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The other day I had lunch with a "brain trust," of sorts. Participants included a retired executive from an aerospace company. This guy helped design and build many of the reconnaissance satellites that the U.S. has launched. There was a senior executive from a large steel company. There was a venture capitalist who made his first $500 million in the software industry, and who now has much of that wealth spread around in biotech and nanotech startups. There was a former senior political appointee who worked in the Treasury Department. And then there was me.

If you're into lunches where you'd rather listen than eat, then this was the lunch for you.

According to the satellite builder, the dominant elements of the political and media culture are "completely in the tank" when it comes to believing in the dangers of "climate change." It's not as if climate change is demonstrably true, he pointed out. There are valid scientific data from both sides of the climate change issue, and many valid data points in between. But according to the aerospace executive - some of whose satellites were built to track climate change - "For at least ten years, if you have not been promoting the dangers of climate change then you have not been receiving government grants. So the research community is following the money."
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Thus the research literature is coming out strongly in favor of "doing something" about climate change. And policy-makers are using this research literature to justify doing what they've wanted all along, which is change the world as we know it. As a class, the activists want to change the world into something else.

According to the steel executive, the climate change issue has spurred what amounts to "a pathological hatred" of carbon-based energy systems. "It doesn't have to make practical sense," says this source. "It doesn't even have to work with economics. It just has to support a policy to utterly transform the nation's energy system. The people making policy now have a crusader's mentality. 'The past is trash,' is how many of the new policy makers view our world. So the new policy makers want to promote radical change in energy policy. They're going to jam it down the throat of the economy."

According to the steel executive, the steel industry expects to see inflation-adjusted, baseline energy prices triple or quadruple within ten years. "Whether the government taxes carbon-based energy at the source, or whether they pass 'cap-and-trade' legislation, it's going to cost us. So we'll pay. Of course, we'll pass along the new costs to the steel buyers. If demand goes down, we'll close facilities. Then the TV cameras will show up at the plant gates to watch us shut the doors and click the padlocks. And we'll get called bad names by the people who never much liked us in the first place."

The former Treasury official added that a new "policy paradigm" has yet to form in Washington DC. "It's like during the Cold War, there was a bi-partisan consensus to confront and contain the Soviet Union. It was expensive, but we agreed to do it. We made the national sacrifice. Well, that foreign policy consensus ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR came down." The groupthink in the early 1990s was that another kind of broad consensus had to take the place of the confrontation with the Soviets. And by its very nature, that consensus was fragile.

"Let me back up," said the former Treasury official. "Confronting the Soviet Union gave the U.S. an excuse to continue with Franklin Roosevelt's Depression Era, New Deal, big government for 45 years after World War II. But after the USSR fell? Why did we still need big government? To run a modern welfare state? That was the justification. Remember the talk about that 'Peace Dividend?' People were drooling over the idea of cutting the military budget and paying for more and better social welfare through more big government."
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"So what happened?" asked the Treasury guy. "Some people thought they were going to run a big government welfare state using modern monetary theory. They convinced themselves that we could do that. They didn't understand the long term problem."

What was the long-term problem? "The welfare state was never going to last. Especially because the nation collectively wanted it to support a rank, consumerist culture that could not earn its keep within the world economy. We imported, imported, imported. And we paid for it with cheap dollars. After the U.S. left the gold standard in 1971, the fundamentals of the American productive economy could never support what the nation was trying to do. We'll look back eventually and realize it was delusional policy-making. All we did was run down the economy for a couple of generations. It finally collapsed in 2008."

Whatever "post-USSR consensus" existed in the U.S. in the 1990s shattered during the 2000s. "People went nuts because of the Bush Administration," said the Treasury official. "The white-bread explanation - call it 'Decline and Fall for Dummies' - was that it was all about the evil George Bush and his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, Bush and the wars were visible, so that's what people blamed. The real problem for the U.S. was that the whole foundation for post-war American society, economy and governance was caving in under our feet. The timbers were rotten."

According to the Treasury man, the U.S. economy is now confronted by "block obsolescence" of many of the economic and political assumptions with which we've lived for decades, since World War II. "Chrysler isn't the only big institution that's bankrupt. We ought to burn down a few universities, while we're at it," he added.

And he noted that Republicans and Democrats both fed at the trough while the going was good. "But while the politicians had their heads buried in the trough for all those years," he said, "they didn't notice that the barn was burning down around them."

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The Treasury-man continued: "Look at the destruction of former industrial titans like General Motors, and with GM the annihilation of much of the rest of the automobile industry. Who's going to invent whatever will take its place? We used to say that 40% of the U.S. economy was based on the auto industry, directly or indirectly. Are we ever going to see 40% of the U.S. economy based on putting solar panels on roofs, or tuning the gearboxes of windmills?"

The former Treasury official looked at the ongoing economic crash. He placed it within the context of the long-term decline in U.S. manufacturing. "As a society," he said, "we've made a lot of very bad choices of both moral philosophy and economic policy. Those bad choices have brought us to the edge of the end. We've spent, borrowed and 'free-traded' ourselves to the poorhouse. Now the Chinese own us."

The venture capitalist chimed in with some thoughts. "If the feds are going to spend billions on stimulus, then they ought to direct some of that money to help fund promising research. How about some money to pay for every fossil-fuel power plant in the country to siphon off some of its CO2? Then run the CO2 through a facility to grow algae to make biofuels."

"We'd be killing about four birds with one stone," explained the venture capitalist. "We'd be taking down CO2 emissions. Not much, maybe, but some. We'd be helping an embryonic industry that can be competitive in coming years. Heck, turning algae into fuel is easy. The basic part is just high school chemistry. So we'd be creating a new supply source for the liquid fuels industry. And we'd be able to point to at least one success story where people can agree that we all did something right."

Then the venture capitalist added that one of his startups is "working on coal-eating bugs." He explained, "There's a lot of coal buried so deep, or under other conditions that we can't mine it. That coal will never get out. So why not put bugs down in the deep seams, and let them eat the coal? Then we can harvest the gases that come out the back end of the bugs, and use that as feedstock for other things."

At one point, one of the lunch participants turned to the silent person at the table, who was busy taking it all in and making a few discrete notes. Then came the dreaded question, "Well Byron, what do YOU think?"

I focused my comments on geothermal development. I pointed out that for all the anti-carbon sentiment out there, the most under-appreciated, "clean and green" energy source is geothermal. There appears to be strong support for geothermal development via tax incentives and other, policy-based standards. Combine this with the growing social focus on clean, renewable energy sources.
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Right now, 24 states have renewable portfolio standards (RPS) for electricity production. And Congress is leaning towards setting a national standard of 20% to 25% RPS power production by 2025. We're at the point where a utility like California's Pacific Gas and Electric is so desperate for "clean" energy that they're contracting with a privately-owned company to build a satellite to harvest solar energy from space, and "beam" it back to earth.

The companies that are out there now are in relatively advanced stages of developments. The big problem is that the follow-on pipeline is almost empty. The problem has been lack of access to capital for the past year or so. In other words, lack of capital is the strongest headwind to progress. If the funding delays can break down, then we'll see decreased complexity for funding, and project schedules moving ahead.

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In this kind of market, everyone is trying to think of ways to make some extra money. Some 'just in case' money, if you will.

Well, Capital & Crisis' Chris Mayer has found a way you can collect up to 75 extra paychecks a year - without having to take on a second job.

75 extra paychecks could make a pretty nice addition to your nest egg...or could even ensure that you retire early.

What you do with this work-free stream of wealth is up to you - but you can't let this unique opportunity pass you by. For a limited time, as a special offer to our long-time DR sufferers, you can get Capital & Crisis (and the 75 extra paychecks that come along with it) at a discounted price.

In just three simple steps, you could be eligible for 75 "work-free paychecks."

Each deposited directly into your account, automatically over the next 24 months. 

This is "get paid while you sleep" money.

You don't work for a dime.

And you don't have to stop there.

You can keep tapping this stream of passive "paycheck" income for as long as you like.

Some people who do this retire early. Others pile the money on top of what they've already socked away, speeding up the growth of their nest egg.

It doesn't matter which you decide to do.

Either way, you start getting paid.

In fact, you can arrange for your first check to arrive just weeks from today. Possibly sooner, if you act quickly on what I'm about to show you.

How you spend your windfall is up to you.

Put the money aside. Or put the extra cash toward a new car... a vacation you've always wanted to take... tech toys for your den... or save it up to buy a second home.

Use the money to help put your grandchildren through school... or go back to school yourself and study something you love... make a fat donation toward a cause you believe in... or just leave the automatic deposits untouched, while you enjoy the security of knowing they will be there when you need them.

But whatever you do, you have to start somewhere.

Which is why I'm writing you today about a very unique opportunity that most Americans have ignored until very recently. It's a chance for you and anyone you care about to tap into what could be a lifetime of endless income.

Money you earn without thinking about it.

Using the same simple secret that some of America's wealthiest families have used not just to get very rich, but also to stay rich and get even richer, no matter what's happening in the grand economy or even on Wall Street.

This is not a "hot tip" headline secret.

It's not something most Americans even think much about. Or at least not something they've thought about much until recently, now that so many other options have run out.

What I'll do for you below is give you a glimpse of the three simple steps you can take ― steps many of America's financial elite take ― to open up a flow of this endless stream of income, directed straight into your bank account.

And then there's something I'll ask you to do for me. Something that could make you even more money, on top of the steady stream of checks you could soon see landing in your mailbox.

All this could start very soon for you, with your first checks arriving on these dates...

May 5, 2009

May 15, 2009*

June 15, 2009*

June 26, 2009

June 30, 2009

* "Double Payout" dates.

How easy is it to get this started?

This may be the best part...

"[This strategy] is the hidden key... [if more people did this], you would see a nation of happy investors whistling their way toward retirement."

― Lowell Miller, 3-time author and CNN commentator

One of the best aspects of this is how easy it is to set up.

About five minutes on the phone with your broker. And that's it.

No running to your computer screen at every market blip. No taking notes or getting a ball in your throat every time the mainstream media flog amateur investors with the latest headlines.

No lying awake at night, staring at the ceiling. No anxious ticker tracking, phone dialing or running back and forth to the fax machine or your e-mail inbox.

All you do is wind up what I like to call the "paycheck portfolio" approach I reveal to you below... and let it do its thing. The checks should start arriving weeks after you take the three steps I reveal in this report.

In a recession. During a market crash. Even during a recovery.

And starting very soon.

And don't think you need a fortune to make this work. Because I can prove to you that's not the case.

How so?

I'll show you how to use this same strategy not only to collect regular work-free "paychecks"... but to quickly make the size of those checks grow over time, automatically.

But let me back up and show you how this is already working...

And for millions of Americans very much like you.

Right now, you'll find there's at least $615 billion in cash out there, just waiting to get carved up and sent out in the form of passive "paychecks."

Millions of Americans have already discovered this secret.

And they're already starting to collect...

Just this past spring, Richard M. collected two passive "paychecks" worth $3,314 each. He's collected many more just like them. And he'll collect more, on top of that, over the weeks and months ahead

Steve R. got paid $3,600 on April 9... collected another check for $4,200 less than a month later... and took another $3,481 two weeks after that. Without lifting a finger

Former chauffer Vern J. used to drive rich people around to make money. He just got a check recently for $7,700 ― money he "earned" in his sleep

Gary C. almost died on Sept. 11. Today, not only is he doing fine, but he just received an automatic passive "paycheck" worth $25,610 ― with more just like it on the way

What would you do with an extra $8,809 windfall? That's what Daniel F. got paid in the check he automatically received on June 6, 2008. He'll have gotten more just like it by the time you read this

Jeff E.'s passive "paycheck" deposits are worth an estimated $27,636 each. And he's eligible to get several of those checks sent to him automatically, each year

50-year-old Marty M. doesn't really need extra cash. But that won't stop him from banking his next passive "paycheck," for an estimated $53,331, just weeks from the day you read this letter

Ian R.'s most recent passive "payday" topped $88,719

Then there's Jeff K. His passive "paycheck" on April 8, 2008, totaled around $98,057. That's just one of many passive "paychecks" he'll collect this year.

How are they doing it? With a process much simpler than what most amateur stock traders, options players or even gold, property or other kinds of investors use...

It's true ― some of the fat-cat investors who do this have special access to this cash pool.

And get paid handsomely for it.

Like retiree Henry M., from Canada.

Thanks to his personal "paycheck portfolio," he's eligible to collect several of these passive "paychecks" per year ― with at least four of them worth more than $630,000 each.

But after discovering just how many rich families and well-known investors did this with their money... to successfully build wealth in all kinds of markets...

I put my own analytical skills to the test and boiled down the whole process of finding the same kinds of opportunities to just three simple steps. They're filters, really.

To help you find the safest, most reliable, yet highest-paying streams of passive income. Money you can count on to keep working for you, even if the rest of the financial world is tanking. Even if other investments look like they're stuck in the mud.

Just doing this, you'll tap into one of the most powerful passed-down wealth secrets of the richest families in America.

Yet the steps that make it possible are so simple, I'm almost embarrassed to share them:

Step One: Lock in income streams that build your wealth faster than inflation

Step Two: Focus on income streams that will grow even bigger with time

Step Three: Look for a passive income stream that won't "retire" when you do.

I've written a brand-new research report that shows you how to make each of these steps very easily. This new report is called The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets. It shows you how to apply each step quickly, allowing you to start collecting income checks within just a few weeks of reading this letter.

Once you get the ball rolling, this can start happening surprisingly fast. Hundreds of dollars each month. Thousands of dollars. Even hundreds of thousands of dollars, just piling up in your account.

As you'll see in my new report, it's up to you how involved you want to get in the beginning. You can get started with very little. And you can take this to any level you need.

Some who do this might make $1,500 � 2,000 extra per month... early on. With that amount growing by as much as $5,000... $8,000... $10,000 or even $15,000 extra. Doing what I show you in the report.

It can be an extra "safety net" for you.

It can even be a "lifestyle upgrade."

As you'll see, your copy of The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets leaves the decision up to you.

Even better than just the steps, however, are the six specific "paycheck portfolio" opportunities I lay out for you in the report. See, not all income-cranking moves are created equal.

The six I show you in The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets represent months of research to help you find the best possible moves you can make right now to increase your steady flow of passive monthly income... with the least amount of risk.

You'll read about each of these moves. Then I'll show you in the report exactly how to turn each of them into "paycheck" paying plays... that will feed directly into your account in the weeks and months ahead.

It's that simple.

Here's a glimpse of what you'll find inside...

Here's a great example...

Since 1997, this first move has quietly doled out $838.4 million to people just like you and me, in the form of these passive direct-to-cash "paychecks" I'm telling you about.

Why would it do that?

See, here's what's happening.

These handsome payouts get doled out regularly by companies loaded with "extra" cash.

I know, in these days of soaring debts and wild spending, the idea of having too much cash to spend might strike some people as strange.

But if you knew more about markets, you'd already know that there are a few great reasons for companies to share cash directly with individual investors.

First of all, the checks we're talking about are shared with only these cash-paying companies' shareholders. And who usually owns the most shares of all in any given company?

The board members and insiders.

Doling out cash incentives to shareholders is a great way for them to take extra cash flow out of the business at a lower tax rate. When they get salaries or bonuses, that money gets taxed as income.

But not these passive "paycheck" payouts.

Of course, you get the same lower tax benefits on these payouts, too.

Another reason cash-heavy companies love to share cash with shareholders is that it's a great way to reward loyal stock buyers and keep the shares stable, or even rising, during rough markets.

It's that simple. The companies that can afford to give away the cash do better by doling out cash to you than by lending the cash or spending it themselves.

And that's exactly what this first "paycheck" payer I've found for you loves to do. Especially now that it's piling up cash in one of my favorite hard-asset, inflation-beating industries... timber.

That's right. Wood.

Here's the thing. Timber stocks tumbled as housing construction slowed. But Asian timber demand has remained massive... which is a fact many hair-trigger market amateurs have completely overlooked.

Meanwhile, because of the nature of the business, this company also works something like a REIT ― the real estate trusts that get taxed at a minimal corporate level ― maximizing even more cash to dole out to you, as a shareholder on the company "payroll."

But with this specific move, here's the best part...

When timber demand is high, the cash rolls in.

And indeed, this company just had a knockout year.

But even when demand slacks off ― unlike with most other businesses ― the timber assets just get more valuable. Even sitting still, they can grow in value as a company asset by as much as 10% per year.

Can you imagine if your house... your bank account... the value of your car or any stocks you might own... could all automatically grow 10% more valuable, year after year?

This, plus the continuing surge in Asian demand, leaves this company flush with piles of cash to divide up among shareholders, in the form of personal checks, sent to you directly in the mail.

Act before this company's next deadline and you could be one of the lucky few collecting checks from this company throughout the year.

Here's something else...

This is one of a few companies doing this that loves to fatten up "paychecks" even more when the money is really flowing. For instance, that's what the board of directors of this company did in October last year.

After having a banner month, they got together and decided to double that month's payout.

Could you double your "paycheck" payout this time around, too?

There's always that possibility, provided you take the steps I show you before the coming deadline on this first opportunity.

Read The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets for full details

Here's another one...

Make this second move and collect a fat "paycheck" payout worth an automatic 12.4% annual return on anything you put into the play. You'll get checks for this second move sent out to you, payable as cash, on the 15th of every month.

Why so much?

There are other income-paying plays out there that offer much more. But they're dangerously risky. There are others out there that are clearly safe, but pay radically less.

Where does a high-paying play like this fall?

Right in the middle, with a nice juicy monthly payout... but surprisingly low on the side of risk. How so? Because it's narrowly focused on another of the most reliable long-term trends on Wall Street ― the soaring supply-and-demand cycle of energy.

See, this second move is a simple energy trust.

I'm sure you've heard something about these.

They're pools of cash created by well-heeled investors for the sole purpose of finding and controlling fat deals on oil and gas properties. Usually in Canada.

And that's exactly what this second move does, too.

It owns a string of rich drilling sites across the oil-rich Alberta Basin.

But here's why it has a double edge over other energy trusts...

First, it has a unique investment in extracting, producing, storing, marketing and shipping what's called "LNG" ― liquid natural gas. Usually, the LNG market has its biggest demand in the winter. But this company has just lined up to service a lasting surge of big LNG trade with Asia.

The deals this company has in place already stretch into 2009 and beyond.

What's more, this company gives you a second advantage: longevity. Remember, we said one of the key steps to a solid "paycheck portfolio" is making sure it keeps on paying long after you retire. And this one ― unlike many other energy trusts ― looks as if it will.

Every year, its cash pile keeps getting bigger. From $128 million in 2003 to $468 million in 2007... with an even bigger pool on target for the end of this year... and no plans to stop shelling out payouts to shareholders over the years ahead, even with much talked-about changes coming in Canadian tax laws (which don't apply to investors outside Canada at all, naturally).

Send for my new research report, The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets.

You'll read all about this second "paycheck" paying move and how to start getting paid regularly by this opportunity, on the 15th of every month.

Use a move like this to sleep better. Use it to "upgrade" your way of life. Or use it just so you can make sure you don't ever have to worry about running out of money in retirement.

And here's a third way you can make this "paycheck portfolio" strategy work for you...

I love this third "paycheck" producing move.

And you're going to love it, too.

For one thing, it may be one of the world's most reliable ways to get paid for just holding shares in a company, big or small. See, this third "paycheck" paying company has stuck around since 1977... and it's made a profit every single year.

Even some of America's biggest and "best" companies can't make that same claim.

Something more: This third "paycheck" paying outfit is family owned.

The family controls 44% of the shares.

Does the family put its money to good use?

Since 2002 alone, it's handed out over $230 million in shareholder "paychecks." You can easily qualify to collect a share. In fact, I believe it's getting ready to hand out more than it usually does.

How so?

First, let me name the "mystery" opportunity I'm talking about.

You'll find this company operating in the one "silent" industry that drives almost everything you know about the world economy. An industry that moves over two billion tons of oil per year... along with most of the world's wheat, rice and grain... steel... iron ore... coal... cars... flat-screen TVs... raw minerals... soybeans... you name it.

I'm talking about shipping.

A good shipping company can take in as much as $40,000 per day on each ship it has in the water. And this "paycheck" paying shipper I name in my report has 42 working ships in its fleet.

That already makes it one of the world's most dominant players.

And like most other shippers, it's loaded with extra cash. And itching to dole that out to its shareholders. But here's an extra edge that makes this one cash-paying company that I'll name even more attractive than all the rest...

See, for all international shippers, there's an international mandate coming that's about to change everything. After too many spills, too many accidents and too many close calls... by April 2010, every shipper must have double-hulled tankers.

No exceptions.

As you can imagine, that means huge expenses for hundreds of shipping companies. But unlike many of its competitors, this company already has double hulls on all of its ships. What's more, its entire fleet is about half as old as the other ships running the trade routes.

What does that mean for you?

As that 2010 deadline gets close, business ― and cash flow ― for this company should skyrocket.

That means a lot more cash to dole out to you, in the form of "paycheck" payouts.

In fact, this third company just had a record jump in profits. Plus, it's got another six ships joining its fleet over the next 18 months. With each ship taking in about $15 million in shipping fees every two years.

You'll find this move, along with the first two, detailed in full in The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets.

I'll tell you how to get your copy in just a second.

But before I do, I should introduce myself...

My name is Chris Mayer.

Maybe you've heard of me.

I show up every now and then on financial shows like Fox's Bulls & Bears... Forbes on Fox... and the CNBC financial reports.

I've also written a popular book, Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider. I say this not to brag, but just to show you just how seriously I take everything we've talked about so far.

See, I'm not your average analyst.

And I'm not a broker. Frankly, I don't care for Wall Street.

I'm a banker. And something of a market "geek."

I've loved studying finance and commerce for as long as I can remember.

Even before I hit 30, for instance, I was vice president of one of America's oldest and prestigious lenders, Provident Bank. I read essays written by Austrian economists during breakfast.

How big a difference is that from what you might expect, say, from a broker who cut his teeth on Wall Street? We couldn't be more different. For one thing, your average Manhattan market jockey rarely has his own neck on the line.

He's trading "other people's money."

Not the same for me. One of the things I did for the bank, for instance, was manage a portfolio of about $200 million of the bank's own money... while making the final call on multimillion-dollar lending deals for companies worth $400 million or more.

I didn't have the luxury ― or desire ― to gamble with the bank's money the way some brokers do with private investors accounts. Banks take protecting their own cash pile seriously.

Whereas your broker might glance at a shareholder brief before calling clients on the phone, I had to get under the skin of a company to do my evaluations... burrowing deep into the numbers... digging out hidden liabilities... beyond price-to-earnings ratios and the other standard smoke-and-mirrors myths Wall Street brokers love to swear by.

I learned quickly that to really know where your money is going, and to get a return on that money, you have to do a full exploratory exam of a company's books so thorough it would embarrass even an IRS auditor.

I use exactly those same techniques now when looking for investment opportunities. Just like the ones we've already talked about. And just like the rest of the six opportunities I name for you in the copy of The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets I'd like to send.

For instance, here's another one...

What's the safest thing you can own during rough markets?

You want to sock your money safely away in the things people can't do without.

Bridges, roads, airports, food, water, power... infrastructure.

For instance, you might never give a second thought to the miles of power lines that feed electricity into our cities. But no matter how bad the economy gets, we need them.

And this next company I'll show you dominates that market.

Not just here in the U.S. It controls over 5,000 miles of transmission lines in Chile. Plus another 1,300 miles of lines in Brazil. And 340 miles in Canada. All told, more than $494.4 million worth.

It's also got 634,000 acres of Vancouver timberland. And another 588,000 acres of timber in Oregon and Washington. That's built-in protection against soaring inflation. That's a lot of security, in a time when most Americans could really use some.

What's more, because this stock has such a well-spread stake outside the U.S., it's less than 30% correlated to the Dow. That means this company can still thrive, even when the U.S. markets are tanking.

You can see how this adds up when you roll each of these moves together.

One "paycheck" after another, feeding directly into your accounts.

Here's one more...

From March 2000 to the end of June 2008, this next company ― which you'll find right along with the others, when you let me send you a copy of my report, The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets ― grew every shareholder dollar by close to 280%.

That's good already.

Here's why I expect it to get even better...

See, some of the best and most reliable "paycheck" payers you can own are companies that run pipelines. Especially when energy demand is high. And rising. Why?

Because owning a pipeline is like owning a highway. You get to collect a "toll" from other power companies for every cubic feet of energy that courses through your network.

And this company owns over 565 miles of energy pipelines running from Oklahoma to Missouri. Plus another 7,900 miles of gas pipelines running from gas fields to power utilities.

Here's the best part...

Imagine if you could slash the taxes on the income you collect.

Even better, imagine if you could legally get away from not paying income taxes at all.

That's exactly what this company I'll name for you gets to do. How so? It's part of the clever way it's set up its partnership, allowing it to snap up assets and shelter them under a kind of tax-proof umbrella.

I can give you the full details inside your copy of The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets.

What it adds up to is that none of the partners on the inside have to pay income taxes on the money they pull out of this pipeline company, either.

And neither do you, until you sell off your stake in the "partnership."

The only catch? You file an extra form at tax time. That's it.

Of course, I will explain to you exactly how this works in the report. But it can add up to a lot of extra money for you. Just because of the unique way this next "paycheck" payer set up its business.

How big is your share of the payout? Better than 10%, paid automatically on every dollar you put in. And that's something you can count on, too. How so?

Not only has the partnership beaten the minimum it's supposed to pay for the last 23 quarters straight... it's also raised that amount for the last seven quarters in a row.

Of course, you can read all the details in The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio:Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets.

But remember...

With every one of these moves, you'll need to act quickly...

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Voodoo Economics Hit Top Stocks Market

Finally...we're back in London. We left at the beginning of April...went to San Diego and Los Angeles...then to Buenos Aires and Salta...then to Paris for a few days.. and now we're back. London is cold and rainy...just like we left it. Not exactly home...but it will do.

But what's this?

The City seems to be winding down. All those hot shots in the financial sector aren't so hot any more. In the space of just ten years, the percentage of GDP generated by the financial sector almost doubled - from 5.5% in 1996 to 10.8% a decade later. But now the whole sector is shrinking...along with bonuses...payrolls...and expense accounts.

And since Britain counted so heavily on the financial high fliers and their money...the whole country seems to have gone into a funk.

Tax revenues are collapsing. Deficits are soaring. The U.K.'s national budget deficit is already at 12%...about even with the United States. But if current trends continue, she'll soon have the largest deficit in the developed world.

But here comes the bad news. Your editor didn't mind when investor and speculators lost trillions. He barely noticed when the U.S. government practically nationalized the largest banks, insurance and automobile companies. He hardly blinked when $13 trillion of the nation's treasure was committed to a foolhardy effort to combat capitalism. But now they are going too far.

In an effort to raise money, the British government is raising your editor's taxes! Yes...your poor editor pays taxes in several countries. And now the Brits are raising their rates to levels that rival those of the highest tax jurisdictions in the world - Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands.

The trouble with this strategy is that your editor just bought a pair of Argentine boots. And these boots are made for walking. If these news taxes pinch too hard he - and thousands of other people working, vaguely, in the financial sector - is likely to walk right out of here.

But to where? Ah...there's the rub. All over the world, governments are desperate to get out of the mess they've gotten themselves in. Argentina and Ireland just got handouts from the IMF. Other countries are getting in line. Having spent far too much in the past, they now spend more - hoping that spending will miraculously bring about economic growth. We say "miraculously" because there is no other way to explain it. When economic growth results from saving, investing and hard work you can describe it in terms of 'cause and effect.' But if you ever get economic growth simply by spending money, you can only refer to it as an act of God...or the devil. Black magic, maybe. Voodoo economics.

Hardly a day goes by without some abracadabra or hocus pocus announcement. The feds bail out the banks on Monday. On Tuesday, they take over the auto industry. By Wednesday, they're passing out money on Wall Street. If any of these tactics result in greater wealth or more output - it will be a miracle.

One question that has so far been avoided by practically all the commentators and well-wishers is this: where's the money come from? In the popular mind, if you can call it that, the government's pockets are infinitely deep. Reach down far enough and you will pull up whatever resources you need. But the fact of the matter is a bit different. In time of war, a government can marshal the resources of an entire nation. People believe they must buy war bonds, collect old metal, use rationing coupons, forego salary increases, pay higher taxes, and sign up for the Home Guard. Every back bends to the job; better that than bending to the lash, people say to themselves.

But the war against capitalism is not getting the same level of popular support. People are not buying "war bonds" so the feds can bail out Wall Street or the City. They're not likely to eat margarine so the bankers can slather real butter on both sides of their bread. And they're not willing to spend less just so the government can spend more.

So instead of asking the whole population to suffer, the feds - both in Britain and back at home in America - have chosen an easy target...the rich!

In the public mind, 'rich' and 'banker' are inseparable. Like 'corrupt' and 'politician.' What's more, the rich were at the scene of the crime when the financial crisis began. The rich were caught red-handed. It doesn't matter if the 'rich' man earned his money from doing heart operations or selling vegetables. Every rich person is presumed guilty of the crime of the century. "Tax them!" screams the mob. Tax them! Tax them! Eat them.

And so, it will come to pass that 'the rich' are taxed. The money will be taken from them and given to...well...the rich. But these will be different rich people - bondholders...bankers...insiders...hustlers and anglers.

This is why we've been urging you, dear reader, to build your own 'personal bailout' - it's doable. All the resources you need to get started are here.

Now, we turn to Addison, who is busy deciphering the GDP numbers:

"Well, 'less awful' it is: The Commerce Department says first-quarter GDP dropped an annualized 6.1%," writes Addison in today's issue of The 5 Min. Forecast.


"That's a tough number. Wonks, quants and analysts on Wall Street expected an annualized 4.6% decline. But the 'official' number is still a minuscule improvement over the 6.3% rate for the fourth quarter of last year.

"But lest you should strive to breathe easy, put the two quarters together and you have the weakest six months in the U.S economy since 1957-58. One more quarter of contraction and we'll officially have the longest recession since the Great Depression.

"One caveat: Commerce issues three estimates of quarterly GDP growth, and this is just the first. Expect revisions.

"The GDP numbers form an interesting backdrop for today's meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee. The Fed's "deflation boogeyman" is retreating, for one. Personal consumption grew 2.2% in the first quarter... much better than the 4.9% decline in the previous quarter.

"So what will the Fed do? Predictions in mainstream financial media run all over the map. One says the Fed will hold off on any more purchases of Treasuries and mortgage securities as long as 'green shoots' (like the housing and consumer confidence numbers yesterday) keep showing up in the economic data.

"Another speculates some sort of loose-money measures are in the offing to fight the economic effects of the swine flu outbreak.

"We're not going to venture a guess. We'll only remind you that in the Fed's fantasy world, interest rates right now would be at minus 5%. And go from there."

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And back to Bill with more thoughts:

The Dow fell 8 points yesterday. Oil slipped below $50. Gold slipped too - below $900.

What gives? As far as we can tell, the rally that began in March continues.

While it might peter out any day, we continue to believe that this market intends bloody mayhem...and that it won't stop until it has killed both the bulls and the bears.

The bulls will be killed in the classic way. A strong rally on Wall Street...or a series of minor ones... will lead them to believe that "the worst is over." They'll get back into top stocks after a 20% or 30% advance - hoping to recover what they lost last year.

Then, the stock market will make a new dramatic move to the downside. This will probably happen several times...each time leaving bullish investors with more losses. Finally, the bulls will give up. They will sell hot stocks...driving prices down and dividend yields up. By the time the bottom is reached, former investors will neither know nor care. P/Es will be scarcely more than 5. Dividend yields will rise above 5%. The Dow will sink to 3,000 - 5,000.

Then, it will be the bears' turn. When stock prices go down, they'll sit smugly with their cash, Treasuries and gold. But gold will not resist the deflationary whirlpool. It could get sucked down violently...or might just float down gently, remaining low for a long time. Either way, the gold bulls will give up. Only the gold bugs will hold on. Cash and Treasuries, meanwhile, will look smart - for a while. Then, suddenly, they will look like the stupidest investment on the planet. In a matter of days...maybe weeks...the dollar could lose half or more of its value. Savers will suffer staggering losses.

No, dear reader, the months ahead will be a challenge. The world economy is telling a story no one has ever read before. Every day we turn the page just to see what happens. We have no idea how the story might develop. It's all guesswork.

Still, when the final chapter is read out...the moral of the story will probably be familiar to us. It always is.

China has increased their gold holdings 75% in the last six years. They recently announced that the gold holdings have been transferred from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) books to the People's Bank of China. PBOC. Our intrepid correspondent, Byron King explains what this really means:

"China is monetizing its gold!

"This SAFE-to-PBOC transfer marks a profound decision by Chinese government leaders. Obviously, the Chinese government has bought gold over the past six years. But in keeping with a nation where youngsters get their Sun Tzu with their mother's milk, the Chinese went through an internal debate over whether to add the gold holdings to the official Chinese monetary reserves. That is, if the gold was not "monetary," then it was just another nonmonetary investment commodity like iron ore or copper or petroleum.

"But now, with the announcement by the Chinese Central Bank, it appears that the debate is resolved. The gold has been added to Chinese monetary reserves.

"This action by China is part and parcel of an under-the-radar global effort to rehabilitate gold as a monetary reserve asset. Gold has not been a factor in global trade and currency exchange since the late 1960s. But there's a powerful movement afoot in the world to reestablish gold as part of an international monetary system. It's because the U.S. dollar has been so badly mismanaged over the decades. No, you won't read about it in your local newspaper, or even in the standard, mainstream business media. But that movement is out there. It's happening.

"So now the Chinese are primed to begin using gold as a monetary asset. What's the practical impact? I expect to see central banks worldwide start to add gold to their monetary reserves. The floodgates are opening. The PBOC and other central banks from here to Timbuktu are going to become net purchasers of gold in the years ahead. In the future, only central bank suckers and losers will be net sellers of gold. (Take note, IMF.)

"And people who own physical gold, as well as shares in well-managed mining companies, will benefit greatly. Need I say more?"

For ideas of how to integrate gold with your portfolio.

We'll have more from Byron in today's guest essay, below.

The plane coming back from Buenos Aires wasn't full. Air traffic is down 11% from a year earlier.

And this was before people began worrying about swine flu.

Today, commentators are fretting about how a serious epidemic would affect the "recovery." They needn't worry. First, because there is no genuine recovery to worry about. Second, because if a serious epidemic were to hit the world, economic growth would be the least of our problems.

Buffett’s Surprising Philosophy on Portfolio Diversification

Working for StreetAuthority, I do a lot of different things.
 
In the course of a day, I may be writing an article...editing a newsletter...discussing potential picks with our staff...researching the next investing hotspot...even working with a development team on our new StreetAuthority web site (shhh...it's still a secret!).
 
And with so much going on, I actually find myself a little frazzled as the day goes on.
 
To combat this, I've started work about an hour earlier than the rest of the staff. I don't do this to show off, but found I can do more in that one hour (when I could simply focus on one task without distraction) than I could in two hours when the rest of the staff has the office buzzing.
 
Turning off the background noise allowed me to simplify things ― and get better results.
 
What does this have to do with investing? A ton.

Why Diversification Is Like Drinking from a Fire Hose

Sometimes the investing waters are as clear as mud to retail investors. After all, there are literally thousands of potential plays out there.
 
You could try to play a rebound in the automakers. You could day-trade the banks, profiting from their roller-coaster moves. You could stick with index funds and ride out the storm. You could even try to find companies that are simply undervalued and will rebound once this crisis passes.
 
But the problem is that there are too many options ― it's like trying to drink from a fire hose. Too many choices make it hard to nail down the one investment that will make your portfolio a winner.
 
Instead, like I do every morning by getting an early start, I think successful investors need to turn off the distractions and focus their attention to a small group of the best ideas... drink from a glass, instead of a fire hose.
 
By shrinking your portfolio, you'll find:
 
It's easier to stay on top of your investments ― If you have a portfolio of 50 top stocks, how well can you pay attention to each one? Even if you read up on each one just an hour each week, you'd have a full-time job (plus 10 hours of overtime) just to give each its due.
 
And with this market, it's more important than ever to watch your holdings. Instead, a portfolio of just 10-12 of your best picks would need significantly less time to track each week and you'll likely sleep better at night knowing you've done your homework.
 
Better Portfolio Performance ― Which do you think would average higher on a test: An entire class full of students, or a handful of the smartest students as picked by the teacher?
 
The answer is obvious...and it's the same with your portfolio.
 
Look through your holdings. If you have upwards of 30, 40, even 50 holdings or more, I bet you'll find some that you think are simply "OK." Hell, I'd be surprised if you don't have some you don't even like but simply haven't sold yet.
 
Instead, what if you culled down your portfolio to just your favorite picks? Wouldn't your portfolio be in a lot better shape going forward? You'd have the cream of the crop, instead of the entire field. Remember, it's hard to outperform the market if your portfolio is the market.
 
That you're not alone in trimming down your portfolio ― Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway holds just 41 positions. That's a lot for an individual investor, but for a company with billions at its disposal, it's surprisingly few. On top of that, over the past 25 years, Berkshire's top five holdings have made up an average of 73% of its portfolio.
 
Buffett is simply a proponent for positioning a portfolio to take advantage of the best picks. He's even gone as far as saying:

"If it's your game, diversification doesn't make sense. It's crazy to put money into your 20th choice rather than your 1st choice. It's the 'LeBron James' analogy. If you have LeBron James on your team, don't take him out of the game just to make room for someone else. If you have a harem of 40 women, you never really get to know any of them well." 

If the world's greatest investor is following this tact, shouldn't other investors?

That's Why We've Launched StreetAuthority's Stock Market of the Month

This sort of thinking is why we've recently launched our latest newsletter ― StreetAuthority's Stock of the Month ― with a "Keep it Simple" approach in mind.
 
It is as simple as investing gets ― just one pick per month.
 
I have to say, I was more than honored when Lou Betancourt, our publisher, tapped me to write this letter. It's an investing style that I find very appealing...and it follows right along with how I've been looking at the market for awhile now.

I'm not investing in "the stock market," but in individual companies. You don't have to worry about oil prices, interest rates, the dollar, or what the Fed is up to ― because every "bad" economic development actually helps some investment or other.
 
The recession has been a bonanza for for-profit education companies as tens of thousands of laid-off job hunters sign up for retraining. In the past year the best stock of Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL) has jumped +34%... ITT Educational (NYSE: EDI) is up +88%.
 
Companies that cater to tougher economic times are doing well, too. Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST) is up +21% over the past year... Family Dollar (NYSE: FDI) is up +73% ... and Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) is up +47%.

If you are simply investing with broad index funds, then you've missed these opportunities. But that doesn't mean you have to forever. Follow this link to learn how you can join me and this simple approach for less than $60. But act quickly, this introductory offer won't last much longer. 
 
Good Investing!

What Happens When the Money Runs Out?

In the markets, all the really interesting action is happening behind the scenes. On the surface, things appeared to get better on Friday. In the U.S., Ford told investors that it lost $1.4 billion in the first quarter. Apparently this was less than analysts expected. The Dow closed up 1.48% and climbed back over 8,000.

What a battler that Dow is. It's got nothing on the S&P 500 though. The S&P is up 28% in the last thirty-three trading days. It hasn't done anything like that since the 1930s. However the index did close down for the week. That broke a six-week run of gains.

One more note about that. Four-week winning streaks of ten percent are more are generally followed by much smaller gains or losses over the next four weeks, according to the analysts at Bespoke Investment Group. Their research shows that in the four weeks following a four-week rally of 10% or more on the S&P, the index followed up with average gains of 1.87%.

How about one more note about that. There were two four-week rallies of more than twenty percent, according to the same research. The S&P 500 surged 54.2% in just four weeks by early August of 1932. Over the next four weeks in went up another 30%. Then, in April of 1933, the index provided an encore to one four-week surge of 33.8% with another surge of 19.2%.

So there you go. What we do we make of all that? Well, it shows you that even in the middle of the Great Depression, the market was capable of staging mammoth rallies that would tempt investors back in. No doubt those were extremely tradable rallies. But they were followed by lower lows once the forces of economic and earnings reality reasserted themselves on the collective mind of the market.

This time will be different because it's always different. But if you're wondering if the stock market is flashing a recovery sign for the economy, you might want to take a look at insider selling. The insiders are selling this rally, according to Data by Maryland-based Washington Service. That outfit says the during the S&P's 28% climb from twelve-year lows on March 9th, CEOs, directors, and senior officers of U.S. corporations sold 8.3 times more best stock than they bought.

Not that there won't be others. But behind the scenes, other things are happening which are going to drag on top stocks.

One of those things is that many of the world's sovereign governments are in the process of going broke. Spain, Ireland, Greece, and Portugal have all had their sovereign credit ratings downgraded by the ratings agencies. These countries face different challenges like burst property bubbles, declining government tax revenues, and banking sectors hobbled by massive bad loans. But what they have in common is that their respective governments have responded to the crisis by ramping up borrowing to credit-rating ruinous levels.

The scale of global borrowing plans is pretty breathtaking. And what you begin to wonder is a simple question: where is all the money going to come from? Or, to quote David Gray in "Nightblindness", "What we gonna do when the money runs out?"

For example, the UK's Debt Management office, which issues bonds on behalf of the British government, says that British bond sales between now and 2013 will exceed £696 billion. The Guardian reports that it will be more like £815 billion, according to figures from Deutsche Bank.

Do you think private investors are super excited to loan the British government money when the British economy is expected to contract by 3.5% this year? Under the budget revealed last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, the UK will borrow £175 billion this year alone, or about 12.5% of British GDP. Over the next five years, public sector debt would rise to 76% of British GDP from its current level of 46%.

Gee. That is a lot of borrowing. Britain is a country drowning in debt. Adding more millstones around its neck would not seem to improve its chances of paying that debt down. You could pay it down by, say, generating national income from exports.

S&P's ratings agency keeps track of the sovereign debt to income ratio. If a country exports a lot of finished goods or raw materials, the government benefits from tax and royalty revenues. These monies are used to service the sovereign debt.

But if you're not generating large export revenues, then you find a big gaping hole in your budget where royalty and tax revenue should be. Maybe that's one reason Britain's new budget raises tax rates on high- income earnings from 40-50%. What you gonna do when the money runs out?

If Britain's government thinks it can make up for disastrous public finances by raising taxes, it's probably making another in a long line of stupid mistakes. The high-income earners who would face the big tax increase are exactly the same people getting fired from their jobs in the City. This shows, once again, that building an entire national economy around high finance puts you in all sorts of trouble.

But wait. Maybe the high-saving nations of the world will bridge the gap between British expectations and financial reality. We wouldn't count on it though. Remember the big hoopla from the G20 meeting in London when it was announced that the International Monetary Fund's funding would be tripled to $750 billion?

That funding is desperately needed. The IMF itself reckons it will have to dole out some $187 billion in new loans to national governments just to ride the current phase of the global financial crisis. But a key piece of information was left missing in London. How would the IMF be funded?

The G20 finance ministers met in Washington to sort that out. And the early indications are that the IMF will be funded by issuing bonds sold to high-saving nations. If this is true, it's a victory for the developing world and a defeat for the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. and Europe were both pushing for a direct cash injection funding method. In other words, they wanted China, Russia, Brazil, and India to use their foreign currency reserves to fund the IMF.

But the BRICs batted that proposal away. So now the IMF plans to sell around $500 billion in bonds. They will be denominated in the quasi- currency the fund uses internally (the special drawing rights, or SDR that both Russia and China have floated as a possible new global reserve currency).

How the bonds actually work still has to be sorted out. But the internal logic of the whole arrangement is now clear: creditors hold the whip hand. Debtors are going to get whipped. The balance of power in the global economy is clearly shifting from the borrowers and spenders towards the savers and producers. Advantage BRICs.

Disadvantage Gordon Brown and Barack Obama and probably Kevin Rudd too. With the existing debt-to-GDP ratios in Britain and the U.K., we reckon it is going to be impossible to fund further expansions of financial bailout programs and welfare state programs without much higher interest rates (borrowing costs).

You can avoid the borrowing problem for a while by soaking the rich with higher taxes. You might also use climate change hysteria to tax carbon (really an indirect tax on consumers). If both happen this year and the result will be even more rapid economic contraction. They will be this Depression's equivalent of Smoot-Hawley: exactly the wrong thing to do, done at the worst possible time.

Of course the easy out, we feel obliged to point out, is not to borrow the money at all or tax it from your citizens. You could just print it instead. But this tends to unleash hyperinflationary pressures which also tend to destabilize civil society. It's better to avoid this if you can.

Either way, there is no avoiding the reckoning. Right now, you could make a compelling argument that the value of credit-backed assets is falling so fast that government steps to prop them up simply won't (or can't) work. Credit deflation rules the day. The formidable fiscal and monetary stimulus measures are disappearing in the maw of asset deflation while the world goes broke trying to prevent it.

If this is right, and it's something investors take the time to notice, hot stocks are going to make lower lows again. A lot lower.

Your 401(k) Can't Save You, Plan B Retirement Library

Over 60% of Americans rely on their 401(k) plans for retirement. Many - some of our dear readers included - have seen their accounts lopped in half, with little time left to make up the lost ground.

In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that our current credit crunch has already wiped out $2 trillion in 401(k) accounts - with more slippage to come.

Clearly, the "old way" of planning for your retirement just isn't going to do the trick. If you plan on retiring in a reasonable amount of time - and still hope to have some wealth left for your children or grandchildren, it's time to turn to Plan B...specifically, "Plan B Pensions."

How to Legally Force American Biggest Companies To Send You a Retirement "Paycheck" Every Two Weeks

No, I can't show you how to make the sleazebags responsible for this mess pay you back directly for the damage they've caused.

And the billions Washington hands out these days?

Forget about it. It was never intended for you.

However, what I can do over the next few minutes is show you "another" way.

I call it the "Plan B" strategy.

How does it work?

Suppose you could collect up to $120,000 or more in work-free "paychecks" per year, every single year... for the rest of your life.

On average, you could get these checks every 12 days.

For as long as you need them... at any age.

And you can even pass this steady stream of annual cash on to your spouse, your children, even your grandchildren. In fact many of America's richest families already do exactly that.

Wouldn't that go a long way toward helping you forget about the special treatment those Wall Street jerks are lapping up, right about now?

And here's the thing... even though this is easy to do... so few people know about this right now. Although I'm willing to bet that's about to change, and quickly...

The Best "Little-Talked-About" Lifetime Income Secret I've Ever Come Across

Let me start by saying that, even though we're smack in the middle of the most devastating market shakedown since the 1930s, this is easily the best time in history for you to hear about this "little-talked-about" secret.

How so?

For one thing, these "Plan B Pensions" I'd like to reveal to you have a long and proven track record over time. But even little-known ability to completely outclass conventional fixed-benefit pension plans.

Just take a look at the comparison in this chart...

As you can see, "Plan B Pensions" give you many, many times more options for rebalancing your portfolio in a shifting market than you'll see in either the classic plans or more modern versions, like the 401(k) approach.

What's more, unlike those better-known approaches, with a "Plan B Pension," you'll never butt your head against age limits, withdrawal penalties or participation restrictions.

It's also automatic.

Once you set up your "Plan B Pension," it starts running itself.

What else? Even now... you can start getting your income "paychecks" doing this as often as every 12 days, starting with the next payout date on March 14, 2009.

In fact, in the free copy of The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life I'll send you, I can show you six different "Plan B Pension" programs you're invited to join right now.

I'm not personally affiliated with any of them. But after a lot of research and analysis ― all of which I'll share with you ― these six moves are easily the best "Plan B" opportunities you'll find on the market today.

And by the way, you don't need a lot of money to get started.

You can start some of these "Plan B Pension" programs with as little as $10.

How does that sound?

And once you're set up, you could collect as many as 38 "Plan B Pension paychecks" over the next 12 months alone... with more of the same every year to come.

The checks keep coming for as long as you need them.

You can even get "matched" gains with these plans... much like a typical 401(k) plan... but without having to work a single day for the companies that will pay into your account.

Some of these "plans" even reward you with fat discounts on the top stocks you've chosen, well below what others pay to own the same shares on the open market.

In itself, that's like getting an instant gain on the day you buy shares. It's also a special "perk" reserved only for members of these "plans."

What's more...

You Can Collect "Plan B Pension" Checks as Often as Every 12 Days

Even if you just stick with the six "Plan B Pension" opportunities I'll reveal to you... over the next five minutes... that alone could start you off with checks as frequent as every 12 days.

Let me show you more of these opportunities and you could start collecting even more often... and with even greater results. I'm ready to give you my research right now.

In fact, I'll send you the details on the six "Plan B Pension" moves I just mentioned at no charge. Just as soon as you give me your permission. Details on that in just a moment.

But first, let's take an even closer look at how doing this ― using a "Plan B Pension" ― can give anyone an advantage of the much more common moves most of us are used to.

Take, for instance, the classic "defined-benefit" pension plan.

You know how these work. Or at least, you do if you've got a good memory. Because, you see, these same classic company pensions ― given out like golden parachutes to parents and grandparents ― have all but disappeared today.

In just the 10 years from 1994�2004, the total number of defined-benefit pension plans fell by half ― from 59,000 to just 28,000. Today that number is even lower, with more old-school pensions set to get wiped out over the rest of 2009.

The idea of getting a "fixed-benefit" check for life was great. But a benefit that disappears when you need it is no benefit at all! Anyone who worked years for the promise of a classic pension got rooked. And now a lot of these people face hard times ahead.

The same is true if you were "duped" into accepting the modern-day alternative, the so-called 401(k). You know these plans all too well, I'm sure.

About 30 years ago, companies came up with 401(k) plans because they seemed like a great way to slash exposure to classic pension obligations... while giving employees a chance to manage their own retirements.

Guess what happened.

Today, top economists are calling 401(k) plans a "failed experiment." And The Wall Street Journal recently reported that today's credit crunch has already wiped out over $2 trillion in these 401(k) accounts alone ― with more big slippage to come!

Over 60% of Americans depend on 401(k) plans for retirement. Many have seen them lopped in half, with little time left to make up the lost ground.

What's more, with these more common kinds of plans, you can easily get stuck putting your eggs in only one basket, if you've worked with only one employer. Or two or three, at the most, if you've put in the years at more than one job.

That's not at all the case with a "Plan B Pension."

First of all, "Plan B Pensions" can move with you the day you get started. They're yours to control and yours to draw from whenever and wherever you like. You control the size of the checks. You control how many you get. You control how fast the wealth pile grows.

With no limits based on your age, whom you work for or how many of these programs you'd like to tap at one time. There are over 1,020 of these "Plan B Pension" plans in America.

You can enroll in as many of them as you like.

All at once or switching between them until you find ones you prefer.

It's literally up to you. And I can help you choose the best possible ones to follow, starting with the six "Plan B Pension" opportunities I'm ready to name for you at the end of this letter.

You can collect "retirement paychecks" not just from one company... but from as many companies as you like... even the ones you've never worked for a single day in your life.

This is a "work-free" strategy. Except for the work you'll do to set it up ― which is only about as much as it takes to set up a bank account.

It's really that simple. Even though doing this now could give you astounding, life-lasting results.

Here's something else...

How "Plan B Pensions" Can Double Your Wealth

Forbes reported a study...

In other words, "Plan B Pension" helped double the size of those gains over time.

Despite the '87 market bust... the S&L banking crisis and first Bush recession... the currency crash of '97 and the dot-com bubble... Sept. 11 and the start of this most recent real estate bust...

What's more, the best of these "Plan B Pension" programs just keep on paying straight through the current credit crunch. With checks that could be landing in your accounts right now.

And unlike typical pensions or 401(k)s, "Plan B Pensions" don't quit working for you when you retire. That is, you can keep putting money in and taking it out as you like.

Growing it, tweaking it, even spending it... as you see fit.

There's no penalty for early withdrawal.

And no age or employment restriction when you get in or out.

Start now, and even with just the six special moves I've promised to show you, you can already start collecting a "Plan B Pension" payout as often as every 12 days.

Plus, with many of these "Plan B Pension" plans, you can also...

Collect an Instant "Matching" Bonus With Each Payout

One big draw on 401(k) programs is supposed to be the "matching" dollars some companies throw in when employees use the plans to set money aside.

When it works, it's a great benefit. But right now, cash-strapped companies have started slashing those "matching" benefits too. Again, a benefit you don't get... is no benefit at all.

The thing is, "Plan B Pensions" also offer your own kind of "matching." Because many of the 1,020 "plans" you can choose from "match" your gains by as much as 10%... with each regular payout.

This can be like "free money"... piled up on top of what you're already making.

Why would any "Plan B Pension" operator want to give you a bonus out his own pocket? Simple. When you participate in these "plans," the companies that back them get lots of benefits too.

A more stable share price. Long-term shareholder loyalty. A reliable pool of capital. A blue-chip reputation and market respectability. The list could go on.

And in exchange for that loyalty and stability... especially when we're looking at unpredictable markets that could last for years to come... they're willing to pay out of their massive, tucked-away cash piles to "thank" you for staying on board.

Maybe you're thinking only a few lucky insiders or elite market players can wiggle their way onto these "Plan B Pension" payrolls. But anyone can do this. Just by taking the steps I'll show you to get on board.

It works at any age or income level. With starting amounts as little as $10. And work-free, meaning you don't have to work for or even be directly associated with any of these companies in any other way to participate.

Some Americans quietly use this "personal pension" to beef up the regular retirement pensions they already collect... others use it to quit working and retire well before 65... still more use it to replace typical sponsored retirement strategies completely, while "personal pension" incomes as high as $120,000 and higher... for as long as they desire.

Kim Kundra collected $11,611 in one month. And the same again 30 days later. And then two checks, each for nearly $12,000 over the next eight weeks after that.

Gary Malina's "personal pension" so far placed checks worth $22,919 into his account ― not once but twice this year, along with at least two more checks, each worth more than $21,500.

Paul Meure's last monthly "personal pension paycheck" gave him $16,074.

As of October, just one of the companies in Mike Pressman's "personal pension" had already paid him $65,269.

Larry Piero's latest "personal pension paycheck" clocked in at just under $26,993. And that's only one of several he'll collect this year.

John Harrington just collected $16,336 on one of his "personal pension paychecks." Tom Skane took in $33,920 all in one go. And Gerald Amoss clocked in with $42,052.

And in each case, these amounts are just a small glimpse of the totals they'll collect this year... even after everything that's already happened on Wall Street.

There's zero limit on how many of these income streams you lock in at once...

Two, three... a dozen.

It's really up to you to mix and match them to your liking. And the door is open to you, once you know how to enroll. Get set up now and you could start receiving checks immediately.

(For the six opportunities I'll show you, that next payout date is March 14, 2009).

The Ultimate Retirement Recovery Plan

Before you start jumping to conclusions, don't think that "Plan B Pensions" have anything to do with the risky bond investing or measly T-Bill returns.

Nor do I want you to get it into your head that we're talking about tinkering with money markets, low-paying CDs, risking options, or questionable insurance annuity strategies.

"Plan B Pensions" have nothing to do with these.

Instead, you're looking at more than 1,020 of these special "Plan B Pension" ways to directly draw income "paychecks" with the blessing of some of the biggest, most cash-rich and reliable companies in America. And over 600 of these dividend-compounding programs can also offer you the accelerated "instant matching" gains we've talked about.

Sure, not all "Plan B Pension" opportunities are right for everybody.

That's why I want to help you get started by sending you my full research on the six carefully selected "Plan B" moves that I've mentioned. You'll find all six detailed in my new report, called The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life.

This is just one of the three reports you'll find in the full "Plan B Retirement Library" I want to send you. The whole set is yours right now, at no charge. I'm offering it to you free.

Just tell me where you'd like it mailed... or even better, follow the simple steps at the end of this letter so you can download it immediately, minutes from right now.

The first payout you can qualify for is due to come out very soon, and you can keep on drawing more checks as quickly as every 12 days after that, on average.

All told, the moves you'll read about in the report can total up to 38 checks this year... and each year that you decide to continue with what you'll read in my report.

Based on what I'll show you, you can do this without big risks. Without losing sleep over Wall Street catastrophes. Without giving yourself over to failed government retirement programs. And without breaking any rules or stepping on anybody's toes.

The companies who want to pay you are just as eager for you to do this as you are to try it. And everything you need to decide for yourself, you'll find in your free copy of The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life.

I'll show you how to send for it in just a moment.

But first...

The Lifelong Income Secret That Couldn't Have Come at a Better Time

If you still think the "old school" plans will still deliver on their promises, just take another look at the wasted landscape of today's American financial scene...

Across America, thousands of old school pensions have gone belly up. And the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp ― the government agency that insures those retirements ― has already slipped over $14 billion in the red. And this was before the stock market plunged!

401(k) plans, of course, aren't insured at all. With more than $2 trillion in those retirement accounts already gone, it's not looking good. That money could simply be erased forever.

Meanwhile, D.C. bureaucrats continue to blow hundreds of billions more on one ill-planned bailout after another... while decimating the future spending power of every nickel you set aside.

Ten years from today, every $100k you have saved could only get you as little as $35,859 buys today... and in twice that time, it could be worth as little as $12,859 is today. Without a matching rise in Social Security payouts.

Dignified health care? Forget about it. Luxurious retirement vacations? Beach houses? Big graduation blowouts for the grandkids? Millions of Americans will be lucky if they can go to the grocery store without clutching a calculator in their hands.

Over the last 100 years, our own government has stolen more than 95.2 cents of purchasing power out of every dollar... just to fund their own waste... and that's quickly made a long healthy retirement a liability in America!

The financial statements you don't want to open... the pile of backed-up credit card bills... wrecked housing values and disappearing jobs... impossible healthcare...

Even before the latest financial crisis, millions of Americans didn't even have a "Plan A" for retirement... let alone a "Plan B." The retirement savings of a typical Boomer, for instance, totals just $38,000.

That's everything, even Social Security.

Even Boomers with money in 401(k) type plans have just $88,000 set aside... not enough to generate more than $5,000 per year once they stop working.

Could you live on $5,000 a year?

But let's assume you're one of those smart individuals who did get ready. You started early. And you put your eggs where everybody said they would do just fine.

Energy. China. Index funds.

Only to see much of those short-term gains evaporate. Along with the equity you counted on in your house. Now that's gone too. College funds? Retirement funds? Pummeled beyond recognition... if not gone completely.

My point is this...

If you want security without sacrifice... if you need the income you counted on and then some... if you were counting on living at least as well as you do now, if not better... and if you want to have a prayer of leaving something for your grandchildren...

Then you can't count on anybody else.

You need another way to win back your financial security.

And I can't think of a smarter, better way for you to do this than by tapping into the power of "Plan B Pensions." Sooner rather than later. And you can do this easily, starting with the six moves you'll find in your free copy of The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life.

Once you've had a chance to look that over, dig into the rest of the three free reports I want to send you in my new "Plan B Retirement Library."

This entire set is also yours at no charge. And I'd love to get it into your hands, as quickly as possible, because I'm that eager for you to discover the rest of what you'll find inside...

The Quick Retirement "Catch-up" Strategy Everybody Is Talking About

Doing what I'll show you is easy.

In fact, it's automatic.

You just set it up and the checks start coming. One after another, with a check arriving every 12 days on average ― for up to 38 checks just in the next 12 months.

But what I find even better is the opportunity this will give you to pile up even more "future" wealth too. Especially once you factor in the combined growth and instant "matching" gains we've already talked about.

Take a look at this chart...

As you can see, a regular interest-paying account can take $10,000 and more than double it. But it would take close to 30 years. Too long for even someone who starts early.

You'd get a slightly better result if you put that same $10,000 in an account that compounds the interest. After the same period, you'd have over four times your money ― $10,000 growing into $41,161.

But let's suppose you were to take a "Plan B Pension" approach.

All other things being equal ― but with the steadily growing payouts we talked about ― the "Plan B Pension" strategy could turn that $10,000 into more than $5.4 million.

I don't have to tell you that smashes the results on the more boring moves. But in case you don't feel like doing the math... that's a showing of more than 132 times better!

How Does Turning $10,000 Into $5.4 Million Sound?

What happens as the base size of your wealth grows, inside of the "Plan B Pension?" Naturally, the already large income stream ― that is, each individual cash payout ― gets larger too.

It's like packing 35 years of retirement planning... into just a few years.

I lay it all out for you in the "Plan B Retirement Library" I'll send. But before I show you how to download this library of three reports, let me just run through what we're looking at so far...

"Plan B Pensions" let you "catch up" quickly, even after years of no savings

They're perfectly legal, even encouraged by America's best companies

There's no limit on how many of these income streams you're entitled to

You get to decide exactly how big you want your regular "paychecks" to be

You even decide how often and how many of these checks you'll receive

This "plan" pays you cash right now ― without touching your principal

Even in a falling market, you can use this to fill your bank account

There are no brokers or managers to go through (and no commissions)

You do this without options, insurance annuities, or low-paying money markets

You'll use, instead, a strategy preferred by countless millionaires

You can get unique "instant matching" gains with each payout

With this, your cash payouts grow over time, even if you don't put in another dime

On top of the income, it's also one of the smartest ways to grow long-term wealth

It's completely automatic ― you just set it up once and it runs itself, cranking out your checks

Market experts agree: "Plan B Pensions" are among the safest moves ever devised

Done right, you can even collect all or part of your payouts "tax-free" ― and I explain how in your free special reports.

As I said, there are over 1,020 of these special "plans" offered nationwide.

And more than 600 of them can offer you the sped-up "matching" gains I mentioned.

The sky's the limit on how many of these you lock into. Start collecting as many of these checks, in amounts only you help control, at any age and for as long as you like.

Without raising a single eyebrow, even though this can be...

Like Sneaking Your Own Fulltime Salary From the Payrolls of America's Safest Companies

Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson… Chevron, Microsoft, and ExxonMobil… these are just a few of the well-known companies sending out "Plan B Pension" checks to individual members of their plans.

However, there are many more I can show you. Some you'll know. Others will sound new to you. But I don't pick and choose the opportunities I'll tell you about based on a popularity contest.

Rather, I use my own proprietary seven-point analysis system to find these moves.

In fact, I'm watching several that I'm ready to share with you right now.

And I'll happily share more with you as they come along.

In each case, thanks to my proprietary seven-point analysis system, I'm able to target moves that can give off steady streams of income. And quickly. In fact, these checks can start arriving in just a few days from right now ― if you act quickly ― starting with the next "Plan B Pension" payout date, March 14, 2009.

To collect, you don't have to be an employee of any of these companies.

You don't have to be an insider or sit on the company board.

You don't need to qualify according to age or employment status.

You only need to follow the simple steps ― including filling out a simple form ― which I explain to you in full in your free "Plan B Retirement Library" set of reports.

But I know what you're wondering.

Why these companies... and why now?

The Best Time for This Alternate Income Strategy in Two Decades

Before I start showing you these "Plan B" opportunities in detail, let's just pause for a second so I can put something critical into perspective ― today's gloomy financial headlines.

There's no hiding the facts...

Everything from commodities to health care has taken a beating. As I write this, the Dow is down approximately 40%. Some with just months to go before retirement have seen their market savings slashed by half or worse.

Meanwhile, we're talking over $4 trillion in U.S. home equity evaporated since 2006. And a lot more downside to go over the rest of 2009 and possibly into 2010.

Yet this same horrible market offers you and me the best investment window in nearly 20 years for the kind of "Plan B Pension" strategy. How so?

See, while most publicly-traded companies constantly hunger for new shareholders ― especially in today's massive sell-off environment ― not all companies go about getting them in the same way.

Some count only on hype, headlines, and PR. Others drum up support with "buzz" on the trading floor. But there's another class of company that takes a different approach.

Instead of hopping on the stock-market treadmill, churning through wave after wave of new investors, these smarter companies look for "owner" shareholders... individuals who believe in the company and look like they'll stick around for the long haul.

And what kinds of companies are these?

Cash-rich. Well-established. Well-positioned. Safe and fundamentally solid. In the right industries at the right time. With a long history of doing good business, doling out cash as steady dividends, taking care of customers, and looking out for their shareholders.

Now, I know what you're thinking. Bonds and many funds pay income too. And that's true. Even if bonds typically only pay twice a year. And those funds, once a year.

And lots of companies pay dividends, some very high dividends. That's true too.

In fact, maybe you're familiar with the study from Ned Davis Research showing how, from 1972 to 2006, dividend paying companies in general did two and a half times better than companies that paid no income to shareholders.

But high dividends and even some medium dividend payers can also come with hidden levels of risk. What's more, many of them don't offer the added income growth and compounding advantages of the "Plan B Pension" plans I'm telling you about today.

It's this special combination of income growth and compounding ― a step beyond just collecting stock, bond, or fund income ― that famous Wharton Professor Dr. Jeremy Siegel credits with producing a whopping 97% of all the real money made on the S&P 500.

Do most market amateurs know this? They do not.

Of course, when it comes to finding the best of these "Plan B Pension" paying companies, lots of market amateurs ― and a few of the so-called pros ― have no idea where to look.

On your own, separating the best from the worst can be work.

That's why I've developed my own carefully crafted approach...

How You Could Lock in Lifetime Income, Using My Strategic Seven-Point Filtering System

Obviously not all income-paying plans get cut from the same cloth. Not all fit the "Plan B Pension" model either. That's why I've crafted what I consider the most bulletproof filtering system for finding reliable, consistent streams of market income...

Filter #1: The Largest Income Yield That Still Makes Sense ― Really high yields can signal far too much risk. Still, you can find some fat yields right now... paid out by some of the most fundamentally solid top stocks on or off Wall Street. I don't stop looking once I find higher yields, but I certainly start there.

Filter #2: Bigger and Bigger Income Streams Over Time ― What's even better than regular "Plan B Pension" payouts? Payouts that get bigger and bigger over time. Not only because they speed up your wealth accumulation, but also because they're an excellent sign of a well-managed "Plan B" opportunity.

Filter #3: Cash Payouts Like Clockwork ― Checks that don't come aren't worth the paper they're not printed on. I stick with the "Plan B" opportunities that have a long history of paying out and paying on time. And I steer clear of those who don't.

Filter #4: Businesses Your Mother Could Love ― Short-sighted market players may have forgotten what makes for a best stock, but it's just as basic as ever ― lots of cash, very little or no debt, a steady flow of business, and low expense ratios. I don't touch anything that can't pass those benchmarks. And you shouldn't either.

Filter #5: The Right Industry For the Right Time ― Let's face it. Some top stocks work for the long term, and work hard. Others work best in some kinds of markets, and a little less than others. I don't try to time markets. But if something looks extra ripe for solid growth and can pay us cash payouts, I see no reason to hold back.

Filter #6: Payouts as Big as They're Supposed to Be ― Some kinds of "Plan B" companies will have a lot of cash to fork over to you. Others, on a percentage basis, should fork over less. It depends on the businesses they're in. If they're paying more or less than they should, that's a red flag you have to know to watch for.

Filter #7: The Absolute Best Share Price ― Even companies that can put steady cash in your pocket have a fair price. I don't recommend paying a nickel more when you don't have to.

It's no coincidence the most successful and well-known market mega-players in history favor these kinds of companies, in good markets and bad.

It's also no coincidence that right now, these companies are exactly the ones offering the biggest rewards to both new and loyal shareholders... with some of the biggest "Plan B Pension" payouts in 17 years... simply because, especially in this market, these income-payers are eager to attract the "best" kinds of shareholders possible.

It's really that simple. And I can start showing you how to find these companies right now, as soon as you're ready. With a brand new service I've just created, called the Lifetime Income Report.

This new service uses my special seven-point filtering strategy to find you the best income streams possible ― including the "Plan B Pension" payouts we've talked about.

I'd like you to be one of the first to give Lifetime Income Report a try.

To help encourage you, not only will I rush you the free "Plan B Retirement Library"... I'll guarantee your satisfaction 100%... in not just one, but three very specific ways.

"Plan B Pension" Guaranteed Opportunity #1: "Current Cash" You Can Start Spending Right Now

What's the worst part about planning for tomorrow?

Having nothing left to spend right now.

The first thing I'll start showing you in my new Lifetime Income Report service is that it's possible for you to build future wealth... and still have right-now cash... at the same time.

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The following list shows scheduled cash payout dates, based on past results, for the six "Plan B Pension" programs I've identified for you, in the "Plan B Retirement Library" I'd love to send:

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One of the first things I'll walk you through is what I call my "Current Cash" portfolio.

This is where I track income streams specifically designed to pay the largest possible immediate "Plan B" payouts. We'll use this portfolio to target faster growth and bigger income, right out of the gate.

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Have you ever noticed that some people just work too hard to get rich?

Think about it.

The wealthiest American families... the multi-millionaires and billionaires who hit the headlines... don't really work that much harder or longer than you.

Some even seem to get wealthier... doing nothing.

Except maybe letting their money make more money, all by itself.

How do they do it?

The thing is, using the secrets I'll show you in your FREE "Plan B Retirement Library" and in first issues of my new Lifetime Income Report research letter... you see how you too could also collect similar kinds of "no show" wealth.

Just like those wealth insiders.

Collect in your sleep. Collect long after you've retired. Collect from the front porch of your house on the beach... or the deck of your new sailboat or fishing cruiser.

How many times have you heard of someone who "sits on the board" of a half-dozen companies, raking in best stock option riches while he trolls the golf courses and knocks back champagne at top clubs and restaurants?

The simple strategy you'll find in your FREE reports and first issues shows you the simple formula for putting together as many multiple work-free "paychecks." Allowing you, too, to pile up lots of money that works so you don't have to...

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I call this kind of self-growing wealth "Legacy Income"...

In each issue of your trial subscription to the new Lifetime Income Report you'll find a second "Legacy Income" portfolio, designed to help you load up on this kind of wealth that can automatically continue to grow.

And no, don't think I'm just talking about the miracle of compound interest. That's an extremely powerful tool. But this is better. And it can work for you, much faster.

Einstein may have called compound interest "the most powerful force in the Universe"... but this is like compound interest on steroids.

And my new Lifetime Income Report will make it simple for you to learn how it works, should you choose to try this yourself.

Not just with how to collect this kind of "Legacy Income" over time... or the "Current Cash" we talked about... but also in a third way, with something I can only call "Special Income."

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What's "Special Income?"

It's the pile of income payouts other investors simply leave on the table.

These little-talked-about income payout opportunities don't come on a schedule. You won't read about them much in the paper either, until they're already doled out and it's too late to collect.

But when you can tap these "special income" opportunities... it can be like getting a surprise windfall... a bonus... even a check from a wealthy relative or a fat premium on the sale of a big asset, like a luxury car or investment property.

The companies that offer you this special kind of income usually get the money themselves from winning a piece of corporate litigation, making a major sale, having an especially good financial quarter, and so on... in an unexpected glut of cash.

Naturally "special income" opportunities are harder to spot.

But then, there's that old saying... "It's amazing how lucky I get when I work 16 hours a day."

In other words, to catch a fat "special income" payout, you need to stand in the right place at the right time. But if you let me do the research work for you, there's a good chance I can show you where to stand.

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From the short to long term.

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Here's a small taste of the kinds of wealth moves you'll find inside...

A North Carolina based "Plan B Pension" plan that's increased the size of its cash payouts to members every year since 1978 ― that's 30 years straight ― and that doesn't include the instant 5% gain you could make every time you use their zero-fee plan to pick up more shares

Easily the most popular "Plan B Pension" opportunity in America, this 39-year old company has sent its members cash "paychecks" each of the 458 months in a row… and they've bumped up the amount in those checks 51 times since 1994

A "Plan B Pension" plan that's handed out cash payouts to its members steadily every year for the last 38 years straight. And backed by a business that couldn't be safer, because they dominate 75% of the massive, worldwide market for the household product they make

A "Plan B Pension" plan that the London Financial Times is calling a kind of safe haven in the latest global financial storm. This one plan has steadily doled out bigger and bigger cash payouts to members, every year since 1997

A major play on the Brazil boom, with a "Plan B Pension" plan that could give you nearly double-digit income, with the safety of a solid energy company. This could easily be a way to pick streams of steady cash you can spend as you like

A "Plan B Pension" play so popular, it has over $3.8 billion in the program and offers regular cash payouts that are already 16% larger than they were in October of last year… for a total of nearly 12% payouts on every dollar you put in the program, regularly paid to your account.

Again, all six of these are fully detailed in your free copy of The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life ― which you're welcome to download or have mailed to you, the moment you sign on.

I can't wait for you to try this for yourself.

The Simple Secret That Could Pay Your Retirement Millions

Of course, you don't need to wait until you get your free reports to see the evidence behind this approach. For instance, let's say you had used the "Plan B Pension" strategy to pick up 160 shares of Pepsi in 1980.

It would have cost you $4,000.

However, that amount would have automatically grown to over $300,000 by 2004, without you investing another penny. Not bad?

Now let's try the same with Philip Morris... starting with the same dollar amount, which would have amounted to 58 shares. By the time you'd finished, your $4,000 would have ballooned to nearly $600,000... and over 4,300 shares.

Without you putting in an extra nickel.

Here's another one. Say you put $5,000 into a company called Terra Nitrogen in 2003. That's 1,136 shares at the then-price of $4.40 per share. Today the share price has exploded to $110 per share. Pretty good. But the "Plan B Pension" income on top of that could have exploded your $5,000 into $151,026 in just five years.

Like I said, it's an almost perfect self-growing cycle.

Like a tree that waters and fertilizes itself.

Take a look at a few more...

One of the moves I've tracked since Jan. 2005 would have grown every dollar you put in 155%. Not bad. But make that same move using a "Plan B Pension" strategy and you would have more than tripled your money, for a total net gain of 244.8%. Much better

Another move I'm tracking has already issued enough "Plan B Pension" income checks... from 2003 until now... to cover double what it might have cost to get in... plus the shares in this one plan alone, over that same time period, also shot up another 329%. Even now, I see this as a steady income-payer for years to come

One more of the many possible "Plan B Pensions" I've just tracked has cranked up the size of the income it pays out with every single check, steadily for the last 10 years... already, had you started getting your checks in 1998, you'd collect nearly 40% more per check right now, above what you earned when just getting started. It's like getting an automatic pay raise that you don't have to lift a finger to earn.

Over the last 80 years, regular hot stocks could have turned $10,000 into about $1,013,000. Fold in the kind of income that you can get with these kinds of "Plan B Pensions" and $10,000 grows to a dazzling $24,113,000.

And that includes results in all kinds of markets.

The Only Money Strategy That "Works" In Good Times or Bad

One study shows "Plan B Pension" companies can consistently double the gains other individuals get following the S&P 500 alone.

And not just in the "best" years, but over the period between 1970 and 2005... which included at least seven bear markets... a half-dozen wars and minor military skirmishes... on-again-off-again energy crises... countless rate hikes... and piles of political scandal...

In a down market, you'll see the market flock to "Plan B Pension" companies for cash. In up markets, "Plan B Pension" companies have even bigger cash piles to divvy up.

Even in a flat market, you can do well with a "Plan B Pension"... because it's the one way you can be sure that no matter what happens, you qualify to get paid.

Just looking at the last two decades, the kinds of moves you'll make with the "Plan B Pension" approach accounted for more than half of the total return on the S&P 500.

This is the best way to reward steady, cool-headed market players I know of.

And yet...

You'd Be Stunned to Discover How Many Americans Miss Out on This Simple, Wealth-Boosting Step

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You'll see how this can work for you automatically, in a self-growing cycle of income. And likewise, how you can also use this approach to tap a stream of "right now" cash.

Your first check could arrive within days of right now ― the next payout date as I write this is March 14, 2009 ― followed by as many as 38 checks, each and every year you decide to stick with this "Plan B Pension" strategy.

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Get ready...

Over the next several days, the delayed results from the financial sector's "stress tests" hit the wires.

It's an event that has even the most optimistic investors flinching in fear.

Of course, judging from how strong the market's been over the past year (down 38%), you can hardly blame them.

There is, however, one group of investors that's not fretting a bit.

In fact, as you read this, they're carefully preparing themselves to rake in easy, rapid fortunes, again and again - no matter what happens to the companies participating.

That's because, as Options Trading Pit advisor Ian Cooper believes, these seemingly scary results could turn the following weeks into the most profitable of the year.

And just to make sure that you can safely take full advantage of it, we're reopening enrollment to the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" until the last few spots are claimed!

That means that right now, there is still time for you to join what is already looking to be the most profitable circle of investors this year!

But I have to admit, you'll need to hurry. The remaining slots could be gone in the next few hours.

A few weeks ago, we launched the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" with one goal in mind...

... to give investors like you the opportunity to challenge us and put our research to the ultimate test - absolutely risk free... even put ourselves on the hook for $2 million if we can't deliver!

In fact, it was so popular that even in this market, seats rapidly sold left and right!

The good news is that there are still a handful of spots open.

And even though the deadline passed on Thursday evening, because of a flood of opportunities Ian sees opening up as a result of the banking "stress tests," we're reopening enrollment for the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" until the last few spots are claimed!

That means there is still time for you to join what is already looking to be the most profitable circle of investors this year!

But I have to admit, you'll need to hurry.

Since we first invited you to enroll in what could be the most aggressive offer we ever made, investors have been securing their seats left and right. And time to join is rapidly running thin.

Not that anyone who's already claimed their seat is complaining...

Thomas B. wrote us less than 24 hours after the "Gauntlet" started:

"Wow. Joined yesterday and bought FAS call at $2.00. Got the alert today to sell half. I chickened out and sold all at $3.10. No worries as I will take the 60% gain and wait for Ian's next move. Holy am I impressed!"

Then, on Tuesday, April 14, 2009, within minutes of Ian closing another trade - open for only six days and pulling in 338% gains - even more started pouring in.

Richard G. was among the first:

"Thanks for the great recommendation Ian! Waited patiently on an entry point and got in at $2.69 last Thursday, and exited half my position this morning for a hefty 346% gain! Paid off my subscription fee plus a whole lot more! Can't wait for our next new opportunity!"

... And this one came in a minute later from Mark C:

"I almost hurt myself doing a double-take when I glanced at the daily profit & loss column of my trading software this morning. The profit I made on a small position in DNDN has paid for the subscription for years to come! I bought the options at $1.01 and sold at $6.60. Those are the returns I like to see. You're spoiling me, keep it up!"

They were just two out of the dozen or so that poured in immediately after Ian closed his latest trade in the biotech sector.

It was a play hardly any trader caught - even highly talked about financial celebrities that did see it shunned it. Yet this "no-brainer," as Ian would call it, rapidly turned every $5,000 into more than $21,900!

It's just 1 of the 24 similar big winning plays he successfully uncovered since the year started... totaling 1,183% in gains for the year - and 3,819% since he launched his market-crushing advisory!

And that's the way it should be!

In fact, Ian's so confident that he'll find dozens more over the next few months that we've decided to up the gains for you - or cough up the dough!

But this offer's only good until the few remaining seats are gone.

In all honesty, considering how fast they've been going, today could be your last opportunity to challenge us. But I can promise you this:

If you do enroll and we don't hand you 50 double-digit trades by Tax Day, 2010, $1,000 is yours. It's that simple.

I know it might seem a little ballsy - given the market's volatility - but from our perspective, not only do you deserve a guarantee that strong, it's a "dare" of sorts that we simply can't lose!

You see, Ian has a few tricks up his sleeve to uncovering these gems for you. In fact, that's how...

Ian's Already Opened And Closed 24 Trades For Investors Like You... Since January 1st, 2009

That's right. Since January 1st, 2009, even as the market continued to crumble, Ian's opened and closed 24 trades... 21 of which have been double-digit winners!

Read that again: 21 Double-Digit Winners!

In fact, each of his plays - winners including losers - averages a 59% gain!

And here's the biggest kicker, his tight-knit group of investors (of which I'll show you how to become a part of) only holds each one of these trades for about 10 days.

Sometimes... like when he issued a put on Morgan Stanley for a rapid 71% gain... it's a matter of hours.

That means on average, his investors more than triple their money every 30 days!

In other words, imagine turning $5,000 on March 1st into $18,619.38 by April 1st.

Honestly, I can't think of a single other investment opportunity on the planet that could deliver those gains... especially in today's unpredictable market.

His latest closed trade, for example, a biotech company called Dendreon just went absolutely ballistic!

That's an official 338% gain - inside of six days!

And according to Ian, thanks to the crashing of more institutions by the day, he's finding more and more of these knock-em down winners than he knows what to do with.

And in just one minute, I'll show you exactly how you can get started putting our research to the ultimate test by taking the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet."

But first, let me quickly share with you Ian's biggest secret to success in this or ANY market. You see...

Ian Never Pigeonholes Investors Into Just One Sector Or Style Of Trading

To put it simply, you can't - no matter what - focus on one sector or industry in this economy if you want to make any serious money - or money at all.

The truth is, with the way things are going, the successful investors - the guys still churning gains like they're picking fish from a barrel - are the ones looking at the big picture.

They're not falling victim to investor's tunnel vision or "it'll come back... eventually" syndrome.

No. They're analyzing the past and current trends for everything and ANYTHING that could POP tomorrow - no matter where it is.

Be it energy stocks, banking and financials, precious metals, technology stocks, retail, fast food, you name it, and they're covering it.

For example:

They were the investors who knew, as the financial sector's collapse was set in stone and mass layoffs across the U.S. ensued, many Americans - seeking protection - would set the firearms industry ablaze.

Just take a look at the Dow over the past several months compared to Strum Ruger:

And here's Smith & Wesson compared to the Dow:

I don't care what your opinion on the mass buying is. The fact remains that both of these companies are absolutely on fire. And every investor who saw it coming is sitting on a small fortune right now.

And they're not just looking for opportunities where companies are poised to go up. These slick traders are cashing in on the flocks of companies whose share prices are dropping like birds at a Nebraskan pheasant shoot.

They're successfully turning this "crisis" into the biggest cash-cow of their investment careers. Collecting gains of... 70% in a single day as American Express declines... 38% inside of 6 days as Equity Residential prices slid... 68% in 12 days as Prudential Financial tumbled... etc.

The list goes on... for about five pages. But you get the idea.

And the amazing part is, these investors aren't taking super-risky "short" positions or margin calls where they need to cover their losses for the full value if things don't pan out.

In fact, all they need in most cases is a few hundred dollars to get started.

That's because they're taking advantage of one of the least understood - yet most profitable - investment tools around... options.

And in this market, options plays are where the big, rapid gains are coming from.

In fact, Thanks To Not Being Pigeonholed And Open To Playing Options, Just Loosely Following Ian's Trading Advice For The Past 4 Months Could've Rapidly Turned $5,000 into $31,357.08

This is where his trading philosophy of puts and calls excels.

It's also preciesly why you need to be trading top stocks right now instead of strictly investing in "buy and holds." You see, with the right trades...

You don't need to start with a lot of money to make a fortune in the market... You don't need to have all your savings tied up in multiple investments for several years either... You don't even need to find dozens of trades every year.

In fact, even though Ian's opened and closed 24 trades since 2009 started - each averaging a 59% gain - all you needed to make more than six-times your initial investment was to loosely follow four of them.

Take the following REAL scenario for example:

Trade #1

On January 5th, Ian shot this amazing alert to his readers:

It's really nice to have such great readers. And I'm not just saying that to butter you up. My inbox is usually full this time of week with plays you want me to look at.

Just yesterday, for instance, one of you e-mailed me about SunPower (SPWRA) downside, but I missed recommending it, because the e-mail was opened so late in the day... and Yahoo e-mail sometimes doesn't work so well.

But that doesn't mean there aren't more opportunities to go short the solar market. Sure, solars got a nice pre-Obama inauguration run, but the party may be over as the group faces weak consumer demand and poor credit markets.

JPMorgan seems to agree, recommending a sell of solar stocks on expectations of bottoming later in the year. They also warned investors not to expect a recovery in solar stocks on a broad economic rebound, as "solar subsidies may have peaked in 2008 when Germany and Spain primarily drove demand."

Worse, JPMorgan mentioned that a tight credit market "bring the alternative energy industry to a screeching halt if access to capital is not made more available."

One company that could continue to fall nicely for us is Energy Conversion Devices (ENER), which we'd recommend playing the short side with. The best way to play this is to buy March 2009 25 puts (EQIOE) up to $4.60.

Again, this entry price is being set high so that all of you can get in.

Good Investing,

Ian L. Cooper

Options Trading Pit

The timing was perfect. Take a look at what happened to the share price shortly after he issued the put.

Amazing!

And just eight days later, they sold their positions for a rapid 38% gain, turning every $5,000 into a cool $6,900.

Trade # 2

Then, on February 3rd, he issued this urgent alert:

Wynn Resorts (WYNN) just broke below double bottom support. At this pace, it could test lows not seen since 2005. As we said earlier, casino stocks are acting like they're going to continue falling hard, as Las Vegas media talk about how Vegas travel numbers are way off thanks to a pullback in discretionary spending.

Two weeks later, like clockwork, his readers dropped out of WYNN after collecting a generous and quick 26% gain.

Now every $5,000 his investors loaded in were worth $8,694... from just two trades!

And it didn't stop their either.

Trade #3

The very next day, he urged his traders to buy puts on Prudential, saying...

We've got a falling knife on our hands, and the best stock is looking as if it'll re-test the $13 level before (hopefully, for us) plunging to the single digits.

It was dead on.

Less than two weeks later, his group of investors (which you can now become a part of) were cashing out after collecting 57.5% gains.

By this time, everyone was sitting on $13,693.05 - from just $5,000 and three trades!

Trade #4

Once again, the very next day, on March 10th, he alerted his investors to a call in the financial sector of all things!

The recommendation was simple - and a little ballsy. But he knew what he was doing.

Buy June Calls on Financial Sector SPDR.

Within ten days, the simple option paid out 129%

In other words, investors following Ian's advice on these four trades since the beginning of the year turned every $5,000 into $31,357.08.

A $10,000 stake would be worth more than $62,714.17 - within four months!

Of course, as you can imagine, you don't even need that much to start enjoying the rapid gains that Ian's been showing his investors for almost a decade now!

And I haven't even mentioned the big winners that Ian's been raking in!

Gains like, 242% gains from Coca Cola in 39 days... 113% gains from JA Solar inside of 7 days... 208% gain from Lehman Brothers within 4 days... 157% from iShares in 6 days... you get the picture.

All in all, if you include every trade he's issued over the past five months, Ian's made his investors...

... Twelve Times Their Money - In Five Months!

Imagine how quickly you can compound your wealth with gains that large - gains that fast - again and again.

That's the sort of hit-and-run excitement you'll get when you take us on in the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" by enrolling in the Options Trading Pit. You can make a fortune in several rapid trades.

And starting today, we're going to give you at least 50 more of these monsters, by April 15th, 2010.

But Just How Can I Be So Confident That You'll Make At Least 50 Double-Digit Trades That I Can Risk Putting $2,000,000 On The Line?

Here's why: Ian Cooper has spent the better part of the past decade perfecting the art of trading options for triple-digit gains.

Over that time, he's shown thousands of investors exactly how to exploit carefully targeted market sectors for lightning-fast short-term gains... gains that prove to be several times larger than simply buying best stocks alone.

It's his phenomenal track record of triple-digit, short-term winners that put Ian in such high demand from mainstream outlets such as Investor's Business Daily and Forbes... and on investment shows such as Money Matters with Barry Armstrong and On the Money with Mike Stein.

Truth is, people who follow Ian Cooper's advice make an immediate killing almost every time he alerts them!

And while millions of Americans have been in an absolute panic over our current financial crisis... Ian and his readers have been consistently raking in some amazing gains.

In fact, the volatility we've seen in the markets over the past twelve months is actually perfect for options traders like Ian. It "turbocharges" the profit opportunities and delivers winners much faster than in the "old days" of two years ago or more.

And the beauty of it all is that Ian's readers are just everyday Americans like you and me who have refused to become victims of the U.S. financial crisis... and have decided to take their investment future into their own hands.

People like Neil M., who recently used one of Ian Cooper's recommendations to collect $4,195 after a single trading day...

Or Bruce H., who collected an extra $5,000 inside 13 days by following Ian's advice...

Or Brian A., who, after months of following Ian's recommendations, turned an initial $10,000 into an astonishing $450,000!

And thanks to the massive fluctuations in the markets, for Ian and his readers, the fast money's rapidly turning into the easy money.

That's why I'm not the least bit worried about him being able to deliver to you at least 50 trades by Tax Day of next year.

But before I share with you how to get started today - and the clock is ticking - let me quickly reiterate what it is that makes Ian head and shoulders above virtually every other options trader around. You see...

Not a Single Recommendation Is Released Unless It Has the Potential for Short-Term Gains of 100% or More

So what is Ian Cooper's "secret" to making a killing for his readers with carefully selected options trades?

The truth is... there is no secret - just some good, old-fashioned, roll-up-the-sleeves research and analysis.

And fortunately for you - Ian handles all of the heavy lifting.

He sifts through general market analysis. He looks at the bigger picture. He finds what sectors will benefit from any situation. Then he scrutinizes hundreds of potential opportunities for his readers to invest in.

Once the initial analysis is complete, Ian then incorporates four specific indicators, including Bollinger Bands, W%R, candlesticks, and the news.

Using just these four, Ian can call for tops and bottoms on indices, as well as individual stocks.

And that's just the beginning.

After sorting through hundreds of opportunities each week, Ian identifies the "best of the best" using his time-tested methods of analysis. Then... Ian goes one step further, insisting on providing his readers with only those opportunities that have the potential for explosive growth.

Imagine - instead of only pulling in marginal gains on stocks market that do well, say an 18% gain in 23 days, you could be sitting on 140% gains on the same stock during the same period!

All thanks to the "magic" of options trading.

Now I know what you're thinking.

Isn't Options Trading Highly Complicated?

The truth is, it's actually much easier than you might think. And Ian goes to great lengths to explain to his readers every step of every trade.

And to make certain you know exactly how everything works, Ian has prepared several special reports with easy to understand explanations of all of his jargon so you can follow along with everything he might alert you to.

They're called:

Understanding Options for Maximum Gains... an easy-to-understand guide to successfully profiting from options.

How To Secure Long-term Profits with LEAPS

The Bear Market Baron's Guide to Options... a hands-on guide to making a fortune, even when the markets are crashing.

How To Lock in Huge Gains by Going "Greek"

And every single one of them is yours - absolutely free!

All you have to do is take this rare opportunity to challenge our work... and put it to the ultimate test by signing on to the Options Trading Pit and enrolling in the "Fifty Trade Gauntlet."

But before you scroll down and click the subscribe now button, I have to warn you...

This fast-paced trading is unlike anything else that we offer. And it certainly isn't for everyone.

In other words, as a result of this ridiculous market we're in right now - Ian is issuing alerts rapidly... and as you've seen, sometimes they're only open for a day or two.

So it's impeditive that all members of the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" are able to act quickly to get the biggest gains.

In and out. Take the profit and run. That's precisely the game plan that's made this service an incredible success in the first place.

And that's exactly how we're able to make such a bold offer.

Of course, if the number of trades bothers you - maybe over 100 this year - then this service simply isn't for you.

But if you're like most Americans and want to gain more than all the money that you've lost in this market back, I urge you to join now.

An Exclusive Options Opportunity Unlike Any Other

Unfortunately, the number of investors who can sign up for our Options Trading Pit and take us on in the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" is strictly limited.

In order to make sure every one of our subscribers has the ability to get maximum value out of each recommendation, membership will be strictly limited to 2,000 seats.

And with only a few seats remaining, it's important that you act quickly if you'd like to get in.

Why?

You see, we don't want 5,000... 10,000 people buying the same stock price. If we allowed an unlimited number to join, we could easily push the stock up several hundred percent. That would be a disaster.

That's why we have a strict limit on membership.

But if you're one of the lucky investors that lands a spot, you can expect that you'll see at least 50 double-digit recommendations this year in Options Trading Pit. That's a lot of trades. But we don't plan on holding these positions very long. In and out. Take the profit and run. That's what we'll be doing.

And like I said, if the amount of trades bothers you, then I'm sorry, but this service isn't for you.

Lightning-Fast Profit Alerts

One more thing: your trading alerts will be sent to you via e-mail directly from Ian Cooper.

Options Trading Pit is not a fax service - instead, Ian uses e-mail because we want everybody to receive the trade at approximately the same time.

And just so that you don't have to recheck your email 10 times a day, we're also offering Options Trading Pit updates VIA live RSS feeds - so you can get the alerts the split second they're available! (We'll even give you simple, detailed instructions on how to set up and use your RSS feed within a matter of minutes.)

If you're comfortable with what I've shared so far, then I urge you to join us today.

Again, I know this style of trading isn't for everybody. But by signing up for the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" by joining the Options Trading Pit, you're elevating yourself into the top tier of the trading community - light years beyond what most unfortunate American investors can handle.

So if you're interested, welcome aboard.

How To Get Ian Cooper's Recommendations Sent Directly To You - Starting Today!

When you fill out the membership form, you'll immediately receive a confirmation and a welcome letter, as well as a link to the Options Trading Pit site, where you'll be able to access every single one of the positions Ian issues... 24 hours a day.

We'll also rush you Ian's latest report, Understanding Options for Maximum Gains.

And that's not all!

As I mentioned a moment ago, if you're able to enroll into the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" before the doors close, you'll also receive Ian's four crucial reports.

So just to recap, by signing on today, you're gaining:

Enrollemnt into the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" - your chance to collect $1,000 if Ian Cooper doesn't uncover at least 50 double-digit trades by April 15th, 2010.

Full access to the Options Trading Pit website - giving you full, unrestricted access into every single trade Ian's ever issued and will issue.

Live RSS Feeds just to make sure that you're able to get the latest trades the split second they're released.

4, easy to understand reports where Ian breaks down in human-terms exactly how options trades work with:

Understanding Options for Maximum Gains... an easy-to-understand guide to successfully profiting from options, How To Secure Long-term Profits with LEAPS, The Bear Market Baron's Guide to Options... a hands-on guide to making a fortune, even when the markets are crashing., How To Lock in Huge Gains by Going "Greek"

 

And, of course, you'll be placed on the e-mail distribution list so you can begin receiving Ian's trade alerts - which can arrive any time of the day, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Now at this point, I'm sure you're wondering - with the explosive, triple-digit profit potential of every trade recommendation... the chance to collect $1,000, access to Ian's complete trading history with Options Trading Pit... plus his latest reports...

How Could You Possibly Afford A Subscription To Ian Cooper's Options Trading Pit?

First, let me reiterate one very crucial point.

This level of service is highly specialized. And the countless hours it takes Ian to find, study, and recommend just one of the calls or puts he uncovers - as you can imagine - takes a lot of time, expertise, and resources.

He doesn't draw stocks from a hat. He's not paid by other companies to recommend one over the other.

His secret is that he's an insomniac, sleeping just three hours a night.

The rest of the time, when other traders and researchers rest, spend time with their family, and take vacations, he's intently focusing on the latest news, studying the markets, and developing high-ranking contacts.

That is, however, precisely what it takes in order to hold a track record as clean as Ian's... a portfolio that scores investors like you the greatest option trades the market has to offer.

After all, I can't think of a single other trader on the planet who's collected cumulative gains of 3,819% since May!

And with just one of Ian's most recent trades, you could have turned $10,000 into $22,161 in just seven days. Again... that's just with one trade!

That being said, I've seen other "experts" billing themselves out for several thousand dollars a day - and their trading advice can't tread water next to the winners Ian shows you on a weekly basis.

So I wouldn't feel the least bit guilty charging as high as $5,000 a year for a membership to his advisory.

But I'm not going to go anywhere near that.

In fact, the normal membership price is only $999 a year - only I'm going to make you an even better deal than that.

"Fifty-Trade Gauntlet's" Special Pricing

If you enroll in the Options Trading Pit today, assuming there are still spots remaining, you can save a full 20%, and join for just $799 this year!

I know for many of you $799 is a big lump of money to take down, even considering that many of you have made hundreds of thousands of dollars following our advice.

So here's the deal. We're also offering a quarterly bill program. If you choose that method, you'll be charged just $250 every three months.

It's as easy as we can make it to get you on board.

** Please keep in mind - we're capping Options Trading Pit's "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" at 2,000 investors.**

In addition, we want to make sure you're 100% satisfied. So, if for any reason you're unhappy with Options Trading Pit, you can get a full refund at any time before the end of the first month of your membership.

After that, the refund is prorated.

The "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" Guarantee:

And if you sign on today, and we don't deliver at least 50 double-digit trades by Tax Day, 2010, we'll give you the entire following year absolutely free! That's a $1,000 value we're passing on to you!

Even if only 49 out of 50 reach double-digit gains, you'll still get the next year absolutely free!

But you have to act now. The few remaining seats for the "Fifty-Trade Gauntlet" and special pricing could be sold out in a matter of hours.

Economy to Decline "For Some Time"

Here's the latest forecast on the economic outlook, courtesy of Lawrence Summers.

The director of the White House National Economic Council appeared yesterday on Fox News with a somewhat grim view of what lies ahead for the U.S. economy.

From Bloomberg by Matthew Benjamin entitled: Summers Says U.S. Economy to Decline "For Some Time"

"The U.S. economy will continue to contract "for some time to come," said Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council.

"I expect the economy will continue to decline," with "sharp declines in employment for quite some time this year," Summers said today on "Fox News Sunday."

Summers said the economy will pick up as manufacturers rebuild depleted inventories and consumers replace aging cars. "These imbalances can't continue forever," he said. "When they are repaired they will be a source of impetus for the economy."

Texas Instruments Inc., the second-biggest U.S. chipmaker, said April 20 that customers have begun to increase orders after reducing inventories.

Summers said the Obama administration is "on a path toward containment and toward building a path toward expansion," he said, adding that "even sharp plans take time" to work, perhaps six months or more.

Summers reiterated the administration's assertion that "the vast majority of banks in the U.S. are well capitalized." Regulators have conducted stress tests on the 19 largest banks to determine whether they need more capital and are discussing their findings with bank officials this week.

"There's work that needs to be done," to fix the ailing financial industry, including raising capital and providing additional government money to banks "where necessary," Summers said."

By the way, the advance Gross Domestic Product figures for the 1st quarter 2009 will be released before the bell on Wednesday April 29th.  

How the markets react to those figures could be the key going forward―especially since they will be followed up by another jobs report the following week.

Other key data points this week include:

Consumer Confidence and Case/Shiller Home Prices on Tuesday

The Fed on Wednesday

Jobless Claims, the Personal Income and Spending report and the Chicago PMI on Thursday.

And the Michigan Sentiment, Factory Orders, ISM and Auto Sales for April on Friday.

So will we see the "Sell in May and Go Away" move expected by many or a push even higher?

That's the question we face now as the end of April nears. Food for thought....

Long story short, it pays to be cautious here. 

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Hot Stocks 2009 No.1 Atlas Pipeline Partners
by Addison Wiggin

I've been involved in investing and financial markets for the past 15 years. In that time, I've met every kind of investor... and heard about every kind of investing strategy and stock opportunity you can imagine. Here at Agora Financial, we scour the globe looking for hidden investment opportunities often over looked by Wall Street. Capital &Crisis editor Chris Mayer uncovers these opportunities and delivers them to you. Chris is called by some "the best financial journalist you've never heard of ..."

And on behalf of Chris Mayer... I'll gladly put every minute of my hard work and reputation building on theline. His Capital & Crisis subscribers have benefited greatly from his unique recommendations. His globetrotting letter knows no bounds and goes wherever profits can be found. Over to Chris… Finding the Great Investments He's BeenSearching for His Whole Career I'm going to show you how you can start collecting a 20%-plus yield -- on one overlooked energy stock --right away. Besides these plumpdividends, you'll get a good shot at tripling your money. And there's good reason to believe you could make nine times your money -- if Wall Street wakes up and smells hard assets, and pays exactly what they're worth.

The market isn't rewarding Exxon, Chevron or even Gazprom. And now is not the time to start taking risks on wildcat energy explorers. Right now, I'm looking at a stock that's trading under $6. And today, it's showing signs of a climb -- so I wouldn't wait on this opportunity. Just let me give you the bare bones of its business and a nod from a very smart billionaire investor who knows tough markets.

The company's secret is that it doesn't drill for a drop of oil and it doesn't frack a single foot of shale gas. What it does is keep companies who do at its mercy.
Atlas Pipeline Partners (APL:nyse) owns 1,600 miles of pipeline connected to nearly 6,000 wells and is adding over 800 new wells per year in Appalachia. It also operates a growing interstate pipeline system in the Fayetteville Shale. Plus, it has a great deal with one of the most active drillers in America: Atlas Energy. Every well that Atlas Energy drills has to be connected to Atlas Pipeline's system. These are low-risk assets. Now let's talk dividend. Since 2000, APL's average dividend increase clocked in at 7 cents a year. A plump year offered a 107% increase. While it's true that 2008 was a tough year for natural gas, NGLs (APL's primary product) are up 50% from their December lows. Aside from price recovery, there's another catalyst for dividend growth. Given the prime location of its pipelines in Appalachia, you have every reason to expect an increased dividend payout down the road.

War horse Leon Cooperman, shares my interest in APL. He is one of the great living investors. At a recent Manhattan value investors' conference, Cooperman confessed, "This is the most difficult environment I've lived through. And I've been doing this for 41 years." But when he got to talking about getting 20%-plus on your money with APL, he had this to say: "At my age, it's better than sex, but that's just me."

Why does he think Atlas is on sale? Thank collapsing hedge funds the most. These guys have been forced to sell even their best positions to cover losses in other areas. Cooperman thinks this stock is worth $46 easily. My original estimate was $48. That's nine times what it trades at today. So why not consider a stock trading at so steep a discount to book?

Don't forget the great yield -- that's poised to increase. Even if that dividend stays right where it was last quarter, you could still make back today's investment in under four years -- just through the dividend alone.
Recommendation: Buy Atlas Pipeline Partners (APL: NYSE).

Hot Stocks 2009 No.2 U.S. Cellular 8.75% Senior Notes due 11/1/2032 (NYSE: UZG, $20.25)
by Nilus Mattive

Famed investor Warren Buffett made a telling remark on the kind of returns he hopes to achieve in today's tough markets: "We would be very happy if we earned +10%, pre-tax," he told shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-B) annual meeting last May. Co-Chairman Charlie Munger quickly concurred, "You can take what Warren said to the bank... and I suggest you adopt the same attitude."

Well, my recommended security for this market bests Warren Buffett's benchmark. It offers secure yields of better than 16%. And we do mean secure -- as in legal obligation.Although this security trades like a stock every day on the New York Stock Exchange, it's actually a bond, not a stock. That means your quarterly interest payments have top claim on the company's assets, ahead of any common or preferred share dividends if the company runs into trouble. That kind of security is comforting in today's turbulent times, but it's hardly necessary for America's sixth biggest wireless firm. In fact, credit rating agency Standard & Poor's is so confident in this firm's financial position, it just upgraded the company's credit quality to investment grade "with positive out look," meaning the rating could be raised in one to three years.

The upgrade and positive outlook mean that any such bonds the company may issue in the future will most likely offer a lower interest rate than this high-yielding security. That's because today's featured security was issued in 2002, when the company was considered higher risk and needed to offer a higher rate in return.
Consider, too, that this security is now trading at around a -19% discount from its $25 par value. It matures in 24 years and can be called at any time. Either way, sooner or later you will be getting back $25 per share plus any unpaid interest. Meanwhile, you'll be paid amply to wait. If this all sounds too good to be true, read on and decide for yourself...

Snapshot: These exchange-traded notes were issued in 2002 by regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular (NYSE: USM). The company is the sixth-largest wireless carrier in the country by number of customers. Its wireless networks serve 6.2 million customers, for an estimated 3% share of the U.S. wireless market. Headquartered in Chicago, the telecom carrier focuses on smaller regional markets mainly in the Midwest, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

Key Statistics:
Security Type: Exchange-Traded Debt
Annual Dividend: $2.1875
Dividend Yield: 10.8%
Frequency: Quarterly
Credit Rating: Baa3/BBB

Wireless services account for about 93% of revenues, while equipment sales contribute the balance. Roaming revenues from other wireless carriers using USM's networks provide a 7% chunk of the company's wireless service revenue. U.S. Cellular is a subsidiary of rural fixed-line phone operator Telephone & Data Systems (NYSE: TDS), which owns 80.8% of the company.

Performance: U.S. Cellular has seen earnings grow an average of +50.2% a year over the past three years through December 31, 2007. U.S. Cellular has a strong balance sheet, which is supported by funding from parent company TDS. Its debt-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) ratio, a measure of leverage, is less than 1.0. Meanwhile, debt is only around 20% of total capitalization. Both those measures are well below its regional wireless peers. Rival Leap Wireless (Nasdaq: LEAP), for example, carries a debt-to-EBITDA ratio of 6.4 times, and debt is 60% of total capitalization.

Hot Stocks 2009 No.3 Strike Gold with SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)
by Ian Wyatt

If the gains gold has made are any indicator of profits to come, I think SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD) is the golden ticket investors need to expose their portfolio to the safety and profits of the precious yellow metal.

Gold has been one of the best performing investments in a down market, and was one of the only investments to post gains in 2008, proving to be an excellent safe haven. Like U.S. Treasuries, the price of gold has rallied as investors fled equities and bonds, and sought safe investments. SPDR Gold Shares is an ETF that trades at one-tenth the price of an ounce of gold, and tracks the price movement of the commodity. The metal has most notably been on the rise, jumping 31% to $923 an ounce from the recent Nov. 13 low of $700 an ounce. As I mentioned in my weekly letter on Monday, I had been considering buying the Market Vectors Gold Miners Index (NYSE:GDX). However, this higher-risk, higher-reward investment has soared an astounding 74% from a recent Oct. 27 low, making it much riskier than GLD.

Through SPDR Gold Shares, I intend to take a cautious approach to gaining exposure to gold, given the big gains that the ETF has already experienced in the last few months. I plan to start with a small position of $2,000, and may add to the position in the future. I don't intend to have more than 5% of my portfolio invested in this position at any time.

For any Goldfingers out there, investing in SPDR Gold Shares is much like buying gold bars or coins, minus the headache of having to hold them in a safe or hide them under your bed. Using the fund, you have the added flexibility of being able to buy or sell at any time. The fund is backed by physical gold reserves, giving investors the security of buying the real commodity.

Many commodity prices dropped in 2008, including gold, which fell briefly in October and November of 2008. Don't let this brief decline fool you though - this is a long-term bull market for commodities, and gold will continue to perform well. As investors ditch low-yield U.S. Treasuries and seek other inflation-protected investments that can provide safety, gold appears to be the perfect investment.

The reckless monetary policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve will have its day of reckoning in the future, and investors who are long-gold and have investments that aren't tied to the greenback will be smiling in the years to come.

Let's face it: once the economy picks up, deflation will change into inflation. And hyper-inflation isn't far off, as a result of a U.S. government that continues to spend aggressively and issue more curren cy in a thus far failed attempt to jumpstart the U.S. economy. This anti-inflation investment allows investors in the United States to diversify out of the dollar and own an asset backed by a physical commodity that is likely to see greater demand with limited additional supply coming on line in the coming years.I plan to begin with a small position, which I may add to if I see a breakout in the price of gold. I'll also look to add to my position if prices consolidate, which I think is quite possible given the recent jump in price.

Hot Stocks 2009 No.4 How One Tiny Drug Developer Could Take Down The Industry Leaders
by Greg Guenthner

Grab Your Share of a $31 Billion Market In 2007, the global pharmaceutical pain relief market was worth approximately $31 billion. In the U.S., two-thirds of the dollar volume of the prescription pain medication market is for drugs used to treat chronic pain, with the remainder going toward drugs used for acute pain.
Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (JAV: AMEX) designs products to fulfill unmet and underserved medical needs in the pain-management niche. The company is particularly focused on breakthrough cancer, post-operative, back, orthopedic injury and burn pains. Despite the advances in medicine, the company insists treatments for these types of pain continue to be an underserved medical need. That's where Javelin's lucrative new contract comes into play…

The company penned an agreement in January worth up to $71 million that includes double-digit royalties on future sales of its new pain drug, Dyloject. Javelin will receive roughly $12 million in upfront cash payments from European pharmaceutical developer Therabel for the commercialization rights for Dyloject, the flagship product in Javelin's current pipeline. Dyloject is an injectable form of diclofenac, which is a prescription anti-inflammatory drug often prescribed to treat postoperative pain.

Dyloject is undergoing Phase 3 clinical development in the United States - the drug is already available in the United Kingdom. During its pivotal U.K. registration trial, Dyloject's efficacy and safety were shown to be significantly superior to standard intravenous treatments currently marketed in the U.K.

A Faster, Better Treatment
The competition for Dyloject requires dilution and slow infusion into the patient. But Dyloject comes ready to use for immediate IV administration. Anti-inflammatory drugs such as Dyloject, along with opioids like morphine, are often used post-operatively. They help reduce opioid doses by as much as 50%, thereby decreasing morphine-related side effects on the patient.

Dyloject's most significant U.S. competitor in the injectable antiinflammatory category is ketorolac tromethamine. In January 2006, Javelin announced the results of a Phase 2b U.S. study in which Dyloject showed superior onset of action compared with ketorolac five minutes after intravenous injection.

Bottom line: This drug does what it is supposed to do. And it does it better than all of the leading competitors. That's the ringing endorseent for Dyloject…especially since it's awaiting approval in the U.S. U.K. Sales and European Agreement Are Signs of Things to Come Dyloject is already on the market in the United Kingdom, and sales have been growing at an impressive pace. The drug is now on the formularies of 73 hospitals in the U.K., 58 of which were considered gold accounts and 15 silver accounts. In the first nine months of its availability, Dyloject was accepted at 40% of their targeted accounts. The drug has been accepted at 95% of the institutions to which it's been presented. This, Driscoll believes, shows that Dyloject has value to clinicians. It will prove valuable to shareholders, too…

Since Dyloject was introduced to the market, sales of the drug have doubled each quarter. Although that may be a small sample size, it shows the growth potential of the product once it is introduced into a wider market.Javelin is on schedule to complete its studies on Dyloject and submit applications in late 2009 for approval in the U.S. and European markets. The partnership with Therabel helps Javelin accelerate this process.Javelin's a Bargain at Current Prices Javelin has put itself in a fantastic position to succeed. The company currently has $34.6 million in cash and equivalents and no long-term debt whatsoever. Its burn rate during the first three quarters of 2008 was $8.6 million. With $12 million in upfront cash from Therabel, the company is well positioned to wait out approval in the U.S. Javelin feels that the self-medication segment is an area of possible growth. It generally takes 15-20 minutes and sometimes as long as 40 minutes for commercially available oral pain medications to provide any meaningful relief. Javelin says that all three of its product candidates appear to work faster than the oral formulations of currently available prescription pain products. Dyloject has shown to relieve pain in as little as five minutes, a mark that has not been achieved by current injectable anti-inflammatory drugs.

Recommendation: Buy Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (JAV: AMEX).

Hot Stocks 2009 No.5 Abercrombie & Fitch
by Bernie Schaeffer

At Schaeffer's Investment Research, we employ a 3-tiered analysis approach known as Expectational Analysis® (EA) that was created more than 2 decades ago. EA utilizes traditional methods of fundamental and technical analysis and combines these with a third, crucial look at investor sentiment. It is this third layer of analysis that provides a critical edge in selecting stock and option plays. Both anecdotal and quantifiable measures of investor sentiment provide a window into how the investing crowd perceives reality. These perceptions serve as powerful contrarian indicators, as the crowd tends to move as a herd and is, to paraphrase the venerable contrarian Humphrey Neill, "right during the trend but wrong at both ends." A look into the psyche of the collective investing masses, while also taking into account important technical and fundamental variables, can offer a reliable recipe for trading success.

The latest opportunity found by the EA methodology is Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF). According to Hoover's, Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) sells upscale men's, women's, and kids' casual clothes and accessories. The firm has 1,000-plus stores in North America (mostly in malls) and also sells via its catalog and online. It targets college students, and has come under fire for some of its ad campaigns, as well as for some of its short-run products. The company also runs a fast-growing chain of some 450 teen stores called Hollister Co., and a chain targeted at boys and girls ages 7 to 14 called abercrombie. RUEHL, a Greenwich Village-inspired concept for the post-college set, debuted in 2004.

In early February, earnings rolled in from the trendy retailer, surpassing the consensus estimate. For the fourth quarter, the company posted a profit of $68.4 million, or 78 cents per share, compared to its year-ago profit of $216.8 million, or $2.40 per share. Excluding impairment charges and costs tied to a new employment agreement with its CEO, the retailer boasted a profit of $1.10 per share, beating the Street estimate for a profit of $1.01. Sales fell 19% to $998 million, said the company. ANF stated that it would not issue an earnings forecast for fiscal 2009, citing a tough year ahead. The company said it expects a difficult selling environment to continue.

Abercrombie forecasts capital expenditures of $165 million to $175 million in fiscal 2009, a major portion of which is tied to new stores and remodeling.
Technically speaking, the security gapped sharply higher on the earnings report, gaining more than 10% amid broad market weakness.What's more, this significant bullish gap has placed the equity above resistance at its 80-day moving average. This short-term trendline had capped the shares' recent rally attempts.

As followers of the EA method, we ideally like to see solid price action persist against a backdrop of skepticism, as this implies that there could be additional money waiting on the sidelines that hasn't yet been committed to the bullish cause. It seems as though there is plenty of room on the bullish ANF bandwagon. Options players have leveled some heavy bearish bets against the stock in an attempt to call a top to its uptrend. The Schaeffer's put/call open interest ratio for ANF stands at 1.28, as put open interest outweighs call open interest among near-term options. This reading is also higher than two-thirds of those taken during the past year, indicating extreme skepticism among short-term options speculators.Meanwhile, Wall Street has yet to fully jump on this outperforming security. According to the latest data from Zacks, 14 of the 19 analysts following ANF rate it a "hold" or worse. Any upgrades from these remaining holdouts could help to propel the shares higher during the long term.

Overall, this combination of pessimistic sentiment against the stock's backdrop of improving earnings and strong technicals has bullish implications from a contrarian perspective. As investors unwind their bearish bets and jump on the stock's bandwagon, they will help to push the security even higher.

Hot Stocks 2009 No.6 Redefining Pharmacy Benefit Managment
by Ian Wyatt

The way I see it, even through current market malaise, SXC Health Solutions (Nasdaq:SXCI) is standing firm with its two corporate feet firmly planted in two complementary arenas: it's providing pharmacy benefits management services and developing the technology engine needed to keep costs under control.
Bringing down health-care costs remains a hot-button issue, as the baby boomers reach retirement age, Medicaid and Medicare grow, and drug costs continue to rise.

SXC Health, formerly known as Systems Xcellence, is a niche player in the benefits marketplace. Headquartered outside Chicago, SXC Health is a provider of health-care information technology solutions and services to providers, payers and other participants in the pharmaceutical supply chain in North America.

SXC Health is redefining pharmacy benefit management (PBM) by providing a broad range of pharmacy spend management solutions and information technology capabilities. The company is a leader in delivering an innovative mix of market expertise, information technology, clinical capability, scale of operations, mail order and specialty pharmacy offerings to a wide variety of healthcare payor organizations including health plans, Medicare, managed and fee-for-service state Medicaid plans, long-term care facilities, unions, third-party administrators and self-insured employers. In essence, the company's services allow customers to make good decisions and save money.

SXC Health's informedRx business sells management services mostly to government and universities, while its Healthcare IT Group develops the technology behind the services and provides a revenue stream via software licensing.

SXC's recent acquisition of National Medical Health Card Systems expanded its informedRx services, which is a broad, flexible suite of à la carte PBM services, which provide flexible and cost-effective alternative to traditional PBM offerings. The acquisition is an essential step in SXC Health's strategic evolution toward being a leader in pharmacy spend management, and gives the company's customers the chance to pick and choose what services are right for them. SXC Health is the only company in the PBM space to offer its clients such a broad portfolio of solutions SXC Health's technology touches close to 1 in every 4 of the estimated 3.5 billion prescriptions written in the United States annually - a plus considering that the health-care sector and health-care IT industry will outperform the market for the next few years.

The company also stands to benefit from demographic and political trends, in that the population is aging and pharmaceutical companies will need SXC's products and services. Also, the new administration has vowed to digitize the health-care system. Both of these trends will positively influence SXC Health's earnings.
In the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2008 earnings were $3.5 million, or $0.15 per share, up from $2.7 million, or $0.12 a year ago. Revenue increased to $318.1 million from $22.2 million. SXC increased full-year EPS guidance to $0.54 to $0.58 a share, from its previous estimate of $0.41 to $0.50. Additionally the company narrowed revenue estimates to $840 to $855 million, from $825 million to $875 million. We forecast the company will earn $0.59 EPS in 2008 and grow EPS 50% in 2009 to $0.88. We expect revenues will be $854 million this year and increase 52% to $1.3 billion next year. The company has made brilliant acquisitions in recent years, which have made it one of the primary players in pharmacy spend management services and information technology solutions.

The company was recently trading at 32 times current year EPS and 22 times forward EPS. These are high multiples in the current environment, but SXCI shares are worth every penny. In fact, shares are worth more. We estimate fair value to be $28 based on EPS and revenue growth projections.

Hot Stocks 2009 No.7 Power Lines and Trees: A Dynamic Duo for Income And Growth
By Justice Litle

They may not be sexy, but it's hard to go wrong with trees and power lines. In fact, we'll be using that unlikely duo to execute this "perfect inflation hedge."
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP:NYSE). BIP is a limited partnership (though its cash flows are not subject to the same tax treatment as MLPs, or Master Limited Partnerships).

Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP) is a spin-off from a much larger mother ship, Brookfield Asset Management (BAM:NYSE).While little BIP is small and scrappy at $316 million, mother BAM boasts a far larger market cap of $9.5 billion.As a publicly traded partnership, 50% of BIP is owned by investors like you and me. Forty percent is owned by BAM, the parent, and the last 10% is owned by Brookfield directors and management.

BIP was spun off from the BAM mother ship with the intent of being a "pure infrastructure play." The far larger BAM has all sorts of assets on its balance sheet; through the creation of a stand-alone entity, BIP offers a way to pick up direct infrastructure exposure.BIP's primary assets are electricity transmission lines and timber, and they are distributed across North and South America. On the electricity side, BIP owns roughly 5,500 miles worth of transmission lines (power lines) in Chile and Canada (Northern Ontario). Additional power lines in Brazil were sold at a considerable profit in the third quarter of 2008.

BIP's transmission lines are part of a regulated monopoly, which means no competitor can muscle in. As of March 2008, these assets had a recorded book value of $330 million -- more than the value of BIP's current market cap. Using the Brazilian asset sale as a benchmark -- in which BIP fetched a 40% gain over book price -- its likely current holdings have a far, far higher value than the old numbers reflect.

A Toll Road for Electrons
Power lines are a great business. Just as you have to drive to work each day (unless you're retired or work from home), the electricity has to move from the power plant to your house (or the office building, the factory and so on).

Here's why you want to own power lines:
They require very little maintenance and upkeep, so most of the cash flow goes right into the owner's pocket.
Because people and businesses are steady in their use of electricity, those cash flows are very stable.
As inflation rises, steady price increases can be pushed through as part of the contract.

Additionally, BIP will have the chance to build out its electricity transmission networks at attractive rates of return over time. The only thing better than a strong, stable, cash-flow-producing business is a business that can expand on the same great terms. As emerging markets resume their upward trends, electricity use will go up too... and this can only be good news for BIP.

An Infinite Resource
The other thing BIP owns is timber -- more than 1.2 million acres in Oregon,Washington state, and coastal British Columbia. The nice thing about timberland is that, when managed properly, it's an infinite resource. Unlike metals or fossil fuels -- which eventually run out and leave a site in decline -- trees can grow back.
As with electricity, BIP's parent company (and 40% owner) offers four decades of experience owning and operating timberlands. This gives BIP an edge in key areas like harvest planning and managing the product mix.

BIP's acreage is concentrated in premium timbers like Douglas fir and hemlock. In addition, the close proximity to the coast gives BIP an edge on the export side of the business.

Timberland tends to rise in value over time because, unlike the currency spit out of a printing press, they just aren't making any more of it. Timber's uses are many and varied for the global economy, and, like power lines, timber has the advantage of being a high-margin, low-upkeep business.

When prices are high, BIP can cut more timber. When prices are low, they can cut less (saving costs) and let the acreage value appreciate. The timber itself is a renewable resource, and BIP has the ability to book capital gains through the occasional sale of choice parcels for land redevelopment.

An Exceptional Value
Investors are coming back to their senses, snapping up assets that got insanely cheap. BIP's parent could well be buying back shares too, figuring it's crazy to leave them out on the market at such a tempting price. Back in March of 2008, management gave an estimate of BIP's book value (the value of the underlying transmission and timber assets) at $24 per share. I think that is not only a reasonable estimate; it is more than likely a conservative estimate. BIP could easily be worth $25 to $30 per share.

As we prepare for a central-bank-induced inflation deluge, stable, cashflow producing infrastructure assets will only increase in value. Power lines and trees will never go out of style... and the stream of income collected from those assets will only keep ticking up year after year. Buy Brookfield Infrastructure Partners (BIP:NYSE) at $18 per share or better.

Hot Stocks 2009 No.8 Big Profits from Downsizing
by Stephen Rawls

All Americans are changing their spending habits as the economic recession hits home. We're adjusting to the idea of driving the car an extra year or more, to buying clothes at Sears instead of Joseph A Banks, that sort of thing. And while our change in spending habits hurts some, it helps others. As investors, we need to focus on those companies well positioned to profit from these changes. Those companies well positioned to profit from the fundamental changes in the American lifestyle.
One of the major changes that we're seeing now is a turn by the American consumer to private label brand foods to feed their family. As a result, one of the big beneficiaries of this move is American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC), the nation's largest manufacturer of dry pasta. Sales are booming. And so is the stock.

What makes American Italian Pasts so interesting is that it's booming because of several trends. The first is the aforementioned transition to private label foods. A second favorable trend is that consumers are moving away from a meat and potatoes diet to something less expensive, like pasta. And, finally, the low-carb "Atkins diet" fad is now history. Even more amazing in the recession of 2009, American Italian Pasta has actually been able to raise their prices while sales increased! Sales of pasta products in the United States rose 5% last year to $6.4 billion. During that time, American Italian was able to raise prices faster than their costs increased.
For the first quarter 2009, American Italian Pasta earned a whopping $1.23 EPS, up from 2008's first quarter EPS of 43 cents. Retail revenue for the quarter rose 56% to $136.1 million, while cost of goods sold rose only 40%. Overall volume for the company was up some 13%.

From a technical standpoint, American Italian Pasta seems to defy the overall market, making new highs as recently as February 25th. The company is a newly listed issue on the NASDAQ, beginning trading there on November 14, 2008. The company is trading above its 50-day moving average and gapped higher on February 12th after releasing its first-quarter earnings. Since then, the stock hasn't looked back.

With no upside resistance to speak of, the critical technical support level comes in the gap between $27.00 and $29.19. Given the strong earnings report on February 11th, I wouldn't expect the stock to violate this gap. Prospects for the company seem very strong and the company appears able to deliver on those prospects.

Pricing power is something almost unheard of in the economic climate of 2009. And that's one of the things that impresses me the most about American Italian Pasta - it has the ability to increase sales, while raising prices.

One other factor that hasn't yet been considered by most analysts, I believe, is that the cost of raw ingredients, which had been going up for most of 2008, are now in retreat.With higher prices already in effect, any fall in cost of goods sold will reflect directly in higher profitability for the company.

In summary, with American Italian Pasta, you have a company that's benefiting from multiple trends working in its favor. Fundamentally, the ability to raise prices and not affect sales is amazing. With more Americans "trading down" their eating habits, this trend to higher sales shows every indication of continuing. And with their raw ingredient prices now falling, the company will not have to raise prices in the near future to stimulate growth. Rather, the profits for the second quarter of 2009 will come from higher prices already in place, accompanied by falling ingredient prices.From where I sit, American Italian Pasta Company looks like a rare winner in 2009.

Hot Stocks 2009 No.9 Looking for Safe Stocks? Try Channeling Ben Graham
by John Reese

When I began conducting extensive research into the strategies used by some of history's greatest investors some 12 years ago, one thing quickly became apparent: Many of these Wall Street stars, including Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, and Benjamin Graham, built their fortunes and reputations not by relying on some sort of investing "sixth sense", but instead by using approaches that were mostly or completely quantitative. They stuck to the numbers, never letting emotion influence their decisions.

That was great news to me. Because of my background in computer science and artificial intelligence, I was able to develop sophisticated but easy-to-use models based on these gurus' quantitative approaches.

Today, these models power the research and analysis on my web site, Validea.com, allowing everyday investors to take advantage of the strategies that some of history's most successful stock-pickers used. Since I started tracking them nearly six years ago, portfolios built using each of my eight original "Guru Strategies" have all significantly outperformed the market.

For some top picks in today's market, let's turn to my top-performing strategy -- one that, interestingly, is inspired by what is far and away the oldest of these methodologies, the approach of the late, great Benjamin Graham. Known as the "Father of Value Investing" -- and the mentor of Warren Buffett -- Graham detailed his strategy in his 1949 classic The Intelligent Investor. Six decades later, my conservative Graham-based model is up almost 70 percent since its July 2003 inception, while the S&P 500 has fallen more than 22 percent. Last year, while the market tumbled close to 40 percent, my Graham-based model sustained well less than half of that decline.

One stock my Graham model is particularly high on right now:
Ameron International Corporation (AMN), a California-based firm that makes water transmission lines, fiberglass-composite pipe for transporting oil, and infrastructure-related products like ready-mix concrete and lighting poles -- just the kind of company that could benefit from the federal stimulus package's infrastructure funding.

Having lived through both his own family's fall from financial grace (following his father's death when Benjamin was a young man), and, later, through the Great Depression, it's no surprise that Graham focused as much on preserving capital and limiting losses as he did on producing big gains. He liked stable, conservatively financed companies, not speculative gambles, and Ameron fits the bill. One example of why: its strong current ratio of 2.87. Graham used the current ratio (current assets/current liabilities) to get an idea of a company's liquidity (and the credit crisis has shown us all how important liquidity is).

Companies with current ratios of at least 2.0 were the type of financially secure, defensive, low-risk plays he liked, and Ameron makes the grade.Another way Graham targeted conservative firms was by making sure long-term debt was no greater than net current assets. Ameron has just $36 million in long-term debt and almost $300 million in net current assets, a great sign.

The other main part of Graham's approach was making sure a stock had what he termed a "margin of safety" -- that is, its price was low compared to his assessment of the intrinsic value of its underlying business. Stocks with high margins of safety have downside protection -- they're already selling at a discount compared to their real value, so even if problems occur and earning power declines a bit, the stock still might gain ground because it's so undervalued to begin with.
To find undervalued stocks, Graham looked at both the price/earnings ratio (the model I base on his approach requires the greater of the stock's current P/E or its three-year average P/E to be no greater than 15) and the price/book ratio (which, when multiplied by the P/E, should be no greater than 22). Ameron's P/E (using the higher three-year figure) is just 8.2, and its P/B is just 0.99, indicating that the stock is a great value.

In addition to Ameron, here are a couple more of myGraham model's current favorites:
Schnitzer Steel Industries (SCHN): Hammered when commodity prices began to tumble last summer, this Oregon-based firm has made a big rebound since late November, and my Graham model thinks it has a lot more room to grow. It has a current ratio of 3.2, just $106.1 million in long-term debt vs. $338.5 million in net current assets, and bargain-level P/E and P/B ratios of 5.8 and 1.01, respectively.

National Presto Industries (NPK): Talk about an eclectic group of business segments. This Wisconsin-based firm's housewares division makes small appliances and pressure cookers; its defense segment makes ammunition, fuses, and cartridge cases; and its absorbent products division makes adult incontinence products and baby diapers. Its fundamentals are exceptional -- current ratio of 5.23, P/E ratio of 14.5, P/B ratio of 1.49 -- and, the firm has no long-term debt.

Hot Stocks 2009 No.10 Hedged Investing with Hussman Strategic Growth
by Ian Wyatt

When I recently discovered the Hussman Strategic Growth fund, it was love at first sight. Hussman acts like a hedge fund, providing the fund managers much flexibility in the investment instruments and strategies utilized to capitalize on rapidly changing markets like those we are currently experiencing. Manager John Hussman's disciplined strategy has navigated the mutual fund toward calmer waters amid choppy market conditions, a testament to the fund's ability to achieve remarkable performance in down markets.

Although Hussman receives the advice of key personnel on the fund's board of trustees and at Hussman Econometrics, this mutual fund depends heavily on Hussman himself. He also invests all of his personal liquid assets (outside of cash and money market accounts) in his two funds, clearly aligning his personal interests with those of fund shareholders. Hussman Strategic Growth invests primarily in U.S. stocks with the objective of longterm capital appreciation. It currently has 116 long holdings that include the likes of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Nike, Inc. (NYSE:NKE ), Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN), Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and Best Buy Co. (NYSE:BBY). Hussman goes long on individual positions, and can leverage using equity call options. Ninety percent of the fund's net assets are tied up in stocks while the remaining 10% is sitting in cash.

Hussman was down only 9% in 2008, a performance that was the envy of most fund managers, especially in light of the 37% drop in the S&P 500. In the previous bear markets of 2001 and 2002, the fund was up a whopping 14% in each of those years. Because the fund is so risk-averse, its short-term track record may limp in bullish environments, but its long term performance is where investors begin to see solid profits. Given the current state of the market, and the fact that my outlook calls for a range bound and volatile stock market in 2009, Hussman Strategic Growth fund is a solid place to have capital invested.

John Hussman develops a risk versus reward profile for the current market climate, identifying economic trends and valuing individual stocks based on their expected streams of cash flow. For much of the past decade, Hussman has considered most stocks overvalued and did not think they were providing enough reward given their high level of risk.To preserve capital, he hedged the portfolio against market risk by shorting indexes such as the S&P 100. As a result, the fund has been fairly uncorrelated to the whims of the market and has been shielded from the heavy losses many funds have faced.

Since its July 2000 inception, the fund's 8.9% annualized return has outpaced the S&P 500, which lost 4.4% annually over the same period.Performance in 2009 appears to be holding up, with year-to-date returns of 0.25% versus a loss of 8% for the S&P 500 index. Morningstar calls Hussman "one of the steadiest and cheapest options in the fledgling long-short category," and gives the fund a 3-star rating.

Hussman's claimed approach of "investing for long-term returns while managing risk" is in perfect alignment with my aggressiveapproach to conservative investing. I, too, aim to find opportunities for long-term capital appreciation, while limiting downside risk through portfolio diversification and aggressive risk management. The fund is currently taking a very conservative approach to equities, which makes sense given the performance last year. With the bleak prospects for global growth in 2009, this fund should perform well in horizontal or down markets, making it a nice fit within the equity portion of my Recovery Portfolio. Additionally, the fund's flexibility should allow it to perform nicely once stocks begin their recovery.

4 Best ETFs For Current Stocks Market

Despite the market's precipitous decline hundreds of new ETFs have entered the market in the last two years. Indeed there are over 735 ETFs today compared to 635 in the beginning of 2008. Many of these newcomers offer you exciting new ways to profit in any market, lower your costs, and simplify your life.

But which of these should you consider for this tumultuous market? 

As editor of Forbes ETF Advisor, it's my mission to help you separate wheat from the chaff and quickly zero in on the best new entrants.  In this bulletin, I'll show you a list of new ETFs available for trading. 

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And we have a few other advantages up our ETF sleeves, not the least of which is the fact that I've been covering ETFs since their inception, both for institutional and individual investors.That's why many subscribers tell me that Forbes ETF Advisor is must-read guidance for navigating the rapidly changing world of ETF investing.  ETFs now offer you an increasingly complex range of options. Many ETFs are now tied to unknown and complex market indexes. Some promise to double your money when the stock market or certain sectors of the market decline. Others track the price of gold, crude oil and even real estate.  And many new ETFs are from totally new investment firms that aren't household names. 

Just take a look at a few of the recent new entrants…

ProShares Small Cap	S&P EPAC	Lifecycle ETFs
Ultra Gold	S&P Europe	.   XShares Advisors
UltraShort Gold	S&P Europe Emerging	.   Zacks 2010 Lifecycle Index
Ultra Silver	S&P Latin America	.   Zacks 2020 Lifecycle Index
UltraShort Silver	S&P Middle East & Africa	Zacks 2030 Lifecycle Index
Short Russell 2000 RWM	S&P World (ex-US)	Zacks 2040 Lifecycle Index
UltraShort Russell 2000 TWM	S&P World (ex-US) Small Cap	Zacks In-Target Lifecycle Idx
PowerShares Commodity ETFs	SPDR Barclays Capital Intermed	StateShares for:
DB Energy DBE	SPDR Barclays Capital Mortgage	California
DB Oil DBO	Goldman Sachs	Colorado
DB Precious Metals DBP	Commodity Nat Gas Indxd Trust	Connecticut
DB Gold DGL	Commodity Energy Trust	Florida
DB Silver DBS	Van Eck	Georgia
DB Base Metals DBB	Market Vectors Global Alt Energy	Illinois
DB Agriculture DBA	Market Vectors Russia	Indiana
Barclay's Global Inv Bond ETFs	Barclay's Global Investors	Maryland
iShares	Barclay's filed for a high yield bond	Massachusetts
Barclays Short Treasury SHV	ETF that will track the Int'l Index	Michigan
Barclays MBS Bond Fund	Co. 's iBoxx Liquid High Yield Index.	Minnesota
Barclays 10-20 Yr Treasury	Barclay's Commodity ETFs	Missouri
Barclays Cred CFT	iShares S&P US Pref Stock Index	New Jersey
Barclays 1-3 Year Credit CSJ	iShares GSCI Indus Metals Index	New York
Barclays Intermed Credit CIU	iShares GSCI Light Energy	North Carolina
Barclays Intermed Gov't/Credit	iShares GSCI Comm Livestock	Ohio
Barclays Gov't/Credit GBF	iShares GSCI Non-Energy	Pennsylvania
State Street Global Advisors SPDR	CurrencyShares	Tennessee
Macquarie Global Infrastr 100 GII	Japanese Yen	Texas
MSCI ACWI (ex-US) CWI	PowerShares	Virginia
US Technology	Automatic Allocation RAFI	Washington
US Telecommunications	Dynamic Brand Name Portfolio	Composite
US Utilities	DWA Technical Leaders	Vanguard
Rydex	India Tiger	Total Bond Market
S&P 500	NASDAQ Dividend Achievers	Short Term Bond
S&P 500 Growth	NASDAQ Internet	Intermediate Term Bond
S&P 500 Value	REIT Preferred	Long Term Bond
S&P Mid Cap 400	ValueLine 400	FTSE All-World ex-USA.
S&P Mid Cap 400 Growth	VTL Associates TIGERS	WisdomTree
S&P Mid Cap 400 Value	Revenue-Wghted Large Cap Index	Communications Sector
S&P Small Cap 600	Revenue-Wghted Mid Cap Index	Financial Sector
S&P Small Cap 600 Growth	Revenue-Wghted Small Cap Index	REIT Sector
S&P Small Cap 600 Value	Claymore Advisors	International Real Estate
Russell 1000	BBD Optimax Income	Asia Emrg Mrkt Ttl Div
Russell 1000 Growth	BIR All-Star Select	Asia Emrg Mrkt High-Yield
Russell 1000 Value	BIR Mid-Cap Value	Emrg Markets Total Div
Russell 2000	BIR Small-Cap Core	Emrg Mkts High-Yield Eq
Russell 2000 Growth	Clear Mid-Cap Growth	Emrg Mrkts Div Top 100
Russell 2000 Value	Great Comp Large-Cap Grwth	Latin America Ttl Div
Russell Mid Cap	IndexIQ Small-Cap Value	Australia Total Dividend
Russell Mid Cap Growth	KLD Certified Sudan Free Large-	Canada Total Dividend
Russell Mid Cap Value	Cap Social	China Total Dividend
Russell 3000	Ocean Tomo Growth	France Total Dividend
Russell 3000 Growth	Robeco Large-Cap Value	Germany Total Dividend
Russell 3000 Value	Sabrient CEF Balanced Opp	Hong Kong Ttl Dividend
NASDAQ 100	Sabrient CEF Income Opp	India Total Dividend
NASDAQ Biotechnology	Zacks Growth & Income	Malaysia Total Dividend
Consumer Discretionary	Zacks Mid-Cap Core	Singapore Ttl Dividend
Consumer Staples		South Africa Ttl Div
Energy		South Korea Total Div
Financials		Taiwan Total Dividend
Healthcare		UK Total Dividend
Materials		UK High-Yielding Equity
Utilities		Earnings Index
State Street Global Advisors		LargeCap Earnings Idx
S&P Asia Pacific		MidCap Earnings Idx
S&P Asia Pacific Emerging		SmallCap Earnings Idx
S&P China		Earnings Top 100 Index
S&P Emerging Markets		Low P/E
		Earnings Index
		Earnings Index

 

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4 Best Buy ETFs

ETFs simply offer a smarter, safer and more tax efficient vehicle for investors.

Forbes has always been a pioneer in its coverage of smart sound investments for individual investors. Long before Morningstar ever existed, Forbes Magazine with its Mutual Fund Honor Roll began rating funds in the 1950s when the industry was in its infancy. Today, the "Era of ETFs" is just beginning and Forbes has partnered with award winning fund and ETF expert James Lowell III, to bring you The Forbes ETF Advisor.

Jim Lowell's 2008 ETF Picks That MADE MONEY:

ProShares Short QQQ (PSQ) up 46.8%

ProShares Short EAFE (EFZ) up 38.1%

ProShares Short Emerging Markets (EUM) up 19.1%

iShares COMEX Gold (IAU) up 5.4%

PowerShares DB US Dollar Bull (UUP) up 4.2%

iShares Short Treasury (SHV) up 2.8%

Since Jim Lowell launched The Forbes ETF Advisor in April 2006, the S&P 500 has lost 27.2%. Jim's portfolios have lost much less than the market, from his Growth & Income Portfolio (-15.8%) to his Growth Portfolio (-23.7%).

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ETFs are more cost-effective because of lower operating and transaction costs.

ETFs are more liquid and flexible than funds. Like top stocks they can be traded anytime during the market day.

ETFs are more tax-efficient because they typically have very low distribution rates.

ETFs often have better performance than index funds because they are more efficient.

ETFs offer investors a more liquid and efficient way to access hot overseas markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China.

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Worthless "Officials" Sell Off Precious Gold

Jon Nadler at Kitco.com ran across an article in The Financial Chronicle (India) which reported that "India and China may press for the sale of the entire gold reserves of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to raise money for the least developed countries. The IMF holds 103.4 million ounces (3,217 tonnes) of gold that, if sold, can fetch about $100 billion," so that "the money thus raised must be used in tackling poverty in the poorest nations," which makes sense if you think that you are "tackling poverty" by bailing out their rich-nation creditors, including the World Bank itself.

Apparently, it is a fait accompli anyway, as "The G20 heads of state meeting in London earlier this month agreed to sell a part of the IMF gold to raise $6 billion for poor countries during 2009-11. This was a component of a $1.1 trillion package worked out by G20." Whew!

The World Bank - which is a total failure, which is explained by it being a ludicrous clot of communists and socialists - never saw economic tragedy coming, either, and estimates that "over 90 million people may be pushed into poverty in the global economic turmoil."
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The Really Funny Part (RFP) is when "an official" said, "We are working on a more ambitious proposal of selling the entire gold off, as it is an idle asset with the IMF"! Hahaha!

It's so idle, and yet here they are selling it to bail themselves out because they don't have anything else to sell that is worth anything! Hahaha! What a moron!

Gold is thus functioning perfectly, as it retains its value when everything else has turned to crap, and yet here is some "official" of the worthless World Bank looking us right in the eye and saying they want to get rid of it all! Wow! What numbskulls!

It makes you wonder, "What will they do next time when there is no gold 'sitting idle' that they can sell?" Hahaha!

It was later that we read, "The gold, if sold, would go mostly to central banks," which makes you wonder what in the hell is going on, since it has been the central banks that have been big sellers of gold for years, and now they are getting the gold of the International Monetary Fund - the "central bank of central bankers" - that was the original gold that we gave them as collateral against their stupid Special Drawing Rights? Hahaha! Now SDRs will be fiat currencies, too! Hahaha!
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Mr. Nadler writes that the reason is because, "One thing is clear; we have long warned that the line of poor, and about-to-become-poorer, nations holding their outstretched hands at the IMF's doorstep, had wrapped around the block. The institution has not been faced with this kind of global panhandling in its entire history."

To add insult to injury, it is embarrassing to have it explained that "India and China are looking at three ways of using the money so raised. 1) The $100 billion be invested to improve IMF's liquidity. 2) The money be committed to improving incomes of the poorest countries. 3) A mix of the first two options be considered." Hahaha!

Before I dismissed this odious piece of ignorant, thieving crap entirely, I thought I would first try this at work as a last-ditch, desperation attempt to save my job!

So the next day I went in to see my boss and told her that my new plan was to sell the company's only assets to "tackle the poverty" of some guys who owe me money, which is money that I loaned them by borrowing it from their pension fund, so that they can pay me back my money, so that I can pay back the pension fund.

To make sure the plan "sells" I literally used the World Bank format, and I told her, "We are looking at three ways of using the money so raised. 1) All the money be invested to improve my liquidity. 2) The money be committed to improving the incomes of the poorest debtors. 3) A mix of the first two options be considered."
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Alas, it did not work for me, and my job is as tenuous as ever (probably more so!), and so I assume it will not work for the IMF, either, but as weird and bizarre as it is to even suggest doing such a thing, MoneyWeek.com reports, "The gold market is behaving in ways never seen before" and "in recent months the supply of old gold scrap - consisting mainly of jewellery sold by owners to turn their metal into cash - has actually exceeded demand for jewellery manufacturers."

The other numbers are as peculiar, like, "According to research consultancy GFMS's Gold Survey 2009, world demand for jewellery fell 10% last year, supply of scrap rose by 27%, official sales halved, and investment demand soared 61%."

Now, I can understand how people can get so far in debt that they sell their gold, and I can understand how heavily-indebted people can cut back on buying expensive baubles and bangles, and I can see how official sales can be halved by interventionist governments in collusion with each other and bullion banks, but none of that can explain why investment demand is "soaring" unless they see profits, which they obviously do!

Whee! This investing stuff is easy!

Plan B Pension Programs:Investing Top Stocks Market

If you've been paying any attention, you know that world we knew is unraveling. Despite the government's efforts to convince you otherwise, you know that the weight of all the bad decisions can no longer be borne.

The world is becoming a scarier place, especially in terms of your financial survival and hence your physical comfort and security.

But it doesn't have to be that way. You owe it to yourself — and to those who count on you — to guarantee a source of income, no matter what happens to the value of your assets or to your job.

As you know, we don't like dependency around these parts. We don't think anyone should rely on governments, nor the corporations that conspire with them.

If you think that maybe you shouldn't be counting on Social Security or your 401(k)...and you think that guaranteeing a your retirement income is your own responsibility...

Suppose you could collect up to $120,000 in work-free 'paychecks' every single year.

Even if you're retired. At any age. And for as long as you like.

What I'll show you is that, thanks to a few little-publicized opportunities, now you can.

What's more, you can even pass this steady stream of annual cash that I'll introduce you to... to your spouse, to your children, even to your grandchildren.

In fact, many of America's richest families count on these "plans" to do exactly that for their own loved ones. What exactly are we talking about?

This technique goes by many names. I call it the "Plan B Pension."

As I said, this strategy rarely grabs the big headlines.

Even though it's the best "little-talked-about" retirement secret I've ever come across.

I'll show you how it works over the next five minutes. I'll also reveal why right now, in the midst of the greatest market shakeout since the 1930s, this may be the best time in history for you to take a closer look at this secret.

Why? For one thing, "Plan B Pensions" have a proven track record over time.

They can easily outclass classic fixed-benefit pensions on reliability.

They can nearly double your market performance.

And "Plan B Pensions" give you many, many times more options for rebalancing your portfolio in a shifting market than you'll see in either the classic plans or more modern versions, like the 401(k) approach.

What's more, unlike those better-known approaches, with a "Plan B Pension," you'll never butt your head against age limits, withdrawal penalties or participation restrictions.

As long as you enroll, you can participate.

You don't have to work for anybody to get in.

You don't have to give away a piece of your paycheck every month either.

Once you set up your "Plan B Pension," it starts running itself.

You can start getting checks issued in your name every 12 days, on average. And getting this ball rolling can be as easy as opening a savings account.

In fact, I'll show you six different "Plan B Pension" programs you're invited to join right now. I'm not personally affiliated with any of them. But after a lot of research and analysis ― all of which I'll share with you ― these six moves are easily the best "Plan B" opportunities you'll find on the market today.

The report that details each of these six moves is yours to send for, at no charge. You can download it right after you read this or I can mail it to you. I show you how to set that up at the end of this letter.

And by the way, you don't need a lot of money to get started.

You can get into some of these "Plan B Pension" programs with as little as $10.

And once you're set up, you could be collecting as many as 38 "Plan B Pension paychecks" each year... with your first in this lifelong stream of cash windfalls arriving in as little as two weeks from today.

Like a classic fixed-benefit pension, these checks can keep coming for as long as you need them... and long after you retire. And like a 401(k), with "Plan B Pensions," you can also get "matched" gains... where the "plan" owner actually kicks in some extra cash with each payout, just to reward you for participating in the "plan."

This chart shows how "Plan B Pensions" compare...

In some of these "plans," you even get the chance to own shares in the best stock investment you've chosen at a fat discount to what others pay on the open market. That's like getting an instant gain, the day you buy shares. It's also a special "perk" reserved only for members of these "plans."

What's more...

You Can Collect "Plan B Pension" Checks as Often as Every 12 Days

Even if you just stick with the six "Plan B Pension" opportunities I'll reveal to you... over the next five minutes... that alone could start you off with checks as frequent as every 12 days.

Let me show you more of these opportunities and you could start collecting even more often... and with even greater results. I'm ready to give you my research right now.

In fact, I'll send you the details on the six "Plan B Pension" moves I just mentioned at no charge. Just as soon as you give me your permission. Details on that in just a moment.

But first, let's take an even closer look at how doing this ― using a "Plan B Pension" ― can give anyone an advantage of the much more common moves most of us are used to.

Take, for instance, the classic "defined-benefit" pension plan.

You know how these work. Or at least, you do if you've got a good memory. Because, you see, these same classic company pensions ― given out like golden parachutes to parents and grandparents ― have all but disappeared today.

In just the 10 years from 1994�2004, the total number of defined-benefit pension plans fell by half ― from 59,000 to just 28,000. Today that number is even lower, with more old-school pensions set to get wiped out over the rest of 2009.

The idea of getting a "fixed-benefit" check for life was great. But a benefit that disappears when you need it is no benefit at all! Anyone who worked years for the promise of a classic pension got rooked. And now a lot of these people face hard times ahead.

The same is true if you were "duped" into accepting the modern-day alternative, the so-called 401(k). You know these plans all too well, I'm sure.

About 30 years ago, companies came up with 401(k) plans because they seemed like a great way to slash exposure to classic pension obligations... while giving employees a chance to manage their own retirements.

Guess what happened.

Today, top economists are calling 401(k) plans a "failed experiment." And The Wall Street Journal recently reported that today's credit crunch has already wiped out over $2 trillion in these 401(k) accounts alone ― with more big slippage to come!

Over 60% of Americans depend on 401(k) plans for retirement. Many have seen them lopped in half, with little time left to make up the lost ground.

What's more, with these more common kinds of plans, you can easily get stuck putting your eggs in only one basket, if you've worked with only one employer. Or two or three, at the most, if you've put in the years at more than one job.

That's not at all the case with a "Plan B Pension."

First of all, "Plan B Pensions" can move with you the day you get started. They're yours to control and yours to draw from whenever and wherever you like. You control the size of the checks. You control how many you get. You control how fast the wealth pile grows.

With no limits based on your age, whom you work for or how many of these programs you'd like to tap at one time. There are over 1,020 of these "Plan B Pension" plans in America.

You can enroll in as many of them as you like.

All at once or switching between them until you find ones you prefer.

It's literally up to you. And I can help you choose the best possible ones to follow, starting with the six "Plan B Pension" opportunities I'm ready to name for you at the end of this letter.

You can collect "retirement paychecks" not just from one company... but from as many companies as you like... even the ones you've never worked for a single day in your life.

This is a "work-free" strategy. Except for the work you'll do to set it up ― which is only about as much effort as it takes to set up a bank account.

It's really that simple. Even though doing this now could give you astounding, life-lasting results.

Here's something else...

How "Plan B Pensions" Can Double Your Wealth

Forbes reported a study...

In other words, "Plan B Pension" helped double the size of those gains over time.

Despite the '87 market bust... the S&L banking crisis and first Bush recession... the currency crash of '97 and the dot-com bubble... Sept. 11 and the start of this most recent real estate bust...

What's more, the best of these "Plan B Pension" programs just keep on paying straight through the current credit crunch. With checks that could be landing in your accounts right now.

And unlike typical pensions or 401(k)s, "Plan B Pensions" don't quit working for you when you retire. That is, you can keep putting money in and taking it out as you like.

Growing it, tweaking it, even spending it... as you see fit.

There's no penalty for early withdrawal.

And no age or employment restriction when you get in or out.

Start now, and even with just the six special moves I've promised to show you, you can already start collecting a "Plan B Pension" payout as often as every 12 days.

Plus, with many of these "Plan B Pension" plans, you can also...

Collect an Instant "Matching" Bonus With Each Payout

One big draw on 401(k) programs is supposed to be the "matching" dollars some companies throw in when employees use the plans to set money aside.

When it works, it's a great benefit. But right now, cash-strapped companies have started slashing those "matching" benefits too. Again, a benefit you don't get... is no benefit at all.

The thing is, "Plan B Pensions" also offer your own kind of "matching." Because many of the 1,020+ "plans" you can choose from "match" your gains by as much as 10%... with each regular payout.

This can be like "free money"... piled up on top of what you're already making.

Why would any "Plan B Pension" operator want to give you a bonus out his own pocket? Simple. When you participate in these "plans," the companies that back them get lots of benefits too.

A more stable share price. Long-term shareholder loyalty. A reliable pool of capital. A blue-chip reputation and market respectability. The list could go on.

And in exchange for that loyalty and stability... especially when we're looking at unpredictable markets that could last for years to come... they're willing to pay out of their massive, tucked-away cash piles to "thank" you for staying on board.

Maybe you're thinking only a few lucky insiders or elite market players can wiggle their way onto these "Plan B Pension" payrolls. But anyone can do this. Just by taking the steps I'll show you to get on board.

It works at any age or income level. With starting amounts as little as $10. And work-free, meaning you don't have to work for or even be directly associated with any of these companies in any other way to participate.

There's zero limit on how many of these income streams you lock in at once...

Two, three... a dozen.

It's really up to you to mix and match them to your liking. And the door is open to you, once you know how to enroll. Get set up now and you could start receiving checks immediately.

(For the six opportunities I'll show you, that next payout date is Feb. 16, 2009).

The Ultimate Retirement Recovery Plan

Before you start jumping to conclusions, don't think that "Plan B Pensions" have anything to do with the risky bond investing or measly T-Bill returns.

Nor do I want you to get it into your head that we're talking about tinkering with money markets, low-paying CDs, risking options, or questionable insurance annuity strategies.

"Plan B Pensions" have nothing to do with these.

Instead, you're looking at more than 1,020 of these special "Plan B Pension" ways to directly draw income "paychecks" with the blessing of some of the biggest, most cash-rich and reliable companies in America. And over 600 of these dividend-compounding programs can also offer you the accelerated "instant matching" gains we've talked about.

Sure, not all "Plan B Pension" opportunities are right for everybody.

That's why I want to help you get started by sending you my full research on the six carefully selected "Plan B" moves that I've mentioned. You'll find all six detailed in my new report, called The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life.

This is just one of the three reports you'll find in the full "Plan B Retirement Library" I want to send you. The whole set is yours right now, at no charge. I'm offering it to you free.

Just tell me where you'd like it mailed... or even better, follow the simple steps at the end of this letter so you can download it immediately, minutes from right now.

The first payout you can qualify for is due to come out very soon, and you can keep on drawing more checks as quickly as every 12 days after that, on average.

All told, the moves you'll read about in the report can total up to 38 checks this year... and each year that you decide to continue with what you'll read in my report.

Based on what I'll show you, you can do this without big risks. Without losing sleep over Wall Street catastrophes. Without giving yourself over to failed government retirement programs. And without breaking any rules or stepping on anybody's toes.

The companies who want to pay you are just as eager for you to do this as you are to try it. And everything you need to decide for yourself, you'll find in your free copy of The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life.

I'll show you how to send for it in just a moment.

But first...

The Lifelong Income Secret That Couldn't Have Come at a Better Time

If you still think the "old school" plans will still deliver on their promises, just take another look at the wasted landscape of today's American financial scene...

The financial statements you don't want to open... the pile of backed-up credit card bills... wrecked housing values and disappearing jobs... impossible healthcare...

Even before the latest financial crisis, millions of Americans didn't even have a "Plan A" for retirement... let alone a "Plan B." The retirement savings of a typical Boomer, for instance, totals just $38,000.

Across America, thousands of old school pensions have gone belly up. And the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp ― the government agency that insures those retirements ― has already slipped over $14 billion in the red. And this was before the stock market plunged!

401(k) plans, of course, aren't insured at all. With more than $2 trillion in those retirement accounts already gone, it's not looking good. That money could simply be erased forever.

Meanwhile, D.C. bureaucrats continue to blow hundreds of billions more on one ill-planned bailout after another... while decimating the future spending power of every nickel you set aside.

Ten years from today, every $100k you have saved could only get you as little as $35,859 buys today... and in twice that time, it could be worth as little as $12,859 is today. Without a matching rise in Social Security payouts.

Dignified health care? Forget about it. Luxurious retirement vacations? Beach houses? Big graduation blowouts for the grandkids? Millions of Americans will be lucky if they can go to the grocery store without clutching a calculator in their hands.

Over the last 100 years, our own government has stolen more than 95.2 cents of purchasing power out of every dollar... just to fund their own waste... and that's quickly made a long healthy retirement a liability in America!

That's everything, even Social Security.

Even Boomers with money in 401(k) type plans have just $88,000 set aside... not enough to generate more than $5,000 per year once they stop working.

Could you live on $5,000 a year?

But let's assume you're one of those smart individuals who did get ready. You started early. And you put your eggs where everybody said they would do just fine.

Energy. China. Index funds.

Only to see much of those short-term gains evaporate. Along with the equity you counted on in your house. Now that's gone too. College funds? Retirement funds? Pummeled beyond recognition... if not gone completely.

My point is this...

If you want security without sacrifice... if you need the income you counted on and then some... if you were counting on living at least as well as you do now, if not better... and if you want to have a prayer of leaving something for your grandchildren...

Then you can't count on anybody else.

You need another way to win back your financial security.

And I can't think of a smarter, better way for you to do this than by tapping into the power of "Plan B Pensions." Sooner rather than later. And you can do this easily, starting with the six moves you'll find in your free copy of The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life.

Once you've had a chance to look that over, dig into the rest of the three free reports I want to send you in my new "Plan B Retirement Library."

This entire set is also yours at no charge. And I'd love to get it into your hands, as quickly as possible, because I'm that eager for you to discover the rest of what you'll find inside...

The Quick Retirement "Catch-up" Strategy Everybody Is Talking About

Doing what I'll show you is easy.

In fact, it's automatic.

You just set it up and the checks start coming. One after another, with a check arriving every 12 days on average ― for up to 38 checks just in the next 12 months.

But what I find even better is the opportunity this will give you to pile up even more "future" wealth too. Especially once you factor in the combined growth and instant "matching" gains we've already talked about.

As you can see, a regular interest-paying account can take $10,000 and more than double it. But it would take close to 30 years. Too long for even someone who starts early.

You'd get a slightly better result if you put that same $10,000 in an account that compounds the interest. After the same period, you'd have over four times your money ― $10,000 growing into $41,161.

But let's suppose you were to take a "Plan B Pension" approach.

All other things being equal ― but with the steadily growing payouts we talked about ― the "Plan B Pension" strategy could turn that $10,000 into more than $5.4 million.

I don't have to tell you that smashes the results on the more boring moves. But in case you don't feel like doing the math... that's a showing of more than 132 times better!

How Does Turning $10,000 Into $5.4 Million Sound?

What happens as the base size of your wealth grows, inside of the "Plan B Pension?" Naturally, the already large income stream ― that is, each individual cash payout ― gets larger too.

It's like packing 35 years of retirement planning... into just a few years.

I lay it all out for you in the "Plan B Retirement Library" I'll send. But before I show you how to download this library of three reports, let me just run through what we're looking at so far...

"Plan B Pensions" let you "catch up" quickly, even after years of no savings
They're perfectly legal, even encouraged by America's best companies
There's no limit on how many of these income streams you're entitled to
You get to decide exactly how big you want your regular "paychecks" to be
You even decide how often and how many of these checks you'll receive
This "plan" pays you cash right now ― without touching your principal
Even in a falling market, you can use this to fill your bank account
There are no brokers or managers to go through (and no commissions)
You do this without options, insurance annuities, or low-paying money markets
You'll use, instead, a strategy preferred by countless millionaires
You can get unique "instant matching" gains with each payout
With this, your cash payouts grow over time, even if you don't put in another dime
On top of the income, it's also one of the smartest ways to grow long-term wealth
It's completely automatic ― you just set it up once and it runs itself, cranking out your checks
Market experts agree: "Plan B Pensions" are among the safest moves ever devised
Done right, you can even collect all or part of your payouts "tax-free" ― and I explain how in your free special reports.
As I said, there are over 1,020 of these special "plans" offered nationwide.

And more than 600 of them can offer you the sped-up "matching" gains I mentioned.

The sky's the limit on how many of these you lock into. Start collecting as many of these checks, in amounts only you help control, at any age and for as long as you like.

Without raising a single eyebrow, even though this can be...

Like Sneaking Your Own Fulltime Salary From the Payrolls of America's Safest Companies

Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson… Chevron, Microsoft, and ExxonMobil… these are just a few of the well-known companies sending out "Plan B Pension" checks to individual members of their plans.

However, there are many more I can show you. Some you'll know. Others will sound new to you. But I don't pick and choose the opportunities I'll tell you about based on a popularity contest.

Rather, I use my own proprietary seven-point analysis system to find these moves.

In fact, I'm watching several that I'm ready to share with you right now.

And I'll happily share more with you as they come along.

In each case, thanks to my proprietary seven-point analysis system, I'm able to target moves that can give off steady streams of income. And quickly. In fact, these checks can start arriving in just a few days from right now ― if you act quickly ― starting with the next "Plan B Pension" payout date, Feb. 16, 2009.

To collect, you don't have to be an employee of any of these companies.

You don't have to be an insider or sit on the company board.

You don't need to qualify according to age or employment status.

You only need to follow the simple steps ― including filling out a simple form ― which I explain to you in full in your free "Plan B Retirement Library" set of reports.

But I know what you're wondering.

Why these companies... and why now?

The Best Time for This Alternate Income Strategy in Two Decades

Before I start showing you these "Plan B" opportunities in detail, let's just pause for a second so I can put something critical into perspective ― today's gloomy financial headlines.

There's no hiding the facts...

Everything from commodities to health care has taken a beating. As I write this, the Dow is down approximately 40%. Some with just months to go before retirement have seen their market savings slashed by half or worse.

Meanwhile, we're talking over $4 trillion in U.S. home equity evaporated since 2006. And a lot more downside to go over the rest of 2009 and possibly into 2010.

Yet this same horrible market offers you and me the best investment window in nearly 20 years for the kind of "Plan B Pension" strategy. How so?

See, while most publicly-traded companies constantly hunger for new shareholders ― especially in today's massive sell-off environment ― not all companies go about getting them in the same way.

Some count only on hype, headlines, and PR. Others drum up support with "buzz" on the trading floor. But there's another class of company that takes a different approach.

Instead of hopping on the stock-market treadmill, churning through wave after wave of new investors, these smarter companies look for "owner" shareholders... individuals who believe in the company and look like they'll stick around for the long haul.

And what kinds of companies are these?

Cash-rich. Well-established. Well-positioned. Safe and fundamentally solid. In the right industries at the right time. With a long history of doing good business, doling out cash as steady dividends, taking care of customers, and looking out for their shareholders.

Now, I know what you're thinking. Bonds and many funds pay income too. And that's true. Even if bonds typically only pay twice a year. And those funds, once a year.

And lots of companies pay dividends, some very high dividends. That's true too.

In fact, maybe you're familiar with the study from Ned Davis Research showing how, from 1972 to 2006, dividend paying companies in general did two and a half times better than companies that paid no income to shareholders.

But high dividends and even some medium dividend payers can also come with hidden levels of risk. What's more, many of them don't offer the added income growth and compounding advantages of the "Plan B Pension" plans I'm telling you about today.

It's this special combination of income growth and compounding ― a step beyond just collecting hot stocks, bond, or fund income ― that famous Wharton Professor Dr. Jeremy Siegel credits with producing a whopping 97% of all the real money made on the S&P 500.

Do most market amateurs know this? They do not.

Of course, when it comes to finding the best of these "Plan B Pension" paying companies, lots of market amateurs ― and a few of the so-called pros ― have no idea where to look.

On your own, separating the best from the worst can be work.

That's why I've developed my own carefully crafted approach...

How You Could Lock in Lifetime Income, Using My Strategic Seven-Point Filtering System

Obviously not all income-paying plans get cut from the same cloth. Not all fit the "Plan B Pension" model either. That's why I've crafted what I consider the most bulletproof filtering system for finding reliable, consistent streams of market income...

Filter #1: The Largest Income Yield That Still Makes Sense ― Really high yields can signal far too much risk. Still, you can find some fat yields right now... paid out by some of the most fundamentally solid stocks on or off Wall Street. I don't stop looking once I find higher yields, but I certainly start there.

Filter #2: Bigger and Bigger Income Streams Over Time ― What's even better than regular "Plan B Pension" payouts? Payouts that get bigger and bigger over time. Not only because they speed up your wealth accumulation, but also because they're an excellent sign of a well-managed "Plan B" opportunity.

Filter #3: Cash Payouts Like Clockwork ― Checks that don't come aren't worth the paper they're not printed on. I stick with the "Plan B" opportunities that have a long history of paying out and paying on time. And I steer clear of those who don't.

Filter #4: Businesses Your Mother Could Love ― Short-sighted market players may have forgotten what makes for a trustworthy top stocks, but it's just as basic as ever ― lots of cash, very little or no debt, a steady flow of business, and low expense ratios. I don't touch anything that can't pass those benchmarks. And you shouldn't either.

Filter #5: The Right Industry For the Right Time ― Let's face it.The best stock investment  work for the long term, and work hard. Others work best in some kinds of markets, and a little less than others. I don't try to time markets. But if something looks extra ripe for solid growth and can pay us cash payouts, I see no reason to hold back.

Filter #6: Payouts as Big as They're Supposed to Be ― Some kinds of "Plan B" companies will have a lot of cash to fork over to you. Others, on a percentage basis, should fork over less. It depends on the businesses they're in. If they're paying more or less than they should, that's a red flag you have to know to watch for.

Filter #7: The Absolute Best Share Price ― Even companies that can put steady cash in your pocket have a fair price. I don't recommend paying a nickel more when you don't have to.

It's no coincidence the most successful and well-known market mega-players in history favor these kinds of companies, in good markets and bad.

It's also no coincidence that right now, these companies are exactly the ones offering the biggest rewards to both new and loyal shareholders... with some of the biggest "Plan B Pension" payouts in 17 years... simply because, especially in this market, these income-payers are eager to attract the "best" kinds of shareholders possible.

It's really that simple. And I can start showing you how to find these companies right now, as soon as you're ready. With a brand new service I've just created, called the Lifetime Income Report.

This new service uses my special seven-point filtering strategy to find you the best income streams possible ― including the "Plan B Pension" payouts we've talked about.

I'd like you to be one of the first to give Lifetime Income Report a try.

To help encourage you, not only will I rush you the free "Plan B Retirement Library"... I'll guarantee your satisfaction 100%... in not just one, but three very specific ways.

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Some even seem to get wealthier... doing nothing.

Except maybe letting their money make more money, all by itself.

How do they do it?

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What's "Special Income?"

It's the pile of income payouts other investors simply leave on the table.

These little-talked-about income payout opportunities don't come on a schedule. You won't read about them much in the paper either, until they're already doled out and it's too late to collect.

But when you can tap these "special income" opportunities... it can be like getting a surprise windfall... a bonus... even a check from a wealthy relative or a fat premium on the sale of a big asset, like a luxury car or investment property.

The companies that offer you this special kind of income usually get the money themselves from winning a piece of corporate litigation, making a major sale, having an especially good financial quarter, and so on... in an unexpected glut of cash.

Naturally "special income" opportunities are harder to spot.

But then, there's that old saying... "It's amazing how lucky I get when I work 16 hours a day."

In other words, to catch a fat "special income" payout, you need to stand in the right place at the right time. But if you let me do the research work for you, there's a good chance I can show you where to stand.

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Here's a small taste of the kinds of wealth moves you'll find inside...

A North Carolina based "Plan B Pension" plan that's increased the size of its cash payouts to members every year since 1978 ― that's 30 years straight ― and that doesn't include the instant 5% gain you could make every time you use their zero-fee plan to pick up more shares
Easily the most popular "Plan B Pension" opportunity in America, this 39-year old company has sent its members cash "paychecks" each of the 458 months in a row… and they've bumped up the amount in those checks 51 times since 1994
A "Plan B Pension" plan that's handed out cash payouts to its members steadily every year for the last 38 years straight. And backed by a business that couldn't be safer, because they dominate 75% of the massive, worldwide market for the household product they make
A "Plan B Pension" plan that the London Financial Times is calling a kind of safe haven in the latest global financial storm. This one plan has steadily doled out bigger and bigger cash payouts to members, every year since 1997

A major play on the Brazil boom, with a "Plan B Pension" plan that could give you nearly double-digit income, with the safety of a solid energy company. This could easily be a way to pick streams of steady cash you can spend as you like
A "Plan B Pension" play so popular, it has over $3.8 billion in the program and offers regular cash payouts that are already 16% larger than they were in October of last year… for a total of nearly 12% payouts on every dollar you put in the program, regularly paid to your account.

Again, all six of these are fully detailed in your free copy of The 10-Minute Retirement Recovery Plan: Six Easy Ways To Lock In Steady Income Checks For the Rest of Your Life ― which you're welcome to download or have mailed to you, the moment you sign on.

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Of course, you don't need to wait until you get your free reports to see the evidence behind this approach. For instance, let's say you had used the "Plan B Pension" strategy to pick up 160 shares of Pepsi in 1980.

It would have cost you $4,000.

However, that amount would have automatically grown to over $300,000 by 2004, without you investing another penny. Not bad?

Now let's try the same with Philip Morris... starting with the same dollar amount, which would have amounted to 58 shares. By the time you'd finished, your $4,000 would have ballooned to nearly $600,000... and over 4,300 shares.

Without you putting in an extra nickel.

Here's another one. Say you put $5,000 into a company called Terra Nitrogen in 2003. That's 1,136 shares at the then-price of $4.40 per share. Today the share price has exploded to $110 per share. Pretty good. But the "Plan B Pension" income on top of that could have exploded your $5,000 into $151,026 in just five years.

Like I said, it's an almost perfect self-growing cycle.

Like a tree that waters and fertilizes itself.

Take a look at a few more...

• One of the moves I've tracked since Jan. 2005 would have grown every dollar you put in 155%. Not bad. But make that same move using a "Plan B Pension" strategy and you would have more than tripled your money, for a total net gain of 244.8%. Much better
  
  
• Another move I'm tracking has already issued enough "Plan B Pension" income checks... from 2003 until now... to cover double what it might have cost to get in... plus the shares in this one plan alone, over that same time period, also shot up another 329%. Even now, I see this as a steady income-payer for years to come
  
  
• One more of the many possible "Plan B Pensions" I've just tracked has cranked up the size of the income it pays out with every single check, steadily for the last 10 years... already, had you started getting your checks in 1998, you'd collect nearly 40% more per check right now, above what you earned when just getting started. It's like getting an automatic pay raise that you don't have to lift a finger to earn.

Over the last 80 years, regular stocks could have turned $10,000 into about $1,013,000. Fold in the kind of income that you can get with these kinds of "Plan B Pensions" and $10,000 grows to a dazzling $24,113,000.

And that includes results in all kinds of markets.

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One study shows "Plan B Pension" companies can consistently double the gains other individuals get following the S&P 500 alone.

And not just in the "best" years, but over the period between 1970 and 2005... which included at least seven bear markets... a half-dozen wars and minor military skirmishes... on-again-off-again energy crises... countless rate hikes... and piles of political scandal...

In a down market, you'll see the market flock to "Plan B Pension" companies for cash. In up markets, "Plan B Pension" companies have even bigger cash piles to divvy up.

Even in a flat market, you can do well with a "Plan B Pension"... because it's the one way you can be sure that no matter what happens, you qualify to get paid.

Just looking at the last two decades, the kinds of moves you'll make with the "Plan B Pension" approach accounted for more than half of the total return on the S&P 500.

This is the best way to reward steady, cool-headed market players I know of.

 And yet...

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You'll see how this can work for you automatically, in a self-growing cycle of income. And likewise, how you can also use this approach to tap a stream of "right now" cash.

Your first check could arrive within days of right now ― the next payout date as I write this is Feb. 16, 2009 ― followed by as many as 38 checks, each and every year you decide to stick with this "Plan B Pension" strategy.

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Can J. Crew Group Continue Its Breakout Rally?

This skeptical write-up notes that First Lady Michelle Obama has certainly done her part to boost the shares of J. Crew Group (JCG), but warns that "the stock could easily unravel" after gaining 72% since March. The author notes that JCG "looks expensive" at its current levels, with a price-to-earnings multiple of 34.

The author's downbeat tone is echoed by a parade of analysts. One of them, Wendell Perkins of Optique Capital Management, explains, "There are positives with J. Crew, but those are trumped by the stock's recent run up, which ignores the fact that we are in the worst consumer downturn in a generation."

Contrarian Takeaway:

JCG is, in fact, flying high on the charts. The stock has been supported by its 10-day and 20-day moving averages since mid-March, but it's currently preparing to challenge its 10-month moving average -- a trendline that hasn't been toppled since April 2008. This technical roadblock could stall the stock's progress during the short term.

However, if the retailing issue can muscle past this trendline barrier, its gains could be exacerbated by a short-squeeze rally. Currently, a whopping 29% of JCG's float is sold short, which translates to roughly 8.4 days' worth of buying pressure at the stock's average daily trading volume.

While long-term value investors might want to avoid the stock at its current levels, short-term option players will want to keep an eye on that 10-month moving average. A successful challenge of this resistance level could clear the way for a continuation of JCG's breakout rally.

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Highest Option Volume for the Week Ending Monday, April 27, 2009
Ticker Symbol	Call Volume	Put Volume	Total Volume*	Put/Call Ratio
Spdrs(SPY)	359,818	664,146	1,023,964	1.85
Nasdaq 100 Index Trckng Stck(QQQQ)	214,343	337,715	552,058	1.58
Bank of America Cp(BAC)	342,909	167,214	510,123	0.49
Citigroup Inc(C)	262,025	161,828	423,853	0.62
Sel Sec Spdrs Fd Financial(XLF)	249,255	149,999	399,254	0.60
S&P 500 Index(SPX)	154,481	211,859	366,340	1.37
Microsoft(MSFT)	173,073	100,672	273,745	0.58
Wells Fargo & Co(WFC)	108,643	114,048	222,691	1.05
CBOE Market Volatility(VIX)	115,877	71,110	186,987	0.61
American Express Co(AXP)	101,823	81,848	183,671	0.80

Highest Option Volume Compare to Average Volume for Week Ending Monday, April 27, 2009
Ticker Symbol	Call Volume	Put Volume	Total Volume*	5-week Avg Volume	Volume Ratio	Put/Call Ratio
Emulex Cp (ELX)	31,821	16,052	47,873	10,303	1.98	0.50
Maxim Integrated Products Inc (MXIM)	4,479	55,022	59,501	15,318	0.08	12.28
Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG)	8,410	10,161	18,571	4,348	0.83	1.21
Penn National Gaming Inc (PENN)	13,248	4,615	17,863	4,794	2.87	0.35
Pf Changs China Bistro Inc (PFCB)	8,876	8,288	17,164	4,557	1.07	0.93
Pmc Sierra (PMCS)	10,796	2,943	13,739	3,532	3.67	0.27
Pharmaceutical Product Dev Inc (PPDI)	6,592	8,580	15,172	3,430	0.77	1.30
Robert Half International Inc (RHI)	14,226	5,754	19,980	4,505	2.47	0.40
Radioshack Cp (RSH)	9,772	20,801	30,573	7,574	0.47	2.13
Smithfield Foods Inc (SFD)	35,048	3,875	38,923	9,443	9.04	0.11

 

Retail
Bullish

Outlook: There is a growing movement within the retail sector that can be ignored no longer. While the Retail HOLDRS Trust (RTH) has bested the SPX by more than 11% during the past 60 trading days on a relative-strength basis, specialty retailers within the group have bested the broader market by more than 20% during the same time frame. Companies such as Netflix Inc. (NFLX), Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (FDO), AutoZone Inc. (AZO), Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD), Panera Bread Company (PNRA), and Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) have all appealed to struggling consumers through lower-cost goods and services, as well as product innovation -- think AMZN's Kindle e-book reader. Technically speaking, NFLX and AMZN have both rallied nearly 50% so far in 2009, while FDO and AZO have soared more than 15%. By comparison, the SPX is sitting on a year-to-date loss of 4.1%. Despite this strong technical backdrop, there is a wealth of pessimism levied against these stocks. Specifically, NFLX sports a short-to-float ratio of 36%, while 10 of the 11 analysts following the shares rate them a "hold" or worse. Elsewhere, 31% of BWLD's float is sold short, while six of the 11 brokerage firms covering the stock rate it a "hold" or worse. Should this wealth of negativity start to unwind, we could see additional gains from these select names within the retail sector.

 

Financial Exchanges
Bearish

Outlook: In previous editions of Monday Morning Outlook, we have indicated that rollovers in the Financial Select Sector SPDR's (XLF) 50-day call/put buy-to-open volume ratio could have a negative impact on the sector. However, the current rollover in this ratio has had quite the opposite effect. As such, we are narrowing our bearish focus on the sector to include only financial exchanges. Specifically, Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) and NYSE Euronext (NYX) look particularly vulnerable at the moment. NDAQ has plunged nearly 22% so far this year, and the shares remain pressured by their falling 10-week and 20-week moving averages. Meanwhile, NYX has plummeted more than 16% in 2009, and has closed only three weeks above its 10-week and 20-week trendlines since December 2007. As a further testament to the technical weakness in these stocks, both NYX and NDAQ saw short interest decline by 4.17% and 26.51%, respectively, during the most recent reporting period. Despite this added buying pressure, neither equity has been able to take advantage of the recent rally in the broader market.

 

Pharmaceuticals
Bearish

Outlook: While the health care sector started 2009 off on the right foot, developments in Washington, D.C., quickly brought the group to its knees. Specifically, some analysts are speculating that President Obama's budget could cut significantly into the Medicare HMO funds put in place by the Bush administration. According to those analysts, these cuts in Medicare Advantage could eliminate 10% of the money that HMOs get from the government for covering Medicare patients. As a result, the normally defensive AMEX Pharmaceutical Index (DRG) finds itself lower by more than 14.5% so far in 2009. What's more, the index continues to battle potential resistance at its falling 50-day moving average and its October 2008 lows. Meanwhile, sentiment toward the health care sector remains heavily bullish. Specifically, 52.93% of the 427 analyst ratings on health care stocks are "buys," compared to only 6.79% "sells," according to Zacks. Any downgrades for this group could have a negative impact on the pharmaceutical sector.

Government Debt and the End of the S&P Rally

Buenos dias. The obvious story to lead with to begin the week is the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico. But as there is nothing any of us can do about that, we'll report that Chinese gold reserves have grown 75% since 2003 to over 1,000 tonnes. That's small compared to countries like the U.S. and Germany. But it's growing.

In the markets, all the really interesting action is happening behind the scenes. On the surface, things appeared to get better on Friday. In the U.S., Ford told investors that it lost $1.4 billion in the first quarter. Apparently this was less than analysts expected. The Dow closed up 1.48% and climbed back over 8,000.

What a battler that Dow is. It's got nothing on the S&P 500 though. The S&P is up 28% in the last thirty-three trading days. It hasn't done anything like that since the 1930s. However the index did close down for the week. That broke a six-week run of gains.

One more note about that. Four-week winning streaks of ten percent are more are generally followed by much smaller gains or losses over the next four weeks, according to the analysts at Bespoke Investment Group. Their research shows that in the four weeks following a four-week rally of 10% or more on the S&P, the index followed up with average gains of 1.87%.

How about one more note about that. There were two four-week rallies of more than twenty percent, according to the same research. The S&P 500 surged 54.2% in just four weeks by early August of 1932. Over the next four weeks in went up another 30%. Then, in April of 1933, the index provided an encore to one four-week surge of 33.8% with another surge of 19.2%.

So there you go. What we do we make of all that? Well, it shows you that even in the middle of the Great Depression, the market was capable of staging mammoth rallies that would tempt investors back in. No doubt those were extremely tradable rallies. But they were followed by lower lows once the forces of economic and earnings reality reasserted themselves on the collective mind of the market.

This time will be different because it's always different. But if you're wondering if the stock market is flashing a recovery sign for the economy, you might want to take a look at insider selling. The insiders are selling this rally, according to Data by Maryland-based Washington Service. That outfit says the during the S&P's 28% climb from twelve-year lows on March 9th, CEOs, directors, and senior officers of U.S. corporations sold 8.3 times more stock than they bought.

The insiders are probably not paying attention to the first quarter earnings reports that are responsible for the current rally. They're looking at the rest of 2009 and probably planning for more layoffs. If they think the rally is over, it probably is. Not that there won't be others. But behind the scenes, other things are happening which are going to drag on top stocks.

One of those things is that many of the world's sovereign governments are in the process of going broke. Spain, Ireland, Greece, and Portugal have all had their sovereign credit ratings downgraded by the ratings agencies. These countries face different challenges like burst property bubbles, declining government tax revenues, and banking sectors hobbled by massive bad loans. But what they have in common is that their respective governments have responded to the crisis by ramping up borrowing to credit-rating ruinous levels.

The scale of global borrowing plans is pretty breathtaking. And what you begin to wonder is a simple question: where is all the money going to come from? Or, to quote David Gray in Night Blindness, "What we gonna do when the money runs out?"

For example, the UK's Debt Management office, which issues bonds on behalf of the British government, says that British bond sales between now and 2013 will exceed £696 billion. The Guardian reports that it will be more like £815 billion, according to figures from Deutsche Bank.

Do you think private investors are super excited to loan the British government money when the British economy is expected to contract by 3.5% this year? Under the budget revealed last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, the UK will borrow A$356 billion (£175 billion) this year alone, or about 12.5% of British GDP. Over the next five years, public sector debt would rise to 76% of British GDP from its current level of 46%.

Gee. That is a lot of borrowing. Britain is country drowning in debt. Adding more millstones around its neck would not seem to improve its chances of paying that debt down. You could pay it down by, say, generating national income from exports. This is what Australia is hoping to do.

S&P's ratings agency keeps track of the sovereign debt to income ratio. If a country exports a lot of finished goods or raw materials, the government benefits from tax and royalty revenues. These monies are used to service the sovereign debt.

But if you're not generating large export revenues, then you find a big gaping hole in your budget where royalty and tax revenue should be. Maybe that's one-reason Britain's new budget raises tax rates on high-income earnings from 40-50%. What you gonna do when the money runs out?

If Britain's government thinks it can make up for disastrous public finances by raising taxes, it's probably making another in a long-line of stupid mistakes. The high-income earners who would face the big tax increase are exactly the same people getting fired from their jobs in the City. This shows, once again, that building an entire national economy around high finance puts you in all sorts of trouble.

But wait. Maybe the high-saving nations of the world will bridge the gap between British expectations and financial reality. We wouldn't count on it though. Remember the big hoopla from the G20 meeting in London when it was announced that the International Monetary Fund's funding would be tripled to $750 billion?

That funding is desperately needed. The IMF itself reckons it will have to dole out some $187 billion in new loans to national governments just to ride the current phase of the global financial crisis. But a key piece of information was left missing in London. How would the IMF be funded?

The G20 finance ministers met in Washington to sort that out. And the early indications are that the IMF will be funded by issuing bonds sold to high-saving nations. If this is true, it's a victory for the developing world and a defeat for the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. and Europe were both pushing for a direct cash injection funding method. In other words, they wanted China, Russia, Brazil, and India to use their foreign currency reserves to fund the IMF.

But the BRICs batted that proposal away. So now the IMF plans to sell around $500 billion in bonds. They will be denominated in the quasi-currency the fund uses internally (the special drawing rights, or SDRS that both Russia and China have floated as a possible new global reserve currency).

How the bonds actually work still has to be sorted out. But the internal logic of the whole arrangement is now clear: creditors hold the whip hand. Debtors are going to get whipped. The balance of power in the global economy is clearly shifting from the borrowers and spenders towards the savers and producers. Advantage BRICs.

Disadvantage Gordon Brown and Barack Obama and probably Kevin Rudd too. With the existing debt-to-GDP ratios in Britain and the U.K., we reckon it is going to be impossible to fund further expansions of financial bailout programs and welfare state programs without much higher interest rates (borrowing costs).

You can avoid the borrowing problem for a while by soaking the rich with higher taxes. You might also use climate change hysteria to tax carbon (really an indirect tax on consumers). If both happen this year and the result will be even more rapid economic contraction. They will be this Depression's equivalent of Smoot-Hawley: exactly the wrong thing to do, done at the worst possible time.

Of course the easy out, we feel obliged to point out, is not to borrow the money at all or tax it from your citizens. You could just print it instead. But this tends to unleash hyperinflationary pressures which also tend to destabilize civil society. It's better to avoid this if you can.

Either way, there is no avoiding the reckoning. Right now, you could make a compelling argument that the value of credit-backed assets is falling so fast that government steps to prop them up simply won't (or can't) work. Credit deflation rules the day. The formidable fiscal and monetary stimulus measures are disappearing in the maw of asset deflation while the world goes broke trying to prevent it.

If this is right, and it's something investors take the time to notice, hot stocks are going to make lower lows again. A lot lower.

Golden Shorts in the Bear Stocks Market

Avery Goodman at Seekingalpha.com asks the intriguing question, "Did the ECB Save COMEX from Gold Default?"

If I had been writing it, I would have titled it "Not All Of The People In The World Are Stupid!" with the subhead, "There are lots of smart people who are buying gold to capitalize on the sheer stupidity of governments abusing fiat currencies so that inflation in prices will soar as inflation in the money supply soars, until gold-owning people, giddy with greedy glee, will say, 'The Mogambo was right! Whee! This investing stuff is easy!'"

But I am not here to show off how good I am at coming up with boffo headlines with the subtle undertones so that they offer me a job, at a fabulous salary, to write headline gems like this one; this is about how "On Tuesday morning, gold derivatives dealers, who had sold short in the face of a fast rising gold price, faced a serious predicament. Some 27,000+ contracts, representing about 15% of the April COMEX gold futures contracts remained open" indicating that, as holders of those long gold contracts, they "demanded" delivery of the physical gold "by holding futures contracts past the expiration date."

The big problem belongs to the short-sellers of gold, who are finding, suddenly, that "long buyers were demanding in droves" - demanding physical gold bars, when, apparently, there were not enough.
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Since I am confused as to what all of this means, Mr. Goodman correctly interprets the blank look on my face as puzzlement - if not outright befuddlement - and patiently explains that to keep things in perspective, history has shown that people investing in COMEX futures don't necessarily want physical gold, and that they are merely speculators, as, "In normal times, very few people do this. Only about 1% or less of gold contracts must be delivered. The lack of delivery demand allows the casino-like world of paper gold futures contracts to operate. Very few short sellers actually expect or intend to deliver real gold. They are, mostly, merely playing with paper" which is the basis of the alleged gold and silver scams, as GATA.org and Ted Butler have long exposed, which gets us talking about how corrupt regulators are these days, as everything is else corrupted these days, which is, of course, just what you would expect at the end of long monetary booms, which doesn't make it any more palatable.

But back to our story of the almost-default at COMEX... Fortunately, at the last minute, Deutsche Bank delivered "a massive 850,000 ounces, or 8500 contracts worth of the yellow metal."

This is where I kind of lost interest, as this kind of thing is like blood in the water to sharks, who will soon be looking at the low price of gold and the complete lack of supply of bullion, and they will be hatching plots to squeeze this disparity and make a lot of money, and I was soon fantasizing about how my tiny little stash of gold will soar and everybody else who doesn't own gold will be busted out, now that the scam has been busted, and there will be people, like cute college coeds, who will be so desperate that they will say they are willing to do anything for money, and I will say, "Anything?" and then they will quickly affirm, "Anything!", and so I again ask, but with a rakishly raised eyebrow and licking my lips in a lascivious manner, "Anything?" and they gulp and say, but without their former enthusiasm, "Anything"... So you can see how I was distracted.

And anyway, somewhere along the line he admits that it is "circumstantial evidence" that Deutsche Bank was a major holder of short positions, or that "the gold used by Deutsche Bank to deliver and fulfill its COMEX obligations, came directly or indirectly, from the ECB", which gets back to the headline "Did the ECB Save COMEX from Gold Default?" that we were discussing previously.
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All of this, of course, is fraudulently criminal in many, many ways, breaks a lot of regulations in those and other ways, and he calls for investigations and indictments and all of that stuff, which won't happen because the amount of corruption at the end of long monetary booms is so pandemic that it won't be allowed.

Now, before I go off ranting and raving about how another bunch of scumbags perpetrated another scam with compliance from government scumbags, let's concentrate on the important fact that not only are a bunch of guys buying gold and demanding delivery of the actual metal, but now increasing demand has swamped supply! Amazing!

In conclusion, let me say that if people don't buy gold, in spite of the overwhelming historical evidence to do so when the money supply is set to double (and then double again and again!), in spite of gold's gains for the last decade, in spite of the sight of people suddenly taking delivery of physical gold in unprecedented amounts, and in spite of me telling them right to their faces to buy gold, then there is something very, very wrong with them, which ought to give them something to think about as they are idly scratching around in the dirt looking for bugs to eat, because this economic mess caused by a Congress constantly deficit-spending and a Federal Reserve constantly creating the money for them to do so is going to get Really, Really Nasty (RRN), and I am scared for me and for them.

But I am not as scared when I have gold, so at least I have that going for me! Whee!
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Best Stocks Market Research: Who's Going to Bail YOU Out?

Bailouts are all the rage right now. With estimates for the bank bailout nearing $2.5 trillion and the flailing auto industry getting over $100 billion when all is said and done, the United States will be broke before the year is out.

And, unfortunately, no one's paying attention to the people footing the bill: the hardworking U.S. taxpayers.

Since you clearly can't count on the government to look out for you, you're going to have to look out for yourself...which is why we've put together our "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle." In it, you'll receive the 'personal bailout' strategy report, which will teach you how to rescue your retirement and salvage your family's financial security. It's certainly worth checking out.

$7.2 trillion is a lot of money.

That's what D.C. has poured into "our" bailout so far.

With even more to come, if Obama has his way.

And how much of that will you see personally?

And how much for your children... your grandchildren... or even their children?

Not a dime.

Every penny is going to the banks... the business owners... the over-stretched lenders... the special interests... basically everybody who helped create this crisis in the first place.

But I'm not writing you to rile you up.

In fact, and this is going to surprise you...

I'm not writing you to talk today about the "Wall Street Panic of '08" at all. Or the elections. Or Obama and the next new era.

Except for how all of those are just pieces and players in a much bigger event... something far more dangerous to you and your money... and to America itself... than anybody in Washington or Wall Street wants you to realize.

How big?

Even today's credit crisis — the one Alan Greenspan himself just referred to as a "once in a century 'Credit Tsunami'" — is nothing by comparison.

No, this much larger, little talked-about calamity is a full on four-pronged attack on just about everything you hold dear... a massive financial catastrophe that could not only wipe you out, personally, but bring America itself to its knees.

Perhaps permanently.

Fail to resolve this, and the idea of America itself could... end. Just like that. I'm not exaggerating in the least.

Here's the crazy part — as big as I can prove to you that this is, not one of today's White House staffers, Congressional elite, or even President Obama himself have proved willing to talk about this event, at length, in public.

They won't touch it. Not with a 20-foot pole.

Even though, short of a terrorist with a nuke in downtown Manhattan, there is no greater threat to you, your money, or this nation as a whole... than the one I reveal below.

When this devastating "four-prong timebomb" implodes, it will make today's stock market blowout look like an afternoon picnic at Disneyland. And at that point, I highly doubt there's anything Obama or anyone else in Washington can do to stop it.

What could I possibly be talking about?

The fact is, America is in deep, deep trouble. Much deeper than anyone is willing to tell you. Thanks to a four-part calamity that casts a shadow on our future much larger than the property bust, the banking crisis, or even the recent $819 billion Obama wants to tack onto the bailout.

Before I go into detail, let me just tell you a little bit about my background. My name is Addison Wiggin. And I've spent the last two years of my life doing almost nothing else but researching this crisis I'll describe below.

I've written about it, I've gone on record with the media about it,

I've even toured America to talk about it. I even co-authored two Bestsellers that warn about this coming calamity in explicit detail.

But by far, the biggest thing I've done related to this is create an award-winning documentary about it — the Critics Choice-Nominated film I.O.U.S.A.

I feel this message is so important, I want to send you a copy of this full-length feature film FREE on DVD. At my own personal expense.

Because I believe this is that important.

In fact, this is quite possibly the biggest event in modern U.S. history. You might think I'm going for melodrama — but see how you feel after you have a chance to hear the proof for yourself. I'm not just worried. I've made it a true life mission to get the word out on this.

Already, in fact, I've given away over 11,500 "pre-release" copies of the I.O.U.S.A. DVD. And while I still have free copies to give away, I intend to give away more.

Along with the powerful 262-page companion I.O.U.S.A. book... plus a new free strategy report that shows you how to forget about the bungled government bailout — and start generating your own stream of "personal bailout" cash, including up to 78 checks you can receive on a frequent, reliable schedule, over the 24 months ahead.

How does all this work? It's all part of a new crisis solution package I've put together for you, called the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle." And it's yours free...

First, your "bailout bundle" shows you what's happened and how we got into this mess. You'll see exactly how and when the America we once knew was first betrayed. And then, the bundle helps you take the next step, by carefully laying down a plan that includes a direct and personal cash "bailout" strategy... plus up to a year's worth of free "post-crash" stock research.

Altogether, it took well over two years to make the documentary and write the book I'll include. And countless hours to draft the "bailout paycheck" strategy I'll include. Yet, I'm going to send this "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" to you at the rare low price of... free.

For you. For your family. For anyone you care about.

I'll explain everything you need to do to get it in a moment.

Here's a full rundown of what you'll find inside...

FREE, our award-winning documentary, I.O.U.S.A. — Was there Oscar buzz? Yes. Our theater-length expose shows exactly how today's scandalous money crisis took shape in the hands of Washington and Wall Street elite. And I've secured a free copy of the just-released DVD to send you — three months before it's available to the general public — absolutely free

FREE, our new 262-page I.O.U.S.A. companion book — This full book covers not only the back-story behind everything you'll find in the movie, but includes 12 full interviews with the top financial minds who have the courage to address this crisis. We just sent copies of this book to every member of Congress — and I'm ready to pay all costs to send it to you, at no charge whatsoever

FREE, a personal "bailout" plan that shows you how you could get up to 78 cash payouts — Protect yourself, protect your family. And do it without depending on the U.S. government for help, with this "rubber-meets-the-road" personal "bailout" strategy. Not only can it put as many as 78 cash "paychecks" into your account over the next 24 months... it could also set you up with income for life. And this strategy is also yours free.

You'll also receive...

FREE, up to 12 free months of highly successful "post-crash" best stock research — For up to a full year, get free "post crash" best stock research from one of the safest, smartest, and most trusted market researchers in the industry. Plus, he'll send you portfolio updates every week... and you can have full private-password access to his members-only website, at no charge.

Again, I've created this "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" specifically for right now. And I'm going to send it to you at my own expense. I even made a special deal to secure the copies of the DVD. Plus another deal with Amazon.com so I could cover the cost of shipping myself.

All just to make sure you have this "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" available to you so you can protect yourself and your loved ones from the massive shakeout ahead.

Inside the bundle, you'll hear not just what my colleagues and I have to say... but what some of the most powerful and immediately recognizable figures in finance and politics told me in exclusive one-on-one interviews.

Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, Steve Forbes, Robert Rubin, Paul Volcker... they and others you'll know sat down with me personally to answer my questions about this crisis. And all you have to do to hear what they're saying about this new crisis... as well as to claim a free "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" for yourself... is explained at the end of this letter.

At Least "25 Times Bigger" Than Today's Total Crash on Wall Street

Former U.S. Comptroller General, David Walker looked me straight in the eye and said this danger you're about to face isn't just big... it's at least "25 times bigger" than the bust that's now drained some trillions of dollars from the U.S. stock market.

And he's not alone.

Billionaire Warren Buffett thinks at least one aspect of this coming crisis is so serious, that when we went to his offices to interview him, he graciously cleared the rest of his schedule and spent nearly two hours talking with me privately about this in his company boardroom.

My friend and bestselling author William Bonner sat down with us too, and told us — on camera — that our failure so far to fix this isn't just foolish... it's "downright mean" and "immoral," as we prepare instead to pass it along to our children and their children.

We met up with former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker in his offices. He talked about how difficult it was to save the U.S. from the "stagflation" hangover of the late 1970s. And then he told me, face to face, "the earlier we take action [on this crisis], the better..."

We also met up with Peter G. Peterson, the investor who made $2.5 billion on the sale of his Blackstone Group. He's so worried about this that not only did he grant us an interview... he put up $1 billion of his own money to start a foundation to help raise awareness. And then his foundation paid $2.5 million to back the filming of our documentary on the matter, I.O.U.S.A.

I'm sure you've guessed by now that the gorilla in the room... the looming crisis nobody wants to talk about, but nobody can afford to ignore any longer... the U.S. National Debt Bomb.

Let me clarify... the $53 trillion national debt time bomb.

Yes, $53 trillion.

I know, that's a very big number.

Almost too big to get your head around.

Maybe even too big to be believed or understood. Which is why I'm going to rush you the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" so you can see the evidence for yourself.

Your free copy of the I.O.U.S.A. DVD shows you how we've gotten to that number. And the 262-page companion book, also called I.O.U.S.A., gives you the full interviews with the experts that reveal why this might not even be as bad as it gets.

Consider, just the part of that number that we're used to hearing about — the "official" National Debt without our future Social Security and Medicare obligations included — just crossed into $10 trillion territory.

Worse, just in the first 16 days of this fiscal year that figure grew $300 billion — that's an annual rate of 75%. At that pace, the U.S. government would owe $17 trillion by this time next year!

Think subprime is serious? Try imagining how these numbers effectively add up to the biggest adjustable rate mortgage in history... and as taxpayers, we're being forced by Washington to cover the bills.

So far in today's Wall Street wipeout, trillions of dollars have disappeared from world markets... hundreds of thousands of jobs are gone... pension funds have seized up... state governments are slashing budgets and withholding basic services...

Can you imagine the gaping hole this $53 trillion debt bomb will blow through the bottom of the financial markets? Can you imagine the aftermath for the world economy?

In Manhattan alone, we're already seeing unemployment rocket to levels not seen since just after 9-11... in St. Louis, they just canceled plans to fix their airport and rebuild collapsing bridges... in Connecticut, they scrapped plans to build new schools... in Utah, they just cancelled health benefits for nearly 20,000 people...

All from what's just happening right now.

This is tiny by comparison to what this much bigger fallout could levy. You'll see for yourself when you let me send you a free copy of the new I.O.U.S.A. DVD — over a month before it will be available to the general public — plus the complete and accessible 262-page companion book by the same name.

And I'd love to put both in your hands immediately, with your permission...

My New Life Mission

Look, I can understand if this is the first time you're hearing about just how serious this has gotten. Once, I was in the same boat as you.

This just isn't something Wall Street or Washington wants you to know or think all that much about. But frankly, maybe if I share a little more of my background... you'll see how I came to care so much about this myself.

And why I'm urging you to let me share this research with you too.

See, you may know me from my years of working with the popular advisory e-letter, The Daily Reckoning. Or possibly from the three bestsellers I co-authored, Financial Reckoning Day, Empire of Debt, and The Demise of the Dollar.

You might even know already that, for the last 15 years, I've worked hard to help warn my fellow Americans about financial threats much like the one you're witnessing today.

I've also worked just as hard to guide them to new and alternative opportunities.

And I've spent many hours giving interviews on all these important trends... on Fox, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC... to The New York Times and The Washington Times... to NPR... on Bloomberg.com and TheStreet.com...

It's a list so long even I start to lose track.

But it wasn't until I started working on the I.O.U.S.A. documentary that I understood the full scope of the $53 trillion crisis you and I face right now.

And believe me, from what I've already seen — and what you'll see in the free copy of the documentary and the stunning companion I.O.U.S.A. book — I'm convinced this is the greatest danger facing the future of America today.

I also believe that we can no longer wait for our political leaders, new or old, to own up to this situation... we can no longer wait for Wall Street to address these risks responsibly... and we can no longer afford to sit back and wish this would go away by itself.

As I said, the two and a half years I spent working on this documentary had one goal, which was to expose the truth about the debt crisis America faces.

We accomplished that.

And now I want you to see the result.

So much that I've arranged to send you a full, feature-length FREE copy of the film, I.O.U.S.A. And again, that's just part of a comprehensive "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" I'd love to send your way.

What you'll find on the DVD and in the rest of your "bailout bundle" are direct and personal interviews with other concerned Americans... like Dr. Alan Greenspan, former commerce secretaries Paul O'Neill and Robert Rubin, Congressman Ron Paul, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and many more.

The consensus was unanimous...

This is a threat that cannot be ignored.

I've made it my personal mission to warn you and anybody else who will listen. And sending you my free "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" is part of that effort.

As long as I hear from you while I still have copies left, I'll send this bundle and everything it includes to you gratis. No charge. At my expense. You can find the details at the end of this letter.

First, the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" shows you what happened and how we got here. Then it shows you what we have to do to steer clear of a complete financial unraveling in the future... including a way for you, personally, to collect as many as 78 personal "bailout" checks of your own over the coming two years.

But before you race ahead, let me just give you a sense of the gory details...

The U.S. "deficit" is the amount our government spends above what it collects in taxes. Washington says we'll need $438 billion "extra" to cover our bills in the coming year. That's a new record.

Every time we don't have the money to cover our bills, it has to come from somewhere. Either new taxes, more swiped Social Security funds... or more borrowing. From anybody willing to cover the loan.

During World War II, the U.S. spent a lot of money it didn't have. But they borrowed most of it directly from Americans, as War Bonds. Today, nearly half of all the money we owe is owed to exactly the countries you wouldn't want in charge of our future — China, Japan, Saudi Arabia... even Venezuela, Russia, Iran, and Iraq!

If you own a house and you can't pay on your loan, you know what happens — the bank takes over your property. What happens when the U.S. government can't cover its debts? Political analysts call it the "nuclear option," which foreign lenders could use to destroy our economy overnight.

At the same time we also buy more stuff than we make, and most of what we buy we get from those same countries, whether it's energy from the Middle East or just about everything else from India and China. That's the "trade deficit" and it's also hitting record levels.

The more money we send there means less money here. For two recent years, the U.S. had back-to-back negative savings rates. The last time that happened was during the Great Depression. Meanwhile, credit-card debt has soared, eating up 5% of the average U.S. family's income.

Getting most Americans to cut back on spending is like trying to talk a cat into taking an ice-bath in a fireworks factory. Yet just by following Washington's shameful example, U.S. families have piled up nearly $1 trillion just in consumer credit debt.

And all this while politicians slather on promises of fat tax cuts and huge, expensive new programs. It took 207 years to add the first $1 trillion to the total U.S. debt. Now we're adding, on average, about $2 trillion to $3 trillion... per year!

With what we'll add to the bailouts this year, we've crossed the $8 trillion mark, total... and not including the $10 trillion the U.S. already owed creditors. Tack on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid promises to Baby Boomers, the total is more like $53 trillion.

Under current rules, the Social Security trust alone will run out of money in less than 10 years from right now. And Medicare and Medicaid? Don't even think about it. It's a problem that's much larger and almost completely ignored by politicians.

By 2012, the National Center for Policy Analysis estimates, the federal government will be forced to stop doing 1 in 10 of the things it does for you today. By 2020, it stops doing 1 in 4. By 2050, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid alone will eat up the entire federal budget.

If you "own" America as a citizen, what's your personal share of the National Debt? About $176,000 and climbing... even faster now, thanks to the bailout. Get out your checkbook please.

And of course, none of this even includes the interest piling up on the unpaid debt, that's added on to the tally around the clock. So far, about $53.9 million in the time it's taken you to read this letter.

Meanwhile, over 50% of the stocks held on the New York Stock Exchange are held by people 60 or older. How big will the "bailout" have to be when they all take the cash to pay for retirement?

You see my point.

The danger isn't just a little bit of vaporized retirement security... it's the very real risk that the entire U.S. economy will collapse, with a "hard landing" for the dollar, third-world levels of unemployment, and government retirement programs that disappear overnight.

And this isn't just tomorrow's problem.

Have you ever wondered why you pay so much more for a gallon of milk than you did just a few years ago? Or why you pay so much more for a gallon of gasoline... health care... or college tuition?

The housing bubble... disappearing jobs... the banking bust... the collapsing dollar... they all have their complex causes, but if there's one thread that runs through all of them, it's the connection they have to America's wasteful, shameful, exploding national debt.

Take a look at this chart...

The facts are clear.

Washington policy makers are mortgaging your future... our future... and our children's future. It's unsound, unsustainable, and indefensible. Touch choices have to be made. Preferably now, while there still might be time.

Think about it like this. If nothing else changes, Washington will owe over 240% more than every business in the U.S. makes each year... and it will happen in less time than it takes a child born this morning to reach age 35.

Can you imagine how long you could live if every year your bills added up to more than two and a half times your salary? Not very long. A couple years... a year... six months. But that's where we're headed, if nothing changes.

You don't want to wait for the politicians to figure it out... you don't want to wait for Wall Street to figure it out... because clearly they're not even close to getting this.

This is why I hope... and even urge... you to take me up on my offer.

Let me send you the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" I've been telling you about. You pay nothing — I'll explain it all at the end of the letter. I give it to you, because I'm that worried about where all this is going. As I said, your "bundle" will do two key things.

First it answers the question nobody else seems to be answering clearly, which is — put plainly — what happened? How did we get in this mess and where did the good life in America disappear to.

Second, your bundle takes you to the next level... showing you exactly how to get out of this mess. As an American but also on a very personal level. Including steps you can take, right now, to start enough regular personal "bailout" checks so that you never have to rely on the U.S. government for your own future again.

Here's a close look at what you'll receive...

"Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" Tool #1: Your FREE DVD of the Award-winning Documentary, I.O.U.S.A.

It's absolutely key that you understand how we got where we are now... and as quickly as possible.

And I know of no faster way to do that than to see a very important documentary that's just now coming out on DVD.

It's called I.O.U.S.A.

And I guarantee that it will make you smarter than anyone you know about this crisis.

Why am I so sure?

Because I made this movie myself, along with an award-winning director and a "cast" of some of the biggest minds and best known names in finance and politics.

It took us more than two years... with over 500,000 air miles traveled between us... as well as far too many nights away from my young family... and many around-the-clock writing and editing sessions... but I can tell you right now, it was worth it.

I've never believed in any mission more in my life.

And I've never worked so closely with something this important.

When you see the film for yourself, I'm confident you'll agree.

But to tell the truth, when I first got the idea to do this... on a snowy weekend in a New Hampshire cabin... I had no idea it would go as far or become as big a phenomenon as it has.

Nor did I have any way of knowing how timely this movie's message would be. See, this all started with a bestseller that I co-wrote in 2005, called Empire of Debt.

The book was a big hit. And I spent time talking to press, radio and TV pundits about it, across the nation — including CNN, Fox Business News, and The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times.

You're not going to believe some of the people we managed to get on film... and all of them so fed up with how America had mortgaged off its future, they've decided they just can't afford to keep quiet anymore.

People like Congressman Ron Paul, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil, for instance... who all play "starring" roles in the movie.

And of course, David Walker, the former head of the U.S. General Accounting Office... who walks you through the crisis start to finish, as we follow him across the country — along with the head of the famous Concord Coalition, Bob Bixby — on his controversial "Fiscal Wake Up Tour."

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who helped rescue America from inflation in the early 1980s, also steps in, urging action.

So does more recently retired Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who says more in this movie about how we got where we are than perhaps in the many days of testimony he gave Congress during his tenure.

Then there's Clinton's former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who oversaw the only years of balanced budgets in the last three decades... along with Peter Peterson, the billionaire founder of the Blackstone Group... who has gotten so worried about the world we're handing off to our grandchildren, he's put up $1 billion of his own money to get this message out... including a direct $2.5 million investment in the film itself. The list goes on...

You might recognize some of these names. Others might be new to you. But be certain, the handful of people desperately waging this "unsung" war against government waste are out there. In the free I.O.U.S.A. DVD I'll send you, you'll hear what they have to say.

Including why this battle against government waste is so important, that losing it could literally mean losing the "republic" our founding fathers sought to create.

As I said, it's free — yours as part of the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" I want to send you. You can claim it right now, as long as I hear from you while I still have copies left. If this information is so important for everyone to see, why such a strict limit on my invitation?

The First Crisis Our New President MUST Address

I'm sure you can understand... I've come to care about this message. Maybe more than any other I've worked with or written about in my lifetime. And to me, it's not just another news story.

It's the most important crisis in America right now.

See the film and judge for yourself.

I'm sure you'll agree that, now that the election is over and the next White House agenda is already taking shape, we cannot let up on this. We must demand a solution now... or risk watching the whole situation get MUCH worse.

How much worse?

The ticking debt bomb you'll see detailed in your free copy of I.O.U.S.A. will make today's stock market blowout look like a wet firecracker. Next up, much more than the banks will go down.

We stand to lose our entire way of life.

Even saying that, you must think I'm some kind of alarmist. And that's okay. Just promise me you'll send for your free copy of the new I.O.U.S.A. DVD... and watch it for yourself... before you make up your own mind.

And promise me this too... when you watch it, don't watch it alone. Watch it with your family, your friends, and anybody else you even remotely care about.

This is that important.

And yes, as I said, I am sending you this movie at my own expense. Yours free. I cover all the costs, including shipping and handling. As if that weren't reason enough for you to watch this, let me just tell you how other viewers have reacted.

For instance, when I.O.U.S.A. debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, every seat was filled. I almost couldn't get tickets to see my own movie. And when it was over, the crowd gave it a standing ovation. What's more, the judges nominated I.O.U.S.A. for the festival's Grand Jury Prize.

It happened again just recently, at the New Hampshire Film Festival — my home state — where I.O.U.S.A. just won first prize as the "Best Documentary." And in the reviews too, where both The Economist and the New York Times recommended I.O.U.S.A. as critical viewing for every American.

Meanwhile, the Hollywood industry paper, Variety, lovingly called our little film a "stat-studded geekfest" and "an alternately amusing and alarming primer on America's off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility"...

"This film is no wallow in wonkiness," says the Los Angeles Times, "but a surprisingly sprightly tough-love lesson in fiscal responsibility.

Even top film critic Roger Ebert gives I.O.U.S.A. 3½ stars out of four and says, "... it accomplishes an amazing thing. It explains the national debt..."

Still need to hear more? The list goes on.

The Kansas City Star writes, "Future generations may regard I.O.U.S.A. as the most important film of 2008." Even the Huffington Post says, "Stop what you're doing... go see this movie! This is the single most important film you will see this year..."

During the early release this summer, Canadians crossed the boarder, driving hours to the closest theaters... civic groups in U.S. cities snapped up tickets... politicians bought out theaters in their home towns... and MTV, CBS' 60 Minutes and even the trendy Colbert Report ran stories.

I'm proud. I'm hopeful. But I know we're not even close to done.

Not until I can get this movie and this message into the hands of everybody who has the smarts to understand just how critically dangerous this crisis has become. That's why I want you to have your own free copy of the film.

So you can get up to speed... so you can get inspired... so you know how to protect yourself... and so you can help us spread the message too. Sending you this free copy of the new I.O.U.S.A. DVD is the best way, by far, to make sure all this happens. And happens in time that we can get this on the desk of the next leader of the free world, come January.

Look, this is very simple. Every single financial decision you make personally is about to change. Don't you want to have a say in how those changes unfold?

The bureaucrats won't start talking about this on their own. And the world's power brokers don't want them to. But that's because they're not the ones who will have to pay the price.

You are.

So are your children.

And your grandchildren.

The housing bust... the banking collapse... high energy prices... soaring health care costs... the collapse of Social Security... and trillions in lost retirement savings... they're all tied to what you'll see in your copy of the movie. In ways you never imagined possible.

Let me send you the free copy of the new DVD, at no charge to you, and you can discover exactly what it is I'm talking about. Others who've already seen I.O.U.S.A. are just as deeply moved about this as I am. And I'd like nothing more if we can show you this and bring you on board, as well.

Says R. Einhorn, one of our own Agora Financial readers...

"I saw I.O.U.S.A. last night... Kudos... I have only one thing to say - the film was absolutely the most important film I have seen in my life. It should be mandatory viewing by everyone in the United States... Congratulations. "

And E. Spann, another reader, wrote me directly to tell me...

"I drove two hours each way to see I.O.U.S.A... it was top notch... very well produced and the facts delivered were truly eye-opening... Everyone needs to see this! Excellent movie — well worth the drive!"

Yes, of course I know that we could easily sell these just-released copies of I.O.U.S.A. on Amazon.com. And we will, too. And on that site and others like it, top documentary releases go for as much as $26.95. Personally, I think that's even too little to charge.

Yet, for a limited time... you can get your copy of this award-winning movie... absolutely free. Gratis. No charge. As one of the tools I'm including in the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" my team and I just put together. And I'll tell you how to get it in a moment.

I have secured these copies by special contract, just for you.

But only if I hear back from you while I still have copies left to give away.

After that, this window closes and you'll have to pay for your copy just like everybody else. But, of course, getting a free copy of the new I.O.U.S.A. DVD is just the beginning of what you get with your free "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle"...

"Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" Tool #2: Your FREE I.O.U.S.A.  Companion Book, With Personal Interviews From The Top Financial Minds in America

Imagine if you could sit down and talk markets with the most successful investor in history, Warren Buffett.

Imagine if you could get solo time in a room with Alan Greenspan or financial magazine giant, Steve Forbes.

Imagine Paul O'Neil, the Treasury Secretary Bush fired for saying deficits DO matter, telling you how he saw this coming... and why he couldn't get the White House to listen.

What if you could ask Paul Volcker, the Fed Chairman who helped end America's last inflation crisis under Reagan, to answer the question, "What's next?"

That's exactly the experience I had while making the documentary I'm about to send.

While we filmed I.O.U.S.A., we met with and interviewed some of the heaviest hitters from both Wall Street and Washington. Robert Rubin... Ron Paul... billionaire Blackstone Group founder Pete Peterson... Arthur Laffer... and our own favorite bestselling author, William Bonner.

I got to sit across the table from all of them.

What would you do if you had the same chance? Well, today you have just that same chance...

Of course you'd want their behind-the-scenes perspective on what's happened to America... and what they see happening next. You'd also want to know what answers they have to offer.

And you'll find all this in the second "tool" in your "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle," the companion book to the I.O.U.S.A. movie. Inside, you'll find the full text of all these expert interviews.

All of these giants are convinced, as I am, we face a much more serious situation than the politicians and Wall Street pros are willing to tell you. And that there's no way to wish it away without taking action, both personally and on a bigger scale.

Listen as...

Warren Buffett tells me what he really thinks of gold as an investment... and he's convinced there's still plenty of hope for America and for investors, if a few very basic things happen (pg.175)

Dr. Alan Greenspan tells me what he still feels he did right during his time at the Fed, along with what will have to change if our way of life as a nation is going to last (pg. 169)

Paul Volcker, who helped oversee the bull market of the 1980s, reveals the one greatest danger the next president faces, plus how he hopes Washington will go about it (pg. 161)

Congressman Ron Paul reveals the Big Lie behind the "surplus" of the late 1990s, shows how America got into this mess, and names exactly what we need to do to get back on track (pg. 147)

Fired Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill gives the blow-by-blow conversation he had with Dick Cheney that cost him his job, as well as the one question you had to ask yourself on Nov. 4, 2008 (pg. 205)

Robert Rubin, who topped the Treasury Department during the 1990s boom, names the one thing that could guarantee America a recovery and years of economic boom.

Plus more....

I recently got a message from the chief editor of a trade magazine for financial planners. In a feature article, he told his 125,000 readers — all of them financial planners themselves — to buy the I.O.U.S.A. companion book and share it with their children.

And he had done the same himself, sharing copies with his two teenagers... because, he told me, he wanted them to "learn by example" how important it is to live sensibly with your money.

Already the book sales have hit #1 on Amazon.com. Not to brag, but the book has even swept right past Barack Obama's book! I expect the copies I have access to, to go quickly — and that doesn't count the 535 copies we've already sent to every Senator and Representative in Congress (all 535 of them).

The book is listing for as much as $19.95 online. But I've arranged a very special deal, direct with Amazon.com, where I will cover all the costs of ordering the book — including shipping — so I can send it to you directly as my gift, absolutely free.

As the second key part of your "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle."

The book and the DVD work very closely together to get you up to speed on the crisis and how we got here... not in a way that's written or shown for economists, but as entertainingly and accessibly as possible.

You'll read the interviews. You'll see these experts talking plainly and candidly on camera. And then, once the book and the movie together make plain the problems we all face... the rest of your "bailout bundle" actually shows you what to do.

Specifically, it shows you how to recover your retirement security without having to count on the so-called government bailout... with checks you can pay directly to your account. As many as 78 over the next 24 months.

Here's how it works...

"Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" Tool #3: Lock in as Many Personal "Bailout" Checks as You Need, Right Now and for the Rest of Your Life

If the free copy of the I.O.U.S.A. DVD and the companion book are yours to bring you up to speed on the broad crisis, this next "weapon" against financial wipeout shows you how to protect yourself at a much more personal level.

Namely, with as many as 78 cash "bailout" checks you could deposit in your bank account over the next 24 months ahead.

Not to mention, as many more of these checks as you decide you'll need... for the rest of your life.

Let me explain.

And I'll start by asking you this: exactly how much of that $7.2 trillion dumped into the government bailouts so far has actually ended up in your personal account?

In case you're under any delusions, I'll just tell you: zero.

Not a penny of that is for bailing out Americans at the personal level.

It goes to the banks. The fat cats. The punk hedge fund managers who, just a year ago, were drinking $10,000 bottles of wine and eating Kobe sirloin in "bottle bars" and restaurants in Manhattan.

Even if you get a government check, don't be fooled.

Because every penny of it came directly from the taxpayers — that's you — already. Politicians put money in your hand... after pulling it right out of your own back pocket. I don't know how you feel about that, but if you ask me it's a raw deal.

Which is why I think you might like this third "tool" in our new "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" even more than you like my movie. Because this is where you'll find the specific action plan we put together that can help bail you out of this filthy mess.

That is, this is where one of my most trusted analysts, former commercial banker Chris Mayer, shows you directly how to collect as many as 78 personal "bailout" paychecks over the next 24 months.

You can even mark the dates these checks will arrive on your calendar.

(The next payout date is March 15 — see the chart to the right for details).

Worried about rising energy costs... higher health care... your grandchild's college tuition expenses... or shrinking retirement options? This "personal bailout" plan gives you a way to make all that worry go away.

Included in your free "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" is a brand new special report, The Ultimate "Paycheck" Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets.

It details this entire plan... in simple, easy-to-follow terms.

No more depending on bureaucrats... no more fears about the future of "Social Insecurity" or other doomed government programs... no more worries about whether you'll run out of money before your time.

The Single Best Way to Make Sure You'll Never Run Out of Money

This is "get paid while you sleep" money.

You don't work for it.

You don't qualify for it with some government agency.

And there are no age requirements or income requirements. All this strategy does is show you how to tap into an endless stream of income, starting right now.

It lasts as long as you need it. And starts as soon as a few weeks from when you send for this report, with your first check. As many as 78 checks follow, all sent automatically to your account.

As I write this, the next payout dates for this strategy are right around the corner...

March 15, 2009 (two checks)

March 30, 2009

April 1, 2009

April 15, 2009 (two checks)

You can spend them, cash them, save them... whatever you want.

Some people who do this retire early. Others pile the money on top of what they've already socked away, speeding up the growth of their nest egg.

Either way, you start getting paid.

Use the money to help put your grandchildren through school... or go back to school yourself and study something you love... make a fat donation toward a cause you believe in... or just leave the automatic deposits untouched, while you enjoy the security of knowing they will be there when you need them.

Just in 2009 alone, you'll find another 39 cash payout dates already on the schedule. Your copy of The Ultimate Paycheck Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets shows you how to get started.

One of the best aspects of this is how easy it is to set up.

It takes only about five minutes on the phone with a broker.

And then, that's it. The rest is automatic. No need to keep running to your computer screen to track every market blip. No need to get a ball in your throat as you watch the nightly financial news.

One of the best parts about this — other than the steady cash payouts — is the simplicity and security of doing this. Chris Mayer, who put this whole strategy together, is one of the most safety-minded analysts in my network of experts.

Simply do what he shows you in your free copy of this report, The Ultimate "Paycheck" Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets, and the rest will take care of itself.

Yes, it's a strategy that can work for you even right now.

This may even be the best opportunity for you to do this in a long time.

The "personal bailout paycheck" strategy works in a recession too. During market volatility. And it should keep on working for you exceptionally well during a market recovery, too.

Just like it's already working for the many Americans who've discovered how this works...

Just this past spring, Richard M. collected two passive "paychecks" worth $3,314 each. He's collected many more just like them. And he'll collect more, on top of that, over the weeks and months ahead

Steve R. got paid $3,600 on April 9... collected another check for $4,200 less than a month later... and took another $3,481 two weeks after that. Without lifting a finger

Former chauffer Vern J. used to drive rich people around to make money. He just got a check recently for $7,700 — money he "earned" in his sleep

Gary C. almost died on Sept. 11. Today, not only is he doing fine, but he just received an automatic passive "paycheck" worth $25,610 — with more just like it on the way

What would you do with an extra $8,809 windfall? That's what Daniel F. got paid in the check he automatically received on June 6, 2008. He'll have gotten more just like it by the time you read this

Jeff E.'s passive "paycheck" deposits are worth an estimated $27,636 each. And he's eligible to get several of those checks sent to him automatically, each year

50-year-old Marty M. doesn't really need extra cash. But that won't stop him from banking his next passive "paycheck," for an estimated $53,331, just weeks from the day you read this letter

Ian R.'s most recent passive "payday" topped $88,719

Then there's Jeff K. His passive "paycheck" on April 8, 2008, totaled around $98,057. That's just one of many passive "paychecks" he'll collect this year.

Once you let me send you a free copy of this report, The Ultimate "Paycheck" Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets, you'll see how simple and sensible this is.

Once you get the ball rolling on this strategy, the checks can start rolling in pretty fast. A few hundred dollars each month. Thousands of dollars. Even hundreds of thousands of dollars over a year's time, piling up in your account.

Almost regardless of the scandals and shakeouts taking place on Wall Street.

You can get started with very little, and take this to whatever level you need.

Imagine $1,500 to $2,000 extra per month... early on... with that amount growing by as much as $5,000... $8,000... $10,000 or even $15,000 extra.

Just doing what you'll find in the report.

Think of it like an extra "safety net" or think of it like a whole "lifestyle upgrade."

Either way, here's a quick glimpse at what you'll find in the free report...

Automatic "Paycheck" #1: An $838.4 Million Giveaway You Can Still
Tap This Year
This first move pays you back a fat 9% return on the value of the shares you hold in this company. That's already nearly three times what some people collect on CD accounts. And I expect it to jump over 10%, based on estimated distributions for next year.

Automatic "Paycheck" #2: Every Month, a Juicy 12.4% "Paycheck" on One of Wall Street's Safest Bets
This company has paid shareholders at least 12.25% gains automatically on the value of its shares since the company first opened its doors in March 2001. That means it's held true on its promise to take care of income first for 87 payouts in a row. With energy still hitting record highs, this could easily be a long-haul income stream for you, too.

Automatic "Paycheck" #3: The Family Business That Spews Out Billionaires
Insiders have just snapped up 392,000 of their own shares. While still paying a handsome 7% automatic return to shareholders, in the form of cash "paychecks." That's double what it doled out in 2005. And it says nothing about how much your money could grow just in the value of the shares themselves. This could be the best combined growth and income stock you'll come across anywhere. Including an April 2010 law that could double your money.

Automatic "Paycheck" #4: The Safest Double-Digit Payout In America
Right now, this doles out automatic "paychecks" worth 5.3% of anything you put in, which you can leave there untouched. But here's an extra bonus: Even as I write, this solid company has grown shareholder money by a handsome 26.3%. Tie together the payouts and the growth and you could be looking at making a safe, solid 10 — 15% per year, on this one move alone.

Automatic "Paycheck" #5: What Could Be Better Than Making a
"Tax Free" 280%...?
Anything that pays better than 10% automatically, year in and year out, is already a great return. But this one move has also beefed up its payouts by 10.4% every year for the last five years. So you could be looking for a lot more with this one move, with each "paycheck" that's deposited in your account. And the tax benefits make it all the juicier.

You can imagine, it's pretty hard to put a value on a strategy that could give you a steady, non-working income for the rest of your life. Income which, in fact, can grow over time.

I could certainly offer this by itself. It would be a bargain, at any price.

But again, it's also included in the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" I'll send you, along with your free copy of the I.O.U.S.A. DVD and companion book.

And then, there's one more thing...

PLUS: Around the Clock Coverage of the Top Stocks You Should Own as the Economy Crawls Out of This Hole

Just in case you've got the wrong idea, let me just say...

Long term, I'm not at all gloom and doom.

I firmly believe we'll come out of this crisis. The answers are out there. And getting them across with the help of the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" I'll send you can only help.

But I also believe that future will look a lot different from what you're used to today.

And that includes the way millions of Americans invest on Wall Street.

See, the hot stocks that dominated headlines in the recent past... the high fliers without clear road maps... the debt-loaded juggernauts who crash and burn with flare... the "cut and run" companies that take shareholder money and disappear the minute the economy turns sour...

They're finished. At least for now.

And hopefully forever.

Forget the buckaroo hedge fund managers. Forget the pump-and-dump brokers. Forget the fat cat CEOs who bailed out with their multi-million dollar "golden" parachute pensions.

In the near future and for the long-term, the companies that will pull you out of this financial quagmire... are the companies that practice the same principles of financial discipline you and I wish our government would adopt.

I'm talking, of course, about the savers and innovators, the cash-and-asset rich companies with a roadmap for profits and top management that's as committed to the shareholder as they are to the future of the company itself.

These companies aren't always easy to find.

Which is why the crown jewel I'll give you, also as part of your free "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle," is a special, sought-after stock market research service called Capital & Crisis.

I'm including up to 12 free months of this service with your "bundle."

I don't know if you've heard of this service.

Or if you've heard of the genius who created it.

His name is Chris Mayer. And he's not your average analyst. He's no broker or Wall Street refuge either. Instead, he's a hard-nosed ex-banker and financial officer... the former vice president of one of America's oldest and prestigious lenders, Provident Bank.

This has a lot to do with why you're going to want to turn to Chris to find out which opportunities in the market are set to recover... and which are set to give up the ghost.

See, Chris is what you might call a serious "money geek."

He reads Austrian economists during breakfast. He sends me email messages, fired up about footnotes in company quarterly reports. Every year, he's one of those guys who goes out to Omaha for the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting (Chris owns shares).

But here's what really sets his analysis apart.

Most brokers usually have your money on the line, but not theirs. Not so for Chris. During his tenure as a banker, he managed over $200 million of the bank's own money. What's more, it was up to Chris to make the call on commercial loans to companies worth as much as $400 million and more.

You can imagine, where brokers might barely glance at a company's annual report before recommending shares to buy, Chris didn't have that luxury then. And he doesn't take it now.

I don't know of anybody who burrows deeper into the numbers... digging out hidden liabilities... delving past price-to-earnings ratios and the other standard smoke-and-mirrors stock-picking myths perpetrated by Wall Street.

His analysis is so thorough, it could make even an IRS auditor blush.

And he's always looking for the same thing: Companies that own what he calls "assets that sweat." And lots of them. That simply means, he's looking only for companies caught up in a powerful self-renewing cycle of wealth.

There's never been a great American family legacy of wealth without it.

The Rockefellers. The Carnegies. The Kennedys. Sam Walton's empire. They've all made fortunes building their businesses this way. Chris applies the same theory to building a winning portfolio.

Already, Chris has won plenty of attention with his brilliant approach. Maybe you've seen him on financial shows like Fox's "Bulls & Bears"... Forbes on Fox... and the CNBC financial reports. Or maybe you've read his book, Invest Like a Dealmaker: Secrets From a Former Banking Insider.

About four years ago, he got my attention too.

That's when I asked him to leave his job behind and join our team. Since then, he's lead a group of like-minded, safety and quality oriented market watchers — using what's become one of our flagship services, the monthly research advisory letter Capital & Crisis I mentioned to you earlier.

And he's done it with a steady hand... and impressive track record, cramming the pipeline with one winner after another. Take a look at these closed positions from the Capital & Crisis portfolio and see for yourself...

Leucadia National 109% Brookfield Asset Management 115% CNX Gas Corp. 44% ABX Air 38% Walter Industries 44% AVX Corp. 12.4% Ameriprise Financial 77% Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste SA 100.3% Agrium 232% Plum Creek Timber 28% Goldkist 39% Arch Capital Group 45% Presidential Life Corp. 65% Rosetta Resources 11.2%

Intrawest Corp. 72% Orient-Express Hotels 109% Companhia Paranaense 121% Imperial Sugar Co. 145% Catellus Development Corp. 24% FEMSA 29% Chiquita Brands Intl. 52% Bandag 18.3% Industrias Bachoco 19.75% Questar 113% San Juan Basin Royalty Trust 144% Guitar Center 151% Sovran Self Storage 155% Popular Inc. 165%

And just listen to what some of his 47,000 subscribers are saying...

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— R.D.

"Chris Has Grown My Investment by Fivefold in a Month" "You recommended a short sale of Japanese bonds through Chris Foster at Friedberg Mercantile in Toronto. I followed your recommendation, and through careful and constant attention, my small $5,000 investment has grown by over fivefold in a month... I enjoy and look forward to your monthly communiqués. Keep up the good work!"
— J. Redmond

"I Will Be a Long-Term Subscriber" "I just subscribed to Capital & Crisis this month. I've been reading through the back issues of your newsletter, and I just wanted to tell you how impressed I am with your writing style and content (and your track record too, of course). Reading through the archives is like getting a university-level education on sound investing principles. I am very much impressed with your letter and think it is very likely I will be a long-term subscriber."
— L. Prokop

"I Wish I Had Been Reading Such Thoughtful Analysis 24 Years Ago" "After spending 24 years in the investment business (and building assets under management to $350 million), your insights are probably the best I have seen. Your study of the great money managers, past and present, and your ability to succinctly distill, explain and relate their philosophies to your specific recommendations is a true talent. I only wish I had been reading such thoughtful analysis 24 years ago."
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"It's Probably the Smartest Letter I've Ever Seen" "I'm quite a new subscriber, but I must say that I really love it. It's probably the smartest letter I've ever seen, and believe me, I've seen a lot of them in more than 10 years. Congratulations for the good job."
— M. Dejolier

I'm telling you this because — especially in the markets my team and I see ahead — I want you to know you're covered, with only the best financial research at your fingertips.

Which is why I'd like to start sending you — with your permission — up to 12 months of Chris' Capital & Crisis, absolutely free. Gratis for up to a full year, along with your free "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle."

It's that important to me that you move ahead in these rough-and-tumble times without taking risks you don't need to take... but without sacrificing performance in the name of quality.

I know of no better way for you to do this right now than with the help of Chris Mayer and Capital & Crisis, delivered direct to your mailbox — and your email inbox, if you like — like clockwork every month.

Of course, you'll get all the same benefits his other subscribers get... including Chris' direct weekly email updates on the markets and his portfolio... plus your own password-protected access to the members-only Capital & Crisis website.

The undiscovered bargains... the rock-solid "lifetime best stock" performers... the shockingly safe big growth opportunities... heavy-hitting income producers... you'll find them all in one issue and update after another...

You'll find it all in your issues.

And like I said, this subscription could be yours free for up to 12 months.

Let me know when you're ready to get started.

Just don't wait too long.

I've already given away over 11,500 copies of the DVD and companion text alone. I'd hate for the rest of the copies to run out before I hear from you.

What's more, if you act soon enough, you can receive your first work-free "paycheck" within days!

Unlike Any Offer I've Ever Made (or Will Ever Make Again)

Counting on our leaders to fix this crisis hasn't worked in the past.

It's not likely we'll be able to count on them in the future.

Unless you and I know as much as we can about how they got us here, where we are right now, and what we can demand they do about it — immediately — while there's still time.

I must hear from while I still have FREE copies of the I.O.U.S.A movie and book to give away. After that, your chance to get this "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" FREE could expire forever.

As I said, it doesn't have to cost you a dime.

Simply follow the order instructions at the end of this letter. And that's all you need to do to receive your "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" immediately.

It's that simple.

If you're still on the fence, then let me just put it to you this way...

Look around you to see where we are now. With their homes, most Americans are in a hole. On Wall Street, most Americans are in a hole. And in Washington, we're in a very deep hole — the deepest in history.

Trillions of dollars are already gone. Vanished. Trillions more, in future security, are now on the line. Think ill-conceived bailouts and modest rallies can bring back that sense of security you had not so long ago? Think again. We have crossed a bridge. And it has collapsed behind us.

Do you want to wait to find out where we're headed next?

Or would you rather know right now, while there's still something you can do about it... both to protect yourself and your loved ones... and maybe do something to help change the course for America.

If what you'll see in the movie I'm sending you is any indication, our destiny is still in flux. The outcome could be ugly... but it could also be miraculously positive.

And it can all depend on the step you choose to take... or not take...

Right now.

My Strictly Limited Invitation

As I said, I only have a limited number of the just-released I.O.U.S.A. DVDs that I can give away. And I've already given away 11,500 copies so far — not including the 535 copies we rushed to each member of Congress.

If the remaining supply of DVDs and companion texts runs out, you're out of luck — you'll have to wait until the movie goes up for sale to the general public on Amazon.com.

But I'm hoping that won't be the case.

I'd much rather send it to you now free of charge.

So let's just run through all this again quickly. Send for the FREE "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" I've put together and...

You'll immediately go on the rush delivery list for a full copy of the new I.O.U.S.A. DVD, the award-winning documentary that won a standing ovation at Sundance... and that lays bare the "unmentionable" crisis about to knock America off its feet. Other films like this list on Amazon.com for $26.95, but your copy of this DVD is absolutely free.

I'll also rush you the companion book to the I.O.U.S.A. movie, which comes complete with full personal interviews on the crisis — with Warren Buffett, Congressman Ron Paul, Dr. Alan Greenspan, Paul Volcker, Steve Forbes, former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Paul O'Neill, William Bonner, and more. This book already hit #1 on Amazon and lists for $19.95. Your copy, as part of the "bailout bundle," is also free.

You'll also immediately discover how to line up your own personal "bailout" checks, with the help of the brand new special report I'll include, The Ultimate "Paycheck" Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets. The simple strategy inside can help you line up as many as 78 cash paychecks over the next 24 months... plus more of these income paychecks, for as long as you need them. To put a price tag on this strategy is impossible, but your copy of the report that explains how it works is also yours completely free of charge.

Along with your package deal, you'll also get up to a full year FREE of Chris Mayer's highly acclaimed stock-market research letter Capital & Crisis. It's one of the most successful and best loved services I publish, and normally lists at $159 per year. But you'll get up to 12 issues — a full year's worth — free when you accept my invitation below.

And of course, everybody who receives Chris' Capital & Crisis letter also gets Chris' weekly portfolio updates — sent directly to your email inbox — and a private password to Chris' members-only Capital & Crisis website.

Can I just say, about Capital & Crisis, it's easily the one research letter in my stable that makes me consistently proud. And Chris' current readers definitely agree.

His reader retention rates — that's the number we look at to see how many subscribers stick around to hear more of what Chris has to say — are among the highest in the business.

This is why I normally list Chris' letter and all of these bonuses for $159 per year — a price we've already had to raise once because this special deal has already been so popular. But I believe so much in this message, I've decided to keep it simple for just a little longer.

Today, you can get up to a full year free, along with the rest of your deal.

But here's the thing. I don't just want to give away my limited I.O.U.S.A. copies or Chris' letter to anybody who isn't as serious about today's situation as I am.

So I'm asking you to make a small gesture to show you're committed.

It's simply this... as you accept your free gifts — the book, the DVD, and the special "Paycheck Portfolio" lifetime income report — simply agree to also try Chris' Capital & Crisis letter for up to two years. That's all.

If you agree to sign up for Chris' Capital & Crisis for two years, I'll throw in the second year absolutely free. That is, you'll get a full 24 issues — two years worth — while paying just $129 for everything. That's actually better than half off.

Quite a deal.

However, if you'd rather take a smaller step, that's okay too.

Just agree to sign up for Capital & Crisis one year. And again, I'll cut the new $159 per year price in half to just $79 — that's like paying only for the first six months... and then getting the second six months absolutely free.

Also a very good deal.

And of course, remember you're getting all those free months worth of "re-bound" best stock research included with your free copy of the new I.O.U.S.A. DVD... plus the just-printed, 262-page I.O.U.S.A. companion book... and the special personal "bailout" cash stream strategy you'll find in your free copy of Chris' newest report, The Ultimate "Paycheck" Portfolio: Double-Digit Yields... Even in Flat Markets.

All in one "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" — yours free today.

But Didn't I Say "No Catch?"

But wait... didn't I say, early in this letter, you could get everything in your "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle" with no strings attached?

I certainly did. And I'm going to stick to that promise.

So here's how the last and most important part of this invitation works...

If at any time whatsoever in the first 90 days of your membership you decide that Chris' 100% trial subscription isn't for you, you can cancel for a full refund of your initial subscription deal. And by 100%, I mean a full cash refund check sent directly to you... that covers every penny you originally paid to subscribe. No questions asked. And, if you decide to cancel after that initial 90 days, you will receive a full refund for all of your unsent issues.

And by the way, I don't care if you call me on this deal on the 89th day of your subscription. The refund is yours to claim, if you don't like everything I send.

And yes, you still get to keep everything. Including the DVD, the book and the special report. In case you don't want to do the math, let me just add this up for you...

Everything included in the "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundle," from the DVD (worth at least $26.95), the special companion book (lists for $19.95), the special income stream strategy report ($59), and up to a year's worth of Capital & Crisis at today's published price ($159)... adds up to just under $265.

That's $265 worth of market insight, protection, and strategy... at a time when millions of Americans need it most... and that doesn't even include the $21 in shipping charges I'm going to eat on my end, just for the book and DVD... or the costs of producing and mailing your issues and the special report, which we also cover.

Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of air miles and other travel expenses we wracked up while making the film... or the cost of keeping a guy as high-level as Chris Mayer on our team.

Yet, I'm making it all available to you today... free.

No charge if you accept my invitation to join Capital & Crisis.

Like I said, however, I don't have millions of "Emergency 'Personal Bailout' Bundles" to give away. It's a limited number of copies. And then your only alternative is to go to the web or a bookstore and pay for a copy out of your own pocket.

I've already given away over 11,500 of these free copies... I have some more left, but that supply won't last forever.

When they're gone, that's it. You're out of luck.

 

 

China's Gold Stocks Rush, Treasury Trepidation, Lewis vs. Paulson, Brushing Off Bad News, and More!

 As we've been suspecting, the Chinese have been accumulating gold, slowly, but surely. They made the announcement this morning. Really, what would you do if you were sitting on $1.9 trillion in foreign reserves � more than half of it minted in U.S. dollars?

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange says China's reserves now total 1,054 metric tons � up from 600 in 2003. If you're keeping score at home, that's a 76% increase in five years.

These new numbers place China fifth among nations that disclose its gold holdings � just ahead of Switzerland.

Given pronouncements made by Premier Wen leading up to the G-20 meeting last month, you can count on China to pick up a fair share of the $12 billion the International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to sell this year.

 Bankers and finance ministers from the G-20 countries meet again in Washington this weekend. The Chinese have indicated they're going to hang some details on the proposal to move away from the dollar as the world's reserve currency… and toward the quasi-currency "special drawing rights" issued by the IMF.

 The news is enough to keep gold above $900 this morning. It sits around $908 as we write. It's also enough to push down the dollar. The dollar index is down almost a full point, to 84.6, this morning.

  "I've been carrying on," writes Chuck Butler in the Daily Pfennig this morning, "about how the deficit spending here in the U.S. is going to require a TON of Treasuries to be sold to finance the government."

"Well... Yesterday morning, the U.S. announced that they would sell Treasuries in these amounts, and tenors... $40 billion 2-year, $35 billion 5-year and $26 billion 7-year, next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively.

"OMG! That's over $100 billion in new Treasury issuance that the markets are going to have to digest... Is it the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back? Are the markets saying, 'We don't believe you will be able to successfully auction that amount without aggressively raising the yield?' I think so..."

For the record, we believe that's Chuck's first use of "OMG" in print � a significant event, to be sure.

 Gold and stocks have been moving up in tandem as we approach week's end. Yesterday brought a bumpy ride for top stocks. A couple of regional banks turned in good earnings. So did Apple. But the good news tussled with the unemployment claims numbers we brought you yesterday. In the end, the Dow and the S&P both gained a little under 1%.

 The good vibes have carried into today, with both of those indexes up more than 0.5% at the opening.

The market is sloughing off bad news from the two of the Big 3 Detroit automakers. GM confirmed the rumors that it's shutting down 13 assembly plants for as many as nine weeks this summer. Chrysler, meanwhile, might have to go to bankruptcy court even if it can work out a deal for Fiat to take a big stake in the firm. (Yawn…)

The one U.S. automaker that's not circling the bowl, Ford, reported a $1.4 billion quarterly loss. But hey, it wasn't nearly as bad as feared… so Ford is up nearly 20% as we write.

 Traders are likewise cheered by the news that durable-goods orders fell 0.8% in March. Analysts were expecting that orders for cars, appliances, furniture and t