A Special Message From Chris Ruddy, Publisher Newsmax
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One of the World's Great Money
Managers Blasts Government
Phony Inflation Statistics!
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predicting for 2008.
Here are just a few of the highlights you’ll find inside this special briefing:
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Why the real inflation rate is closer to 10%!
- Why you should avoid
the Euro.
- Why a huge correction may be coming
for emerging markets.
- The dollar is stabilizing but is it a
new trend or just another head fake?
- Why commodity prices will remain
strong, but not for much longer.
- What's next for interest rates, the
dollar, inflation and more: Ignore these advisories at your own peril.
- Why aggressive interest rate cuts will
lead to another monster bubble.
Today we’ve just released our 2008 Forecast and it’s jam packed with the latest profit opportunities for the coming year. This year will present unique dangers and opportunities for investors — so act now and be sure to be on the profitable side of this years emerging economic trends.
Dear Fellow Investor,
Recently one of the world's great money managers, Rudolph-Riad Younes was
interviewed by Barron's. He runs the Julius Baer International Equity Fund,
which has out performed the S&P by more than 100% over the past five years!
So when he speaks, we listen!
Younes warns that we are in an "age of decadence" that could end up in disaster
or if we get real and confront some of the underlying problems, "an age of
renaissance." He says that the Fed, investment banks, corporate leadership,
credit rating firms, and accounting firms have all failed the investor.
The official inflation rate has been nothing but a fantasy he claims!
I'm talking about real world inflation — so-called "headline" inflation — which
factors in food and energy and currently runs about 8% - 10%.
Stealth inflation is very real, and it's literally robbing investors blind
because Uncle Sam refuses to acknowledge it. You can't blame them however. It
saves them billions of dollars a year!
But inflation is much higher as you and I, and every American knows. Check out
the food prices in your local grocery store lately? Milk prices? How about
filling up your car each week at the pump?
Oil prices have been skyrocketing since 2006. Worse yet, the price of oil is
being driven up by our own weak dollar, the root cause that's pumping up
inflation in the first place! For example, Europeans are not experiencing an oil
shock at all, because their Euros are stronger than our dollar.
So except for a handful of high-profile, ivory-tower experts and investment
gurus, it's hard to believe that anybody who lives in the real world—anybody
paying for food, heating oil, gasoline, health, and education—actually believes
that inflation is just two percent!
Of course Financial Intelligence Report has been telling our readers about the
inflation lie for years. We believe it is the most pressing problem facing U.S.
investors, and we are glad one of the world's most respected money managers
agrees with our view.
Financial Intelligence Report Stock Picks Soaring!
As we predicted in our year-end wrap-up, 2008 would be a volatile year. So much
for the so called "January Effect" — the Dow plunged 200 points on the first
trading day of the year, and another 200-plus point mauling followed, lopping
4.2% off the Dow for the first week of the year.
With news of a weakening economy, market participants responded with their
customary knee-jerk defense. Stocks sank. Bonds roared higher. Yields tumbled.
The dollar swooned, and gold surged to a record high.
But we remain eternally hopeful that, despite current share price weakness,
investors will return to the equity market. While the picture might look bad
now, we're as optimistic as the next man on the street that the Fed and the
government will act quickly and responsibly to combat the current economic
slowdown.
And while the overseas and especially emerging markets have recoiled recently,
we still believe that these are excellent places to invest. So far, our stock
picks continue to make our subscribers money.
Our gold ETFs are up considerably. StreetTracks Gold Trust (GLD) and iShares
Comes Gold Trust (IAU) are each up more than 32% since we first recommended them
in January 2007.
Food prices also continue to surge. We are making money with PowerShares DB
Agriculture Fund (DBA) up +35,4%.
We also mentioned that emerging-markets investments have recoiled recently. And
while that is true for most emerging markets, iShares MSCI Malaysia (EWM)
continues to buck the trend. It's up +28.3% since we first bought it 12-months
ago.
Finally, as stocks continue to fall, our ETFs that short the overall market and
certain sectors of the market continue to pay off. ProShares UltraShort S&P 500
(SDS), which returns double the inverse of the S&P 500 is up 9.7% this year and
our ProShares UltraShort Financials (SKF) is up a whopping 31.5% since we
recommended them less than three months ago!
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Some Real-World Scenarios For 2008
I apologize in advance if what I'm about to tell you gets you depressed, but
we're simply not about to parrot the "see no evil, hear no evil" mantra of the
mainstream media. Our special report 2008: Year of Financial Reckoning analyzes the trends
and shows you how to survive and prosper.
So be warned: Before the recession is officially acknowledged, the stock
market will crack big time! But here is how to position yourself to profit:
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Recession is a natural counterbalance to expansion — that's bad enough — but the
coming recession will be worse than usual for three reasons: First, the recent
boom was based on excessive leverage and overly abundant liquidity — a
correction that reverses such leverage is likely to be more severe than usual.
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Second, the credit crisis will make a healthy recovery more difficult and
slow. And, finally, there's growing evidence of stagflation — and a
dangerously weak dollar will make the Fed hesitant and therefore chronically
late in lowering interest rates in order to ease recession. We've been
predicting a recession for about a year, and all the signs are here. In our
special report, we lay it all out for you in plain language with charts and
facts and logic.
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Stagflation happens when both inflation and recession exist at the same time:
Prices rise, yet jobs become scarce and pay drops — and thus spending, the
engine of the U.S. economy — stagnates or declines. It is the most insidious
economic ill. When you add these all these forces together—low employment,
recession, slow growth and inflation—presto, you get stagflation. That's the
hard reality.
Prepare
yourself now or get creamed in 2008.
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Stealth
inflation will accelerate and many investors won't even see what hit them in
2008. And as the dollar sinks further, real inflation is accelerating. In
fact, currency traders are already exploiting this situation, hence the
fall of the dollar against gold, the Swiss franc, and other depreciating
currencies including the euro, sterling, and yen.
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When the recession finally becomes visible, financial markets will react,
abruptly and violently: Short-term treasuries will rise in price,
temporarily (anticipating rate cuts), and long-term treasuries will fall in
price (seeing inflation). Credit spreads will widen dramatically (sensing
defaults) and corporate earnings will fall: Stock markets will plummet, dragging
even healthy companies down with the bad, at least for a time.
As individual investors, all we can do is prepare and plan for the worst so that
our assets are safe and even grow. Don't get caught off guard! Position your
portfolio now for protection and profit, otherwise you could pay a huge price
later this year for procrastinating.
We Were Dead-on With our Predictions in 2007.
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