A “follow-up” market crash could be coming. I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s only a matter of time… The past two happened like clockwork — seven years apart. One happened just before 2001, after the dot-com burst. The other came with a vengeance in 2008, right after the housing collapse. It’s getting close to another seven years… so what about this time? Are we headed for a “follow-up” market crash? The very idea of losing more than half of your invested wealth in a market downturn is daunting. Market analysts claim to know exactly where the market is… Read More

A “follow-up” market crash could be coming. I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s only a matter of time… The past two happened like clockwork — seven years apart. One happened just before 2001, after the dot-com burst. The other came with a vengeance in 2008, right after the housing collapse. It’s getting close to another seven years… so what about this time? Are we headed for a “follow-up” market crash? The very idea of losing more than half of your invested wealth in a market downturn is daunting. Market analysts claim to know exactly where the market is going, and act like they know exactly when to buy or sell stocks. But how many analysts do you remember saying months before the 2008 financial crisis that the market was going to go down by 57%? Can you name one? And look at mutual fund managers’ records. According to Standard and Poor’s, just 14% of actively managed mutual funds have beaten the market over the past three years. The other 86% of them fail at beating the market, yet we pay them millions in fees every year and trust them to protect and grow our hard-earned money. Did even… Read More

What seems like many lifetimes ago, I was a banker. I ran branch banks, wrote operating manuals, and did business development. But the most fun I had was in business development and financing… I loved roaming the county, talking with all kinds of businesses — from those which needed money to buy equipment or inventory — to developers who wanted to borrow funds to build high-end residential properties or commercial buildings. #-ad_banner-#My time in banking came with a silver lining that I didn’t really appreciate until I left the industry — analyzing financial statements. Over the course of eight years… Read More

What seems like many lifetimes ago, I was a banker. I ran branch banks, wrote operating manuals, and did business development. But the most fun I had was in business development and financing… I loved roaming the county, talking with all kinds of businesses — from those which needed money to buy equipment or inventory — to developers who wanted to borrow funds to build high-end residential properties or commercial buildings. #-ad_banner-#My time in banking came with a silver lining that I didn’t really appreciate until I left the industry — analyzing financial statements. Over the course of eight years financial statements became almost second nature to me (especially banks). I could quickly determine the stability of a company and determine which ones were destined to fail. That knowledge came in handy when I moved on to the brokerage business on Wall Street as a securities analyst. Because of my banking experience, it was only natural that I — at first — specialized in the finance industry. I wrote my first official analyst report about 13 brokerage houses, including the biggies, Bear Stearns, Charles Schwab, Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber — all of which I sold short. It was a… Read More

Most of the time when you’re looking for stocks to add to your portfolio, ideally you’d like to earn at least double-digit returns. That kind of a return is not easy to find, especially if you want a degree of safety. This is something every investor struggles with, and it’s something I keep in mind in every issue of my premium advisory, Five-Star Stocks. At times, I need to be a bit of an opportunist. Often, that involves weeding through troves of historical data to see where today’s best opportunities — and five-star stocks — may… Read More

Most of the time when you’re looking for stocks to add to your portfolio, ideally you’d like to earn at least double-digit returns. That kind of a return is not easy to find, especially if you want a degree of safety. This is something every investor struggles with, and it’s something I keep in mind in every issue of my premium advisory, Five-Star Stocks. At times, I need to be a bit of an opportunist. Often, that involves weeding through troves of historical data to see where today’s best opportunities — and five-star stocks — may lie. #-ad_banner-#And right now, a window of opportunity is opening for a certain under-the-radar, income investment vehicle — a market phenom that I’ve seen take off, time and again, when investors become wary and the market becomes volatile. In short, I believe history is bound to repeat itself. You may remember the tech boom of the late 1990s, which ultimately led to the tech bust. In 2000 alone, the Dow lost 7% and the S&P 500 lost nearly 13%. That year, investors bailed out of speculative stocks, looking for something more stable. The investments I’m going to tell you about… Read More

A “follow-up” market crash could be coming. I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s only a matter of time… The past two happened like clockwork — seven years apart. One happened just before 2001, after the dot-com bust. The other came with a vengeance in 2008, right after the housing collapse. It’s getting close to another seven years… so what about this time? Are we headed for a “follow-up” market crash? #-ad_banner-#​The very idea of losing more than half of your invested wealth in a market downturn is daunting. Market analysts claim… Read More

A “follow-up” market crash could be coming. I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s only a matter of time… The past two happened like clockwork — seven years apart. One happened just before 2001, after the dot-com bust. The other came with a vengeance in 2008, right after the housing collapse. It’s getting close to another seven years… so what about this time? Are we headed for a “follow-up” market crash? #-ad_banner-#​The very idea of losing more than half of your invested wealth in a market downturn is daunting. Market analysts claim to know exactly where the market is going, and act like they know exactly when to buy or sell stocks. But how many analysts do you remember saying months before the 2008 financial crisis that the market was going to go down by 57%? Can you name one? And look at mutual fund managers’ records. According to Standard & Poor’s, just 14% of actively managed mutual funds have beaten the market over the past three years. The other 86% of them fail at beating the market, yet we pay them millions in fees every year and trust them to protect… Read More

Right now, we are living in very exciting times. I’m sure many of you have parents or grandparents who witnessed some amazing events in their lifetimes. Just think, in a little over a century we’ve seen the start of mass-produced automobiles, motion pictures, television, space flight, personal computers, tablets and cell phones and much more… To be sure, those innovations and the investment returns that came along with them were incredible. The advent of the Internet alone has created more widespread wealth than the world has ever seen. And today, the pace of innovation is accelerating. In fact, I believe… Read More

Right now, we are living in very exciting times. I’m sure many of you have parents or grandparents who witnessed some amazing events in their lifetimes. Just think, in a little over a century we’ve seen the start of mass-produced automobiles, motion pictures, television, space flight, personal computers, tablets and cell phones and much more… To be sure, those innovations and the investment returns that came along with them were incredible. The advent of the Internet alone has created more widespread wealth than the world has ever seen. And today, the pace of innovation is accelerating. In fact, I believe we’re at the beginning of what could be the most fertile era of innovation in human history. Over the next 10, 20, or 50 years we’re going to see amazing developments that are sure to enrich investors beyond our wildest imaginations. #-ad_banner-#The goal of my new premium advisory, Five-Star Stocks, is to identify the companies who stand to give you the biggest investment returns from the most exciting developments ranging across all industries. Over the past several months, I’ve been focusing on one industry in particular — a sector that has been talked about for years… Read More

Wouldn’t it be great to have a crystal ball to see into the future? You could know when the next market crash will be, what stocks to buy, and which companies will be the fastest growing. While crystal balls remain a fantasy, there is a group of unique companies that have the next best thing. You see, there is a handful of companies that have been quietly developing what I call “Prediction Plants” — ultra-secret facilities with sophisticated technology that allow them to predict certain events before they happen.  You read that right. #-ad_banner-#These companies have built secret facilities thousands… Read More

Wouldn’t it be great to have a crystal ball to see into the future? You could know when the next market crash will be, what stocks to buy, and which companies will be the fastest growing. While crystal balls remain a fantasy, there is a group of unique companies that have the next best thing. You see, there is a handful of companies that have been quietly developing what I call “Prediction Plants” — ultra-secret facilities with sophisticated technology that allow them to predict certain events before they happen.  You read that right. #-ad_banner-#These companies have built secret facilities thousands of miles from Wall Street that hold the key to predicting the future. As a result, some of them have already seen gains as high as 650% and 884% over the past decade. And experts believe that these companies will create $14 trillion in new wealth by 2018. That’s why I believe these companies are in a growth trend still in its infant stages.  They’ve already predicted flu outbreaks… what book customers are most likely to buy… where the next vacation hotspot will be… and a whole lot more. And in some cases, instead of predicting what you want to… Read More