Fellow Investor,

I launched my career as an investment advisor in the depths of the 1980-82 recession -- with a prediction that struck many of my rivals as laughable, if not insane.

That prediction? "Reaganomics will work."

I turned out to be right, of course. The unfettering of free markets that occurred under Ronald Reagan would unleash a wave of prosperity bigger than any in history.

But I'll confess: one thing I didn't foresee back in the early ‘80s was that, less than three decades later, America would return to the same tax-spend-and-regulate policies that had been stifling wealth-creation since the 1930s.

How could this have happened? Did Americans lose their minds? Their memories? How could they fail to see that government, not free markets, created the conditions for the subprime-mortgage meltdown -- encouraging and even compelling banks to lend to non-creditworthy customers.

And how could they believe that more government -- in the form of trillion-dollar bailouts, "stimulus" packages, higher taxes, and a tsunami of new regulations -- would make things better instead of worse?

How, strangest of all, could they not be outraged that the very people who bore the most responsibility for this crisis -- the Barney Franks, the Chris Dodds, the Ben Bernankes -- were now promising to solve it, if only we'd trust them with even greater power than they had before?

I'll tell you how. Lies, lies, and more lies -- coming at us from every side...

... from Politicians and Bureaucrats -- of both parties -- who abuse their office to empower and enrich themselves and their friends, rather than to benefit the nation...

... from the Media -- including the financial press and cable-TV stock hucksters -- who skew and even suppress the facts to pursue ratings and their own ideology...

... from Big Business, Big Labor, and other Special Interests -- who seek government mandates, subsidies, and other advantages to crush rivals and avoid competition...

... from Economists and Other "Experts" whose ivory-tower theories may win prizes and plaudits, but bear little relation to the functioning of the real economy...

... from Investment Bankers and Fund Managers, who were only too happy to gamble billions of investors' dollars on "subprime"-related debt instruments so long as they could walk away with millions in bonuses for themselves.

Perhaps you're surprised to hear me put some of the blame on business and Wall Street. Doesn't that conflict with my pro-capitalist views?

Not a jot. Free markets don't eliminate dishonesty, incompetence, and inefficiency -- but neither do they shield these things from exposure and competition.

That's why, in a true free market, irresponsible risk-taking gets punished sooner rather than later. Only when government actively encourages and sustains speculative bubbles can they grow so large that the inevitable market correction becomes a global financial catastrophe.

And that -- not "laissez-faire run amok," not "tax cuts for the rich," not "eight long years of deregulation," -- is what got us into this mess.

But Here's the Good News About Your Financial Future...

As bleak as I may sound about the near-term prospects for economic recovery in America, there is one thing about which I'm positively bullish: your opportunities to make a series of highly profitable investments, starting today.

My name is Mark Skousen. For 29 years, I've been the editor of one of the nation's most highly regarded investment letters, Forecasts & Strategies. I've also appeared frequently on television and at national investment conferences -- and even served as an economist for the CIA.

You may have read one of my more than two dozen books on finance and investing. Or perhaps you know someone who attended one of my classes on free-market economics at Columbia University or Rollins College.

If so, you may know I've spent nearly three decades writing, speaking, and advising individual investors on the shortest, most direct route to complete financial freedom.

In the process, I've made my subscribers millions of dollars... in individual stocks, junk bonds, closed-end funds, precious metals, and dozens of special situations.

Today I even run several highly successful trading services -- including one where we've locked in profits of as much as 322% in three weeks and 487% in seven weeks.

In short, my subscribers and I have had considerably more than our fair share of success. And we've been profiting through some of the toughest bear markets and recessions over the past 30 years, including this one.

If it surprises you to hear that some investors are still getting rich while most others are losing their shirts -- well, it shouldn't.

After all, some of history's greatest fortunes were built during economic downturns -- even the Great Depression.

Consider the example of the man that Money magazine has called "the greatest global stock picker of the century"...

Building Wealth During Hard Times:
Lessons from an Investing Legend

Investing legend and philanthropist John Templeton began his Wall Street career in 1937, when things were at their worst. By the time he died -- just last year, at age 95 -- he had made (and given away) billions.

I met with Templeton several times, and got him to divulge the investing secrets that made him a billionaire.

Three of John Templeton's lifelong "guiding principles" for successful investing are especially relevant today...

	"Fundamentals Still Matter (And Always Have)": This is the easiest one to overlook, especially during bull markets when everything is going up. The most profitable trades come from companies with sound fundamentals in sales and earnings. Period.
	"Free Markets Matter More": Companies can't thrive if governments won't let them. That's why the strategy behind Templeton's pioneering -- and monumentally profitable – global investment fund, Templeton Growth Fund, was to invest in countries that favored capitalism and avoided socialism.
	"Truth Matters the Most": You can't make decisions about a company -- or a country -- if your information is false or unreliable.

I can't overemphasize that last point. Nothing is more crucial to successful investing than correct information -- and nothing is more harmful than incorrect information.

That's why the myths, lies, and propaganda being peddled by today's "powers that be" pose a mortal threat to your life savings.

Making investment decisions based on those falsehoods could be the biggest mistake of your life -- and it's crucial that you immunize yourself against them with the facts.

On the other hand, making decisions based on verifiable facts and sound investment principles can make you rich.

So if you'll give me just a few minutes of your time, I'd like to expose -- and explode -- some of the most dangerous falsehoods about the crisis we're in. Then I'll explain how acting on those falsehoods will not only cause more damage to the economy -- but to your investments.

After that, I'll show you how a correct understanding of today's economy can help you thrive financially no matter what the state of the overall markets.

Finally, I'll reveal some of my top investment picks for today, designed to help you profit even if our nation's leaders persist in driving down our economy.

But first, let me begin with what I call...

The 3 "Big Lies" About Today's Financial Crisis
-- and How Believing Them Puts Your Money at Risk

Let me reiterate: you can't make money -- and you will lose money -- if your investment decisions are based on lies.

And right now, what we are hearing about today's financial crisis from our "leaders" in Washington and on Wall Street are some of the biggest, most brazen, and most self-serving lies ever foisted on the American people on any topic.

As always, these lies serve the interests of the tellers -- while harming the interests of those who believe them. The same falsehoods that help our masters preserve their power, reputation, and personal fortunes could doom the rest of us -- and our nation as a whole -- to years, if not decades of severe financial hardship.

There are many different aspects to these lies. But taken all together, they boil down to three...

Big Lie #1: "Laissez-Faire" is the Culprit

You've heard it over and over -- from politicians and pundits, and even from economists: the cause of today's financial crisis is laissez-faire capitalism-run-amok.

Where to begin with such a colossal lie? Perhaps here: If anyone can seriously believe that capitalism caused today's crisis, it's only because they don't understand the first thing about free-market economics -- as an alarmingly large number of eminent and powerful people clearly don't.

Indeed, every time one of these bigwigs talks about "market failure" in connection with the crisis, they betray their ignorance of the fact that "failure" -- or rather, allowing failure -- is a crucial part of the free-market system.

So, for instance, the collapse in the subprime mortgage market at the root of today's crisis is the capitalist system simply doing what it does best: punishing bad business practices -- which in this case was lending huge amounts of money to people who can't pay them back, then "bundling" those mortgages into securities that depended on perpetually rising home prices.

The best way to ensure that doesn't happen again? By allowing the institutions and individuals that assumed those risks to take the consequences -- to fail, in other words. Only by allowing failure can capitalism succeed.

The best way to ensure that something like it does happen again? By protecting those institutions and individuals from the consequences of their actions with "bailouts" and other government interventions.

But here's the real outrage...

The subprime mortgage and real-estate bubbles would never have existed had government not created them -- by creating incentives for home-buying and selling and removing disincentives for irresponsible lending and borrowing.

In other words, the real culprit in today's financial crisis isn't capitalism, but government -- whose fingerprints are everywhere to be seen:

	It was government that, to encourage broader home ownership, passed the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, then amended it in 1995 to require banks to lend to high-risk (subprime) borrowers. Banks that failed to comply were hit with fines and faced rejection when they requested mergers and branch expansions. Suddenly, the subprime mortgage business was born, and Countrywide Financial became its poster child.
	It was government that offered an implicit guarantee to cover the performance of the two giant "government-sponsored enterprises" (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which allowed subprime lenders to turn their long-term risk over to the government. Absent this guarantee, market forces would have kept out unqualified buyers and prevented home-price appreciation from exceeding the growth in household income.
	It was government that, through the mortgage interest tax deduction and the exemption of real estate capital gains from taxable income, created unnatural demand for home purchases and a (tax-free) incentive to speculate in real estate.
	It was government that imposed "mark-to-market" accounting regulations on financial institutions, forcing mortgages and other loans to be written down to zero simply because they couldn't be sold, even if they were still being paid by customers. As a result, we've seen financial tornadoes causing institutions to be downgraded and in some cases to completely collapse.
	It was government that, through the Federal Reserve under Alan Greenspan, reduced interest rates to 1% in 2004, causing a dangerous increase in irresponsible lending patterns, over-leverage of capital investment, and speculative heat waves in real estate, subprime ARMs, corporate bonds, and other assets.

And it wasn't just our government. To artificially heat up their economies, central banks in developing countries (especially Russia, China, and India) deliberately inflated their money supply at unprecedented rates.

The resulting inflationary boom in real estate and other assets created a structural imbalance in the U.S. and the global economy as a whole. At the height of its prowess, Fannie Mae had leveraged its equity 40-to-1. When the real estate boom ended, the bubble burst.

Which brings us to...

Big Lie #2: Government is the Cure

Talk about adding insult to injury. The government intervenes massively in the economy to fuel the biggest speculative bubble in history, and when the bubble bursts with catastrophic consequences for the entire world -- it offers more government as the solution.

After all, we are told, the last time laissez-faire economics put the economy into a massive hole -- the Great Depression -- it was government that dug us out. Only something of comparable scope -- a "New New Deal," they are calling it, in the form of trillion-dollar deficit spending on infrastructure and "green" energy, paid for by tax hikes on "the rich" and capital gains, and together with more and stricter regulations on the financial markets -- can prevent an even greater depression from occurring.

The only problem with that is that it's based on a series of historical myths -- myths that are unfortunately taught in nearly every high school and college textbook. For instance:

	You were taught that unregulated speculation caused the Roaring Twenties and the Crash of 1929. Wrong: It was the recently created Federal Reserve that fueled an investment boom with artificially low interest rates, leading inevitably to a crash (sound familiar?).
	You were taught that Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire ideologue who refused to intervene in the economy even as citizens had to live in "Hoovervilles." Wrong: Hoover engaged in unprecedented efforts to prop up wages and farm incomes, boosted government spending by more than 50 percent, and hiked the top tax rate from 25 percent to 63 percent. His opponent, FDR, actually accused him of leading the country "down the path to socialism."
	You were taught that Roosevelt's New Deal led us out of the Depression. Wrong: The New Deal turned what would have been a sharp but brief correction into a decade-long catastrophe. In 1938, unemployment was 19% -- nearly 2% higher than when FDR took office five years before.

But don't take my word for it. Take that of FDR's own Treasury secretary (and best friend) Henry Morgenthau, who on May 9, 1939 -- after almost two full terms of Roosevelt and the New Deal -- made this startling confession to his fellow Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee:

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work... We have never made good on our promises... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!"

Yet these are the same kind of policies that "experts" like the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman -- author of the bestseller, The Return of Depression Economics -- are urging on our political leaders, who seem all too eager to adopt them.

Which brings us to...

Big Lie #3: Obamanomics Will Save Us

Look, I'm a professional economist and investment advisor, not a pundit. So, I'm not here to talk politics.

But make no mistake: when it comes to the economy, Barack Obama shows every sign of being a throwback to big-government liberals like FDR, LBJ, and Jimmy Carter. And once his policies kick in, the consequences for taxpayers and investors will be enormous.

His new "stimulus package" alone would add an estimated $1.5 trillion to the federal budget.

As for the tax hikes to pay for all this, my friend Steve Moore of the Wall Street Journal calculates that the Obama tax plan adds up to a 39.6% personal income tax, a 52.2% combined income and payroll tax, a 28% capital-gains tax, a 39.6% dividends tax, and a 55% estate tax.

And remember: Obama and his fellow Democrats -- who now enjoy greatly strengthened majorities in Congress -- don't have to do anything for these tax hikes to take effect. They simply have to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire on schedule in 2010, as they have promised to do.

My friends, you can't have capitalism without capital. Yet, Obama wants to penalize capital, individual and corporate.

In addition, Obama is beholden to the most radical special interests of the Democratic Party, including the unions -- which caused the woes of the Big Three auto makers -- and that will spell trouble for investors like us.

Finally, studies show that the most dangerous time in American history has been when one party (whether Democrat or Republican) controls all branches of government. One-party control means the worst kind of big government, huge deficits, and tax hikes.

For the next two years at least we will have one-party control. Be prepared for a lot of bad legislation.

The bottom line? If they succeed in their plans, the Democratic majority in Congress will lead the nation toward the kind of socialism now operating in Western Europe -- where production and growth can be charitably described as stagnant.

And that's bad news for American business -- and for most American stocks.

But remember the example of John Templeton. No matter how bad things get in the economy overall, there are still extremely powerful ways you can make money in today's markets.

Let's get more specific...

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What's the best way to survive -- and thrive -- financially when America is turning its back on free-market capitalism?

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After all, as the developing world keeps on, well, developing, why should your money stay here at home, under the thumb of big-spending government bureaucrats?

The fact is, all around the globe the emerging markets of the world are embracing capitalism and wealth creation just as the U.S. is drifting toward more government as the solution to economic challenges.

The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once famously said, "It's glorious to be rich." Well, that way of thinking has become a sort of cultural attitude throughout China and all of Asia.

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Among the rock-solid investments in this portfolio:

	A "Flat Tax Revolution" play: Ironically, formerly socialist Eastern Europe could turn out to be the free-market leader in the 21st century. And the main reason Eastern Europe is booming is because most of this part of the world has adopted a flat income tax (as low as 13%), and its countries continue to deregulate and privatize government-controlled industries. This outstanding mutual fund seeks long-term growth of capital by investing in Eastern European countries that have the most favorable currency rates, interest rates, GDP growth -- and a high degree of political stability. And right now, Eastern European stocks are cheap -- typically, emerging markets fall sharply, only to recovery sharply. There's no better time to buy in.
	A foreign bond play. When the dollar sags, as it will certainly do under a free-spending Democrat regime, the smart money flows toward foreign bonds. With this income fund, you own foreign bonds issued by the red-hot economies of many of the strongest emerging market nations -- primarily in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, whose currencies are very strong relative to the U.S. dollar, and are likely to get much stronger as our government pursues its inflationary policies.
	An emerging markets income play. A safe haven in today's uncertain market, this dollar-denominated income fund primarily invests in the fixed income markets across the globe, including non-U.S. corporate debt securities and high-yield foreign sovereign debt securities. As a secondary objective, the fund seeks solid capital appreciation.
	An Asia/Pacific growth play. One of the best buys available today, this closed-end fund's holdings consist of investments in equity securities of companies in the Asia Pacific region, focusing on solid growth sectors such as information technology, telecommunications, consumer staples, energy, and utilities. After tanking badly during the second half of 2008 -- along with everything else -- it's showing clear signs of bouncing back strong.
	An India growth play. This fund targets one of the most promising emerging markets -- India -- that is rapidly casting off its socialist past and is ripe for rapid growth. The fund invests in various growth industries, including building and construction, computer software and programming, engineering, telecommunications, and textiles. Right now, it is trading at a deep discount -- a bargain hunter's dream.

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Given the inflationary (and potentially hyper-inflationary) nature of the U.S. government's trillion-dollar bailouts and "stimulus" plans, the bull market in gold, precious metals, and commodities will re-ignite soon.

And when it does, you don't want to be sitting on a pile of increasingly worthless U.S. dollars.

That's why my "Inflation-Beater Portfolio" is designed to inoculate you against the coming collapse of the U.S. dollar with a select group of investments that includes:

	A gold bullion play. Gold is the ultimate hedge against financial turmoil and belongs in everyone's portfolio -- period. And don't kid yourself: as the Fed decreases interest rates further, which will devalue the dollar against gold, the price of gold will sky rocket. This ETF is basically an unleveraged spider that follows the price of gold bullion: if gold moves up 2%, the fund will move up 2%. The Trust holds gold, and is expected to issue baskets in exchange for deposits of gold, and to distribute gold in connection with redemption of baskets. With economic recovery still months away and gold prices trending upwards, ETFs like this one have no place to go but up.
	A gold mining and processing play. This fund normally invests at least 80% of total assets in companies throughout the world that are engaged in mining or processing gold. It may also invest in other precious metals. With current equity and monetary basics off kilter, proven commodities like gold will go up.
	A global resources play. This five-star fund invests in oil and gas, precious metals, and other commodity companies around the world -- with the principal objective of achieving long-term growth of capital while providing protection against inflation and monetary instability. At least 40% of assets are in securities of companies tied economically to at least three non-U.S. countries -- so no matter how hard they try, our government won't be able to over-tax and over-regulate these firms.

In my second free Special Report, "The Inflation-Beater Portfolio," you'll read about these 3 investments which can preserve your wealth against the dollar-destroying effects of our government's overspending and free-money policies.

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I'm one of the few financial advisors and newsletter writers with a Ph.D. in Economics -- and the only one with experience in the CIA. That means I've got methods of investigation and contacts in business and sources in government that are unavailable to others.

With 29 years of experience, I've seen bull markets, bear markets, and everything in between. The record shows that I've alerted my subscribers to market updrafts and downdrafts time and again... well before they occurred.

In fact, I've called virtually every major market move over the last 29 years. Independent sources can verify that:

	I warned in 1980 that gold and silver were dangerously overheated and the time had come to take profits. Precious metals promptly tanked and subsequently lost nearly 75% of their value.
	I proclaimed in 1982 that Reaganomics would work and said "a long decade of profits is coming." The market promptly began the longest bull market in U.S. history.
	I issued a "sell everything" recommendation just 41 days before the stock market crash of 1987. Then I told investors to get fully invested a few weeks after the crash, just in time for the recovery.
	I called the Gulf War of 1990 "a turning point for U.S. stocks." The Dow subsequently began a bull market that didn't end for nearly ten years.
	I told subscribers in 1995 that the NASDAQ would double... and then double again. And that's exactly what it did.
	In 2007, I warned subscribers about the looming financial meltdown -- and showed them how to protect themselves.

The most important reason I've been able to call markets correctly? Because I'm in a unique position to understand...

The Hugely Important Investment Factor That Almost
All Investors Ignore (But Can't Afford to Any More)

What is that hugely important factor? GOVERNMENT.

Now more than ever, Washington has become the dominant force in all investment markets. Key decisions on bailouts and "stimulus" packages, taxes, interest rates, the money supply, new spending, and entitlement programs, etc., have an instantaneous and explosive impact on all investment markets, whether stocks, bonds, gold, oil, real estate, commodities, you name it.

By giving my readers advance alert of these developments, I have been able to keep them on the right side of virtually every major trend of the past quarter-century. And if you're on the right side of the major economic trend, you'll always be on the safe side in your specific investment choices.

I can give you this information because I possess what I' m convinced is the best "little black book" in Washington. Let me explain...

I started my career long ago working as an Economics Officer for the CIA. No, I never got involved in "James Bond" adventures or "dirty tricks." My assignment, which lasted several years, was to know what was going on economically in this country and around the world... to understand the who, what, why, where, and how of those who wield financial power.

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