare what happened in 1929 and what’s going on now:

Back in 1929, investors could be on 90% margin, resulting in the most costly margin call of all time. After the crash, 8,000 banks failed vs. only 25 (be they some very prestigious names) so far. Back then, there was no FDIC insurance, so when banks failed people really did lose everything. Your bank deposits are now guaranteed up to $250,000 or $500,000 in a joint account.

After the crash, the Federal Government raised interest rates, whereas now it’s lowering them, and in the 1930’s the answer was to get rid of government debt whereas now, the Feds are willing to go even deeper in debt to stop the bleeding.

Say what you like about Geithner and Bernanke and the bailout, the fact is that, imperfect as it may be, the government is taking huge and aggressive steps to keep the U.S. and world economies from falling off the cliff.

So what can we learn from a comparison of then with now?

Lesson #1—We’re due for a 50% rally!

From its October 1929 highs, stocks nosedived approximately 50 percent before bottoming the following month. From that November, low share prices then staged a rally on the order of 50 percent, erasing about half of the losses from the prior decline.

Lesson #2—What Obama must not do.

It was only after the market rebound that the real bear market of the Great Depression began in earnest as the government’s ill-conceived actions started to take their toll on the economy. These moves included trade restrictions, tightened credit, higher taxes and balancing the budget. The new Administration has already backed down from its campaign rhetoric and made it clear it won’t be raising taxes anytime soon.

Lesson #3—What’s different this time.

We’ve learned valuable lessons from the 1930s (and Japan in 1990s). Say what you like about the leadership (old and new) in Washington, in the wake of this market’s 40%-plus meltdown, a lot has been done to avoid a prolonged period of deflation. Governments worldwide have slashed interest rates and are spending heavily to stimulate their economies.

The message from the latest G20 meeting in Washington and from recent Barack Obama interviews is that governments will take whatever steps are necessary to jump start the economy. The new administration shows few signs of curtailing deficit spending.

Lesson #4—The rubber band effect.

Get ready for a spectacular and sudden rally. Markets typically bottom when the news is at its worst. Clearly the economy is in terrible shape. As a result, we’re very likely in the sweet spot in terms of the stock market’s upside potential relative to its downside risk. And that ratio isn’t likely to ever get better than it is right this minute. Investors look over the horizon and our view is that things will get better sooner rather than later.

While we think stocks are close to a bottom, we won’t discount the possibility of the Dow slipping again to say the 6,500 region in a worst-case scenario. We’re not expecting that to happen, but we acknowledge this is the downside risk.

$4 Trillion side-lined cash could send the Dow soaring to 12,000!

That said, the powerful rally we expect to unfold, be it today or at some point in the next few months, could carry the Dow back to 11,000, if not 12,000. What’s needed is a spark to unleash the record amounts of liquidity locked up in the banking sector and the $4-plus trillion in cash on the stock market’s sidelines waiting for a bit of stability.

Once market starts to rally, money managers aren’t going to be content earning 11 basis points on their cash. Instead, they’re going to come flooding into the stock market again.

Lesson #5—Look at the "Big Picture."

One thing is certain, this market has been—and will continue to be—totally unpredictable for the short term. I mean when crude hit $147 a barrel this past summer, who would have thought that it would trade below $45 a barrel by Thanksgiving?

But, while in this crazy market, it’s difficult to say with certainty what individual stocks will lead the near-term market charge, we know with absolute certainty that an all-encompassing, wide-lens view of the world situation will help us identify the major trends and paradigm shifts that will dictate the long-term shape and direction of the impending recovery.

That’s what this Special Edition of The Complete Investor is about. If you’ll find a comfortable chair, relax and take a few minutes to join me as we examine the fundamental and unstoppable changes taking place in the world’s economy… you’ll discover the keys to long-term profits that will erase the pain of the recent stock market massacre.

Here then is a wide-angle look at the world’s economy and the tectonic shifts that soon will open entirely different doors on the path to real and lasting wealth.

GAME OVER!

It was a hard-fought ballgame. For all intent and purposes it’s finished, even though few on Wall Street even realized the competition had begun, let alone that its final, irrevocable outcome has already been decided.

But, while the outcome of this all-or-nothing game has been written, it’s not too late to place your bet!

Make it a big one, because this really is like placing a bet after the horse race has been run.

It’s time now, while this market is at, or near a bottom, to set aside your daily concerns over insanely volatile stock prices, to take advantage of what may well be the best buying opportunity of your life time, and to chart a course that will lead you to stable and abundant wealth.

The game I’m referring to, of course, is the to-the-death battle for the world’s finite and fast-disappearing resources. Most investors are not fully aware of just how fierce or how critical the struggle is since the competition is no longer played on America’s home turf!

Across the oceans, 3 billion Asians are becoming new capitalists causing many of the Earth’s last remaining resources to rapidly vanish. Despite the fact that crude oil prices have gone into free fall…

…$200-a-barrel oil is just around the corner!

It’s an inevitable consequence of exploding demand and fast-diminishing supply.

When much higher energy prices return—and they will, very soon, with a wicked revenge—get ready for an era of oil shocks, gas gaps, sugar rushes, corn crunches and spiraling inflation that will hit 12-15% by 2011!

Most stocks will be scorned and shredded. But commodities of every type from sugar to silver… from corn to copper… will be coveted and hoarded like Pharaoh’s gold.

We knew the low prices in oil and the other critical commodities wouldn’t last forever. They couldn’t. What we didn’t know, is how quickly they might vanish.

In the early ‘70s, we were drenched in what seemed an endless supply of vital commodities. Oil was $1.65 a barrel. Silver was $1.39 per ounce. Copper was just $48 per ton.

But back then there were a mere 1.1 billion players on the industrial stage. Our energy need was a mere fraction of what it is today. Industry as a whole was generating just a few trillion dollars for its 1.1 billion customers.

Today, the picture is very different… one, few foresaw back then…

No one imagined that in little more than a generation, a population explosion, the collapse of Communism and the rise of the Internet would change everything.

No one imagined that these 3 pivotal developments would bring unfettered success to the Great American Experiment… that they would help the emerging nations leapfrog into the modern age… that capitalism would spread and dominate so far, so wide and so quickly… but that it would also bring great pains to the global economy.

Now, we have 6 billion players all vying for the same relatively fixed supply of commodities. And within a single generation we’ll have another two. While we’ve begun to develop alternatives to these dirty industrial addictions, we should’ve started decades ago. But we never did. Why bother, when the Earth was awash with resources?

And now global industry is about to plunge headlong into its last great natural resource binge.

The Grand Finale of the Industrial Age!

In the next 15 years, we will gobble up more of the Earth’s last remaining natural resources, than we did in any period in the past. This great natural resource binge will turn Wall Street on its head.

Rising commodity prices will start to bear down on every aspect of our lives…from the costs of our tomatoes to the price we pay to heat and cool our homes…from the value of our blue chips to the income we receive on our CDs… $2,700 gold… $9 gas… plummeting indices… soaring inflation… and plenty of bear markets.

But also, expect a commodity bull market, the likes of which we have never before seen, one that will dwarf every other that has come before it.

Last century we had three commodity bull markets. They were from 1906-23, 1933-53 and 1968-82. Each one was bigger, and wreaked more havoc, than the one that came before it. This final one promises to outdo them all.

By the end of it, many things will be different.

Most paper assets will be shredded. Millions of American retirees will find themselves on the breadline. Vital commodities like oil, gas, uranium, tungsten, cobalt, molybdenum will be greatly depleted. But almost all commodities whether abundant or not, will no longer be cheap. In fact, their costs will become so prohibitive, that it will finally force industry to seriously develop new alternatives, like renewable fuels, and new industrial materials made from bio and nano-materials. But until that time comes, commodities will rule the day.

Commodities will impact almost every area of your life. Whether you want to be invested in them or not, they are going to affect your assets… your lifestyle… your costs of living… the kind of car you drive… what kind of house you live in… your investments. They’ll determine the fate and fortunes of companies, countries and individuals everywhere!

Commodities will make you rich. Or they’ll make you poor. It’s your choice.

Profit From the Deadliest Force in the Economic Universe

Forget your bonds, your CDs and your blue chips.

They won’t cut it in the dangerous era ahead. They will stumble and fall in the Industrial Age’s last days.

The tables on Wall Street have turned. But investors are still playing the old game. They’re still buying Microsoft and Google. While the prices of many physical commodities themselves have soared in the past 5 years, commodity stocks were cheap. Today, some are trading with single digit P/Es. (I’ll tell you about some of them in a moment).

The market is pricing commodity stocks as if they’re not in a long-term bull market.

What they don’t know is that they’re in for a nasty surprise.

The outcome of the game has already been decided! As you’ll soon see the new game on Wall Street will be vastly different from any that most investors today will be familiar with. It will be more like the ’70s, where oil shocks, commodity crunches, and spiraling inflation almost ruptured the very fabric of American society.

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 the 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 again, they will spill over into every part of the economy. Industries and businesses dependent on them for their profits will wheeze. The costs of many of our goods and services will rise.

Soaring commodity costs, led by oil, will be the fire that will fuel a new inflationary era. And inflation is the deadliest force in the economic universe. Nothing can destroy investments like inflation. Not recessions. Not depressions. Not stock market crashes. Nor wars or environmental disasters.

The ‘70’s—on Steroids!

Few investors—even on Wall Street today know this, but the commodity-shocked and inflation-afflicted period from 1967—82 was the worst period for stocks in economic history. Even worse than the Great Depression!

We had five bear markets. Oil and commodity prices began their great rise. Inflation started to spin out of control. 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, food stocks all plummeted, with cosmetics leading the way, losing over 45%. Pepsi, Avon, Gillette, Kellogg’s, Hershey, Wal-Mart, Ford, GM, Dow Chemical, DuPont, all watched their stock prices crash 10-90%. Little was spared.

But commodities (and those invested intelligently in them) soared to the stratosphere. Gold went up 23-fold. Oil went up 11-fold. Sugar went up 47-fold. Oil stocks, gold stocks, copper, palladium, zinc, and silver were not far behind.

Don’t be Fooled by Current Oil Prices!

Now, despite the recent sell-off in commodity prices and the slowdown in the world economy, long-term we are still in the midst of the fourth major commodity bull market in over a century. And, it will absolutely prove to be the greatest of all. It’ll be like the ‘70s. But in the ‘70s, rising oil prices were engineered due to sanctions put on OPEC, and commodity crunches occurred not because we were running out of supplies, but more-so because industry couldn’t keep up with soaring demand.

But this time, we are facing genuine long-term shortages in a number of vital commodities. And despite the current bump in the world economy, demand is going to far outpace supply.

You’re going to see signs of it as soon as we get through this rough patch, probably beginning by mid-year 2009.

What happens when companies like GE can’t get the raw materials to build their windmills or their jet engines, when Boeing and Airbus can’t get the titanium for their fuselages, when Caterpillar can’t get the iron and rubber for its earth-moving mega-machines?

What happens when the housing market finally comes to life and Toll Brothers and DR Horton can’t get the timber to build new homes, when Michelin and GoodYear can’t get the rubber for their tires?

Crunch Time for Capitalism

While the temptation for every battered investor may be to focus day to day on the ups and downs of the stock market, this is the time to look at the big picture and position yourself accordingly. In the next few years to come, industry will face some of its toughest challenges ever. And you can turn those tough times into huge profits if you prepare your portfolio now.

Supplies of inelastic commodities like copper, oil, gas, uranium, titanium, lead, zinc, and silicon will be stretched and pulled…

Get Ready For:

The Mother of all Crises: the Global Energy Crisis! Yes, crude oil prices plummeted from $147 a barrel to under $40 in less than 6 months. But don’t kid yourself, peak oil is for real. The oil sultans know their supply is not limitless and, as soon as the slowdown ends, demand for oil is going to come back with a vengeance.

The seriousness of the delicate gap between our oil demand and supply situation will become painfully clear. During the ‘90s we used to have an average of 12 million spare barrels of oil per day. Now, even with Americans temporarily driving less, we’re down to just a million.

A terrorist attack…a super storm…or a geopolitical disaster, will be more than enough to send oil prices off the Richter scale. Even the slightest disruption in the oil-supply chain will result in super-spikes in the price. These super-spikes will rattle the markets and send indices on a perpetual roller-coaster ride. But oil companies with vast reserves stand to make obscene profits.

The Great Gas Saga—it’ll be America’s first major natural gas crisis. And it’ll wreak even more damage than our oil shocks, and it’s upon us now. Few are aware of it, but natural gas is our worst industrial addiction yet. Our wells are depleting rapidly, and we’re just not finding enough new supplies to keep up with demand. Crunch time has arrived. Get ready for rolling black outs, super-spikes in the price of gas, and terrible times for gas-dependent industries ahead. And there’s little we can do about it. But American gas giants with mammoth reserves stand to make a killing.

The World’s Critical Shortage of Food Doesn’t Abate Just Because the Economy is Bad! We’re rapidly running out of arable land in order to grow all the crops we need to feed the growing global population. In the past five years, for the first time in recorded history, the world has consumed more food than it has produced. And super storms, droughts, violent weather, environmental catastrophes, population explosions, global warming and rising energy costs promise to only worsen the situation. A calamitous short-fall in the world’s food supply is right round the corner. And it will send the prices of many agricultural commodities like maize, sugar, soybeans, wheat, oats, bran and barley to the sky. While food inflation will quickly spiral out of control, and while many industries and individuals will suffer, a clutch of players stand to win big. I’ll tell you about the company that we believe will rise above all the rest in just a moment…

Cobalt and Copper Crunches…Zinc and Rubber Gaps…Sugar and Silicon Squeezes. The infrastructure in place to get many of these vital commodities out of the Earth is woefully inadequate…and a shortage of skilled workers in the sector is worsening the situation. The industry simply can’t keep up with soaring global demand…

And this is just a hint of the arduous era ahead of us. An era, that was largely the result of a number of profound economic events that were set in motion many years ago now…

3 Billion New Capitalists—They’ll Make You or Break You

Two events occurred toward the end of last century, which at the time were seen as global triumphs. Problem was, as with nearly all positive changes, they often come with a price. These events were the collapse of communism and the rise of the Internet.

Suddenly, within the blinking of an eye, these events allowed 3 billion new players to leap onto the industrial stage. Communist and socialist cultures, that were once almost completely isolated from the global trading game, became an integral part of it virtually overnight. The information revolution melted the iron curtain and opened up the world’s last major trading and communications channels.

Together, these two events changed the shape, redistributed the power, and greatly expanded the scale and complexity of global commerce in a way never dreamed possible…

And now, these new capitalists are hungry to taste of all the fruits that the grand American Experiment can bring. But this is placing enormous strains on an already stressed system.

Largely we are facing a colossal commodity crunch—everything from oil shocks to gas gaps…from copper crunches to sugar squeezes.

The Oddest Commodity Crunch of them All!

But it’s not just natural resources we’re in desperate need of. We are also in need of two other unusual (but critical) commodities that are in very short supply. And unfortunately, these precious commodities affect nearly every other vital metal, mineral and ore that needs to come out of the ground. These commodities are human capital and time. We simply don’t have enough workers, engineers, geologists, miners, scientists, chemists and architects to build the enormous infrastructure needed to keep the global engine running.

What Wall Street doesn’t realize is that it takes years to educate and train the workforce required to build this infrastructure. And it takes even longer to build the oilrigs… lay the pipelines… erect the power stations… construct the supertankers and the megamachines… and get the copper, lead and zinc mines online. For example, it can take up to ten years to build a nuclear reactor. Seven to get a zinc mine online. Five to build an oilrig. Six to lay an international pipeline.

Even worse, the engineers and many of the key workers in the natural resource sector are largely baby-boomers, and they’re all starting to retire at the worst possible time.

In the ‘70s, we had a glut of mining engineers, geologists and surveyors. The industrial world was awash with them. They were among the hottest and most sought after professions, and they helped flood the market with what seemed an endless supply of cheap natural resources.

But as the green organizations, the popular press, and the conservationists began sounding the alarms about acid rain, pollution and global warming, these professions became the dirtiest in industry.

And, as economic booms pursued in electronics, computers, telecommunications and healthcare, these old economy careers and corporations were the thorn in industry’s side…

The amount of undergraduates signing up for programs in the natural resource sector began plummeting dramatically. In 1981 we were graduating over 700 mining engineers a year. Today, we are graduating a mere hundred. The amount of universities offering mining engineering degrees has dropped from 25 to 15. One school closed in 2001, after graduating only one student.

In the ‘80s, everyone had geared up for an industrial world, but these vital commodities no longer seemed critical to global commerce. The commodity industry had spent billions ramping up production. New mines… new refineries… new mega-machines… new steel mills. Demand had been met, and exceeded. Suddenly, a new technology-driven economy was awash with old resources that it didn’t need. But an expensive industrial resource machine was already in place. Powering it down proved financially crippling. Oil companies were forced to merge. Copper, zinc and led mines were forced to shut. Furnaces died. Refineries went offline. And commodities began their great 18-year bear market.

The Monumental Industrial Challenge Ahead

Decades later, we have over six billion people drawing on the finite resources of the planet. And in just a single generation, we’ll have another two.

Despite the current, temporary easing of demand for commodities, the tables on Wall Street have turned, and we have come full circle again. But this time, society, commerce and industry are far more complex, and requires far more resources to keep it going. And the infrastructure that once provided an excess only two decades ago, is now dreadfully under-equipped to handle today’s demands.

What’s more, the sector is feeling the pain of the latest commodity meltdown. And the sector is all too well aware of the risks and expenses involved in powering up again, so they’re not too keen on fulfilling the monumental industrial challenge required of them.

This will cause one of the most colossal commodity crunches the global economy has ever faced.

And with the next great wave of industrialization—bigger than any we’ve experienced in the past—the situation will become dire. It, coupled with the global energy crisis, will turn Wall Street on its head. Industries and corporations—once thought immune to such squeezes—will be affected.

We are facing a colossal commodity crunch— everything from oil shocks to gas gaps… from copper crunches to sugar squeezes. Commodity crunches have already begun to bear down on many a player. Rubber shortages are deflating tire companies… copper crunches are impacting construction companies… silver shortages are tarnishing the profits of jewelers. The energy crisis is crippling chemical companies, automakers, manufacturers, food producers, airlines and countless more industries!

Commodity’s Final Hour: Get Ready for the Deathly Inflationary Spiral

As global commodity prices will resume their way skyward, industry will be forced to pass these extra costs onto the consumer. This will further add to inflationary pressures. Higher energy and commodity costs will force businesses to charge more for goods, which in turn will force workers to demand higher wages, which will further add to the cost of goods.

This will hurl us into the final leg of industry’s last great commodity bull market. It’s the point at which investors start to realize that they can get a much better deal from hard assets than from stocks and bonds. It is then that the Wall Street crowd will flock en masse into oil, gold, silver, platinum, copper and other commodity investments—putting even further upward pressure on commodity prices—sending the price of these investments to dizzying heights— thrusting us into the very same deathly inflationary spiral that almost ruptured the fabric of American society in the ‘70s.

While this will spell terrible news for the broader market—for commodities (and for those invested intelligently in them)—it will mean riding one of the greatest bull markets history has ever seen. It will make the ‘90s bull market in dotcoms look like the runt of the litter.

And right now, you have an historic opportunity to get in on these commodity investments at ridiculously low prices—particularly considering the current economic challenges facing the global economy.

Commodities are a game that the mainstream investor doesn’t know how to play. We’ll show you not only how to play it—but how to win!

The #1 Commodity Stock to Own Today!

There are countless ways to invest in the commodity markets…from buying individual commodities on the futures markets to buying individual stocks on the dozens of exchanges across the globe. But not all commodity investments are created equal. But if you are looking for one of the easiest, simplest and greatest ways to play the coming epic bull market in commodities we would recommend you buy this one stock…

It’s the 3rd largest producer of copper in the world, the 6th largest producer of aluminum, the 3rd largest producer of nickel, and also one of the world’s largest producers of coal, silver, lead, uranium and zinc. In addition, it boasts a massive oil and gas business. It’s also a producer of gold, and is becoming a big player in LNG (liquefied natural gas), which is poised to perform a critical role in the 21st Century’s new energy paradigm. Add diamonds and titanium to the commodity mix, and you’ve got the ultimate one-stop commodity shop!

It is the world’s largest diversified commodity company, and it is quickly spreading its wings across the planet. It boasts more than 100 major operations in 25 countries. And it is currently in the throes of a massive global expansion.

The purchase of this one stock will get you instantly and fully invested in what may prove to be the greatest bull market to ever grace the industrial stage.

And this may be your last chance to buy it cheap. We’ll tell you all about this global commodity super power, and many more like it in a special free investment alert we’ll rush you when you sign up for a risk-free trial subscription to The Complete Investor. The alert is called The Commodity Super Performers.

The Cheapest Commodity Complex on the Block

While many commodities have ratcheted up in price in the past few years, there’s one commodity complex that’s still largely trading at depression-level prices…

The commodities in this complex soared 5-47 fold in the ‘70s, and there are compelling reasons why they’re about to enter a decade-long super bull market… one that may even outperform gold and oil—just as they did in the inflationary ‘70s.

I’m talking about agricultural commodities like maize, sugar, soybeans, wheat, oats, bran and barley.

As I said earlier, we are about to experience a calamitous shortfall in the world’s food supply. We’re rapidly running out of arable land in order to grow all the crops we need to feed the growing global population. We already have 6.7 billion mouths to feed. In another decade we’ll have another two billion.

In the ‘70s, agricultural 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. The middle classes in these economies are rising too, and with them, so are their appetites.

For the first time in recorded history, the world is consuming more food than it is producing!

And this is just part of the problem.

For we are not just looking toward our crops to feed us today, we are also looking toward them to fuel us!

The Biggest Agricultural Squeeze in Modern History

Crops like corn and sugar are being grown the world over for biofuels. While we don’t believe that biofuels are the answer to the global energy crisis, they will play a major role. They are receiving enormous government subsidies. About eight percent of U.S. corn production goes toward the production of biofuels. That figure is expected to leap to 40% by 2012—up 500%. And by current growth rates, this prediction may prove to be conservative.

These rising corn crops are stealing land from soybeans, wheat, bran and barley resulting in shortages in all these commodities, pushing their prices upward. Stockpiles of many agricultural commodities are currently at 30-year lows.

In addition, corn and other agricultural products are starting to be used instead of oil in many industrial applications. Plastics, fibers and many industrial materials are increasingly being made out of corn. Corn is also being used in everything from cleansers to crayons, plastics to paints, dyes to detergents, textiles to sodas.

As we look to our crops now to not only just feed us, but also to fuel, furnish and clothe us, and as the global population continues to grow (not just in size but also in affluence) this will put a major strain on the Earth’s agricultural resources. Add super storms, droughts, violent weather, environmental catastrophes, global warning, rising oil prices, and a water crisis to the problem, and you have the ingredients for the biggest agricultural squeeze in modern history.

As we said, agricultural commodities soared 5-47 fold during the ‘70s. This time they may soar even higher.

While buying individual agricultural commodities on the futures markets can be difficult and sometimes dangerous, there’s a much safer, easier and better way to play the coming epic soft commodity boom…

Cashing in on the Need to Feed and Fuel the World

There’s one company, above all others, that we will depend on in order to help get us through the coming global food shortages.

It is the leading company in the world today that is making farming more efficient, faster and cheaper. Its latest generation of GPS-guided agricultural machines includes tractors that require no drivers and that can work the fields alone. Guided by the company’s own satellite network, these state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly, GPS-guided machines can work hundreds of acres of land without a driver, dramatically slashing farmers’ employment costs.

The company is now integrating GPS into nearly all of its equipment, creating a whole new fleet of smart plows, smart tractors, smart combines, smart harvesters, innovating for the day when the farm will almost run itself. Not since the invention of the plow has the world seen such a quantum leap in agricultural production. (Incidentally, this company was the one who helped pioneer and popularize those very first revolutionary plows.)

And now, its new generation of farming equipment is about to do again to agriculture what it did back then. Farmers will mechanize and automate in a way that is more efficient and cost-effective than was ever possible before. (In fact, this company’s revolutionary new driverless silent mowers may soon be tending your garden. You may never have to mow your own lawn again!)

The pent-up global demand for innovative agricultural products like these can hardly be measured in a world desperate to be fed.

This company’s radical new agricultural innovations will play a leading role in plowing the fields of tomorrow…

A decade ago, the company had barely crossed a border. Now it’s plowed into 17 countries, with grand plans to plow into many more.

It will be one of the surest and greatest beneficiaries of the coming food rush.

This age-old stalwart has a dealer organization second to none. And its growth phase has gone into hyper drive. The macro-winds for it have never been more favorable…

Since 2004, the company has increased its dividend 5 times, by a total of 127%, and repurchased more than $3.5 billion of the company’s stock.

You can learn all about it in The Commodity Super Performers.

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• The 95-Year Old Industrial Stalwart that Will Engineer Industrialization’s Final Great Wave! It’s been hailed “the most ethical company in the world.”
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• The Company that Will Build and Maintain the Globe’s Energy Super-Highway. Its mission-critical pipelines span the globe almost one and half times over…and they’re growing daily…
• The World’s Deepest Driller. This company has drilled to depths even greater than Mount Everest is high. It currently holds 19 of the past 23 deep-drilling records.

And as the world digs deeper and deeper to find new energy deposits, this is the company they will increasingly call on. What’s more, this outstanding energy play has surpassed its rivals in almost every relevant investment category, from revenue growth to profit growth to profit margins. In a world addicted to oil and gas, this company will be a runaway market leader.

3 More Mega-trends that’ll Make You or Break You

As the energy crisis intensifies and commodity prices head skyward, most paper assets will get shredded. But a small clutch will be spared. And they are those that are hardwired to benefit from these three key trends: the coming energy crisis, rising inflation and the rise of the emerging mega-markets, China and India, what we call Chindia®.

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Fuel for Rivalry. On a per-capita basis, China and India consume only about a third as much energy as the rest of the world. As Chindia® plays catch-up, the war for energy will intensify. In Fuel for Rivalry, you’ll learn about four of what we believe to be the greatest energy plays of the decade, including:

• “The King of Oil Service Companies.” As demand for oil intensifies, the world is going to have to dig deeper and deeper for this rapidly vanishing commodity. And this is the one company they will turn to. This company is so dominant in the global oil industry that it is virtually inconceivable that any major exploration project anywhere in the world would not involve its service or its technology. It simply has no competitors. And during the last Oil Crunch in the ‘70s, its profits and its stock price soared more than 30% annually. We expect a similar performance, as Chindia continues its unprecedented rise.
• The half-a-century-old energy company that almost every oil producer the globe over will be calling on in the next decade.

FREE INFLATION REPORT:

Getting Rich from Upcoming Inflation. You’ll learn how our tight oil and gas situation, commodity crunches, soaring deficits, a social security fiasco and a possible Medicare meltdown are all leading to one terrifying (but inevitable) economic reality: An inflationary era, the likes of which America has never before seen. This new inflation will blow the broader market to bits…but a small clutch of stocks will soar to the stratosphere. We’ll tell you all about them in this special investment alert.

• The Modern Financial Miracle that is one of the most effective inflation-fighting tools known to man. It should form an essential component of every investor’s portfolio. Profits are government guaranteed! We’ll tell you little-known ways to purchase them.
• The Retirement Vehicle of the Future. A great money migration has already begun, and it’s pouring into international bonds. The super rich have led the way. But anyone can invest. We’ll tell you about the strongest international bond fund on the market today…
• The Brazilian Energy-and Oil-Company. It’s one of the biggest and fastest-growing integrated energy companies in the world.
• The #1 Gold Stock to Own Today!
• The Top Choice to Ride the Growth in Brazil—One of Brazil’s largest electricity providers with fat dividends and low valuations poised to star in the one major economy (above all the others) best positioned to weather the coming energy and commodity crunches.

FREE CHINDIA-INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY ALERT:

Eastward to Eden. In this special report, you’ll learn how the rise of China and India, what we call Chindia® will impact almost everything you own and do…from the cost of your morning coffee to the quality of your retirement…from the films you watch to the politics you follow… from the blue chips you buy to the assets you once held sacred. You’ll learn how this region’s unprecedented rise is about to shake classic 20th Century investment wisdom to its very core. Why the Chinese and Indian currencies will rise to a stunning degree against the dollar over the next five years…and how to play them—again and again. How the Chindian-induced energy squeeze will turn the entire global investment arena on its head…and how to make sure you don’t get consumed in the coming Eastern economic firestorms.

You’ll also learn about our favourite Blue Chips that we believe are destined for bionic growth in the years ahead—profits care of Chindia. You’ll learn about our top picks: The companies we have chosen that already have the marketing and distribution channels in place in Chindia, and have already established themselves as market leaders in the region. In fact, some of them have had a firm foothold in China and India for decades.

In Eastward to Eden you’ll learn about:

• The major trends that will emerge from China and India’s growth.
• The two consumer giants that enjoy exceptional marketing, distribution and financial resources, and benefit from consumers brand loyalty. As the East goes on the world’s grandest shopping expedition, the doors of the global corporate supermarkets will be open wide, helping capture consumer dollars faster than Macy’s on a Thanksgiving Day Sale.
• The Precious Metals Standouts. The Chindian® explosion will mean a dramatically lower dollar, and, in turn, unprecedented demand for virtually all commodities will follow. A lower dollar should keep precious metals uptrended. We have recommendations to benefit!
• And more “weary” Blue Chips—whose revenues are headed upward and Eastward
• You will also learn what to avoid in the new environment.

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Staying Afloat in the Post-Industrial Era!

As the oil crisis inevitably returns and intensifies, it will bring terrible pains to the global economy, and to our lives. It will rock industries, governments and markets everywhere. Oil-dependent economies, industries and corporations will be hit the hardest. The more dependent an entity is on energy for its profits, the harder it will fall.

The auto industry, the airlines, manufacturers, the chemical industry will struggle to grow. Many mainstays from GM to Ford (already near death)…from Boeing to Honeywell… from Microsoft to Citigroup will start to stumble. Resource wars will explode. The effects of even a small drop in the production of oil will be devastating.

For instance, during the 1970s shortfalls in production of just 5% caused the price of oil to leap as much as 400%. But these price shocks were only short-lived. Don’t expect that in the future. Once we get through this rough spot in the world economy, the coming price shocks may last years. Through the last oil shock, from 1970 to 1979, Saudi oil prices rose as much as 18-fold.

Long term, there is no way for fuel costs to go but skyward causing the global transportation industry to grind to a halt. Fewer planes will glide into JFK. Fewer trucks will pull into Safeway. Fewer ships will dock in our harbors. Fewer Taiwanese TVs, South Korean electronics and Chinese shoes will line our shelves. The wheels of commerce will begin to buckle. The suburbs will devolve into wastelands of abandoned McMansions and empty Wal-Marts, as people flee their big energy-intensive mansions in search of smaller, more economical homes. The world will begin to power down. The paper assets that were so loved in the nineties will be scorned.

You’ll learn all about this coming economic collapse in Game Over, my latest book, including: why Oil could hit $200 a barrel by the decade’s end—and why the risk of economic collapse will be greater than at any other time in the history of capitalism and the case for investing now in the four fastest-growing developing nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China.

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Right now, the markets are in turmoil. But it’s just a taste of what’s to come. As the energy war heats up, and commodity prices along with inflation start to spin out of control, the markets will zig and zag. P/E ratios will plummet. Investors will become even more irrational.

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