April 6, 2010
Geneva, Florida, U.S.A.
What Happens to You When a Barrel of Oil
Costs Hundreds of Dollars?
Dear Shooter,
Before this year is out, oil could be a lot more expensive. How expensive? Our expert Byron King is calling for $220 per barrel.
You probably have similar notions yourself. But have you positioned yourself? Are you ready to profit as it happens?
Because if you’re not, then you’ll be ravaged by the fallout: inflation, shortage...the usual fun stuff.
To find out how to be ready, just read on....
Sincerely,
Gary Gibson
Managing Editor,
The Murder That
Changed the World
...And Could Soon Rocket
Oil Past $220 a Barrel
by Byron King, Editor
Changed the World
...And Could Soon Rocket
Oil Past $220 a Barrel
by Byron King, Editor
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Imagine you're at a dinner table.
How could you have known the meal on the table was about to change the world?
Some say it was goat. Others say it was lamb. Either way, it was poisoned.
When the guest of honor took his first bite, nothing would ever be the same again.
That guest of honor was Mohammed... warrior, radical, and the founder of Islam. And the fact that he was the one who was about to die changes history.
Not just then, but now. In a radical way.
And in a way that could soon change everything you think about your own financial security. How so?
You see, even though Mohammed immediately tasted the poison that would kill him... and even though he spit it out... he would still die soon after.
His movement's followers weren't ready.
They fought bitterly over who should take over. So bitterly, it's a deadly divide in Islam that still rages — between the headlines and behind the scenes — today.
You barely see much about it in the mainstream media.
But that doesn't change the fact that this centuries-old divide looks ready to re-emerge as the powerful new force behind a whole "new" all-out OIL WAR in the Middle East.
Possibly very soon.
And with a re-energized, nuke-packing Iran at the center of the storm.
If I'm right about what I'll reveal, you could soon see as many as eight Islamic nations go turn on each other with rockets and gun muzzles blazing... setting the world's most critical oil-producing area on fire... and sucking our own military deeper into the mess than anyone at the Pentagon or the White House ever imagined.
Even if I'm only half-right, you know what that could do to oil.
You could soon see oil prices soar as high as $220 a barrel... with gasoline topping out as high as $8 a gallon... sparking a whole new wave of financial upheaval and inflationary threats to the U.S. dollar.
How?
To understand, you only need to finish our look back into history...
How the Next Oil War Began
Long before $147 oil... long before either Iraq War or the Iranian Revolution of 1979... long before OPEC and the oil embargo or the founding of Israel...
These events were set in motion.
The memory of that fateful night in the year 629 had barely faded... and the divide over who should take Mohammed's place had evolved into a blood-soaked holy war.
On the one side, you've got the Sunni Muslims. The Sunnis run Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and many of the other countries in the Middle East.
On the other, you've got the Shia Muslims. It's the Shia that run Iran. Today, they also run Iraq. And have a lock on power in Lebanon and Syria.
How bitter is this fight? Think Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland... Serbs vs. Croats in Bosnia... or even the religious Thirty Years War that ripped apart Europe in the 16th century.
Only, here's the big difference...
This Sunni-Shia split has raged in one way or another for the last 1,354 years.
For fourteen centuries, there have been small wars and executions, torture and countless plots... but it's only now this pressure has found ultimate release...
In an Iran-driven Shia uprising smack dab in the middle of EXACTLY where you would never want something like this to happen, in the center of the most dangerous place on Earth — the oil-soaked Middle East.
With over 66% of the world's key oil reserves fall into the crosshairs, of course this is a crisis everyone will feel around the globe. And of course, this could also slam the dollar.
With soaring energy costs, you could also see a crushing new wave of inflation... unmatched by anything we've seen since the last great energy crisis in the 1970s.
But I'm not just writing to warn you.
I'm also writing to tell you there are ways you can protect yourself financially, even as this unfolds. I'll name three of these strategic money moves for you right now.
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But before I do, take a close look at this map...
The Deadly Sunni-Shia Divide — 2010-2011
If it's black in this map, it's Shia ground. It's also mostly oil heartland
and some of the most strategic territory in the entire Middle East!
and some of the most strategic territory in the entire Middle East!
One terrorist with a grudge can do a lot of damage.
Iran, all by itself, could even be a deadly force.
But can you imagine what millions of Shiites with a 1,354-year old ax to grind could do?
The 162-Million-Man March
Nobody knows exactly how many Shia there are right now in the Middle East. That's because in all but four Middle Eastern countries, Sunni leaders don't bother to count.
Sunni schools teach that Shiites aren't real Muslims. Shias don't get a seat in government. They can't become judges or even testify in high courts. In Sunni-run Saudi Arabia, Shias and Sunni can't even marry.
For centuries, the Shia have been the underclass.
But now, for the first time in history, they see this as their chance to turn the tide. And how big a tide is it? Hands down, saber-rattling Iran has the most — 70 million Shia.
But then you've got the "liberated" Shia of Iraq — 22 million. Plus as many as 2 million Shia in Iran-backed Lebanon. And up to 4 million Shia in Iran's top ally, Syria.
Then you've got another 700,000 Shia in Kuwait... up to 500,000 Shia in Bahrain... up to 400,000 Shia in the United Arab Emirates... 300,000 Shia in Oman... and around 100,000 Shia in Qatar, according to the Pew Research Center in Washington.
On top of that, as many as 10 million Shia in Yemen... another 7 million Shia in Azerbaijan... and 11 million Shia in Turkey... not to mention the combined 30 million Shia in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Not all Shia want a revolution.
But out of between the 147 million to 162 million Shia spread from Pakistan to Lebanon and Azerbaijan to Yemen, enough do that this is the river of "Secret Revenge" and common blood running through the entire Middle East.
The Sunnis are worried.
Especially in Sunni-run Saudi Arabia.
And especially now.
Here's why...
"New" Oil War Flashpoint #1:
The Real Reason Iran
Wants the Bomb
The Real Reason Iran
Wants the Bomb
Don't forget, Iran used to be Persia.
At one point Persia was the biggest and most powerful empire in history!
Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt — even Israel — the Persians controlled them all. Along with all of Afghanistan and Pakistan and most of the oil-rich coast of the Caspian.
For 300 years, Persian armies held off the Roman Empire. Their scholars walked with Aristotle and Plato. And influenced Greek art.
It was the Persians who invented chess. And the windmill.
Not to mention bricks, algebra, trigonometry, and wine.
The bottom line is... no Empire forgets its past glory.
The Iranians resent losing theirs.
But now they see a chance to get it back.
The nuclear bomb? Tehran's crackpot leaders don't just want it to scare Israel. They want it so they can throw a dark shadow over their Sunni Arab neighbors, too!
Take a look at this...
Iran's First Move...
With total control of the Hormuz "oil chokepoint" in the Persian Gulf
and new power in "liberated" Iraq, the Iranians have a brand new foothold
for kicking off the long-awaited "Shia Revolution."
and new power in "liberated" Iraq, the Iranians have a brand new foothold
for kicking off the long-awaited "Shia Revolution."
You'll notice two things.
First, you'll see how Iran's Shia influence has spilled across the border into southern Iraq. Southern Iraq is where you'll find six of Iraq's eight "Supergiant" oil fields. It's also where you'll find a key border with Shia Islam's mortal enemy — Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is Sunni.
For eight years back in the 1980s, Saudi Arabia helped Iraq wage a bloody war against Iran. Along with other Sunni governments, the Saudis even gave Saddam over $47 billion to launch missiles and nerve gas attacks over the Iranian border.
Iran hasn't forgotten. Or forgiven.
(Imagine if Canada or Mexico had given money to Japan to help them bomb Pearl Harbor. Iran has waited to make the Saudis pay — and now they have their chance.)
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The second thing you'll see in the map above is that Iran has almost total control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Hormuz is the tight waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. Over 17 million barrels of oil have to pass through Hormuz every day.
That's 40% of all the oil shipped in the world.
And 90% of all the daily oil shipments from the entire Middle East.
With Hormuz alone, Iran could cripple the world overnight.
Today, Iran backs Shia militants in Iraq. They give them money and guns. They've even helped Shia politicians take over the Iraqi government. Why?
Because gaining control in Iraq takes the Iranians one step closer in their twisted plot for secret revenge. For another one of those steps, just look further south... to Yemen.
"New" Oil War Flashpoint #2:
Yemen's Ugly Secret
Yemen's Ugly Secret
The Pentagon has just tripled its budget on Yemen.
Top U.S. General Patraeus just had a not-so-secret meeting with Yemen's president.
And our own State Department calls Yemen a “threat... to global stability.”
What gives?
Even ABC News just called Yemen the next "top target" in the terror war and a "near-perfect haven for terrorists." Obama just sent Yemen our troops, ships, and weapons.
Here's what's happening...
The Shia Revolution's Next New Front...
Yemen's on/off Shia revolution gives and "Gate of Tears" oil chokepoint
could soon give Iran a strategic "backdoor" attack point into Saudi Arabia...
could soon give Iran a strategic "backdoor" attack point into Saudi Arabia...
Yemen might be a failed country... with a collapsing government, a shrinking oil supply, an exploding population and not much of anything else but lawlessness and chaos.
But what Yemen does have is position.
It sits just on the tip of the Arab peninsula... south of another key Saudi border and on the coast of another key oil strait called Bab-el-Mandeb.
That name means the "Gate of Tears."
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And like Hormuz, most oil states on the Red Sea can't get a drop of oil out without shipping it through the Bab-el-Mandeb. Over 3.3 million barrels go through every day.
Blocking this chokepoint alone could slap a $30 "political premium" on the price of every barrel of oil... but there's an even bigger threat taking shape.
For the last six years, Yemen has fought a vicious and bloody war with Shia rebels. These rebels are poor. There's no way, says a Yemen general, these rebels "could fund and fight this war with pomegranates and grapes... no doubt there is Iranian support."
Could it be true? Absolutely.
Iran loves to buy loyalty.
Take the $1 billion Tehran now "donates" every year to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Or the billions they gave Syria's Shia president to build cement factories, car factories, power plants, and storage silos.
In return, Iran gets Hezbollah's Arabic-speaking terrorists to run militant Shia training camps in Iraq. And gets Syria to distribute Iran's money and weapons to others in the Shia network.
The secret money Iran sends to Shia rebels in Yemen could soon have a payoff too — by opening up another route for "backdoor" Shia access into Saudi Arabia.
Yemen's rebels have already hit towns across the Saudi border. And the Saudis have hit back, losing dozens of troops in the process. We’re just in the first innings of this one.
How bad is it?
So far, 50 Saudi schools along the border have had to close. Another 240 border towns have already been evacuated. And Saudi jets have already dropped bombs in Yemen.
What exactly has the Saudis running scared?
Final Oil War Flashpoint #3:
Iran's Final Prize — Saudi Oil
Iran's Final Prize — Saudi Oil
Don't think for a minute that I think Iran's plot for "secret revenge" could succeed.
But the threat alone could be enough to kick oil much higher.
And sooner than you might think.
For instance...
- Our CIA, Britain's M16, and other top spy agencies say Iran could have a working nuclear bomb as soon as April 2011...
- The Times of London uncovered a confidential document that says Iran already has a "neutron initiator" ready to test. That's the part you need to trigger a warhead.
- And Der Spiegel, the German magazine, says Iran may even have the tech and material to build a simple nuclear bomb before the end of THIS year.
But the Bomb is just a beginning.
Even if the go ahead to build a nuke never comes from Iran's top cleric, the more immediate danger is a wildfire of Shia-Sunni unrest... starting in Iran's new hotbeds of Shia support... and spreading across the rest of the Sunni-run oil states... with the richest oil fields in the world's richest oil nation as the final battleground.
Take a look at this last map...
The Final Battleground — Saudi Arabia!
Suddenly, Iran has its mortal enemy, Saudi Arabia, surrounded —
millions of Shia even live on top of the Saudis OWN biggest oilfields.
millions of Shia even live on top of the Saudis OWN biggest oilfields.
As you can see, Saudi Arabia looks like a sitting duck.
Iran has a Shia network that reaches from Afghanistan to Lebanon once again... more connections building along the Persian Gulf... Yemeni Shias to the south... and Shia connections along the oil rich Caspian Sea.
You could see this spread to the nearly two million Shia that live and work on Saudi Arabia's oil fields very soon. Even though that's exactly what the Saudis — and our own Pentagon — hope will never happen.
As you read this, big and small Gulf states are piling up weapons, stocking anti-missile batteries, and sandbagging their oil terminals, ports, and water desalinization plants...
Abu Dhabi alone has already bought $17 billion worth of U.S. anti-missile hardware. And the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia just splurged on weapons, to the tune of $25 billion.
As you read this, our own F-16 fighter jets, Patriot missile systems, giant cruisers and up to 20,000 more U.S. troops are quietly digging in for an epic fight... that could spread past Iraq and Yemen... and even into Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
All to get ready for what could be the fight of a lifetime...
Say Hello to the "Jihad Generation"
It's not just our experts saying it.
Leaders in all three of America's biggest Middle East allied countries — Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia — claim the epic Sunni-Shia showdown is in the cards.
It could start from any one of the flashpoints I just named.
But no matter how it starts, Saudi Arabia is where it's most likely to end up. Why?
Not only is Saudi Arabia home to Mecca, Islam's holiest place... but it's also home to the corrupt and U.S.-allied Royal House of Saud, considered an insult to all Islam.
Think about it.
In a country where they'll cut off your hand for stealing and whip you for holding a glass of whiskey... Saudi princes gorge on cocaine and prostitutes, gambling, palaces, and more.
All while the vast Saudi underclass starves on just $6,000 per year and 30% unemployment. And as many as two million of that underclass is Shia. With a 1,354-year-old ax to grind and billions of dollars in oil revenues as the prize.
It's a near-perfect formula for a FULL-ON war.
And the fuse is already lit.
Iran is ready to assert its place in the world. Think Japan or Germany in the 1930s. The threat is there, it's large, and it's not going away anytime soon.
How the world responds, we can't know.
But I can tell you how oil could respond... by exploding to new record highs. Possibly as high as $220 per barrel by spring of the coming year... with gas not topping out until it hits as much as $8 per gallon.
That's very bad news for millions around the world.
And yet...
Defensive Energy Power Play #1:
The Single Best Energy Stock
to Own Over the Next 20 Years
(Hint: it’s 6,859 miles from the Mid-East…)
The Single Best Energy Stock
to Own Over the Next 20 Years
(Hint: it’s 6,859 miles from the Mid-East…)
One easy way to "get out of the way" and still gain as oil goes up... is simply to go outside of the Middle East to find the best oil providers.
In 1973, the smart money ran from OPEC oil... and into oil opportunities in Canada, Mexico, and the UK. Today you've got even more smart energy "safe havens."
Today that strategy can work even better.
But that's only part of the reason I believe this first major "defensive energy" stock could be the single best oil company opportunity for you to own over the next 20 years.
How so?
Let me take you to a place that's thousands of miles from the Middle East... and well beyond the reach of any crackpot dictator or terrorist.
Yes, it's also an oil field.
Nobody even knew much about it until 2006, the first year they cracked through the field's overlying layer of salt — more than a mile of it — and into dense carbonate rock — and about eight billion barrels of oil.
That's more than the entire proven reserves of Norway.
But then they kept looking and found — in a deposit almost 500 miles long and 100 miles wide — what could be as much as 100 billion barrels of oil.
Easily, that's the biggest single oil-bearing zone anywhere in the world.
Bigger than almost all the oil fields in Iraq, combined. Bigger than all the reserves in Russia. Or Iran, for that matter. Bigger than the Saudi's legendary Ghawar.
Yet, until just recently, nobody even knew it was there...
The Greatest Energy
Discovery in 100 Years
Discovery in 100 Years
See, here's the thing...
This massive new find I'm telling you about — they call it the Tupi Field — isn't really what you picture when you think of a "field" of oil at all.
You can't drive past it. You can't see it. In fact, no human can actually get close to it... and live. You see, the Tupi Field is hidden some two miles below the blackest, roughest seas just about anywhere on the planet... as far as 240 miles off the coast of Brazil.
It is, in fact, so far below the surface of the ocean that the water pressure alone would crush a steel-fortified Navy sub like you could crush a soda can.
And that's just the ocean floor. You need to go even deeper — 19,000 feet through multi-million year-old anthracite and salt deposits — to get to the beds of ancient limestone that hold the oil.
Crews go out on massive ships to set up the rigs. They use satellite images to find the deposits and then automated underwater robots to lock the drilling equipment into place.
Just tapping the deposit can take as many as three months to set up... at a cost of as much as $600,000 per day. Even to hire a helicopter to fly to the offshore drilling sites can take as long as two-hours over open water and up to $50,000 for the fuel and pilot... for each flight.
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You can see why this massive oil deposit took so long to discover.
It wasn't long ago that we had the technology.
Then again, it wasn't long ago that anybody but the energy industry pros understood just how desperate we are to find and tap more and more remote oil discoveries like this one.
They call this kind of oil opportunity "deepwater crude."
This company I'm telling you about dominates this new field. They also have their geologists and engineers looking for even more breakthrough offshore energy discoveries just like this one.
Of course this isn't the only deepwater crude fortune-maker in town.
I've got three more I'd love to show you.
In fact, you'll find the full story in just one of the five special reports I'd like to send you, called Deepwater Crude Bonanza: Four Ways to Get Rich on the New Oil Frontier.
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- The cutting-edge American deepwater technology company that has oil majors worldwide lined up to use their specialized rigs. Only a handful of companies worldwide can do what they do. And with up to 300 new deepwater rigs to come online by 2012, this company is lining up contracts by the score — this could be an easy 50% gainer over the 12 to 18 months ahead.
- A trusted family-owned company that you already know, but what you might not know is that they're sitting on top of a second huge "deepwater" deposit almost as big as the one I just mentioned. They're also one of the few companies with the tech-savvy to drill the now-famous Bakken Oil Formation here in the U.S. This one has matched rising oil prices dollar for dollar before... and could triple from where it sits today.
- And finally, what my readers and I now call the "most important oil equipment company in the world." Why? Because right now they're the single largest deepwater equipment supplier not only to the top offshore company I mentioned, but also to the other majors now crowding in — including Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and more. What they make, nobody else can quite do. You'll see why in your free copy of my newest "deepwater" report.
Remember, I don't come at these opportunities like a broker trying to make commissions. This area is my trained specialty. I've spent years as a working oil exploration geologist. I study these opportunities with an understanding of the science and discoveries they're talking about.
And even when you factor that in, I'm convinced this new era in deepwater crude technology is a game changer. Not just the future of Big Oil, but also the single best way for you to get rich during the radical shift in energy politics headed down the pipe.
Once you let me rush you a free copy of Deepwater Crude Bonanza: Four Ways to Get Rich on the New Oil Frontier — one of the five special FREE reports in your 2010-2011 Crude Awakening Countdown Library — you'll quickly see why.
And then there's more...
Defensive Energy Power Play #2:
Two More Ways to Get Rich...
As Shanghai Goes Dark!
Two More Ways to Get Rich...
As Shanghai Goes Dark!
Obviously, it's not just the U.S. with an eye on oil anymore.
Even through the worldwide financial bust, China's kept on growing at a record clip... with oil and other energy needs to match.
Some of what they've done is make deals for more power, including multi-billion dollar deals with our enemies in Iran.
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But even then, booming China could go bust if they don't fix their growing energy problems. Take China's situation with coal —– at one point during the winter of this year they were down to a 10-day supply.
The problem for China is that the country uses coal to crank out 80% of its electricity. For over 1 billion customers, that's a lot of coal. They can't get it out of the ground fast enough. Or safely.
So they're ramping up to go nuclear instead.
As you read this, China has 11 nuclear reactors producing electricity.
They're already building 17 more.
But they want to rocket that number to 124 full capacity reactors over the next several years. By the year 2030, that could pump up their demand for uranium 10 times over.
The last full year on record, China used 769 tons of uranium.
Beijing's new plan would call for 20,000 tons per year.
Yeah, but what about wind, solar, or geothermal?
Not one is nearly as ready for prime time as nuclear.
Think about it. Right now around the world, you've got 436 nuclear reactors up and running. Plus another 50 being built. And another 137 reactors in the blueprint stage. Along with 295 more new reactors on the table for approval.
The U.S. just announced plans to start building more — on top of the 104 reactors we've already got going. In fact, the U.S. already gets about 20% of its power from reactors. And we're on track to make more.
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Even Belgium, Sweden, South Korea, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, the U.S., the U.K., and France all get between 23% and 75% of their power from nuke plants. And those numbers are going up too.
According to a study by researchers at MIT, power demand could triple over the coming decades — and a huge portion of that new demand will be met with nuclear power!
That makes the next big question easy...
Who Has Uranium?
First, guess who doesn't. Uranium deposits are hard to come by in the Middle East. Instead, you've got Australia, the U.S., Canada, France, Argentina, Brazil, and India dominating the market. Along with South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, and Gabon.
I'm sure you remember, uranium stocks more than doubled from 2003 to 2007, during the first half of the second Gulf War. Uranium also shot up from $10 to $130 a pound.
Along with everything else, it crashed in 2008.
Now it's at a bottom price... new uranium production has flat-out stalled... yet all the surging power demands are still there. Especially from China.
Take a look at this chart...
It's not hard to do the math.
China has $1 trillion parked in U.S. dollar reserves. Most of the time, those dollars are a wasting asset. Meanwhile, cheap uranium can meet China's exploding energy needs many times over... compared to increasingly expensive oil.
In their shoes, what would you do?
Shanghai alone has already sucked up most of the energy output of the massive Three Gorges Dam. China's other enormous cities are hungry for cheap power, too. So is their massive industrial machine. And India, with plans to up their nuclear power output eight times over during the next decade, isn't far behind.
That could easily make 2010 the "year for uranium."
And that's why I'd love to share two easy ways for you to gain from the coming reawakening in uranium and nuclear-driven stocks.
One gives you a simple way to move on every uranium sector that could jump higher over the year ahead, from miners and storage, to nuclear equipment, plants, enrichment, and transportation.
It's a single play, tracking the whole uranium boom. Including moves that get you outside of the dollar. Yet you can act on this without sending a nickel outside the U.S.
I'm already sharing this same research with my paid-up Outstanding Investments subscribers. But I'd like to send it to you right now, as part of special invitation, FREE.
You'll find both this special move and a second one in another brand new report I call China's Next Big Crisis: Two Ways to Get Rich... As Shanghai Goes Dark!
It's included as one of five FREE reports you'll get when you give me permission to send you my new 2010-2011 Crude Awakening Countdown Library.
You'll find everything you need inside, from more on how and why uranium could hit over $60 this year... to why some call for $250 uranium in the near future... plus everything about the only two uranium moves you'll need to make to see huge gains on this, over the months and years ahead.
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Behind History's Greatest Fortunes?
Behind History's Greatest Fortunes?
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Once you've had a chance to look that over, I've got an even better invitation for you. One I think you'll like very much. You'll find the details at the end of this letter.
But first, let me give you another small sample of what you'll discover...
Defensive Energy Power Play #3:
The Gold Secret Nobody's Telling
The Gold Secret Nobody's Telling
What's the single best money move you could have made, from 1999 until now?
You must already know... it's gold.
With the yellow metal alone, you could have quadrupled your wealth.
While S&P stocks fell 9.7%... gold shot up 323%.
If that sounds like a fluke, go back over the last 25 years.
You'll find the single best year for stocks was just 31%... while gold's best year topped 100.2%... and precious metal coins did even better, up 198.8%!
But you've got to wonder now...
Has Gold Had Its Run?
From 1979 to 1982, during the Iranian hostage crisis and the worst inflation the U.S. has seen yet, the yellow metal surged 2,329%.
At 323%, we haven't even covered a fraction of that ground.
hope that sounds fair to you. I also hope it's something you'll decide on quickly. See, a lot of investors think that this last soaring cycle of the commodities market was all we get. We believe there's a whole lot more ahead. But you don't want to wait too long to get in position, or you'll miss out. So don't wait too long to make up your mind.
Sincerely,
Byron King, Editor
Outstanding Investments
April, 2010
Byron King, Editor
Outstanding Investments
April, 2010
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