President Obama Saved The Worst for Last
The worst president of our lifetimes has cooked up a doozy of a final act, including an epic market meltdown that could wipe out 40% or more of your portfolio.
Are you ready?
My name is Dick Young. Meet Richard C. Young
Description: Dick Young ’America’s Income Investing Leader’Dick Young is editor of Intelligence Report and has been on the cover of Money magazine, featured in Forbes, and profiled in The Wall Street Journal.
For several decades, Dick was a keynote speaker at many of the major investor conferences around the world. And for more than 40 years, he has been helping individual investors just like you.
His investment plan is simple and focused: “Diversification and patience built on a foundation of value and compound interest.” This focus can help you achieve your long-term investment objectives and sleep well at night.
I’ve made it my life’s work to help conservative investors protect their wealth at all costs—and grow it as safely as possible—by looking ahead to find the icebergs in our path.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the vast majority of investors who celebrated big profits over the last 6 years are going to give back all those gains, and more besides.
You Don’t Have to Be One of Them
That’s why I’ve outlined the 9 most important events that are likely to impact your portfolio, your family, your business, and YOU in the coming year.
As you’ll see, I don’t traffic in wild speculation or sensational hype. All the findings I present here are the result of my obsessive research and a lifetime of experience.
My only goal is to help you avoid the killer mistakes that can undo decades of hard work and saving…and kill your dreams of retirement and financial security.
Along the way, I’ll introduce you to a select few opportunities—yes, there are some!—that have the ability to grow your wealth by 40% or more in 2015-2016.
Together, we can be among the few standing strong when the ticking time bombs finally explode... Continue reading and see the 9 Surprising Predictions Revealed for 2016.
The Ugly End of the Obama Presidency
My first prediction is the most obvious.
Rather than be humbled by his serial incompetence, President Obama’s final months in office will be among his most destructive.
He’s learned nothing from the failure of awful domestic policies, so look for our low-growth economy to stay stuck in neutral.
EPA regulations to cripple our booming energy sector? More immigration amnesties? More trampling on our freedoms and privacy? Yes, yes, and yes.
ObamaCare remains a festering sore, and the coming 2016 premium hikes will be killers for businesses and consumers.
Look for him to build on his dangerous pact with Iran with more goodies for bad actors around the globe and more insults to our allies.
And for investors, the gains you’ve amassed over the last 7 years are about to be wiped out (page 4 has all the details).
For any American who cares about the Constitution and the future of our once-great country, the message is clear…
You Can’t Wait Until 2016
I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. In fact, I don’t think either party has a clue about how to run this country.
I’m an independent—in my political affiliation and my life choices.
And the rise of Mad-As-Hell fringe candidates like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders means I’m not the only one fed up with the path we’re on.
Here’s what no politician has the guts to tell us: We are on our own.
Starting now, we’re taking matters into our own hands.
We’re profiting from a new independence in energy that is the envy of every nation except our former oil-masters. We’re ridding ourselves of overpriced glamour stocks and any asset vulnerable to rising interest rates. We’re keeping our eyes fixed on the real foreign enemies of America. We’re safeguarding our homes, families, businesses and identities by not trusting government large or small with protecting all that we hold dear.
Tell me, is any politician…or the mainstream media…helping you do any of these things?
You’ll find it’s amazing how many of YOUR problems can be solved with a few simple moves in 2015 that will lay the groundwork for a strong 2016.
The first is reading the rest of this briefing and then acting on its recommendations.
POP Goes the Stock Market Bubble
Financial survival in 2016 depends first and foremost on understanding how bad a situation we’re in.
Simply put, our financial markets are skating on a layer of very thin ice… and the weather is starting to turn warmer.
3 Reasons You Need to Play Defense in 2016
ONE: Our economic growth—what little there is of it—is manufactured. It is a fraud, and it cannot be sustained.
It is built on a mountain of debt so high it can’t even be rationally discussed among policymakers, or understood by the common citizen.
Federal debt as a share of GDP has doubled since 2009. Consumer borrowing has rebounded to the high levels we saw just before the financial crash. And America’s corporations are grabbing low-interest rate loans by the truckload.
CEOs claim these loans are just a war chest for tough times, but money borrowed is still money that must be repaid, no?
The choices we’ve made as a society—to run our economy as if it were financed by a credit card that could never be maxed out—will come back to bite us hard when our creditors finally call the loan due.
TWO: My real concern—and yours too—is directly related to those low-interest rates I mentioned a moment ago.
By pumping the economy full of money that has nowhere productive to go, the Federal Reserve (and all central banks, for that matter) is creating the Mother of All Financial Bubbles.
Easy money is ALWAYS wasted on speculation; the only question is when and where.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that the stock market is up an average of just 2% a year since 2000? First the Fed created a bubble in tech stocks. When that blew out, they created another in commodities. Finally, they caused a housing bubble that nearly brought down the entire financial system!
Won’t these people ever learn?
Once again, we’re told we need low interest rates to help the economy “gain momentum.” The Fed knows almost nothing about real growth, but all too much about financial arson.
THREE: Wall Street greed is back.
It’s not just insider trading and self-dealing… I’m also worried about high-frequency trading and all those brilliant PhD quants who will freeze up the entire stock market in their quest for a fraction of a penny here or a nano-second of advantage there.
We’ve already forgotten about July’s “computer glitch” that shut down the NYSE for most of a day.
Care to wager how today’s bulging-eyed gamblers react when trading doesn’t come back for days… or they can’t access their trading account at all while the market’s melting down?
Read on and you’ll learn about the most serious threats to your wealth today, plus a few standout opportunities that are not to be missed.
Are You Ready to Be 44% More Wealthy?
I know what you’re thinking: What do I give up by following a conservative approach like Dick Young's?
Nothing… except worry, fear and backbreaking losses.
Over the past 10 years—in an environment more challenging than any I’ve seen since the ugly 1970s—the independent Hulbert Financial Digest calculates my Monster Master List of Stocks has risen 164%.
The S&P 500 over the same time span?
It’s up just 113%.
Facts don’t lie: You captured 44% more profits for 10 years running by following my “boring” approach.
Others did better than I did, to be sure. But I bet none of them slept better at night.
Frankly, I would HATE to ever be the best-performing investment advisor.
It would mean I took big risks, market-timed, or made other imprudent gambles with my money… and more importantly, my readers’ money.
In short, it would mean I failed.
Top Tech Innovator of 2016: Not Who You Think
It has been said by people smarter than I am that Wal-Mart leads in innovation.
The reason is: Wal-Mart does the math.
Open a new store every 11 days. Add a 15% markup to every item, large or small, sell and reorder it 12 times a year—that adds up to double the profit you get from a 25% markup on items you sell and reorder 4 times a year. Oh, and then insist on 90-day payment terms.
And make your suppliers kill for your business. The secret behind Wal-Mart’s simple math is astounding technological innovation that orders, takes delivery, distributes, prices, tracks and reorders a jar of peanut butter or a lawn mower millions of times a day. If there were a Nobel Prize for innovation, Sam Walton would have gotten one for his distribution system, right behind Henry Ford for his assembly line.
Walton’s simple math is in the ruthless service of one ideal: a cheaper price for the customer. As a result of this focus, Wal-Mart has now become the largest company in the U.S. in terms of sales.
Indeed, it is said that Wal-Mart’s use of logistics to drive down costs has done more than the Fed ever did to tame inflation!
Forget Google, Facebook and Tesla in 2015-16
Behind the headlines of new whiz-bang technology stories, a true renaissance in American innovation is taking place.
Surprisingly, it isn’t coming from those 10-person startups or the well-known tech names you know so well.
It’s coming from old-school companies that have been around decades, even centuries! The Lowe’s Robot… The Future of Retail Customer Service?
You walk into your local Lowe’s, looking for some screws to match the last one in your hand. 3 steps inside the door, you hold the screw in front of the 3D scanner of a new Lowe’s robot, and it confirms the screws are in stock and leads you directly to their location. Forgot the screw? No problem—it understands verbal questions in multiple languages and can summon human assistance if necessary.
It sounds like something out of The Jetson’s but Lowe’s is already testing “retail robots” in San Jose, California.
Considering how hard it can be to find someone to help you in one of those big box stores, count me as a fan of this innovation.
It’s just one more reason why I’m a long-term bull on the stock.
Try Intelligence Report today and I will show you how to get started.
I’m talking about breakthroughs like:
Verizon’s new “supercookie” that can’t be blocked by normal methods but can be used to develop the data on consumer activity that advertisers crave. Remember VZ next time you hear talk about “Big Data” companies to watch.
Air Products got its start as an oxygen supplier for high-altitude aircraft flights in WW2. Today it supplies nearly 2 dozen specialty gases to the semiconductor industry, MRI equipment manufacturers and dozens of other cutting-edge manufacturers.
Deere & Co. has changed the face of farming in almost as big a way as when it came up with the steel plow in 1837. By integrating satellites, sensors, probes, monitors and computers, farmers can program their tractors to sow, reap or fertilize a field like a giant autonomous Roomba.
Schlumberger keeps hitting it out of the park with their oil field innovations. The latest? Their HiWAY fracking method, which creates “channels” in fractured earth that allow drillers to produce more oil than ever before.
I could give you dozens of more examples, but I’m sure you get the idea. Don’t gamble on the high-profile tech names that don’t pay dividends and could be devastated by a competitor’s new mousetrap.
Profit from Innovation Safely
For investors like us, new technology in the hands of old companies is a wonderful thing. “Dick Young takes the mystery out of the financial markets. His straight forward no-nonsense approach to investing is refreshing and rewarding. Dick brings the kind of advice that makes people money.” —Mario J. Gabelli, Chairman, Gabelli & Co.
It adds to the reasons we want to own blue-chip franchises that already dominate their sectors.
How else does a Johnson & Johnson grow earnings for a century without pause if not through innovating new products, piling up the profits and then reinvesting in more R&D?
And if our blue chips strike out somewhere, they have the capital to invest again and again in other promising areas.
But their whole business model isn’t at risk of imploding if a new technology like digital cameras or inexpensive photocopiers catch on.
Ask Kodak and Xerox how betting it all on a “technology standard” worked out for them.
Stronger After the Coming Correction
You MUST build a self-defense plan that will see you through the dark days ahead.
In the coming correction, our “old-school” blue chips will be sitting in the catbird seat: using their huge cash hoards to buy up competitors, attracting new investors through their hefty dividends and expanding their market share through exciting new products.
I can act as your financial weatherman, but I cannot be the weather.
What I give you each month in Intelligence Report is reality… and a plan for turning the tables on those who would deceive you about where the safest profits in “technology” can be found.
Your 2016 Survival Guide shows you how it’s done.
Iran: Apocalypse Now? I Say Never
A nuclear Iran could certainly make 2016 a very dangerous year. I don’t believe President Obama when he says war is the only alternative to his deal, but I’m not at all convinced that the deal’s neocon opponents have America’s best interests at heart.
Let’s look at the deal from Iran’s point of view: Iran’s Shia population is a small minority in a Muslim world dominated by Sunnis. The Nuke in the Next Lane
In a country [Pakistan] that is home to the harshest variants of Muslim fundamentalism, and to the headquarters of the organizations that espouse these extremist ideologies, including al-Qaeda… nuclear bombs capable of destroying entire cities are transported in delivery vans on congested and dangerous roads.
—The Atlantic magazine, December 2011
Iran’s bitter religious enemies among the rival Sunnis (90% of all Muslims) include nuclear-armed and belligerent Pakistan, supported by the folk who flew into the Twin Towers, our friends the Saudis. And then there are the Israelis, who, while not undeservedly concerned, present an ongoing nuclear risk for Iran.
Assuming Iran plays by the rules (a big “if,” I’ll grant you,) Iran will not have a nuclear weapon anytime soon. The nuclear accord puts that out of reach for at least a decade.
And if it appears certain that Iran is on a nuclear weapons fast track, they will be attacked with ferocity. There will be no shortage of international takers waiting to jump at the chance.
The central issue for America is the urgent need to (1) get 100% out of the Middle East, (2) divorce the U.S. from criminal Sunni dictatorships, including the Saudis; (3) seal our borders; and (4) cancel green cards for students and others from radical Islamist countries.
America will be more safe, more prosperous, and more free once we adopt a foreign policy overview based on minding our own business, knocking off failed nation-building strategies, and quitting our effort to promote democracy in regions of the world that have never embraced democracy and never indicated any interest in doing so.
The Biggest Gun Grab In History
The never ending quest to take away guns from their legal owners rolls on!
Now the Obama Administration wants to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns if they don’t manage their own financial affairs. This is a move that could strip guns from 4.2 million Americans whose monthly disability payments are handled by others. Five Decades of Success
A number of years ago, Money magazine rated the five biggest investment strategy reports.
This letter received the only “A” rating among the big five.
Today, three of the five biggest letters have disappeared, while I roll on offering pretty much the same safety-first strategies I’ve been offering for five decades.
3 things you’ll find nowhere but Intelligence Report:
I tell subscribers exactly what I am investing in myself.
I do not invest beyond what I talk about in Intelligence Report.
I am in exactly the same boat as retirees (or soon-to-be retirees), so I will not deviate from my strategy… I will only strive to make it better.
The story in a nutshell is comfort, consistency and credibility.
And if you read the kind words from my readers throughout this bulletin, you’ll see that it works for me and for you.
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Of course, many folks have family members or trusted “representative payees” help them handle their money. Whether for convenience or just because your affairs are too complex to manage on your own, it sure as hell doesn’t mean you need to surrender your 2nd Amendment rights.
If you can’t balance your checkbook, congratulations—in the eyes of the Feds you’re on the same level as the felons, drug addicts, illegal immigrants and similar folks who they originally created this program for.
It’s outrageous, but I can’t say I’m surprised.
The Feds are also trying to shut down gun dealers with even more creative tactics than they’re using to steal Grandpa’s shotgun.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is leaning on banks to shut down financial services for targeted businesses Uncle Sam doesn’t like.
This program is called Operation Chokepoint, and it was touted as a defense against companies like payment processors and payday lenders that are thought to be at high risk for fraud and money laundering. What those companies have to do with licensed and regulated gun dealers selling a product protected by our Constitution is anyone’s guess.
I write a lot about Second Amendment issues because it is the ultimate guarantor of our freedoms and police departments are stretched thin.
When you’re on your own—like during the Baltimore riots, the aftermath of hurricanes and other natural disasters, or even a terror attack—you certainly don’t want to depend on the kindness of strangers to protect you. It’s far better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it.
I am a Life Member of the NRA and both my wife Debbie and I have both taken the NRA’s excellent handgun safety course. I urge you to do the same while I keep you apprised of the gun banners’ next brilliant idea.
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