The secrets that THREATEN your income, your investments, your wealth, and your financial security... and the boldfaced lies that could cost you everything!

Secrets and Lies Finally Revealed:

• The U.S. debt is 10 times higher than you've been told... ­and you're stuck holding the tab

• Washington's broken financial promises that it boldly hides in plain sight... ­and the money is stolen right out of your pocket!

• Our "healthy" economy is secretly set to implode... ­yet Ben Bernanke shortsightedly fiddles with your future wealth security

• Washington's hidden money-laundering scheme... ­and how it puts your money at risk

• Media's lying headlines exposed... as they willingly hide the dangerous threats to your financial safety.

Also revealed! Five lucrative investing solutions to pump wealth back into your pocket when the secrets and lies finally explode. They're yours FREE...as your introduction to our unique and knowledgeable circle.

Plus... you're invited to join our circle... ­absolutely free for the next year. No strings attached!

Dear Fellow Steely-Eyed Realist:

Washington, Wall Street, and Big Media are playing a sneaky little shell game with you.

Washington insists that the current level of public debt is $8.6 trillion.

The media faithfully report it with appropriate finger-wagging and head-shaking.

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Wall Street assures us that the markets can handle this massive amount of debt.

But they're all lying! And I have the numbers to prove it.

So hang on. The actual number - when I add it up for you in a moment - is going to shatter a few long-held notions you may have about the much-reported strength of our economy.

The number may be even too big to wrap your mind around. It has a lot of zeroes!

But as a hard-nosed, steely-eyed realist, you already know something stinks to high heaven. You've felt it in your gut for a while now. You just can't put your finger on it.

Let me simply shed a little light on that uneasy feeling of yours. And let's start with Washington, Wall Street, and the media's dirtiest little secret of all... threatening your money and your future. 

Dirty Little Secret # 1:
The Public Debt Is Really 10 TIMES What You Think!

It may be safe to say that everyone today has learned to live with the established public debt amount of $8.6 trillion.

This number comes from adding up the current deficits piling up year after year from the current budget line items...­

$650 billion to Health and Human Services... ­$550 billion to the Defense Department... $385 billion to pay the interest on the public's debt... almost $100 billion to the Department of Agriculture... ­and on and on and on it goes.

It's obviously out of control.

But it's also shockingly understated.

See, to fund our bloated government, Washington collects taxes and then borrows $450 billion every year to make up the difference. That means on top of our tax dollars that our government burns through, it also puts another $1.2 million on the national credit card... every single day.

That's the damage just if you accept the current numbers, issued by the bureaucrats doing all that spending. But the real numbers are much worse than Washington is willing to reveal. How much worse?

Try $76.62 trillion.

I know, $8.6 trillion is already a tough number to wrap you head around. Are there even that many grains of sand on every beach in America? I don't know. But if you started tossing a dollar per second on a bonfire right now, you wouldn't hit $8.6 trillion for another 272,523 years.

How about $76.62 trillion? It would take you 2.42 million years. Yet Washington managed to pull it off in less than 150 years, roughly how long it's been since our government first dipped into the red. It hasn't looked back since.

And if this massive lie perpetrated on the American public is a crime, the "cure" is even worse. How so?

Because it would take you from now until doomsday to even pay this back. The only way the U.S. government can get solvent is to either tax you more... not a pleasant thought... or print up more paper money to pay off interest on the exploding loan, albeit with weaker dollars.

Naturally, this only devalues the current dollar sitting in your pocket... and your retirement portfolio. Washington is actually robbing you of any kind of future financial stability. Who cares if you have a million dollars tomorrow if you have to spend $5 to buy what costs $1 today. It's outrageous.

You need to protect your money from Washington's spending shenanigans...before its rickety house of credit and deficits falls apart. And it will happen!

There's no way the economy can grow out of this. And not even the most punishing taxes on Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, and the rest of the wealthy (and not so wealthy) Americans could possibly scare up enough tax revenue to cover it.

There's only one solution. And no one - not Washington, Wall Street, or the media - will share it with you.

But I will.

Urgent Investor Threat Alert Issued

Hello. I'm Dan Amoss, editor of Strategic Investment, a decades-old research advisory service that has been alerting wealth hunters like you to coming economic disasters months, even years in advance. With this advanced warning, you're able to make the smart moves to protect - and substantially grow - your money during the difficult times.

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Strategic Investment warned about the stock market bust of 2000-2002 ONE FULL YEAR IN ADVANCE...and then again the housing market collapse back in 2004 TWO YEARS before it happened.

If you'd been with us, your money could have been safe from the economic fallout of these destructive events. You could even have averaged triple-digit gains in your portfolio year after year.

It's not too late to set up a powerful hedge of protection around your money right now.

Because... despite what you might hear, thanks to our gigantic black hole of debt, difficult times are coming. More difficult than they've been in years.

In fact, what I see coming is so bad, I'm issuing an "investor threat alert."

America's staggering amount of debt is almost certain to cause economic catastrophe - and soon. A debt apocalypse. Nothing can stop it. Not the lies. Not the secrets. Not the sleight of hand. So the only thing you can do is prepare for it.

It's why I want to tell you about five simple investment opportunities that may be the only solid protection you can count on for your money. In fact, they may be the only investments positioned to soar in the coming debt apocalypse.

You can read about them in my just-published report, 2007 Advance Warning Report: 5 Investments for Wealth Creation in the Coming Debt Apocalypse. You can send for it absolutely free, and in a moment, I'll tell you how.

Dan Amoss is trained in the Austrian School of economics and believes in the primacy of money backed by gold. Why? Any currency not backed by gold has disappeared. A perfect example is the U.S. dollar, which has declined in value by 95% since 1913! Yet Washington, Wall Street, and the big media take a more Keynesian approach, which can be detrimental to the individual investor. They take a mechanistic approach to the economy, thinking if they make the right adjustments to it, they can control it. They believe you can fine-tune it to hum at a certain growth rate and at a certain level of inflation. Yet Dan and smart investors know that the real cause of inflation is simply the government printing more money out of thin air...and every economy goes through a natural boom (expansion) and bust (contraction) cycle. Tinkering disrupts this natural cycle, causing housing bubbles, credit bubbles, oil bubbles, and all kinds of inflated bubbles. It's why Dan starts with a big-picture overview and global analysis of the geopolitical and macroeconomic forces affecting your money. While many editors simply stop here with their analysis, Dan drills all the way down to the tactics of what you could be doing to protect your money and grow your wealth.  Once he's outlined the strategic economic forces at play, Dan goes on to find the industries that are surging due to those market forces, and then finds the quality companies that are stars in their industries. He examines the management team, the balance sheets, the financials...the nuts and bolts of what makes that company or investment play a good opportunity for you. Dan likes what you like in a company. Companies with great cash flows, positive earnings, higher returns on invested capital, industry-leading profit margins, good track records of growth, as well as significant growth potentials...and in this day and age, very little debt on the books. Right now, he's positive on oil, natural gas, and gold. He tells me that 80% of his research in the coming year will be in finding great companies in these areas. Good places, indeed. What I've noticed about Dan's strategic thinking is that he's always one step ahead of the boneheaded government policymakers. Where they say zig, Dan's going to show you where to zag for greater riches. As Ben Bernanke wreaks havoc with interest rates, Dan will be showing you the best possibilities to build a fortune in the years ahead. Dan joined Agora Financial from Investment Counselors of Maryland, where he was an investment adviser for one of the top small-cap value mutual funds over the past 15 years. Dan is also a contributing editor to Whiskey & Gunpowder and a frequent guest columnist to Rude Awakening and The Daily Reckoning. The times ahead are perilous. America and its citizens simply cannot sustain the crushing mountain of debt, and an apocalypse is soon to be unleashed. But you can ride it out in safety and even with newfound prosperity as a member of Dan's elite and growing number of readers. I look forward to welcoming you. Addison Wiggin Publisher, Strategic Investment

Five Simple Investments You Need to Know About

These five simple investments may be your safe haven to ride out the economic turbulence that America's debt is set to unleash.

Every single recommendation is an attractive long-term buy designed to fortify your wealth. One wealth-protection investment is a powerful shield against the collapsing value of your dollar bills as Washington prints up more of the worthless greenbacks to cover the spiraling-out-of-control debt. 

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Another investment I'll reveal is simply oozing profits... ­up 58% in 2006 from 2005. Plus... ­this company is uncommonly generous to its shareholders... offering almost a 2% dividend yield. And it's still growing! My projections are calling for a 50% growth in share price and a 16% dividend yield within the next decade. What a great place to safeguard and build your wealth in the coming debt apocalypse.

Then I have three more investments to recommend to you. Each one will help you build a well-armored portfolio to protect you from the inevitable inflationary forces set to attack your hard-earned money.

This five-pronged investment solution is your valuable defense against Washington, Wall Street, and the media's dirty debt secrets and boldfaced economic lies.

I'll tell you their histories, their projections, the smart moves they're making for growth. I'll show you the balance sheets, the charts, the financials. I'll tell you why they're going to make you a fortune while the economy collapses around you. 

With your personal copy of this comprehensive report at your fingertips, you'll quickly be able to protect your wealth and move your money into these five investments poised for astounding wealth creation...because of the massive debt trouble we're in.

In your free report, you'll discover why these five are your best investment solutions for the next one, five, and 10 years... as America's economy continues to decline.

It's vital you take just a few minutes to continue reading this investor threat alert. In it, you'll discover the true story about our public debt and what you can do to safeguard your wealth.

Because you see, even while you work to protect yourself, Washington is working hard to erase other sources of health, wealth, and retirement security you were counting on...­including protections bureaucrats themselves promised you long ago...­

Dirty Little Secret #2:
The Lies Washington Hides in Plain Sight

Washington hides its dirtiest little debt secret right out in plain sight. I'm talking about the promise of financial safety and security that it continues to make... but knows already it can't possibly keep.

See, even the current budget numbers - big as they are - pale in comparison with the wide range of unfunded and future responsibilities, programs, and activities the feds are already committed to spending.

Here's the shocker: These numbers are so big and so ugly they simply do NOT list them on the budget. Can you imagine if you could make your financial problems go away by just not talking about them? Washington can.

Here's a frightening little sample of what I mean:

• Social Security and Medicare: 77 million baby boomers are retiring in the next 20 years... all expecting their benefits. In 2004, the trustees of Social Security and Medicare projected the unfunded costs of their obligations to be $74 trillion. And in the current political climate, if politicians don't pay up, they'll quickly find themselves out of a job on Election Day. Washington knows it doesn't have this kind of money... so it simply doesn't include this growing debt number in its budget

• The Prescription Drug Bill: The news is filled with retirees complaining they don't understand how it works. But what is not said is this program is estimated to cost $1.2 trillion in the next 10 years. Once again, Washington conveniently forgets to calculate this boondoggle promise into its current debt numbers

• Federal Employee and Veteran Benefits and Health Care: Who's the biggest employer in the U.S. today? The federal government... and it's the most generous employer. Paying out salaries, health benefits, and pensions to almost 17 million past and current employees. It cost the taxpayers in 2005 almost $430 billion. Yet not one dime of this huge cash outlay makes it into the current budget numbers

• Future Costs of the War on Terror: We've already spent $440 billion so far - and another $120 billion is requested for next year. There's no end in sight. Not to mention the perhaps never-ending outlay for Homeland Security... $130 billion since Sept. 11. There's $690 billion

• Future Costs of Hurricane Katrina ($200 billion pledged): Yet some cost estimates are actually closer to $300 billion. No one really knows. The government has never dealt with a disaster this large - man-made or natural. Close to 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast affected, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced and an entire city to rebuild. To put it in perspective, Hurricane Andrew cost the taxpayers $35 billion.

When you include these very real financial obligations taken on in our name by our government, that's how easily you get to the $76.62 trillion in DEBT I told you about before. And yes, that's almost 10 times the $8.6 trillion Big Media, Washington, and Wall Street will admit to.

And make no mistake.

This is not just history's biggest financial fib...it's downright theft!

A Quarter of a Million Dollars
Stolen out of Your Pocket

If you were to divide this mind-numbing figure by every man, woman, and child living in America today, you alone would be responsible for $253,333.

A quarter of a million dollars stolen right out of your pocket!

And the really scary part?

That real debt number has almost QUADRUPLED since 2000, when the true U.S. national debt was only $20 trillion. A quadruple... ­in just six years. I tremble to think what your share - and my share - of this behemoth rampaging debt fiend will be by 2010! 2020!

This is very dangerous. There's no way the economy can grow fast enough to meet these obligations. If the economy were allowed to continue on its own without the government reacting, it would be a debt implosion similar to that of the 1930s.

But the government has many new monetary tricks up its sleeve to keep the economy and the stock market trapped in a bubble of endless good times to forestall the coming debt apocalypse. But at what cost to your investments?

Dirty Little Secret #3:
Economy Set to Implode...
and the Government Knows It!

This level of debt - $76.62 trillion - is simply "unsustainable"! And that's not my word. I'm quoting from the U.S. Treasury's own 2005 Financial Report... signed off by Jack Snow, then secretary of the Treasury, and David Walker, comptroller general of the United States.

On Page 28 of this report, you will read:

"Long-term deficits will encumber a growing share of federal resources and test the capacity of current and future generations to afford both today's and tomorrow's commitments...­Continuing on this unsustainable path will gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, our economy, our standard of living, and ultimately our national security." 

Suddenly damage our economy... and your standard of living! Yet the government carries on as if nothing is wrong. It simply issues more debt - $50 billion a month - and prints more money to inflate the economy.

And your nest egg and your future financial security are in peril... ­if you don't act NOW! It's why I'm going to send you - absolutely FREE - my very latest report detailing the best five investments you should own right now.

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It details why these are the best investments to protect and grow your wealth when America collapses into ruin. And make no mistake - it's no longer a matter of if...­but when. A few months?... a year or two? The hoofbeats are getting louder by the minute!

Washington, Wall Street, and the mainstream media know it. And they've bent over backward to keep you from believing it too. All three of them are notoriously shortsighted. They're not interested in staving off looming financial disasters. They're only concerned about keeping their grip on power and their desperate hold on your wallet.

Disaster ahead? Absolutely... ­but spend, spend, spend governments only need to look good leading up to the next election. Wall Street is only concerned about the next surge of new capital into mutual funds and the markets. And the media are focused solely on the next TV ratings sweep.

The long-term problems they can blame on somebody else. They're quite content to leave it all to your children to solve. And they're really not concerned what their dirty secrets will do to your financial security. That's tomorrow's problem.

But here's the good news. You can fight back and insulate your portfolio from disaster. And I have just the five top investments to help you protect every dollar you've invested. You'll know exactly what to do when you read my latest investor's briefing, entitled 2007 Advance Warning Report: 5 Investments for Wealth Creation in the Coming Debt Apocalypse.

You'll want to be prepared as soon as possible, because the critical chain of events leading to the coming debt apocalypse is already in motion. If you don't act now, your income, your investments, your wealth, and your financial security could be seriously threatened.

A License to Print Money

The housing downturn that has finally reached the headlines could be significant enough to bring about recession-like conditions in 2007, especially as discretionary spending (autos, vacations, consumer electronics) takes a hit.

Ben Bernanke, the new Fed chairman, is desperate to avoid any sort of economic slowdown. He fervently believes if you simply tinker with inflation and the supply of money, then you can achieve the growth rate and economic boom you desire.

One of Bernanke's favorite pastimes in keeping our destructive borrow-and-spend economy afloat is to flood the market with useless dollars. He's been given a license to print money... crisp, sweet-smelling bills that aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

Because for most serious economists... opening up the floodgates of newly printed money is just begging for inflation to return. And I agree. More money simply inflates the economy, causing everything to cost more.

Plus... this unchecked money flow simply robs you of your future wealth as the value of the dollar continues its perilous decline... ­and you have to use more of these crisp dollar bills to buy what you need.

And if there's a way for the government to grow, buy, or swindle our way out of our staggering $76 trillion debt, then raising taxes or printing money are your best bets. Either way... ­you're in trouble.

Several academic studies have concluded that taxes cannot possibly be raised high enough to pay the Social Security and Medicare benefits for 77 million retirees... almost $74 trillion alone. So when these very real government liabilities finally make it onto the government's balance sheet, the government will then launder money to pay for it all.

Dirty Little Secret # 4:
A Government-Sanctioned Money-Laundering
SchemeThat Puts You and Your Money at Risk

Once Social Security and Medicare hit the government's books, the government will float more Treasury bills to pay for its enormous debt. Already due to this skyrocketing debt, the government has to auction off close to $50 billion a month in T-bills to keep the government afloat.  

Who is buying up our debt? Not Americans. We're a nation of minimum monthly payers, not savers. We actually run a negative savings rate... ­meaning we spend more than we earn. We don't have the money.

So 80% of the bonds are bought by foreigners. Take a look at this chart:

It's this foreign investment buying up our debt that allows our economy to keep rolling and keeps interest rates relatively low for mortgages. Then these low interest rates in turn fuel our asset-based economy based on inflated home prices.

But it's just a matter of time before foreigners begin to pull away from buying up our debt. After all, they're going to want to be repaid some day. And when you see this looming American debt on the horizon, it's giving a few foreign governments the heebie-jeebies. They're starting to wonder, how will the U.S. repay what it owes me?

But these valid concerns don't stop our intrepid Fed chairman. He has a plan. And it will work like this:

The government will float more and more T-bills and Treasury bonds to pay for its enormous debt. The foreign market will balk at buying them up. So the Fed will be the "buyer of last resort," printing up the money out of thin air to buy them.

What a money-laundering scheme!

First, our government prints up the T-bills in order to finance its deficit spending. Then it prints up the money to buy its own T-bills. This is how it plans to artificially keep all interest rates low.

Sound confusing?

It should.

By providing buying support to the longer-maturity bond market, it can effectively put a ceiling on long-term interest rates. But this has never been done before, successfully or otherwise.

Fed Chief's Plan a Recipe for Disaster

But Fed Chief Bernanke apparently wants to change that. And as he stated before the National Economists Club in 2002, he thinks he can. In a speech entitled Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here, a boldfaced Bernanke said...­

"Of course, if operating in relatively short-dated Treasury debt proved insufficient, the Fed could also attempt to cap yields of Treasury securities at still longer maturities, say three-six years."

Outstanding! "You have taken the governmental mud, smoke, and mirrors, cut through it and made a crystal-clear case for the eventual credit collapse of the USA. Outstanding!"                - Roger S.

Translation: Making it impossible to raise interest rates means you're also making it impossible to tame inflation. Prices go up as dollar values go down. And in this brave new world of permanently low rates, there's nothing anybody can do about it.      

Break out the wheelbarrows. Because that's   what you'll need to cart enough cash down to the grocery store just to buy a bag of apples. Remember the cash crisis in Argentina... Brazil... Asia? Doesn't anybody remember what happened to Germany after World War I? History is repeating itself.

Keep in mind, these long-term rates are the indexes on which home mortgage rates are based. They are the lifeblood of our economy - even more so than the oft-quoted "discount rate" that the Fed currently manipulates in quarter-point increments.

Perhaps Bernanke was just kidding. And if he is, those Ivy League economists have a strange sense of humor. But, and I'm telling this to all my readers, you're better off being safe than sorry.

This boneheaded money-laundering scheme of robbing Peter to pay Paul is a real threat to your investments because the government is literally stealing your future wealth. By flooding the market with dollars and debt, it's shrinking the value of your portfolio by the minute.

How?

These shortsighted policies would greatly hasten the destruction of the dollar's value. Our government is proving it will not hesitate to buy nothing with nothing... and keep the debt-riddled economy afloat. Yet again, it should be a crime!

But here's a way to insulate and protect your financial future. Simply send for your free copy of 2007 Advance Warning Report: 5 Investments for Wealth Creation in the Coming Debt Apocalypse.

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Pumping Wealth Into Your Pockets

It's no secret rising interest rates, rising inflation, and a declining dollar - three factors currently in play - place extraordinary pressures on oil and natural resources.

As housing continues to weaken, Bernanke will stay true to form and increase the supply of money. Since there is a finite amount of oil and other natural resources in the ground, their prices will only go up as the dollar declines.

In today's highly leveraged and asset-inflated and debt-addicted America, there's no way Ben Bernanke is going to "tighten" the money supply to bring about a much-needed correction. It's why I see the greatest long-term investment opportunities to be in energy, precious metals, and mining.

This asset class tends to be cyclical in nature. In 2000, they were at the bottom of a 20-year investment cycle, but now they're just gathering steam at the beginning of a spectacular upcoming bull market. And it's to this sector smart investors are turning to weather the apocalyptic fallout of the Fed's incessant monetary tinkering.

But what oil and gas companies are best? In this day and age, you can no longer plunk money down on any old energy, mining, or drilling company and expect to make money. Too many macro geopolitical factors in play, such as:

The demand for oil from newly industrialized countries is exploding! This meteoric rise of many emerging market economies accelerated around the turn of the millennium and added a major new element to the oil demand picture.