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A Crisis That’s Four Times Bigger Than 2008

Graham’s note: The following is an excerpt from my most recent Private Wealth Advisory newsletter. In it I explain why the Fed will perform QE 3 and kill the US Dollar in the process. In this same issue, I alerted subscribers to three new inflation hedges that will produce out-sized gains from the Fed’s madness. These three come on the heels of the three investments detailed in my Inflationary Storm Pt 2 Report (one of which has already been bought out for a 41% gain). To learn more about Private Wealth Advisory click here.

The financial world is awash with a debate as to whether the Fed will engage in QE 3 in the future. To me this debate is pointless.

Indeed, the Fed HAS to engage in more QE 3 if it doesn’t want the entire market to collapse. Given the breakdown in Europe, the IMPLOSION in the Middle East, and the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan, the removal of Fed liquidity would kick off a MASSIVE systemic Crisis.

Remember, we had a full-scale market breakdown when QE 1 ended and that was because of Greece: a country with a GDP of $329 billion. Removing liquidity from the markets when Japan, the fourth largest economy in the world (if you count Europe as one economy), the largest Oil exporting region in the world (the Middle East), and Spain and Portugal are all breaking down would lead to an absolute market DISASTER.

The Fed will not risk this. Besides it HAS to keep the liquidity going if it’s to continue supporting the TBTF banks in the US. Remember, 99% of what the Fed’s done in the last two years has been aimed at supporting the large, Too Big To Fail (TBTF) Wall Street banks. The reasons for this are:

1)   The Fed is in fact CONTROLLED by these banks via the Primary Dealer network

2)   Fed leaders are all front-men for Wall Street

In order to understand these, you need to know that the REAL power of the Fed lies in its primary dealer network, NOT stooges like Ben Bernanke.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Primary Dealers, these are the 18 banks at the top of the US private banking system. They’re in charge of handling US Treasury Debt auctions and as such they have unprecedented access to US debt both in terms of pricing and monetary control.

The Primary Dealers are:

1.     Bank of America

2.     Barclays Capital Inc.

3.     BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

4.     Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

5.     Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

6.     Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

7.     Daiwa Securities America Inc.

8.     Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

9.     Goldman, Sachs & Co.

10. HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

11. J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.

12. Jefferies & Company Inc.

13. Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

14. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

15. Nomura Securities International Inc.

16. RBC Capital Markets

17. RBS Securities Inc.

18. UBS Securities LLC.

Of this group four banks in particular receive unprecedented favoritism of the US Federal Reserve. They are:

1.     JP Morgan

2.     Bank of America

3.     Citibank

4.     Goldman Sachs

You’ll note that these are the firms deemed “Too Big To Fail.” The Fed not only insured that they didn’t go under during 2008, but in fact allowed these firms to INCREASE their control of the US financial system.

Consider that JP Morgan took over Bear Stears. Bank of America took over CountryWide Financial and Merrill Lynch. Citibank and Bank of America were the only two banks to have their liabilities directly backed by the Fed ($280 billion for Citi and $180 billion for BofA).

Then there’s Goldman Sachs which was made whole from all AIG liabilities, received $13 billion in direct funding from the Fed, and was supported while ALL of its investment bank competitors either went under or were consumed by other entities, granting Goldman a virtual monopoly over the investment banking business (the firms that were merged with larger firms all laid off large portions of their employees and closed down whole segments of their business).

My point with all of this is that we NEED to ignore what the Fed says and instead focus on what it does. And in the last two years, the Fed has done everything it can to support these four firms. Indeed QE’s 1, 2, and the coming 3 are nothing but an attempt to funnel TRILLIONS into these firms (and the other primary dealers).

The reasons the Fed is engaging in QE rather than simply dishing out the funds are:

1.     Political outrage would be EXTREME if the Fed just gave the money away

2.     The Fed needs to support those firms with the largest derivative exposure

The reason that the 2008 debacle happened was very simple. The derivatives market, the largest, most leveraged market in the world.

Today, the notional value of the derivatives sitting on US banks’s balance sheets is in the ballpark of $234 TRILLION. That ‘s 16 times US GDP and more than four times WORLD GDP.

Of this $234 trillion, 95% is controlled by just four banks.  Those four banks and their derivatives exposure (in $ TRILLIONS) are charted below:

The above picture summates two things:

1)   Who REALLY controls the US financial system

2)   Why QE 3, 4, etc are guaranteed

The Fed HAS to continue pumping money into the system to support these firms’ gargantuan derivative exposure. Failing to do so would mean a disaster on the scale of four to five times that of 2008.

Remember 2008 was caused by the credit default swap market which was $50-60 trillion in size. The interest-rate derivate market is $200+ TRILLION in size.

So I am certain QE 3 will be coming. If it doesn’t come in June we’ll get hints of it until it’s finally announced. The Fed cannot and will not stop the money printing. Bernanke will be forced to resign long before he takes the paperweight off the print button. Small wonder then that the US Dollar is falling off a cliff. Indeed, the way things are going, the Fed will push into a full-scale inflationary collapse within three months.

So if you’re not preparing for mega-inflation already, you need to start doing so NOW. The Fed WILL continue to pump money into the system 24/7 and it’s going to result in the death of the US Dollar.

On that note, there are only a handful of my Inflationary Storm PT 2 reports left.  So if you want to get your hands on one, you NEED to order it now.

We’ve already seen one of the three investments from the report get bought out for a 41% gain (in TWO MONTHS). It’s only a matter of time before the other two explode higher either due to a buyout or inflation (one is already up 16% and the other isn’t far behind).

Again, there are less only a few copies of the Inflationary Storm PT 2 report left. Once we sell out THAT’S IT, there will not be another copy released to the public and the doors are forever closed on this opportunity.

So if you want one, you need to order NOW.

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Good Investing!

Graham Summers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why the Fed Is FREAKING OUT

… and we just passed $500 billion.

I’ve shown the below chart before in other pieces. However, given its significance, it deserves regular review.

This is a chart of the adjusted US Monetary Base. It’s essentially a very simple means of charting how much money the US Federal Reserve is pumping into the system (on top of QE 2 which is providing another $100 billion in liquidity per month).

As you can see, starting in January 2011, the Fed left a paperweight on the “print” button. Since that time, it’s put $500 BILLION into the system. When you combine the $100 billion in liquidity provided by QE 2, we’re talking about $800-900 billion enter the financial system in 2011 alone.

There is only one period in which the Fed engaged in a similar amount of money pumps. And that was… during the depth of the 2008 Crisis from October- December 2008 (the two periods are comparable as the Fed didn’t have QE2 in 2008).

This of course leads one to ask, “what is the Fed combating now?” And it’s not just Japan (the adjusted monetary base went vertical back in January). So what is requiring $200 billion per month?

To provide some context to this, consider that during QE 1, the Fed was putting roughly $50 billion into the system. After QE 1 ended, the Fed’s monthly liquidity pumps fell to roughly $30 billion or less.

That’s when this happened:

So it’s not surprising the Fed freaked out and started QE lite in August.

This kept things chugging along until QE 2 was announced in November at which point the Fed began putting $100 billion into the market. And the Fed is now pumping $200 BILLION into the system.

Small wonder then that the US Dollar is falling off a cliff. Indeed, the way things are going, the Fed will push into a full-scale inflationary collapse within three months.

So if you’re not preparing for mega-inflation already, you need to start doing so NOW. The Fed WILL continue to pump money into the system 24/7 and it’s going to result in the death of the US Dollar.

On that note, there are only a handful of my Inflationary Storm PT 2 reports left.  So if you want to get your hands on one, you NEED to order it now.

We’ve already seen one of the three investments from the report get bought out for a 41% gain (in TWO MONTHS). It’s only a matter of time before the other two explode higher either due to a buyout or inflation (one is already up 16% and the other isn’t far behind).

Again, there are less only a few copies of the Inflationary Storm PT 2 report left. Once we sell out THAT’S IT, there will not be another copy released to the public and the doors are forever closed on this opportunity.

So if you want one, you need to order NOW.

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Good Investing!

Graham Summers

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Graham Summers’ FREE Weekly Market Forecast (US Negative Edition)

The most significant development in the markets today is S&P’s decision to revise its US outlook to negative. This single issue has resulted in stocks taking a nosedive and Gold exploding higher.

Regarding stocks, this has resulted in a clear double top forming. Even more worrisome is the fact the S&P 500 has broken through support at 1,300.


The next lines of support are 1,280 then 1,260.  I want to stress that the rising bearish wedge pattern we broke out of in late February forecast a significant correction with an ultimate target of 1,100. The only reason we didn’t go there in March was because of a concerted effort by the world’s central banks to intervene. However, if they loose control of the market now, we’ll be going there very shortly.

Interestingly, the S&P 500 announcement has resulted in the US Dollar rallying. Over the last 24 months, every time bad news was announced, the Dollar collapsed while stocks rallied on the idea that the Fed would be printing even more money to battle the economic downturn.

However, this time around, stocks are tanking and the US Dollar is rallying hard. The implications of this are vast. Is the Fed telling its buddies (Goldman etc) behind the scenes that they won’t be engaging in QE 3? Is the tide of easy money finally turning?

I doubt it. The Fed HAS to keep funneling the money into the insolvent big banks. Failing to do so will trigger a collapse in the interest rate-based derivatives market which currently stands at $180+ TRILLION in the US alone.

Regardless, in the meantime, the commodity space (with the exception of Gold) is getting slammed. The inflation trade had indeed gotten a little lopsided, but with inflation exploding around the world, I view this pullback as a buying opportunity, not the start of a bear market.

Remember, there is TRILLIONS in liquidity sloshing around the system right now. Inflation is already guaranteed. Sure we might have another debt Crisis, but there is absolutely no question that we’re going to be seeing massive debt defaults in the coming months and years. Currencies will be taking major hits when this occurs.

So with that in mind, I continue to maintain that we’ll be major inflation in the markets before the end of 2012. The weekly US Dollar chart has only one line of support left before the currency collapse hits.


In this sense, the drop in commodities is a great opportunity to prepare for the coming Inflationary Storm. The Fed will pump more money into the system GUARANTEED.  They may have to do it behind the scenes, but they WILL

Have a look at what they’ve done this year already:


What you’re looking at it a $500 billion money pump (ON TOP of QE 2’s $100 billion per month) over the last four months. So all told we’re looking at nearly $1 TRILLION in new money hitting the financial system in the first quarter of 2011 ALONE.

So if you’re not preparing for mega-inflation already, you need to start doing so NOW. The Fed WILL continue to pump money into the system 24/7 and it’s going to result in the death of the US Dollar.

On that note, there are only a handful of my Inflationary Storm PT 2 reports left.  So if you want to get your hands on one, you NEED to order it now.

We’ve already seen one of the three investments from the report get bought out for a 41% gain (in TWO MONTHS).  It’s only a matter of time before the other two explode higher either due to a buyout or inflation (one is already up 16% and the other isn’t far behind).

Again, there are only a few copies of the Inflationary Storm PT 2 report left. Once we sell out THAT’S IT, there will not be another copy released to the public and the doors are forever closed on this opportunity.

So if you want one, you need to order NOW.

To do so…

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Good Investing!

Graham Summers

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Let’s Vote Bernanke Out

As noted in yesterday’s essay, Bernanke and pals’ claims that the US is in a recovery due to the fact the stock market has rallied are totally bogus. Bernanke is measuring his success in US Dollars, which incidentally happens to be a ruler that he can continually shrink with his policies

Much as someone might claim they’ve grown in height because they use a shorter ruler to measure themselves every day, Bernanke claims that the stock market is up because it’s priced in the US Dollar (which is losing value almost every day).

It’s completely absurd, and yet it’s the basis for each and every one of Bernanke’s claims that the US is in a recovery. Nevermind, that employment is falling like a brick or that food stamp usage is at an all time high, the S&P 500 is up since March 2009, so things must be improving right?

Many supposed gurus claim that investing in stocks is a great way to hedge against inflation. The data doesn’t support this claim… at all. During the ‘70s stocks traded in a large range for 10 years. Unless you timed the bottoms and peaks perfectly, most “buy and hold” folks didn’t make anything in these years.

And once again, this is priced in nominal terms. When you price stocks’ performance in Gold for the 70s it’s positively abysmal.

Just like today.

So instead of bemoaning Bernanke and his policies, why don’t we all do something about it? I didn’t vote for this guy. None of us did. And yet we’re all paying the price (literally) for his policies.

How do we vote against him? Simple. Buy Gold and DON’T buy stocks. Don’t fall for the “stock wealth effect” BS and instead invest in something the Fed CAN’T devalue.

Because in the end, doing this means buying an asset that is INCREASING your purchasing power (Gold) and avoiding one that is DECREASING in purchasing power (stocks).

And of course, it has the side benefit of not providing Bernanke and his policies with ANY vote of confidence… or support.

On that note, I’ve put together an ENTIRE portfolio comprised of extraordinary inflation hedges: investments that will outperform even Gold and Silver as inflation erupts in the financial system.

After all, everyone knows that Gold and Silver are the most obvious inflation hedges out there. And to be blunt, anyone who invests in these two assets will likely do very well in the coming months as inflation erupts in the US.

However, to make truly ENORMOUS gains from inflation you need to find the investments that are off the radar… investments that the rest of the investment world hasn’t discovered yet.

I’m talking about investments that own assets of TREMENDOUS value that are currently priced at absurdly low valuations: the sorts of assets that larger companies will pay obscene premiums to acquire.

I’m not speaking in metaphors here either. Earlier this week, one of our inflation hedges was bought out, allowing us to lock in a 41% gainin under two months.

I just detailed three of the best investments I know that fit these criteria in my Special Report the Inflationary Storm Pt 2 at the end of February. One of them just got bought out this week (the 41% gain I mentioned before). Another is up 24%.

Like I said, EXTRAORDINARY inflation hedges.

And I’m only making 250 copies of the Inflationary Storm Pt 2 available to the public. As I write this, there are 40 copies of this report left. These won’t last much longer either.

So if you want to get your hands on a copy, you better move quickly, because these last 40 will be gone within the next few days.

To reserve a copy…

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Good Investing!

Graham Summers

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I call it The Financial Crisis “Round Two” Survival Kit. And its 17 pages contain a wealth of information about portfolio protection, which investments to own and how to take out Catastrophe Insurance on the stock market (this “insurance” paid out triple digit gains in the Autumn of 2008).

Again, this is all 100% FREE. To pick up your copy today, got to http://www.gainspainscapital.com and click on FREE REPORTS.

PPS. We ALSO publish a FREE Special Report on Inflation detailing three investments that have all already SOARED as a result of the Fed’s monetary policy.

You can access this Report at the link above.

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Yeah, The Market’s Up, But It’s Not Generating Wealth… At ALL

The US Federal Reserve has bet the farm… and the Republic on the idea that they can inflate us back to a recovery.

In plain terms, Bernanke and pals believe that if they can make the stock market rise, people will feel richer and will start spending money again, insuring that the US economy (which is 70% based on the consumer) will come roaring back to life.

The problem with this sort of thinking is that it’s so superficial as to be laughable, especially for those claiming to have an advanced education from a top university.

Indeed, the fact that the S&P 500 goes from 1,000 to 1,330 DOESN’T mean that those who own stocks are that much wealthier. This is because the nominal price of stocks (what the S&P 500 is priced at) IS NOT the same as the PURCHASING POWER of stocks.

Here’s the S&P 500 priced in US Dollars. Looks like investors are getting a lot richer in a hurry doesn‘t it?

Now, here’s the S&P 500 priced in Gold: a currency that the Fed CAN’T turn into toilet paper and a real measure of purchasing power:

In simple terms, those who own stocks have not actually increased their wealth in anyway since March 2008. All they’ve done is owned an asset that increased in nominal terms ONLY when it’s priced in a rapidly devaluing currency (the US Dollar).

The fact that our monetary system is run by guys who believe that “stocks rise = WEALTH” should give you the chills. Using this level of intelligence, you could rack up $500,000 in debt buying fancy clothes and then claim you’re wealthy cause you look like you have money (which by the way is something many people have done).

This is nothing new for the financial world. Research from the London Business School shows that when you account for inflation, stocks have often LOST money for DECADES despite rising substantially in nominal terms.

A great example of this is France where investors saw NO increase in purchasing power from stocks (as in ZERO) from 1912 to 1977. That’s right, nearly THREE GENERATIONS of investors LOST wealth by owning stocks in France during the 20th century.

So if you want to buy the whole “I’m missing out by not owning stocks” BS which is slung around like it’s true, you’re being conned into the biggest scam of the century (literally). You’re also actively voting for Ben Bernanke (more on this in another essay) by supplying him with more phony evidence to claim that his insane monetary policies are working.

Meanwhile, I’ll be helping subscribers of my Private Wealth Advisory load up on inflationary hedges… and making REAL wealth in the process.

For months now I’ve been telling you that we’re focusing on extraordinary inflation hedges: companies that own incredible assets priced at levels that make them HUGE takeover targets.

I wasn’t just blowing smoke here. Just yesterday, one of our picks, TimberWest Forrest, announced that it will be bought out. Private Wealth Advisory subscribers locked in a 41% gain… in less than two months.

This comes on the heels of last month’s gains of 42%, 29%, 23%, 20%, and 18% (all REAL gains we locked in on various positions that month).

So while most folks are betting on stocks (which are up some 14% since I opened the Inflation Portfolio) we’re seeing REAL returns AND we’re actually maintaining the purchasing power of our capital by focusing only on inflation hedges.

If you’re looking for a means of profiting from Ben Bernanke’s ongoing insanity and don’t believe the whole “stocks are up so we’re getting rich” nonsense, you should take out a trial subscription to Private Wealth Advisory and start getting some major results from your investments.

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Good Investing!

Graham Summers

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Graham Summers’ Free Weekly Market Forecast (No Love for US Cash or Debt Edition)

The US Dollar has broken down in the overnight futures session to test its 2009 low.

We’ve now definitively taken out the 2010 low. If we break the 2009 low (75) there’s only one line of support left at the 2008 low. After that, the US Dollar is in uncharted territory and all best are off.

As bad as the situation in the US Dollar is, the situation for US Debt is even worse. As ZeroHedge recently noted, the Bond King Bill Gross, who didn’t earn that name from being stupid, has shifted completely out of US Treasuries.

Gross and his colleagues at PIMCO no doubt have noticed that the 30-year bull market in bonds is about to end. Indeed, the long-end of the US Treasury curve, the 30-year Treasury, is dangerously close to taking outs its long-term trendline.

When this happens, the higher interest rates will come with a vengeance. This in turn will accelerate the collapse in the US economy and very likely kick off another round of debt deflation in the markets.

Many commentators believe that should this occur, Gold and other inflation hedges will be hit hard. This is partially true: given the level of leverage in the system liquidations would affect the precious metals to a degree.

However, unlike stocks, Gold and other inflation hedges are rallying due to increased demand: central banks were net buyers in 2010. Demand from China has exploded 500%. And yet Gold is largely under-owned by the vast majority of investors (in online communities this doesn’t appear to be the case as Gold bugs and others of a similar mindset tend to congregate at the same sites/ forums creating the impression that everyone owns Gold; ask your average person on the street if they own Gold and the answer is no. Ditto for Silver).

This is why I believe Gold is forming a rising bearish wedge pattern: it is predicting a potential sell off, possibly to $1,100 or even $1,000. However, we have MAJOR support at these levels which would likely stop any breakdown.

Understand, I am NOT saying that the bull market in Gold is over. What I AM saying is that if we enter another 2008-type environment, the precious metal will come under sell pressure due to liquidations. And I personally would welcome this as a MAJOR buying opportunity.

The reason for this is obvious: we are entering an inflationary death spiral. YES, we might have another round of debt deflation, but the flight from the US Dollar is already beginning worldwide.

Saudi Arabia has sent representatives to China and Russia to strengthen trade ties (an obvious move away from pricing Oil in Dollars). China and Russia have agreed to begin trading in their own currencies rather than Dollars. And in some emerging markets people don’t even want to accept Dollars in business transactions anymore.

The story here is obvious if you read between the lines: the world is starting to shift away from the US Dollar. Which is why you need to be preparing for inflation in a big way, EVEN IF we might have another round of deflation coming.

Indeed, I’ve been preparing subscribers of my Private Wealth Advisory newsletter for the coming inflationary disaster since March 2010. Since that time our Inflation Portfolio is up 40%… more than DOUBLE the S&P 500’s 14% gain.

As I write this, we’re sitting on gains of 23%, 31%, 49%, and a whopping 135%. Out of our 10 positions, only ONE is down and it’s down a measly 3%.

It’s not like we need a lot of time to rack up the gains either. We’ve made 29%, and 42% since December 2010 alone. And two of my most recent picks are up 4% and 5%… since last Thursday.

If you want to get in on this action and start seeing these kinds of incredible returns (again our Inflation portfolio is up 40% vs. the S&P 500’s 14%), you can do so by taking out a “trial” subscription to Private Wealth Advisory.

As soon as you do this, you’ll be given access to all of my extraordinary Inflation Hedges, including their names, symbols, and how to buy them.

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Good Investing!

Graham Summers

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We’re Now Engaging in the Same Disastrous Policies… Only On a National Level

And we’re back!

Thank you so much for your patience over the last 48 hours. We are still in the process of upgrading parts of the Gains Pains & Capital website, but for the most part, things are working again.

On to the markets.

The financial world is entering a massive process of transition though most folks have failed to see it. That process is that of Ben Bernanke being forced to resign and the US Federal Reserve being broken up.

I know many people believe the Fed is always going to be in power, but they are wrong. The US Federal Reserve is in fact the third central bank the US has had. And it, like the other two, will be dismantled in the next five years.

The reason for this is quite simple. The REAL Crisis (of which 2008 was the warm-up) is fast approaching. When I say REAL Crisis I mean full-scale systemic meltdown, a situation in which the market accomplishes what the Fed, regulators, and US Government at large have failed to do: clean house.

The plain facts are right in front of us. The US is broke on every level: Federal, State, Local, and individual/ consumer. We all know this, but we don’t want to admit it because doing so would likely mean wiping out at minimum 30% of what we have today.

Nobody wants this. Consumers don’t want to lose their retirement accounts or their savings. The Government doesn’t want to lose its unending virtual checkbook. Politicians don’t want to lose their financial backers (the oligarchs). And the Fed certainly doesn’t want to lose its massive Free Lunch.

However, it is clear to everyone that the system is broken. Consider that the very policies that Wall Street developed resulting in the 2008 meltdown (excessive debt, fraud, too much leverage, etc) are now being applied to the Federal balance sheet.

Indeed, the Fed’s response to the Financial Crisis was to do the exact same things Wall Street did.

The only reason it worked for a time was because investors continue to believe that the Fed is some kind of omnipotent financial authority that can take on all debts and back up all monetary transactions. The reason they’re willing to believe this is because not doing so would result in the collapse I referred to before.

To use a metaphor, if your house has a broken foundation (the financial system), you can prop it up using various structures (the Fed). However, eventually the foundation gives way regardless of the support.

We are already seeing this happen in Europe. The Euro is up but the entire European system is broken. No one wants to be a part of it any more. Only the politicians and bankers are trying to keep it together (largely because they don’t want to lose their influence).

However, elections in Germany are making it clear voters will obliterate anyone who is pro bailouts. As a result of this, the tide is turning. Large-scale reform and changes can take a while which is why the process seems to be occurring in slow motion.

But the process is occurring. And nothing can stop it. You can fight the tide tooth and nail, but it will turn regardless of your efforts.

The same situation will hit in the US in the future.  I’ve already detailed why the US Dollar is holding up (it’s priced against other paper currencies) despite the fact an exodus from the greenback is occurring.

Indeed, prices of goods are EXPLODING higher. It’s being hidden because retailers like Wal-Mart are downsizing the size of their packages OR packing less goods in the same space (look inside any cereal box or other dry good and you’ll find that at best it’s 75% full).

This is why I’m already preparing investors for the inflationary disaster NOW rather than waiting for the US Dollar to collapse. It’s also why our hedges are all UP with gains of 17%, 18% 27%, 56%, and 111% though the US Dollar has fallen less than 10%.

How is this possible? Because I’m focusing on extraordinary inflation hedges that 99% of the investment world don’t know about. I’m talking about inflation hedges that will outperform even Gold and Silver because of their incredible value.

And I detail them (including their names, symbols, and how to buy them) in my recently published Special Report The Inflationary Storm Pt 2.

And I’m only making 250 copies of this second report available to the public. As I write this, there are less than 80 copies left and they’re going fast (for obvious reasons).

So if you want to pick up a copy of this report, you better move fast.

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Looking Like You Know What You’re Talking About Doesn’t Mean That You Do

Enough is enough.

The mainstream financial media always tries to offer fundamental reasons for why stocks do what they do. If stocks rally it’s because on good earnings or improved consumer confidence or some other development.

On the surface, this approach is valid: the markets are meant to react to economic and financial developments. However, the problems with the mainstream media’s attempts to explain the market’s actions today are:

1)   These people are journalists, NOT investors or businesspeople.

2)   None of them know what they’re talking about.

3)   The markets haven’t moved based on fundamentals since 2008

4)   Most if not ALL of the data coming out of the US is massaged at best or fraudulent at worst.

Let’s start of with the first two points. The people on the mainstream financial media channels talking about investing aren’t investors themselves. They’re not entrepreneurs or businesspeople either. As such they have little if any actual experience in the markets other than as observers (on the outside I might add).

However, this doesn’t mean that they’re not very good at acting knowledgeable or convincing on camera. And this is where things become confusing for viewers. Oftentimes the people speaking on camera is so good at looking confident and knowledgeable that you are tempted to believe what they say.

However, if you listen closely to what they’re actually saying, it’s clear they do not actually understand what they’re talking about. Yes, they have the right vocabulary and have some basic grasp of the terms and relationships they’re describing, but that’s as far as it goes.

Case in point, when was the last time ANYONE reporting for a mainstream financial media outlet pointed out that the US’s GDP, employment, and inflation numbers are an absolute crock?

Name one time a talking head addressed the fact that the Federal Reserve is chaired by a guy who has absolutely NO understanding of finance or economics. Or that he’s committed perjury, fraud, and outright theft.

I could go on for another 12 pages, but you get the general idea. These people are nothing more than front-people for large corporations that make their revenue from advertising dollars (usually from the financial sector). Their salaries and income are directly related to how much money Wall Street wants to spend on advertising. That, and their viewership, which is directly related to how high the market is (and the US Government’s bailout of their bankrupt parent companies… which of course results in them being objective in their reporting).

So don’t expect to ever hear any of these folks tell the truth, which is that that the market’s moves are in fact controlled by just three factors:

1)   The Fed’s money pumps

2)   High Frequency Trading Programs

3)   The suspension of accounting standards and permission of endless fraud in the financial system

Everything else is simply peripheral issues at this point. Indeed, if you remove any of these three key market props we’d be at sub-1000 on the S&P 500 in a matter of days (if not hours).

We’ll go there again at some point regardless, but don’t expect any of the guys on TV to let you know it’s coming in advance. Did they warn about it in 2008?

Similarly, do you think they’ll warn about the Inflationary Disaster in time for you to prepare yourself?

Yesterday, the COO of Wal-Mart warned the US to prepare for “serious inflation” in the coming months.

Let’s put that into perspective, Wal-Mart is the lowest priced rung on the retail food chain. And because of their size have the highest amount of pricing power of any retailer in the US. So if prices will “seriously” rise for it, then they’ll absolutely EXPLODE everywhere else.

In fact they already are.

Prices of goods are EXPLODING higher. It’s being hidden because retailers like Wal-Mart are downsizing the size of their packages OR packing less goods in the same space (look inside any cereal box or other dry good and you’ll find that at best it’s 75% full).

This is why I’m already preparing investors for the inflationary disaster NOW rather than waiting for the US Dollar to collapse. It’s also why our hedges are all UP with gains of 17%, 18% 27%, 56%, and 111% though the US Dollar has fallen less than 10%.

How is this possible? Because I’m focusing on extraordinary inflation hedges that 99% of the investment world don’t know about. I’m talking about inflation hedges that will outperform even Gold and Silver because of their incredible value.

And I detail them (including their names, symbols, and how to buy them) in my recently published Special Report The Inflationary Storm Pt 2.

And I’m only making 250 copies of this second report available to the public. As I write this, there are less than 80 copies left and they’re going fast (for obvious reasons).

So if you want to pick up a copy of this report, you better move fast.

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Best Regards,

Graham Summers

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