Investors cautious before holiday break

Shanghai's market closed lower Monday and trading remained flat as investors remained cautious ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.

The Shanghai Composite Index dipped 0.14 percent, or 4.23 points, to close at 2,935.17. Turnover dropped to 73.2 billion yuan (US$10.7 billion) from 111 billion yuan last Friday. Gainers outnumbered losers 469 to 385, and 62 remained unchanged.

"The index is likely to fluctuate between 2,900 and 3,000 points in the near future unless there is a big shift in macroeconomic policies," Capital Securities wrote in a research note.

The banking sector remained flat. Shanghai Pudong Development Bank lost 1.03 percent to 19.22 yuan. The Bank of Communications was down 0.86 percent to 8.08 yuan. China Merchants Bank retreated 2.26 percent to 15.13 yuan.

China may exit the government's economic stimulus in the second quarter or earlier, Chen Dongqi, deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research, was cited by Shanghai Securities News yesterday as saying.

Property developers were weak. China Vanke Co, the biggest listed domestic real estate developer, lost 0.87 percent to 9.12 yuan. Shanghai Shimao Co Ltd was down 2.18 percent to 13.94 yuan. Poly Real Estate Group lost 2.25 percent to 18.64 yuan. Airlines were among the gainers after the oil price dropped 2.67 percent to US$71.19 per barrel. China Eastern Airlines advanced 3.43 percent to 6.03 yuan. Hainan Airlines rallied 4.78 percent to 7.89 yuan.

Top Stocks For 2010

The Single Uranium Play for Right Now

Publisher's Note: Before I bring you today's Wealth Daily, I want to focus your attention to a developing investment opportunity. As you know, I love biotechnology. I consider it one of the best growth sectors for the 21st century. And as you probably know, my favorite microcap biotech stock is a company called Anavex Life Sciences (OTCBB: AVXL).

Yesterday, tiny Anavex traded more than 129,000 shares. For tightly-held, thinly-traded Anavex, this constituted a massive volume spike:

To give you an idea how big the volume was yesterday, the last time Anavex traded that many shares was in April of last year. So what's going on?

There are rumors on the Street that 1) some big industry players are looking at Anavex as a potential partner or takeover target; and 2) Anavex's big animal toxic data has come in very clean. Now these are only rumors... But if the trading action is indicative of anything, I would say to get ready for some positive news flow from the company.

Anavex is an up-and-coming player in the Alzheimer's drug market. With nearly 80 million baby boomers set to retire over the next 20 years, Alzheimer's is going to be a prevalent disease among this huge demographic cohort.

Bigger pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies want to be positioned for this... and they're looking at innovative, smaller companies to add to their drug platform.

Next week, I hope to deliver a full update on Anavex Life Sciences.

Stay tuned...

Over the past few weeks, I've been talking to some of my contacts in the uranium space. After some digging — and a lot of phone time — I came across a trading opportunity so good that I had to get it out now, before it got away from us...

You'll remember that uranium was in a mania between the years of 2005 and 2007. On the Venture Exchange in Vancouver, nearly 600 "uranium" companies started trading literally overnight.

But like all manias, this one ended in a tsunami wave of misery, heartbreak, and bankruptcy.

Junk uranium companies went belly-up almost as soon as they started trading.

However, the demand for uranium never diminished. And we can now pick at the carcass... and buy quality uranium top stocks investment for a fifth of the price they were valued at just two years ago.

Given the push worldwide for cleaner energy, we think it's a given that nuclear energy will be a growing component of the mix for years to come.

What I'm trying to get at is that nuclear energy is at once a clean, reliable, and growing energy source. One that should be embraced even by the greeniacs. And to some degree, it has...

Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace, has wholeheartedly embraced nuclear energy as one of the best ways to reduce emissions. Even President Obama believes that nuclear must be a part of the path toward sustainable clean energy.

Obama, in his State of the Union Address in January:

To create more of these clean-energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear-power plants in this country.

Obama has pledged $54 billion to build more nuclear power plants.

Like it or not, the nuclear power industry is ramping up.

And while the industry is heavily regulated — and reactors incredibly expensive to build — technology and engineering advances are solving many issues facing the industry, such as disposal.

Nuclear power capacity worldwide is increasing steadily, with over 50 reactors under construction in 13 countries.

Most reactors on order or planned are in the Asian region, though there are major plans for new units in Europe, the United States, and Russia.

But for the type of gains we're interested in, we look beyond the obvious. And that means looking beyond reactors to the raw ore needed to produce the fuel that powers them.

That means uranium.

Now pay close attention, because this is the part where you make money...

This particular play should give us gains on the order of 50%-100% in a matter of months.

Buy Uranerz Energy (AMEX: URZ, $1.50)

Now, let me get something out of the way right upfront. While I expect nuclear power to supply power demand for decades into the future, longer-term, we'll see a switch to another technology and another fuel — most likely thorium.

But that's years away. For now, uranium is the name of the game.

And this company offers a unique opportunity in the uranium space.

Uranerz owns proven high-grade uranium properties in mining-friendly Wyoming. The company is due to receive its permitting by July of this year. When that happens — actually, before it happens — we should see gains of up to 100% or more.

Once the company has permits in hand come July, the stage will be set for production next year. They're 90% of the way there. But in terms of the top stock, I expect we'll see a premium of another 75% to 150% from current levels when they announce the permit.

If you've paid attention to Uranium Energy Corp (UEC), you can appreciate how the market values the certitude of having the final permits in hand.

They were trading at .20 last April when they started to get their permits. The stock now trades for $3.68 — a 1,700% gain.

As I mentioned before, URZ is in Wyoming, the most mining-friendly state in the nation. In fact, of the seven ISR (in-situ recovery) permits issued in Wyoming since 1981, URZ management members were directly responsible for the acquisition of three of these permits.

URZ already has two long-term contracts (one with Excelon) comprising almost 50% of its production.

Now, based on when these contracts were inked, I calculate that they're priced between $65 and $70/lb. for about half of our production. Excelon operates the largest nuclear fleet in the U.S.; the third largest in the world. They clearly understand the value of URZ's uranium deposits.

More highlights:

• We expect the company to increase the resource base from between 30% to 60% in the next 6 months;
• Cash in bank: $28 million; capital cost to get to production: $35 million;
• Producing company by 2011;
• Next door neighbors are Cameco, Arriva, and Uranium One - all among the biggest players in the world;
• Once the permits transfer over, URZ will be the next takeover target for Uranium One;
• Very large institutional following: near-term price range of $3;
• Included in the Russell Index;
• There's very little chance that this property won't go into production, since Wyoming has never denied a permit; 
• Denison Mines, another uranium powerhouse, owns 8.5% of the company.

This all takes a big part of the risk off the table.

Now in terms of the industry, China has 20 or more reactors within two years of coming online. India and Russia are also driving this. There are 53 new nuclear facilities in various stages of construction right now. So I think the demand side of the equation is solidly in our favor.

Also worth noting is that Uranium One sold their fully-licensed Texas property to UEC and bought the Christiansen Ranch, which lies adjacent to the URZ properties in Wyoming, paying $35 million — and that's not counting liabilities...

You see, Uranium One understands the high-grade nature of the ground that URZ owns, as well as that which surrounds the properties. Could this be their first step in positioning themselves for a takeover bid?

You bet.

Long term, URZ plans to exploit their fully-owned Wyoming properties with advance permitting, continued exploration, and development drilling, with a medium-term goal of producing 1.5 million pounds u3o8 per year.

Given what happened in the case of Uranium One from just before they announced permitting, I expect interest in URZ to pick up steadily in the coming months.

Simply put, we need to be out in front of this. I'll have a more detailed recommendation for you in the coming weeks. But the reason I'm sending this incomplete report out now is simple: timing is everything.

Buy URZ at current levels for triple digit gains in the coming months.

The clock is ticking before Wall Street discovers this company

This could be the most profitable top stocks for 2010 in the country because nanotechnology is the most successful technology in America. 

Incredibly, while most people have heard of this industry, they don't know how to make money from it.

Nanotech can make you rich IF you follow my advice and understand how and where it's quietly changing the world.

I've discovered a little-known $2.65 nanotechnology stock that's performing absolute miracles for our military. They're a rapidly-growing supplier of sophisticated defense electronics that's riding the nanotech boom like crazy.

Their timing couldn't be better. Our military is just beginning the biggest overhaul of the way it defends America in its 87-year modern history. And nanotechnology will play a major part in this transformation. More on this in a moment.

Nanotechnology is the "miniaturization" of weapons and systems so that their effective- ness is multiplied hundreds of times. This stunning technology gives the military the ability to measure, see, manipulate and manufacture things usually between 1 and 100 nanometers--a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. To put that in perspective, if you were to take a single strand of hair from your body and measure it, it would be around 100,000 nanometers wide.

• TIME MAGAZINE reveals, "Nanotech is quietly seeping into everything."

• MERRILL LYNCH calls it "the next growth innovation."

• The MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) endorses its use saying, "the Army is redesigning itself as a lighter, faster, more agile force..."

I can't remember when I was this enthusiastic about a $2.65 stock. Its prospects are so glowing, I believe that it can hit $60.15 at a minimum. And I'll show you exactly how I arrive at this figure. The very few people who know about this stock are quietly saying it could reach $75 a share, but I feel more comfortable with the other figure.

I can promise you that the fortunes made in this new defense industry are going to be sudden, large and certain. That's because you can participate in the very beginning of this phenomenal, history-changing boom. I'd estimate that this young industry is in the first 3% of its future worldwide growth.

Nanotechnology is expected to be a trillion dollar industry by 2015. You can choose the climb aboard this unstoppable megatrend or read about it in The Wall Street Journal and deeply regret not joining us. This best stock for 2010 is one that you won't forget.

Nanotech Is Changing The Military In Ways You Can't Even DREAM Of. Bees Catch Bin Laden?

In a moment, I'm going to tell you all about little-known company, but to appreciate this $2.65 stock, you've got to get a sense of just how incredibly helpful nanotechnology is going to be for our military. It turns the world upside-down. These capabilities are just the start of the vast opportunity you and I have to make money.

• Satellites The Size of Grains of Rice: Our enemies can't touch them because they can't find them. Right now our satellites are vulnerable to attack. You've probably read that China just tested a satellite-destroying missile. Nanotechnology solves this The Power To Beat Our Enemies In The Blink of An Eye "...a nation that gained a sufficient lead in molecular nanotechnology would be at some point in a position to simply disarm potential competitors..." Nanotechnology and International Security problem. We always know what our adversaries are up to.

• Surveillance Devices The Size of Ants: They can follow troops without ever being detected. They relay informa- tion back to us that includes troop size, where they're going, how many there are and what they're armed with. No one ever sees them.

• Submarines the Size of Minnows: They surround the coast of a country we're at war with. If anything enters the water, like a military craft, we instantly sink it. This can make battleships and traditional submarines obsolete.

• Flying Cameras The Size of Bees: It's no secret that we're looking for Osama Bin Laden. Imagine if we had squads of 250 million bee-size flying cameras that could search anywhere for him, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in all kinds of weather. In a month he'd be in cuffs. All of a sudden, the mountains and tall peaks of Afghanistan that protect these thugs would mean absolutely nothing.

The Money to Be Made By Climbing Aboard Now Is Immense

America is just beginning the greatest modernization and overhaul of its armed forces in history. Phillip J. Bond raves about the future of nanotechnology. He should know because he's America's Under Secretary of Technology. What he says happens.

Here's what this nationally-respected figure says in a speech to other nanotech professionals. "As you go about making America competitive in the future, nano is the future...it's going to be critical to national security and homeland security."

This is why this $2.65 stock could rise rapidly. Once the "mainstream" investors discover what I already know and what Phillip J. Bond is saying, it can go up like you can't believe. Remember, you want to buy low, not high. Others are now beginning to understand what nan- otechnology can do. Consider...

• Merrill Lynch Says It's The Next Big Thing: This investment giant did its homework, They reveal, "We believe that nanotechnology could be the next growth inno- vation similar to importance to information technology over the past 50 years..."

• FORBES Magazine Says It's Booming: In an article titled, "Nanotech On The Front Lines," they describe how nanotechnology is one of the hottest new areas, reporting that it is "earmarked for big money" investment by the Department of De- fense.

• The National Science Foundation Reports: "Nanotechnology is the continuation of the next chapter in the acceleration of advanced technology..." They're right.

• Expert Kevin Coleman Reveals a Golden Military Future: He reports "The direct application for defense and homeland security are only limited by our imagination..."

America Is Slipping Behind. It Needs a Big NEW Strategy

The simple fact is this: the U.S. military needs decisive new ways of winning a war. NANOTECHNOLOGY CAN DO THIS FOR US. Our safety has always relied on being one step ahead of our adversaries. But this gap is closing at a truly frightening rate.

• China is developing a blue-water Navy that will include highly armed battleships that could equal our own. This will greatly expand their sphere of influence in the fastest growing part of the world.

• Iran is on the verge of becoming a nuclear power. Once we were the only one with the bomb. Imagine a world where they have it. Their promise to "wipe Israel off the map" and "cut us down to size" might come true.

• Syria is using North Korea's technology to build a nuclear plant—that is until the Israeli's bombed it to smithereens. The President of Syria vows to continue his program—and I believe this dedicated fanatic.

• Russia has just exploded the largest non-nuclear bomb ever developed by mankind. Alexander Rukshin, Russia's Deputy Armed Forces Chief, says "the bomb has no match in the world."

Do you think we're going to sit by and do nothing about all this?

I don't care what political party you belong to, we all come together as Americans when it comes to protecting our lives. America's dominance is being eroded. Like we did in 1939 by inventing the nuclear bomb, we need a big new idea that will let us leapfrog over these adversaries and make them realize there are huge negative consequences to starting a war.

That's precisely where nanotechnology comes in...

It changes the rules of the game—in our favor—almost overnight.

I'll give you another reason why the military will have no choice but to employ these miracle workers. The possibility of additional terror strikes on our shores.

Americans are NOT going to stand for it if car bombs go off, jets are threatened to be blown out of the sky and nuclear weapons menace cities. We're going to hit back—and hit back in entirely new ways. I'm not alone when it comes to praising nanotechnology.

The greatest investors all say that the true opportunities to get rich are when you have "disruptive technologies or events." What does that mean? It simply means that such a potent new way has been invented to so something, almost overnight it obsoletes the "old way" of doing it. That's what we have in nanotechnology—and that's what we have in this remarkable $2.65 stock.

Using Current Industry Measures of Value, I'm Convinced That This Stock Is SUPER Undervalued. Once Wall Street Wakes Up, I Think We're In For a Surge That Can Send It to $60.15

The greatest investments come straight out of left field. Peter Lynch of Magellan Mutual Fund fame said that and he's right. Once a company is discovered, it's rewarded with a full valuation of what the enterprise is really worth. With its phenomenal prospects, this company is on the verge of being discovered.

The top stocks to buy of high-profile, well-known nanotech companies have sold for a wide range of price/sales ratios. A price/sales ratio is simply the value of all the outstanding shares of stock compared to the sales.

For example, if a nanotechnology company had $10 million in sales and a price/sales ratio of 10, the stock (market cap) would be valued at $100 million. (10 times $10 million in sales=$100 million in market cap).

How This Stock Could Reach $60.15 a Share By Being Discovered. Steve Forbes Calls It "The Next Big Thing..."

The top four nanotech stocks as reported by Frost & Sullivan as of April 28, 2005 have an average price/sales ratio of 247. Remember, they are valued at this ratio because they are high profile, well-known stocks. My $2.65 nanotech stock has NOT been discovered yet.

If it achieves JUST 20% of this valuation, this takes the $2.65 stock to $60.15. that's why I say it over and over: no one knows about this super stock. Look at the math. 20% of the 247 price/sales valuation is 49.4 price/sales valuation.

Now take their latest full fiscal year sales of $23.5 million and multiply that it. It comes to a market cap of $1.16 billion. Now divide this by the 19.3 million shares they have outstanding and you get a per share price of $60.15.

Steve Forbes of Forbes magazine, one of the smartest pros in America, says this about nanotechnology, "It's still relatively undiscovered by Wall Street. It is the next big thing. Key to your long-term profits is identifying now while the sector is just emerging..."

Contracts From NASA, the Air Force, Homeland Security Because Their Patented Products Are So Outstanding

This enterprise counts as customers many of the most prestigious enterprises and government agencies in the world. That's because their products work better than any other available. For the technically oriented, this is what they do.

They're a leading supplier of opto-electronic solutions and Terahertz sensors and instrumentation that are used in the military and private industry. Often, they're incorporated into another larger system.

Their products are based on patented systems that they invented. Examples of contacts they've won instantly make it clear to the non-Ph.D scientists among us—and I include myself in that group—precisely what they do. And that's what counts. Consider...

• For NASA, they developed a way to examine the external fuel tanks for the Shuttle. This system helps PREVENT another Columbia disaster where the Shuttle blew up because part of the left wing fell off.

• For the Air Force, they created a new way to protect sensitive radar systems from the elements. This $750,000 contract was a major development for them, proving that their technology was indeed superior.

• For the U.S. Military they developed a missile tracking and imaging system components that are used in the tow missile. As you may know, the tow missile is a killer that's used largely for stopping tanks.

• For Homeland Security they developed a way to re- place nuclear gauges. Nuclear gauges, when they are discarded, can be used by terrorists to build a dirty bomb. Understandably, the government would like to see their use discontinued.

• For the U.S. Military they're creating components of powerful night vision systems. Their light emitting diodes are remarkable, earning them a $1 million dollar contract.

Hearing These Brilliant Minds Talk About The Fabulous Future Of Nanotechnology Says This $2.65 Stock Could Reach $60.15

This trend is just starting—that's wonderful news for us as investors. The money to be made is virtually unlimited because the military use of nanotachnology is unlimited. A friend of mine called this a 'millionaire-making opportunity.'' I agree 100%.

If you want to leave other investments in the dust, THIS is a stock you should own. This is your chance to be among an exclusive handful of investors who found out EARLY and grabbed the opportunity before it slipped away.

I'm convinced we're on the verge of making an astonishing gain that will make anything you've earned in the past look insignificant. I say that because of the enormity of nanotechnology. I can't think of another industry that's changing the world the way it is. Here's what many of America's top experts are saying...

They'd Pay Anything to Gain These Miraculous New Powers

It sounds like a movie it's all so incredible. But it's not. This is the new world of nanotechnology. Success in this field will warn off our enemies and protect our friends. And the government is willing to spend to get there. It has to in order to protect us.

Imagine tiny sensors so small that they can't be seen. The follow suspects and capture every single word and movement. These killers are stopped dead in their tracks while their evil deeds are still in the planning stage. No technology is better suited to stopping them before they strike. And this is just the beginning. Look at what nanotechnology can do...

1) .50 Caliber Machine Gun Bullets Bounce Off — A .50 caliber machine gun bullet couldn't pierce nanofabrics. These miracloe workers can also turn away dangerous microbes in a biological or chemical attack. Best of all, this fabric is thinner than paper and incredibly light.

2) Surveillance Devices That Can't Be Seen or Stopped — Knowledge is power—and survival. Some experts believe that this is the most effective use of nanotechnology. Tiny listening devices with cameras can be placed in tiny devices of ALL types. When I say tiny I mean that you'd barely see them with a microscope. They would be impossible to detect. For example, imagine embedding them in safe houses terrorists use and then learning of all their plans when they start talking.

3) Invisible Sensors That Detect Radiation In Seconds — One nuclear bomb could kill 6 million people in a major city. To date, we have limited means to detect radiation. But that's changing—fast. Nanotechnology can have MILLIONS of sensors that are designed to turn color and emit sounds when radiation is detected. These would be cheap, effective and employed in every city and port!

4) Bomb Resistent Containers For Luggage On Aircraft — How about this for stopping the terrorists when they try to put a bomb in an aircraft or on a ship. All cargo and luggage is placed in bomb-proof containers made on nano materials that actually absorb and neutralize the power of the blast—no matter how big it is. It's a major breakthrough that can make us all much safer.

5) Intercept Incoming Rockets From Enemy Nations — North Korea fired 7 missles on July 4th 2006. It turned out that one of them was programmed to hit Hawaii. Every day rogue nations increase their ability to threaten us. Nanotechnology can put them out of business by instantly spotting them with tiny sensors when they've just left the launching pad— ALSO firing a weapon the blow them up!

6) Tiny Satellites The Size of Grains of Sand — The U.S. currently has numerous satellites that provide critically important military information. The only trouble is this: they're vulnerable to enemy attack. A small nuclear bomb set off in space would wipe them out in minutes. With nanotechnology, satellites the size of grains of sand—or even smaller—can be launched in minutes. Even if an explosion destroyed some of them, millions would be left intact.

Just imagine how our military would be improved by having all these magical capabilities. That's the heart of my message to you: it would transform our standing in the world almost overnight.

As Far As The Eye Can See, Demand For Nanotechnology Is Astonishing: The U.S. Military Budget Is Up 85% In Five Years To $513 Billion

Earlier I told you what the TOP TECHNOLOGY person in the U.S. government, Phillip J. Bond, thinks about nanotechnology. As America's Under Secretary of Technology his influence is absolutely huge. His statement is crystal clear and it definitely bears repeating. He states...

"As you go about making America competitive in the future, nano is the future...it's going to be critical to national security and homeland security."

That says it all. The military is 100% committed—and this company is ready to meet their needs. Uncle Sam is just starting a cash spending spree that will make history, generating a mountain of money for those first in line! And at $2.65 a share, we ARE the first in line. This company is well below the radar—for now.

One of the great secrets to safely making a lot of money on Wall Street is identifying a crucial trend—and then get in as EARLY as possible. I say early because the cheaper the stock is, the better off you are.

This takes speed and clear thinking. Eventually, a booming trend will be spotted by others. You have to carefully position yourself for profits. Warren Buffet has made this point over and over again. Nanotechnology IS just beginning to gain Wall Street's attention.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Says It's HUGE...

This commitment by the government is growing by leaps and bounds. For example, the government awarded The Massachusetts Institute of Technology a $50 million dollar grant to recommend innovative defense uses of nanotechnology. Their conclusion? It's the hottest technology in the world.

And this $2.65 stock is cashing in on it all. Their client list includes companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and General Dynamics. Giants like these rely on this enterprise as a loyal, long-time sup- plier to them, many with relationships that go back over 15 years. This demand and this spending boom could mean the greatest profit you've ever made.

I Say It's the #1 Nanotech Stock of the Decade. Yet Many Investors Make a Mistake that Prevents Them From Profiting...

WILL YOU MISS THE OBVIOUS SIGNS OF SUCCESS?

What do I mean by that? If you were to look back at all the life-changing investments that made millionaires out of ordinary people, they had one thing in common: they possessed a business that fundamentally changed the way business works.

Only a handful of companies fall in this catagory. Enterprises we all know well: Microsoft with their world-changing operating system; Dell with their computers; McDonald's with fast food.

In other words, with their booming sales and rising profits, it was OBIVOUS that the 2010 top stocks of these companies would hit the stratosphere. Yet most investors ignored their early and obivous signs of success. They later recognized them, But by then it was too late. The stock had made early investors millionaires, or darn close to it.

You now know that this company exists and what they're doing in the astounding nanotechnology industry is incredible. And just like those familiar superstar stocks, nanotechnology will ALSO change the way business is done. There's no reason to miss this best stock to buy.

I'm sure that by now you've read what some of the most brilliant minds in the nanotech industry say: fortunes will be made by those who see this and act now. It's a fact. In other words, you can get rich now because...

YOU CLIMB ABOARD EARLY BY ACTING NOW

The Gains In This Stock Could Be History-Making. Nanotechnology Is The Future and This Company Is On The Right Track To Ride This Wave

I urge you to take a few minutes and get the facts in this letter. Once you do, I'm sure that you'll agree with me and the many other experts: this com- pany is destined to become a major force in this ex- citing industry—and richly reward those who acted without delay.

You have two choices. You can ignore these facts ­ like 96% of the investing public—and miss this opportunity. Or you can understand that this is an historic opportunity, just the way the operating system propelled Microsoft and mass production of a computer propelled Dell.

If you are seriously interested in harnessing the immense earning power of the stock market, this is your opportunity. Rarely have I seen a $2.65 stock with such incredible potential. Buy what you're comfortable with. Then increase your position after you see the kind of money-making progress I believe is just ahead.

I even have a free report I can send you on this stock. It's called, "Nanotechnology ­ How to Make $500,000 or More on This Disruptive Technology." I'm offering all those who try out my publication, Untapped Wealth, a free copy of this report.

Here's the deal. Try Untapped Wealth risk free. That means you have to be 100% satisfied with its rec- ommendations, or I'll give you a full refund. The nanotech report is yours to keep whatever you decide. Fair enough? If you like the nanotech stock. I've described to you, Untapped Wealth is where you'll find more of them.

Remember my promise: unless you're thrilled with Untapped Wealth—and I mean completely satisfied, you'll get every cent back and "Nanotechnology ­ How to Make $500,000 or More on This Disruptive Technology" is yours to keep. Not only that, there are four additional FREE reports I'll tell you about in a moment. First, about this report...

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The sooner you contact me, the sooner I can get it to you. Literally, you could be reading it in five minutes from now since it's available as a download. It's the most profitable reading you'll do this year, I assure you.

I'm convinced that it will answer all your questions about the company's present operations and future plans. I've only scratched the surface in my letter to you when it comes to all the exciting details on this $2.65 a share gem. A small sampling of what you'll discover...

If you act now, your promptness will be well rewarded. I have up to four additional reports I'll send you. They outline some outstanding investment uncovered by Tim Fields, our star stock selector.

In just a moment, I'll tell you all about him and his uncanny record of selecting top stocks for 2010 that go up very sharply. Tim found this $2.65-a-share nanotech blockbuster. These four reports bring you his thinking on other carefully selected investments that can hand you very, very impressive gains that can pump up your portfolio quickly. I'll tell you much more about him and his newsletter, Untapped Wealth in a moment.

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In this valuable report, you'll discover a little-known stock that's on the verge of becoming a major force in America's least-known alternative energy sources: geothermal energy. It's still under $10 a share, but I believe it could rise to the low seventies.

Geothermal energy is created by harnessing the power of steam and water deep inside the earth—and converting this power to electricity. It's a tremendous investment because it works, it has no harmful emissions, it's not expensive, no one can blackmail us over it and we have plenty of it. While solar and wind power are grabbing headlines, geothermal is making money right NOW.

Best of all, it's competitive with any other energy source out there. According to the U.S. Department of Energy Report, they state that there's been "a substantial surge in geothermal power projects in the U.S." So investors are waking up to its immense potential. Wikipedia correctly states that "geothermal energy is extremely price competitive..."

In this free report, you'll discover how this little-known company is getting larger and larger as it develops safe, clean, renewable geothermal electric power plants using their unmatched new technology.

They hold valuable license rights to several key technologies used in geothermal and other heat transfer based power generation. These technologies include two important technologies that have the potential to improve geothermal and other electric power generation efficiencies by up to 30% or more. This is HUGE.

This kind of power generation works. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), geothermal heat pumps are the most energy- efficient, environmentally clean, and cost-effective systems for temperature control.

Look at the price of oil today. It's completely out of control. What business can plan ahead with a commodity that's soaring? This company is experiencing record demand because geothermal power costs are PREDICTABLE and low. This stock is under $10, but I believe the low seventies is where it can easily wind up.

Your Second FREE Report: WiMax: Transforming the Economic Landscape and Forging a New Breed of Millionaires

Invest alongside a multi-billionaire who founded one of America's most successful technology companies. This is his latest venture that very, very few people know about. This fellow once counted Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft as his business partner.

If I were to tell you the company he founded, you'd instantly recognize it. Well, he's back—and Tim thinks that this time it will be more profitable then EVER. His plan is use wire- less broadband services to deliver SUPERFAST Internet connections over long distances. That's a first!

This is NO theory. Recently, Sprint decided to spend several BILLION dollars to put this system up all across the U.S. That's a major breakthrough and validation. It gets better. Intel and Motorola also liked what they saw and threw in close to a billion dollars more.

Why this isn't making headlines, I don't know. The more I talk to investors, the more I realize that they don't even know that it exists. I think that they may be confusing WiMax with Wi-Fi. This new technology leaves Wi-Fi in the dust. You can't miss this company.

Your Third FREE Report: Radio Frequency Identification: How Microsoft Is Bringing RFID to the world and the onelittle company that they're relying on to do it

In partnership with Microsoft, this low-profile enterprise devel- ops, manufactures, and markets advanced-technology wireless systems that let anyone track almost anything. That's much more important than it might first sound. Tracking assets can improve profitability and cut costs like crazy. Once Wall Street better understand the hidden value here, the gains could top 500% in under 8 months.

Using local area networks, wide area networks, and the Internet, the company's systems enable management to control and track the location and status of their assets — from letters and containers, to forklifts and cranes, to rental cars and railcars — in real time.

Let's say you own a trucking company. You can now schedule pickups with astounding precision because you know exactly where every truck is. Or maybe you work in the Homeland Security Department. Now you can track anything you think might be a threat. Does this work well? Take a look at their client list!

Customers include 3M Company, American Axle, Archer Daniels Midland, Daimler- Chrysler, Deere & Co., Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Target Corporation, Toyota, Walgreen Co., the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Postal Service, among many others.

Your Fourth FREE Report: The Cuba Report: Getting In on the River of Cash Worth Billions

Castro's time is almost over. Sure, he gets a TV and does a little dance in his pajamas and the media applauds him as fit as a fiddle. He isn't. As investors, we're much smarter than that. Our goal is to get in on the groundfloor when the value in Cuba is unlocked and early investors are looking at 5, 10, 15 times their money without a spec of risk to lose sleep over. It's a fabulous opportunity.

No, I'm not talking about buying some crazy Cuban stock. No, there are four high-profile, well-financed enterprises in America that have major stakes in Cuba that can come alive in value worth many billions of dollars. They're close to realize these utterly gigantic gains, and Wall Street seems blind to it all. Not us!

• First stock: How about a $7.8 billion dollar gain? This company had assets stolen from them that are now worth $7.8 billion dollars. If the Cuban government opens up their economy, they're going to have to pay serious cash to this enterprise.

• Second stock: Cuba now gets 1.7 million visitors a year. When they open up, this will grow to a staggering 6 million from America alone. This enterprise is going to grab the lion's share of this high-profit traffic. They have everything ready to go to make this a reality within 48 hours. It's just around the corner.

• Third stock: For 45 years, Cuba's "great leader" has let the infrastructure of the country crumble and rot. Transportation, communications, water, power, public institutions are in desperate need of immediate and substantial help. This major, low-profile Florida company provides countries with what they need to rebuild their economies. They're the 900-pound gorilla in this industry and Cuba can easily become their biggest client.

• Fourth stock: What the first thing Cuba will need? Even faster than a new infrastructure, they're going to need food. The average Cuban now eats meat that doesn't pass for use in American dog food.

They're in that of bad shape. Overnight, the Cuban people can be supplied with fresh, processed food that they've never had before by this multi-billion-dollar company that has over 100 years of experience. Their business could easily double!

Tim Fields Is One of the Most Gifted Analysts in America. He Found this Nanotech Stock and He Has Several Others You MUST Know About!

There are over 16,342 public companies out there. Which few should you buy? Answering that question accurately takes real talent. There are dozens of forces on any given security and industry at any one point in time. Knowing what's important and—above all—what will make the best stock of 2010 go up is absolutely crucial. It takes someone with the skill to filter out all the "noise", stick with the facts, and to be able to do this well before it's common knowledge. Few people can do this consistently over time. Tim's record proves that he can.

As an independent trader for nearly a decade, Tim had brought a unique, yet refreshingly simple outlook on the financial markets to our flagship Untapped Wealth newsletter. He has amassed some great profits for our readers using "old school" fundamental techniques— putting his nose to the grindstone, getting to the bottom of corporate filings and using his formidable analytical skills to pick winning stock after winning stock. A small sampling of his stock selections...

UP 300% in New Oriental Education

UP 119% in Starent Networks

UP 127% in Lululemon Athletica

UP 148% in Chipotle Mexican Grill

UP 229% in MasterCard Inc.

UP 189% in Arcelor Mittal

UP 150% in Riverbed Technology

UP 100% in KRB Technology

UP 103% Homes Inns & Hotels

UP 98% in Silver Wheaton

UP 65% in Exlservice Holdings

UP 100% in Cavium Networks

Most investors think in terms of decades when it comes to accumulating any meaningful wealth from the market. If you have the right advisor, your gains should NOT be measured in decades.

They can come faster than you ever imagined because the stock you buy does not depend upon a "mass movement" of the entire stock market. What makes it skyrocket are developments within the individual industry and specific stock.

I remember reading that almost 70% of the highly praised fund managers in America manage to just beat the averages. Think about that! These individuals are being paid to under- perform the market. That's astounding. This is why someone like Tim Fields is well worth listening to.

When he says that he truly believes that this nanotech enterprise at $2.65 a share could reach $60.15, some of the most sophisticated investors I know sit up and listen. Where do you find Tim's recommendations on a regular basis? In Untapped Wealth.

What Is Untapped Wealth Like? It's Not Like Any Other Publication You've Ever Read. That's Why It's Been So Remarkably Successful

Our goal is simple: to exploit wealth from unexamined, underdeveloped assets. If it's on the cover of The Wall Street Journal, we'll pass. We want stocks that will eventually get there, but we invest in them first, when they're low in price. That's why this nanotech powerhouse at $2.65 a share is so incredibly attractive to us.

Instead of focusing our research on hot sectors everyone knows or obvious up-and-coming trends, like the rest of Wall Street, Untapped Wealth studies unique opportunities presented in the investment world. Untapped Wealth brings you one of a kind, once in a lifetime investment ideas. This remarkable $2.65-a-share nanotechnology stock is a perfect example.

Our staff travels across the U.S. to meet with management, and indeed often the globe, in search of the "perfect storm" investment—an unknown opportunity that's about to become known in a very big way. Untapped Wealth is dedicated to uncovering the world's greatest opportunities to make money.

While we focus primarily on events that will open new markets and create new, instant wealth, Untapped Wealth also pinpoints particular equity investments that will return strong gains from natural economic cycles. With a clearly defined plan of action, and extensive research, Untapped Wealth will deliver you unique and exciting investment opportunities you won't find anywhere else.

Don't Look Back and Think..."If Only I Had Bought Some..."

I can't urge you enough to climb aboard the train before it leaves the station. Great investments are dependent on timing in a major way. An obvious example: for the last five years Microsoft was flat. But 9 years ago in the same time period it grew 76% a year, multiplying your money tenfold. The difference? Timing. That's why this nanotech opportunity will not wait around.

I don't think that the military has a choice when it comes to using nanotechnology. Never before has America faced so many able competitors and outright enemies. Many of them are well armed and growing in capability every day. The breakthroughs nanotechnology can offer us are unmatched by anything else. In one swift move, we pass our adversaries.

In this free report, "Nanotechnology ­ How to Make $500,000 or More on This Disruptive Technology," you'll learn all about these miracles and how this exceptional stock could easily rise from $2.65 a share to $60.15. Untapped Wealth, my publication, will continue to bring you investment ideas just like this one.

I urge you to join us and get your free report right now. You can downloads it and be reading it five minutes from now. Don't forget the other four FREE reports.

Please don't delay. Every day this stock gets closer to being uncovered by the main- stream press and financial cable shows.

The 20-Year Solar Panel Stocks Market Guarantee

Solar panel top stocks for 2010 are at a major crossing point.

In 2008, record oil prices caused a big push for clean energy. Demand for polysilicon drove prices up and producers' share prices went along with them. Those who controlled the bulk of the supply chain and buffered themselves against price spikes were able to make the most out of the panel-price runup.

Then oil and the global economy fell off a cliff.

Now, solar panels are down from $4.20 per watt to just over $3... a 30% drop.

The Silicon Key for Solar Market Success

Computer sales are abysmal and could get weaker deep in the worldwide recession, and the virtual halt in microchip production means silicon is far into oversupply.

The gears of consolidation are turning, though, with the recession putting semiconductor manufacturers out of business and leaving industrial-grade silicon in the hands of fewer and fewer firms.

"When this recession ends," The New York Times's Bits blog forecasts, "the chip industry that emerges on the other side will look rather different than it did heading into this thing."

We don't have to wait for the recession to end for that transformation...

The government of Taiwan just announced on March 5 that it will set up an island-wide Taiwan Memory Company, which will crank out DRAM chips for phones and household gadgets, under the auspices of the country's economic ministry. 

If Taiwan Memory Company can kickstart global semiconductor production (as the nation is disproportionately powerful on the international semi scene), which will then flow into a stimulated computer market, silicon prices could go back up quickly.

In that scenario, companies that used their vertical integration strategies to pick up lower-priced silicon will watch their competitors get squeezed in the spot market.

Oil prices are creeping back up, and major government incentives mean that solar panels are doubly attractive—costing a third less and heavily subsidized as part of various countries' stimulus packages.

We may be near a bottom in polysilicon and oil at the same time, and solar panel prices are set to recover fast.

The 20 Year Solar Panel Market Guarantee

Expectations have been tempered across the global equity market, with earnings and forecasts settling deeper into a prolonged funk. Caution is the key for both lenders and project heads.

Yet we're hearing about credit loosening up for renewable energy projects in Europe, where the state development bank of Germany, KfW, is stimulating solar production through '09.

The only catch is, the solar panels used to reach Germany's expected 2+ GW of installed capacity in 2009 will have to last 20 years or more...

Fine by us! Top producers like Q-Cells issue standard warranties of 20 years or more, with panels operating at greater than 3/4 capacity throughout that time.

Tight lending has forced Q-Cells and other producers to get their industrial bona fides in order. The ones who can't prove their cost advantage and come up with solid payback plans simply won't get loans, and their blueprints will get snapped up by the survivors... if those plans are deemed worthy of continuation by the remaining larger, more creditworthy firms.

At its root, a warranty is a pledge from producer to consumer.

In 2009, though, a warranty as much a handshake between creditor and debtor as it is anything... think of all the fright surrounding Detroit automakers and whether the Pontiac you buy today will be free to fix if GM goes under. GM can't sell cars because it can't stand behind them, and lending to GM is too speculative if new sales aren't picking up. 

It's not a vicious circle—it's a vortex. And it's sucking in company after company, in nearly every industry.

No one wants a shoddy solar panel either... Not utilities like Germany's E.ON, who want to buy excess capacity from companies and households with installations, and certainly not the home and business owners who are tapping investment tax credits and want energy savings to put them at parity with coal or gas-generated electricity.

For us investors, though, it's even more important to know there's a two-decade time horizon for quality clean energy stocks of 2010.

That's the warranty you need, even if you don't think a single solar panel will ever sit on your rooftop.

And if you're looking for solar stocks that pass the 20-year test, take a look at some of the Green Chip International portfolio stocks we've picked precisely because they've got the goods to make it through this recession and beyond.

Transfer of Wealth in 2010

After decades of excess credit and over-consumption, the developed world is finally being forced to deal with private-sector deleveraging. However, the governments seem to have other plans and they've decided to fight these deflationary forces tooth and nail. Their solution - even more credit and consumption!

Rather than accept a painful adjustment period, policymakers are desperately trying to revive the party. And in the process, they are making the situation much worse. All over the world, governments are spending trillions of dollars in order to clean up the mess. Unfortunately, the stark reality is that these governments have no money. So, in most instances, these glorious state-sponsored spending programs are being financed by borrowing and money printing.

Most people seem to forget that these fiscal spending programs aren't creating any real wealth and are simply transferring wealth from the savers to the debtors. Essentially, governments are taking money from the solvent and re-distributing these funds amongst the insolvent.

Needless to say, by bailing out the incompetent and buying their toxic assets, the governments are cleaning up the private-sector balance sheets but at a huge cost. In the process of saving a few 'too big to fail' corporations and their bondholders, policymakers are greatly increasing the risk of sovereign defaults. In a nutshell, policymakers are erroneously transferring private-sector risk to the state.

So far in the ongoing credit crisis, we haven't really seen many sovereign bankruptcies but I suspect they will follow. And you can bet your bottom dollar that policymakers will not hesitate to use the printing presses if it results in escaping sovereign default. As a result of the world's banking system being a multiple of world GDP, the sad truth is that politicians don't have very many options.

What we've witnessed over the past few months is that governments around the world have decided to maintain the stability of their banking systems in order to preserve the trust of their populace. Basically, policymakers have opted to save the banks even if it means putting entire nations at a great risk. And the most likely outcome is that the politicians will continue on this inflationary road to nowhere.

In my opinion, as the private sector continues to pay back debt, the use of the printing press won't result in immediate inflation. However, over the medium-term, all these needless bailouts are going to create a massive inflation problem.

Amidst all this economic uncertainty and rampant money printing, confidence in governments will plummet and people will turn to 'old fashioned' stores of value - those assets which represented money long before pieces of paper backed by empty promises became fashionable. Indeed, the investment community has already begun moving towards precious metals and I expect this trend to continue.

It is interesting to note that only 160,000 tons of gold has ever been mined from the face of this planet and at US$950 per ounce, it is worth US$4.9 trillion. Now, consider that the total amount of paper money in circulation (currencies, savings, deposits, money-markets and CDs) is worth US$60 trillion or approximately twelve times the value of the gold in existence. Now, there is no doubt in my mind that as world governments debase their currencies, many people will begin to question the viability of paper money as a store of value and they will turn to gold, silver and platinum. Even if a small fraction of paper money rushes towards the small gold and silver markets, what do you think will happen to their prices? No question, precious metals' prices will explode!

Accordingly, I sincerely recommend that investors allocate at least 10% of their wealth to physical bullion. Over the next few days, it is likely that precious metals will correct and this may be the final opportunity to buy gold and silver at these levels. Those looking for extra leverage should invest money in the precious metals mining stocks for 2010. So far in the precious metals bull market, we've had massive rallies every two years. If this trend remains intact, after the usual summer correction, we should see an explosive move until spring next year.

The Stock Market Trend of The Decade

You're going to have to see this to believe it.

First though, since it's so shocking — let me explain it in these terms…

Imagine if you could buy a Ferrari — for the price of a used Honda Civic. That scenario mirrors the opportunity that has me so excited to write to you about today: Incredible value and quality. Enormous benefit. At pennies on the dollar.

Of course, what you're about to read has nothing to do with buying Ferraris. But it could make you incredibly wealthy…this year.

Over the next two years, you'll witness the greatest surge in gold prices in market history - at least 100% above where gold sits today, as I write this.

I'm so convinced, I'll even make you a guarantee.

More on that guarantee in just a second.

But even better, I've just discovered a way for you to sneak into the soaring gold market for next to nothing, with what I call "penny-per-ounce" gold.

That is, doing this is a "backdoor" way to own as much of a position in gold as you like... for the equivalent of paying a single cent per ounce.

There's no alchemy involved. And no trick.

It's just a gold market "loophole" most investors know nothing about.

I'll show you here in this letter how it works.

It's no skin off my nose if you opt not to do this. I'd just hate to see you miss out. And even if you decide it's not for you, you'll still want to know about the astounding silver stock I'll name for you.

You can it pick up right now for a 40% discount to what it should be worth on Wall Street... plus, in this same letter, I'll show you the best way to play gold using the powerful new efficiency of gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs)... not to mention, the single best gold stock to own right now and possibly for the next several years, if you choose to own only one.

Here's the clincher...

I'm going to give you all four of these recommendations... and all the information you need to act on them... FREE.

The symbols, the buy and sell targets, and specific step-by-step instructions on what to do. No charge.

Why would I do that? You'll see.

But first, let's dig in and get started...

Epic Boom Opportunity #1:HOW TO SNAP UP RAW GOLD...AT JUST ONE 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 $700... a $1000... 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 pretty much the same, 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 what the current spot price on the market.

Any way you slice it, they're booking massive profit.

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."

Sound 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 their 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 to buy 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 an ounce?

Of course you do. Maybe you didn't think of that way. But actually, gold has already sold for more than $2000 per ounce. Let me show you.

First, you have to think for a moment like 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 also make $27,700 a 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 only what you get using 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 - or 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 called "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

I'm about to show you three charts.

Take a look at these first two side by side...

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 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 the dark nemesis of 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 where nothing moves and nobody buys a thing.

The weapon of choice in this ongoing secret war is to flood 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.

Which 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 to 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. Bernake 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 where 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 Volker, 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 who 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. It recently hit the highest recorded price at $4.05. Oil then cost $38 per barrel. Today, it's closer to $130. 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 you've got China, India, the euro... and a resurgence in Japan.

Brace yourself. Because while this might spell doom for most Wall Street stocks, it virtually guarantees a global resurgence for resource investments, silver and especially gold. Protect your wealth and grow your riches with the cutting-edge resource recommendations in Outstanding Investments.

Read on for more details...

If There's a Crossroad on The Way to Catastrophe...This Is It!

Here's the third chart I promised you.

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 recent one you're looking at above first happened on Dec. 28, 2005... and it has remained inverted... on this last occasion, it's basically been upside-down for the last few months. This is bad. How bad?

Think dynamite and a tripwire.

See, normally a yield-curve inversion should be an extremely rare event. Until very recently, it's only happened six times since 1970. And guess what... five out of those six times, a major recession followed within the year.

This is so precise an indicator of recession, in fact, that it has only been wrong once in the past 40 years. 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.

On the day of this inversion above - practically at the moment the lines crossed - the Dow plunged 105 points. What happens the next time, when the curve inverts not just for an afternoon, but for a week or more? Or months at a time?

This is like holding back a flood with a cork. The longer the yield curve is out of balance, the bigger the disaster that follows. And there's only one way to stop a yield-curve inversion from happening.

The Fed has to slash short-term rates. Will they?

Bernanke would love to. In fact, he's done some cutting already.

But he's trapped between a rock and a hard place.

Slashing the rates means an even bigger dollar collapse. And even higher credit debt, at a time when few Americans can afford it. It would also mean less overseas confidence in the U.S. economy. And that alone could spark a whole new wave of disaster.

See, 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...

Epic Boom Opportunity #2: "MORE GOLD THAN FORT KNOX..." AND THE WORLD'S EASIEST 94% GAIN

This next move is easily one of the best ways anybody can double their money in 2008. You rarely see something this close to a pure play.

At the center is a town so tiny, it may as well be the end of the world. And what, just seven years ago, used to be one of the tiniest junior mining companies in the industry.

Today, both are suddenly sitting on what could be $27 billion worth of unprocessed gold — "that's like finding more gold than the government stores in Fort Knox, all in one location" says one of my smartest investment research colleagues.

Nobody imagined it was down there.

At best, they all thought, they've got just 7 million ounces.

Not only were they wrong, but suddenly this junior miner doesn't look so "junior" any more. Because it now owns one of the largest single gold deposits in the world, with as much as 33 million ounces underground.

Thanks to a partnership with one of the world's largest senior mining companies, this once-undiscovered firm can get that gold out of the ground for about $233 per ounce.

At today's gold prices, that's pure profit of as much as $700 or more.

Here's what's truly incredible...

The $40 Billion Treasure Wall Street Forgot

This same firm has another 13 billion pounds of copper tucked underground, just south of the border of the Yukon, deep in the north of British Columbia.

Up until recently, it cost too much in water and electricity to get that copper out of the ground. And that knocked the wind out of this firm's share price when investors figured costs would spiral out of control.

I don't know if you've paid attention, but copper demand — and prices — have exploded in recent months. That's completely changed the equation.

One of the massive gold miners — I can't say which one or it would give away too much — offered $16 per share just to buy this company and their options on these two mineral-rich properties outright.

If they just made that offer again, without any other changes in the company's outlook, you're talking an instant 94% gain in the shares just since the start of this year.

That alone is enough to nearly double every dollar invested.

Before the end of 2008.

But feel free to expect a much bigger move this year, especially as those 33 million ounces of gold and 13 billion pounds of copper come online.

While you can't wait too long on this second move, you can still read the full story for yourself before you decide. It's all in the FREE copy of Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead! that I want to send.

All I need is your permission to put it in the mail... or you can download it yourself, five minutes from now, from a link I'll give you at the end of this letter.

But before I show you how...

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, called 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, called 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 should give viewers 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, this isn't coming from out of the blue. In fact, I also head a multi-million dollar international research organization that's very much focused right now on 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 calling. I've been at this for the last 15 years. And in that time, nothing makes 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.

Maybe you've heard of it...

Outstanding Investments was ranked by respected and impartial industry watchdog Mark Hulbert as the No. 1 performing advisory letter over a five-year period in 2005 and again in 2006. That's quite an honor. Here's a glimpse at how we did it...

 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 249% 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 Energy 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 hauled in another 83% on Placer Dome... 147% gains on BG Group PLC... 78% gains on OMM... 87% returns on Walter Industries... and a hefty 177% on Coeur d'Alene Mines...in fact, in 2007 alone, we averaged 79% gains across the board and scored a cumulative gain of 317%.

 And so far in 2008, we're already up 255% on Foundation Coal Holdings... 165% on Goldcorp... 164% on Newmont Mining... 369% on EnCana Corp... 358% on Velero... 509% on American Century Global Gold... 1,011% on Suncor Energy... just to name a few.

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Like I said, I couldn't be more proud...

Mark Hulbert, the no-nonsense industry watchdog, recently 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 the 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 non-gold 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 "rock-hound."

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 & 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 surging new alternative energy investments, oil and gas, corn, sugar, and 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.

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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 tortured English, he said...

The U.S. dollar is no longer, in our opinion, is no longer 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 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 or 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 another way most other investors will miss...

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 they are right now. That's a lot of new gold. And coming on line 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 their 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 of 2010 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!

Here's something else you'll find inside...

Epic Boom Opportunity #4: 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 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 509%. 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 in 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 where 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.

Railcars and warehouses all over the country waited too. Along with freezers and grain elevators and companies who 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 who hold 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 to 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, 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 value 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 #5: THE SINGLE BEST GOLD STOCK TO OWN IF YOU'RE ONLY BUYING ONE

Which gold stock would you buy if you only wanted to own one? Well, so far our Outstanding Investments readers have already seen 163% gains on Newmont Mining so far.

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 for 2008 and beyond...

Turn Every $1000 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... they 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 their own geologists has 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.

Once again, you can do the math. Any way you slice it, turning a half-million dollars in 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 their gold is what you call "unhedged" — which basically means they'll start reaping even greater rewards as gold values go up.

And did I mention? The best stock to buy 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 in the entire industry.

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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 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 249% 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...

And in 2006 and 2007, we locked in 83% on Placer Dome... 147% gains on BG Group PLC... 78% gains on OMM... 87% returns on Walter Industries... and a solid 177% on Coeur d'Alene Mines...in fact, in 2007 alone, we averaged 79% gains across the board and scored a cumulative gain of 317%.

And so far in 2008, we're already up 255% on Foundation Coal Holdings... 165% on Goldcorp... 164% on Newmont Mining... 369% on EnCana Corp... 358% on Valero... 509% on American Century Global Gold... 1,011% on Suncor Energy... just to name a few.

What I'd like to ask you to do — in return for giving you all five FREE picks in the Outstanding Investments "Bullion and Beyond" Library... plus all the other gifts we've talked about... is simply agree to give the award-winning Outstanding Investments monthly advisory letter itself a try.

Like 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 in each issue in our highly ranked, resource-focused Outstanding Investments portfolio.

FREE, you'll find out how to shore up your wealth safely with bullion investments. And FREE, Byron will also walk you through even better and easier ways to get in on the same mega-trends.

You'll get to keep all this at no charge. Along with everything else I'll send. No questions asked. But in order to make this possible, there's only one small thing more I'll need you to do for me.

(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 only cover 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 to 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.

What's that price?

Normally, others would pay $99 to get 12 months of issues. You'll pay only $49 — half price — which means you're getting six of your 12 issues absolutely FREE.

To get 24 months of issues — two years of Outstanding Investments — others would normally pay $198. You'll pay only $89 — actually LESS than half price — which means you'll get 12 of your 24 issues absolutely FREE.

I can't think of a better deal. Or a better way for you to get plugged in fast to all the opportunities both Byron and I see playing out over the coming year and well into 2009.

But there's still more...

My Revolutionary "'Double-the-Value' Guarantee"

At the very start of this letter, I told you I would make you a guarantee that gold would soar at least 100% above today's price levels, or you pay nothing. Let me be more precise.

Gold prices, obviously, change every day.

When I first made Outstanding Investments' "gold at $2000" prediction public, it would have had to soar 257% to hit that mark.

Now that margin is narrowing.

As of this writing, it's now only a 100% move. That would mean double the value of an ounce of gold today. And that, you might say, is still a big jump. But I'm so sure the Outstanding Investments call is right on the money, I'm willing to back it myself, with my own reputation on the line.

That is, if gold doesn't close that 100% gap by the time your Outstanding Investments subscription — both the trial and paid parts — is finished, then I'll eat my words. Your entire sign up costs are on me. I'll refund every penny, if you feel that's what's due.

All I ask is you read the issues... study the picks... visit the website 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 gold 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 again in 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, 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.