I’ve sat by now for about ten years now, waiting for someone from the financial industry to point out what I am about to reveal. I meant to write about this but I kept forgetting. I have to conclude that no one has written or spoken in the media about what I’m about to reveal because many simply are unaware of what I deem to be obvious. Others don’t want to go against their colleagues in the financial industry. But what these guys seem to forget is that their first loyalty should lie with the investment public.  I feel the need to point out what I feel to be very disturbing facts behind PIMCO’s Total Return Fund. In short, I feel the fees charged are excessive by any reasonable measure. And when you consider the size of the fund (being the largest mutual fund...

I wanted demonstrate to you that Wall Street research is usually behind the curve, making it more useless than beneficial. If you work in the industry, then you probably already know this. As an example, I am going to discuss Fossil (FOSL). Today, shares of Fossil (FOSL) soared by 32% after beating earnings.

Hopefully, after having read Part 1 and Part 2, you now realize that gold certainly isn’t a hedge against inflation; quite the opposite. Accordingly, a buy-and-hold approach is the worst possible investment strategy for the use of gold; that is, unless you happen to get in at during the early stages of a gold bull market.   Similar to deflationary periods, major crises are short-term events. In contrast, modest inflation is a universal law. Therefore, gold should only be bought during times of crisis (ideally before). BUT you should NOT hold gold indefinitely.  You need to trade it like major financial institutions do.  Otherwise you could get crushed (depending upon where along the spike you bought it).  Remember, the price of gold is ONLY driven by supply-d...

“…the U.S. might continue its trend towards inflation merely due to continued high oil prices and weakness of the dollar. And only after some disaster such as a Fannie Mae blowup might deflation appear. Source: America’s Financial Apocalypse: How to Profit from the Next Great Depression (2006)

Posting When It Matters I want to thank those of you who've patiently waited during my apparent hiatus. I certainly wasn't on vacation. I don't take vacations. As I've said in the past, I'm not one ...

Added to the growing list of accurate forecasts made by our chief investment strategist, Mike Stathis is the prediction of the correction in the commodities bubble. As subscribers to the Intelligent Investor know, Mike Stathis first warned of a correction in the commodities bubble in the February 2011 issue of the Intelligent Investor. 

This investigation and work required to write the 90-page publication below (only the introduction is available to the general public) took several years of hard work. We believe this article alone is worth the price of an annual membership to our website because the education provided can save you from losing huge amounts of money once you understand who is lying to you and how they go about their methods.  If you want to remain clueless and constantly taken by the various con artists and media scams out there, simply do not elect to become a member of our website.  Website membership provides an enormous volume of additional articles, audios and videos. Membership Resources If you want to remain in the dark constantly following con artists and idiots, it's easy....

While I do agree with Congressman Ron Paul's position on the Federal Reserve, this by no means should be used as a blanket endorsement of his political and economic views; and certainly not his views on healthcare. The Federal Reserve mafia has been in control of America since inception. This cartel has worked particularly hard over the past two decades to gain control over the global banking system. So, you had better believe they aren't going away, nor is their control. They’re too powerful now, and they won’t allow anyone to get in their way. They control Washington. They control the media. They control economists. They control your lives.   As we have recently witnessed, President Obama has been instructed by his puppet masters to grant the Fed even more power....

We saved the BEST and longest part of this series of articles on Gold Charlatans for last.   Note: this is a long article and you may wish to print it out and read parts of it as your leisure.     Gold bugs and dealers alike have pumped out so many misconceptions and flat out lies about gold, silver, and the economy that it would be impossible for me to set the story straight in a single article; that's saying a lot considering the fact that my articles tend to be rather lengthy. However, I have previously written several articles that address the majority of the most common of these myths and lies (check the end of this article for a partial list). If you have been sucked into the vortex of lies from these charlatans, you could stand to lose a HUGE&nbs...

Here, we provide readers with a glimpse of our market forecasts between February and April 2012 demonstrating once again that we are the best market forecasters in the world. As many of you recall, our Chief Investment Strategist, Mike Stathis accurately forecast a bottom in the Dow Jones Industrial Average to around 6500 in his 2006 landmark book, America’s Financial Apocalypse.

As I have detailed with extensive data and accompanying analysis in America's Financial Apocalypse (2006/expanded and 2007/condensed), America’s once great economy has been gradually transformed into a Ponzi scheme through decades of unfair trade policies that destroyed millions of U.S. jobs. Unlike many other books which discussed the real estate bubble in isolation, this book went well beyond the real estate bubble by presenting a compelling case for a long period of economic depression.   I can guarantee you the chapter on the real estate bubble alone (chapter 10) serves as the most detailed and comprehensive analysis presented from any book solely dedicated to this bubble. This article was originally written in 2010 as a followup to the material I first wrote ab...

This article represents the first in a series that will discuss the realities about Robert Prechter and his track record. In this first installment I am going to show you a recent interview given by Prechter on Tech Ticker.

This presentation required several years of research and effort. It consists of more than 100 pages and contains some of our most insightful analyses and conclusions regarding the fear-mongering, gold pumping, copywriting syndicate which claims to offer "investment insight." Let me be clear. Doug Casey and this huge syndicate of sleaze balls are about as detached from real investment insight as humanly possible.  They are masters of deception, emotional exploitation and cult formation.   List of SOME of Mike's articles and videos on Gold Due to the intense effort required to create this publication as well as the valuable education contained within this report this publication in its entirety is only available to Clients and Members. As a part of our contin...

I want to be crystal clear about things. What I am about to discuss has been stated in bits and pieces in the past in some of my previous articles. Here I want to bring things together so that you understand the big picture. And I want to do this by providing you with hand-selected videos that demonstrate these ideas. This is an article that will take you a couple of hours to finish due to the number of videos I have posted.  As you might imagine, I already knew what I wanted to say so virtually all of the time I devoted to this piece was spent selecting the right videos. This took several days. Hopefully, you will understand why I have sacrificed such a large amount of time preparing this piece. I could have spent this time towards income-genera...

When many people mention the collapse these days, the most common response I've heard is "everyone knew it was coming."   Perhaps you've heard the same. 

For nearly three years we have been discussing important global macroeconomic trends in order to assess the progress and risks of what has been labeled a global economic “recovery.” The illusion accounting for these improvements was created by a global release of trillions of dollars. One of the most prominent characteristics of this “recovery” is that it has been lop-sided, with advanced nations showing very little progress on many fronts. While Australia and Canada have fared relatively well, the U.S., U.K., Japan and Europe have continued to stall, despite claims made by officials and the media that a recovery is in progress. In contrast, emerging nations have performed particularly well. Asia and much of Latin America experienced a recession of short duration. Brazil spent the...

The images below should serve to remind everyone about the clowns promoted by the media as "experts." Instead of valuable insight, these clowns pitch a fear and doom narrative to the masses of unintelligent individuals who are too naive to realize when they're being conned. Remember folks, these broken clocks are pitching a fictional narratives that never change. You will never make money in the long run listening to broken clocks.  This should be obvious at this point. If it isn't then you have a short memory. You also have a great deal of financial pain in your future.  Check the track records of Faber, Schiff, Rogers and the rest of this crowd and you'll see what I mean.  And if you actually think these clowns have even a decent track record, all I can say is may...

I Repeat… I continue to be amazed by so many out there, from the pundits with their agendas to the so-called experts who zoom in on every grain of short-term optimism with an electron microscope while explaining away the reality. Not much has changed since I last wrote. Let me repeat in case you haven’t been following me. We are going to see… - An earnings meltdown - Hundreds of bank failures over the next few years - Hundreds of hedge fund blow ups - Soaring corporate defaults (already beginning) - A huge junk bond market (soon to come) - A large oil correction which will rebound and make new highs down the road (in progress) - Real estate prices collapse by 30% (35% worst case scenario)

While still working on Wall Street, I began recommending gold in late 2001 to my clients just when the bull market had commenced. As you might imagine, it was very difficult to convince older investors that gold was beginning to enter a bull market after it had done nothing for nearly two decades. By 2006, I felt this bull market was still in the early stages when my gold forecast was officially published in America’s Financial Apocalypse. A good portion of this forecast included the effect of propaganda on the price of gold as the collapse began. Up until the past couple of years there have been some real drivers of the gold bull market. In contrast, over the past couple of years the massive wave of propaganda delivered by an enormous network of gold hacks has been the primary...

Continuing where I left off from last time... Rather than huge manufacturing industries reminiscent of America’s “Old Economy,” the “New Economy” is characterized by high-tech firms large and small.   Much of America’s formerly world-leading manufacturing industry has either relocated overseas or has been sold to foreigners. This article was originally written in 2010 as a followup to the material I first wrote about pertaining to US trade policy in my banned 2006 book, America's Financial Apocalypse.  This book was not only the ONLY book in the world to have accuractely forecast nearly every major event related to the blow up of the real estate bubble and stock market, but also detailed numerous wide ranging topics that promised to...