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Just some of the things you’ll discover in
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>> A 10-step ‘Alternative Financial Plan’ that aimed at protecting your wealth from the ‘piranhas’ of the financial industry... See CHAPTER 15
>> Australia’s recession panic has finally started… See what a complete loss of confidence in the Aussie economy in 2017 might look like in CHAPTER 14
>> Why the ‘time-in-the-market’ mantra is utter HOGWASH. ‘Stay in stocks and investment products! Your patience will be rewarded!’ That’s music to the fund management industry’s ears…and rivers of gold into their personal bank accounts. But, as you’ll see on PAGE 78, it’s actually a very dangerous myth for you…
>> This simple mistake (encouraged by many in the industry right now) could cost you 40% of your capital between now and 2025. (As you’ll see in CHAPTER 11, add in ‘fee seepage’ and it could be closer to 50%!)
>> Why your super fund’s policy for hiring stock-pickers is likely to be 180 degrees wrong… And why it could cost you a fortune in lost returns over the next five years… PAGE 96
>> The ‘Past Performance Deception’ — the greatest, and potentially most damaging, investing myth blown wide open in CHAPTER 4
>> A hedge fund alternative that has outperformed actively-managed portfolios by 80% over a 16-year period.This gem is explained between PAGES 51 and 53.
>> 13 guiding principles to advancing and protecting wealth in a ‘rigged’ system... CHAPTER 7
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Dear Reader,
Rigged.
It’s an emotive and inflammatory word.
Scandinavian in origin, the term dates back to the 15th century.
It originally meant ‘to fit with sails’. Over time, it took on a less savory meaning: ‘jerry-rigged’ — a rash, slapdash measure.
It didn’t come to mean ‘a trick, swindle or scheme’ until later.
That latter version of ‘rigged’ has been linked with another term: ‘financial markets’.
A Times of London article back in 1826 talked about an attempt to ‘rig’ joint-stock companies by manipulating their prices. One was the Egyptian Trading Co., which earned the title of ‘one of the very best “rigged” companies that ever were introduced into the share-market.’
So, is the financial industry rigged against you today?
This is not a trick question.
In fact, with $1.6 trillion in superannuation savings entrusted to the Australian investment industry…
It’s the most important question you could ever ask when it comes to your wealth and future
Superannuation funds just delivered their seventh year in a row of positive investment returns.
This seven-year run is the second-longest stretch of positive performance since super became compulsory for employees in 1992, according to research group SuperRatings.
The official purpose of those returns is to provide you with income in retirement.
But here’s the thing…
What if the custodians of all that cash have rigged the game in their own favour?
A young Tony Abbott famously told parliament in 1995: ‘Compulsory superannuation is one of the biggest con jobs ever foisted by government on the Australian people....’
Is that true?
When you think of the financial industry lawsuits and mis-selling scandals making headlines recently, this is not exactly a controversial claim…
An ANZ planner jailed for stealing $1m; the Westpac subsidiary ordered to pay $493,000 after breaching consumer protections; the CommInsure chief medical officer blowing the whistle on unethical practices…
ASIC bans a former NAB adviser for misleading and deceptive conduct; CBA staff accused of complicity in Ponzi scheme worth $76m; Commonwealth Bank offers $3m compensation for financial advice to date; ASIC sues Westpac over alleged market manipulation in setting bank bill swap rate…
Now, that’s not over the last 10 years, reader…
All of that was in the
first six months of 2016!
And all of the above is just the stuff we know about!
If you’re like many regular investors and savers, you have come to deeply mistrust our markets — and those who make a living from them.
But is this mistrust founded?
More importantly: Does the rigging go far deeper — and far further — than what you’re reading about in the newspapers?
You need to get your head around this NOW.
Australia’s economy is on a knife-edge.
In case you missed it, we just had a 0.5% FALL in GDP.
That’s only happened a few times over the past quarter century.
Our economy literally SHRUNK. That has not happened in a long, long time.
We are not in a recession — yet. A technical recession means two consecutive negative quarters of GDP. So we’ll have to wait until early next year for the confirmation. But things are not looking good…
As I say: With the stakes — and stocks — so high in Australia right now, there are perhaps no more important questions to ask than these:
‘Is the whole investment system rigged against you?’
And;
‘Are Australian savers and investors being “set up” to swallow historic losses?’
I’ve written a new book to give you truthful answers
I am perhaps uniquely positioned to do so.
My name is Vern Gowdie.
My financial planning firm was recognised for four years running by Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) as one of the top five in Australia. My planning career
dates back to late 1986.
Over that time there were three distinct boom and bust periods. These were:
- Pre and post 1987 ‘crash’
- Pre and post 2000 ‘tech wreck’
- Pre and post 2007/08 GFC.
In each case, I witnessed firsthand the conflict of interest for planners.
If you hose down investor enthusiasm in a boom (recommend your client thinks twice before buying high), you lose revenue.
Conversely, after the boom (the best time to buy discounted assets), you don’t want to scare away gun-shy clients by recommending they ‘get in’.
With commitments to meet, your planner can’t afford to adopt this contrarian advice model.
This creates a conflict…do you stop clients from self-harm (and, in doing so, harm your own income-earning capacity)?
If you genuinely believe a big dive in stock markets is coming, do you advise your client accordingly?
The answer, for the most part, is no.
The industry…the entire ‘Australian investment complex’…is not built that way.
When you have a system like this, where over 80% of financial planners have direct or indirect ties to institutions, you, as an investor, have a BIG problem.
And when you factor in compulsory superannuation, you have an even BIGGER problem.
The investment industry, in all its forms (institutions, fund managers, financial planners, stockbrokers, newsletter writers, investment journalists, and so on), has EVERYTHING banked on the market going up...and up...and up.
But what if the industry’s belief is misplaced? What if a new trend is being established? What if markets are in the early years of a long-term downward trend?
This is the immense danger facing you and your wealth right now…
And it’s why you need to read my new book as soon as possible.
It’s called How Much Bull Can Investors Bear? Seeing Through the Investment Industry’s Smoke and Mirrors.
It shows you — clearly — that the period we have experienced in the markets is NOT normal.
That it is an extraordinary illusion created by the Western world’s insatiable appetite for debt.
That a reckoning is coming.
And that the many people who you entrust your financial future to are woefully unprepared for what I think is coming.
See, if you’re an Aussie planner in 2017, you’re not going to warn your clients that markets look dangerous.
You’re not going to encourage investors to sell up and go to cash. To get out before the next big crash happens. Because that’s essentially sacrificing income.
The term ‘rigged’ means pre-arranging results to achieve a certain outcome.
If you’re only telling one side of the story — that asset prices always go up — you are, in effect, pre-arranging the result for your client.
Let me give you an example of the mindset I’m talking about. It comes from a May 2016 USA Today article titled:
‘Stock Meltdown Doesn’t Scare Your Financial Advisor: YOU Do’
It explained that financial advisers and planners were unconcerned about massive market meltdowns.
Their REAL worry is how their clients react to them.
For instance, what you may call ‘going to safer ground to avoid capital loss’, they call ‘panic selling’. The article explains their thinking thus:
‘Seeking short-term comfort is a natural reaction when you see your portfolio take a sharp turn south. But panic sellers risk missing out on gains when a down cycle for stocks reverses direction.’
Have a think about that for a second.
What if you don’t sell, and the market goes down…and down…and down?
A global share market catastrophe is not your everyday event.
But they happen.
Japanese share investors witnessed firsthand — albeit over two decades — what an 80%-plus collapse looks and feels like. This was death by a thousand cuts. Down, up, sideways, down — it was a long and head-scrambling path to financial oblivion.
Were Japanese who took their capital out of the share market right at the start of this fall ‘panic selling’?
Who is better placed to take advantage of a market reversal: the investor who went to cash before an 80% fall in stock markets?
Or the investor who didn’t ‘panic sell’, stayed the course, and watched 80% of their capital get wiped out?
A loss of 80% requires a gain of 800% just to break even. Those kinds of returns do not come every day. You will take two more decades just to get back to where you were 40 years ago!
It doesn’t take too many brain cells to figure out that avoiding the devastating loss in the first place would be the preferred outcome.
However, this is not advice you will get from most financial planners.
As I will show you in my new book, which you can download immediately by CLICKING HERE, the rigging of the financial industry is often down to subtle semantics.
Liquidating stocks because you think a big downturn is coming is labelled ‘panic selling’.
Fail to listen to your adviser’s recommendation to buy more stocks, and you are a ‘saver frozen by fear’.
The USA Today article continues, my emphasis added:
‘It’s the continual addition of money to an account (dollar-cost averaging) that keeps the wheels of compounding rolling and smooths out long-term returns. But jittery investors are more apt to abandon this key part of the wealth-building equation. “The volatile market and fearful outlook are giving clients the mental excuse not to continue saving and investing according to their plan,” says Brian McCann, principal at Bootstrap Capital in San Jose.’
I am all for dollar-cost averaging. It is without doubt the most prudent strategy for long-term investing.
But, for many baby boomers, the investing horizon is NOT long term.
What if you are in your 60s — at, or near, the end of your saving life — and a huge market correction occurs?
How will a strategy of not selling — and the ‘continual addition of money to an account’ — work for you then?
The Great Depression correction took place over a three-year period. You can see it on the charts, but we really can’t comprehend what it was like to live that nightmare on a daily basis.
The fact that we’ve never personally experienced a collapse of this magnitude is why we cannot fathom the prospect of it happening again.
And it’s why almost all financial planners simply don’t factor
it into their advice
The economic and market information being fed to financial planners comes primarily from two sources: investment institutions and research firms.
These commentaries are largely predictable. Always wise after the event...but never before.
As I show in How Much Bull Can Investors Bear? Seeing Through the Investment Industry’s Smoke and Mirrors, following the advice of institutional economists and professional marketers in the coming years is, in my view, going to be financial suicide.
You will simply keep getting fed the same old spin — things will keep going up OR, if they are down, they will soon go up.
I wrote my new book to expose the fact that the investment industry has willingly become hostage to the fortunes of the share market.
It was easy money. The stellar performance of shares, compared to boring cash and term deposits (with falling rates of return), made managed funds and direct share investing a fairly easy sell. The industry grew fat and complacent on the coattails of the share market.
But, as I show in my book, those days are coming to an end.
The industry will belatedly ‘fess up’ after the ‘big one’ takes place in the market.
By then, though, the damage will be done. Peoples’ portfolios will be decimated. Their retirements ruined.
You, as an investor, have reached a critical juncture.
I’ve written How Much Bull Can Investors Bear? to help guide you through it.
The Aussie financial industry’s ‘inconvenient truth’
I started the book two years ago, when I undertook a journey to expose my former industry for what it really is: a ‘rigged’ money machine that is leading many Australians to financial disaster.
The more I delved into this world, the more I doubted the traditional financial planning approach.
I discovered that, while shares may claim to be the highest-returning asset class over the long term, there are periods of 15 to 20 years where the share market offers little return at all.
This is the inconvenient truth the industry never acknowledges.
The major market corrections in recent history — 1987, 2000 and 2008 — have taught us two things:
- Markets can, and do, fall 50%-plus in value in a very short timeframe.
- You can count on one hand the number of institutional economists, analysts or financial planners who predicted major corrections.
Starting with the last point first, forget about receiving any advance warning of an imminent market catastrophe from the mainstream.
That’s why ‘rigged’ is not an exaggeration when describing the system you are saving and investing in.
It simply is not in their best interests to present a ‘what if’ scenario. You have to do your own homework and decide whether markets are on stable or precarious grounds.
As for the first point: What if the next downturn is a one-in-100 year event?
What if a brutal and unforgiving two-day selloff, like what we saw after Britain voted to leave the EU, goes on for a week…a month…or longer?
It has happened before.
And, as I show in my book, it could be about to happen again…
How Much Bull Can Investors Bear? reveals why I think this dark market event is coming.
Why most Australian investors and savers are neither financially NOR psychologically prepared for it.
And it reveals some low-cost, easy-to implement counterattack strategies…for yourself, your family, and your wealth. Strategies your financial planner either may not know about…or is actually incentivised NOT to tell you about…
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You’ll see that much of the information in this book directly contradicts what the public have been led to believe about investing.
My aim is to help you see through all the spin...all the smoke and mirrors...of the Australian financial industry.
And to prepare for what I believe could be one of the most critical and dangerous times for investing since the Second World War.
It also encourages you to think about your investment choices yourself…and assists you in building your own independent financial plan.
Make no mistake: The decisions you make today could have serious repercussions in the years to come.
In 1987 we had a dress rehearsal for the events that lie in wait for us.
This time, it is a lot more serious than a handful of upstart entrepreneurs causing the banks indigestion.
Indebted nations, corporations and households are threatening the very viability of the financial system.
And I believe the system is rigged, from the top down, to make sure you ignore this fact.
Until it’s too late…
The mainstream media is not telling you the story you will discover in this book.
Because, as my friend Bill Bonner puts it:
‘They get a lot of advertisers, and those advertisers don’t want to hear that story. And the customers, the people who buy the newspapers, they don’t want to hear the story. Government doesn’t want to hear it. Government is the biggest debtor on the planet. The last thing they want to hear is that the end of the credit bubble is coming because, then, they won’t be able to keep borrowing.
‘So there’s almost no part of the financial world or serious financial actors who want to see the truth or want to talk about the truth.’
As my book shows, even while the next crash is unfolding, the investment industry will want to maintain its relevance in your life.
And will keep beating the drum that stock markets in a broken financial world can somehow keep going up.
When you say a system is rigged, the kneejerk reaction of many is to scoff.
Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research, a long-time Wall Street sage, told CNBC in March 2015 straight up that ‘these markets are all rigged, and I don’t say that critically. I just say that factually.’
Such lone voices tend to be dismissed as ‘tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists’.
But you don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to see that central banks are doing everything they can to keep stock markets going up.
Or to appreciate the investment industry has every interest in keeping this rigged gravy train rolling…right up until it smashes into the wall. That they will avail themselves of the best and brightest marketers, right until the end, to convince you they have the solutions to your growing concerns.
Seeing the system for what it is will be essential to your financial survival in the coming years.
That’s what this book is about.
Many of your fellow investors and savers are completely in the dark about what you’ll discover when you read it. Others have a vague sense that the system they invest in is being manipulated — but they have no idea of the scale and extent of the manipulation.
And then there are those who see exactly what’s going on — but who are paid not to see it.
It could take years for the market to zig and zag its way to exhaustion, as we’ve seen with both Japan and the Great Depression.
The aim of this book is simple: To open your eyes so you see that such a period in the markets is not just possible, but probable. And then to give you some practical tips for seeing the financial industry’s magic tricks for what they really are…to help you protect and grow your wealth during the testing times ahead.
The Number One REASON you should download this book now
Thanks to compulsory superannuation, we, more than almost any other nation on Earth, have had our retirements hogtied to the financial markets.
As economist Mike Rafferty from the University of Sydney Business School told the ABC’s AM program: ‘Over the last 20 years we’ve forced more and more people into the stock market through compulsory superannuation.’
He reckons around 90% of superannuation funds are linked in some way or another with stock market returns:
‘Australia’s probably the most highly-exposed in terms of putting its retirement savings in the stock market…
‘…how much of ordinary life do we push through financial markets…how much anxiety do you want people approaching (or in) retirement to be facing?’
But here’s the really scary thing:
The real danger here is not just your own financial future chained to a market that’s about to crash. A lot of Australians also have their livelihoods tied to this Ponzi scheme.
Call it survival or self-interest, but there is no way they’ll want to be part of the massive contraction when it happens.
Until the crash arrives — and even during it — my view is that the investment industry will use every trick in the book to misguide you.
>> They will make out that you’re stupid for wanting less-risky assets like cash, gold and index funds — which also happen to have the lowest fee structures. Funny that!
>> They will continue to pretend they’re working for you…instead of themselves and their institutional owner. Consumer advocacy group Choice found that ‘Australia’s six largest financial planning groups had consistently directed customers to their own superannuation products.’
>> They will likely pump an even bigger portion of the fees they extract from you into marketing campaigns to convince you to stay in an increasingly unstable market.
>> They will continue to create the illusion that highly-priced professional management delivers superior performance. When all the data shows that’s just not true…
The purpose of my book is to help you see through all this BS.
And to give you effective strategies to start ‘in-sourcing’ your financial future out of their hands and back into yours…
It is time, reader, for you to take the power back.
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But how do you fight back against a rigged system?
That’s the question my new book sets out to answer.
I have used knowledge, experience and critical thinking from both inside and outside the industry to create for you the definitive ‘fight-back’ guide.
Revealing just a fraction of the tips and strategies contained in this guide would be commercial suicide for any financial planner.
But I’m going to do it today.
Not just because I am in a unique position to do so, now that I’m no longer affiliated with the industry.
But because I feel I MUST. It’s a moral obligation…
In this guide you will discover:
PAGE 82: The dirty trick used by fund managers to skew their results into positive — so they can feed off your money for as long as possible…
CHAPTER 5: Why there’s more than a fraction too much friction in your portfolio. The many hidden layers of fees and expenses killing your returns…and how to dramatically reduce them…
CHAPTER 9: How to manage your emotions when the next ‘big one’ happens. This chapter is devoted to staying ‘cool’ and making smart decisions while everyone else is losing their minds…
PAGE 84: The ‘Lower-Tax Lure’ Exposed… How the industry invents tax offset schemes as capital ‘honey traps’. Most fail and provide a great source of revenue for receivers. Related to this…
CHAPTER 16: Lessons, tips and cautionary tales from real Aussies in the investment trenches. You’ll find this chapter riveting. In The Gowdie Letter, I asked readers to send me their experiences — good or bad — with financial planners. This chapter is the result…
PAGE 71: Why the tax office is NOT your enemy. The financial industry just sets them up as a pantomime villain — so THEY can get their hands on MORE of your money…
CHAPTER 3: A ‘single P/E future’ is coming… Meaning a double-whammy for stock markets — lower earnings multiplied by single-figure P/E ratios — that could result in an 80%-plus market correction. YES, 80%...
CHAPTER 9: My ‘model portfolio’ for surviving this wealth wipeout. It’s deliberately transparent and low cost. Some in the industry would label it as too simplistic. That’s fine. It’s my money, not theirs…
PAGE 51: The outrageous truth about Australian hedge funds — New data shows that, when you account for management costs and fees, less than 1% manage to outperform the index on a net basis! Meaning your final odds of identifying the outperforming active manager are a demoralising one in 100!
CHAPTER 14: Are your bank savings as safe as you think they are? With a full-blown crisis in play, will your bank savings really be protected? Even if they are on paper, does the government actually have the billions of dollars to honour the Deposit Guarantee?
This book digs into the inner-workings of the ‘Australian-investment-complex’.
It’s a warts-and-all look at the money you’re using to fund your lifestyle and your future — and the people who have influence over it.
When you dig into these facts, ones that aren’t mentioned in the Australian Financial Review, you’ll start to see why SO MUCH MONEY IS BEING MADE HERE, in this tiny Australasian outpost, by the financial industry.
But not by you.
If you’re worried about what’s been happening in the global economy…and how it’s going to affect your wealth in Australia…you should read How Much Bull Can Investors Bear? Seeing Through the Investment Industry’s Smoke and Mirrors.
I’m not charging $30 or $40 in bookshops or on Amazon. It’s the culmination of years of work, but it needs to get out there…
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I really, really hope you do.
If you’ve followed the news headlines, you’ll know the Aussie economy has finally discovered reverse gear.
GDP shrank by 0.5% in the September 2016 quarter.
There’s now a chorus of calls pleading for government action to generate ‘growth’.
The stock-standard and oh-so-predictable response is that we need to lower interest rates…in other words, make the ‘debt fuel’ that the economy runs on even cheaper. It’s the kind of programmed response you’d expect from a debt addict.
As I’ve said, we are heading for a reckoning in some form.
Chances are you sense this is the case, too.
But while all this plays out, the investment industry is going to do everything possible to keep you inside the sinking boat…
This is going to lead many Australians towards financial ruin.
I wrote How Much Bull Can Investors Bear? for Australians who don’t want that happening to them.
As it shows, the debt-funded global growth model is reaching its use-by date.
Australia’s weakened position means that, when the next ‘big one’ takes place, it could hit us like a sledgehammer.
But when will it happen?
Well, the truth is that major events like this rarely have big triggers or flashpoints.
For example, the Arab Spring — a revolution that toppled four governments, sparked civil wars, and led to mass protests and riots in at least 12 other countries — began when a fruit vendor set himself on fire.
When the right set of conditions are all aligned, it doesn’t take a big event to set off a historic implosion.
It’s almost always something small and unexpected.
Nevertheless, knowing potential triggers on Australia’s immediate horizon can be very useful.
US$8 trillion has been printed into existence since 2008. It had to go somewhere.
Any guesses where it flowed to in Australia?
Try these on for size…
Bonds. High yield securities. Shares. Property. Infrastructure. Private Equity. Venture capital.
So what are the likely flashpoints here in 2017? Which of these are most vulnerable? What are some warning signs to look for that may indicate the slide is properly underway?
My latest book is actually just one part of a library of ‘Wealth Defense Resources’ I’d like to put into your hands today.
The next resource I’m making available for you online today is called:
‘Five “Flashpoints” to Watch Out for in Australia in 2017’
Look, this moment we’re coming to, when it hits, you’ve GOT to be on the right side of the equation.
If you’re on the right side of the equation, you’ll have an ability to protect yourself, and even potentially fast-track your wealth.
But you want to be aware.
You have to have situational awareness.
Most people don’t care about this stuff.
But YOU should try to understand, in advance, what’s going on. So you can react in a sensible way. So that you WON’T panic.
I’ve added ‘Five “Flashpoints” to Watch Out for in Australia in 2017’ to the library of resources I’m going to give you to give you situational awareness.
With this in mind, there’s something else I want you to have…
When the axe falls, most people won’t know what hit us.
As you will see when you download the package, one of my goals is to help you take your capital out of range from the swinging axe. To do that, you need to know which supposedly ‘safe’ investments might be hit first.
Which is why I want to give you access to something else…
‘Five Fatal Stocks to Sell NOW’
The investment industry thrives on myths.
Two of the biggest ones are ‘cash is trash’ and ‘blue chip shares are safe’.
But history shows something different…
It shows that the gravitational pull of ‘reversion to the mean’ eventually works its way through the ENTIRE market…even for the bluest of blue chips.
In the rush by panicked investors to cash up, the most liquid shares are the most readily saleable. How do you get your hands on CASH in times of financial upheaval? You are forced to sell your best stuff — blue chip shares, quality property and precious metals.
Try finding a buyer for your ‘specky’ miner in a busting market...you’ll be waiting an awfully long time to receive ‘pennies on the dollar’.
When push comes to shove, and only cash is required, it’s blue chips that get sold first…at a discount.
They will crash, and crash hard.
Some, though, are more vulnerable than others.
For that reason, I have highlighted the five most dangerous blue chip stocks to own right now.
Financial planners, professional market watchers and industry commentators might scoff at you placing a sell order on these five stocks.
But, as I hope I’ve shown in this presentation, their agenda is not yours.
I believe these five bedrock stocks of the ASX 200 could be GUTTED when the rout begins. If you hold these stocks, my suggestion is to GET OUT NOW and turn those shares into cash…
Your library contains another vital resource.
Only this gift isn’t for you…
It’s a digital version of my first book, A Parent’s Gift of Knowledge.
This short, 120-page book is for your children and grandchildren.
In fact, I penned it for my own daughters, to give them the financial mindset needed to navigate the trying times ahead.
The new era we are entering will be harder for our children in many ways. They will not have the tailwinds you and I, and our parents, have had for the last 50 years.
The monetary value of a well-balanced family with a strong moral compass and work ethic during this time is impossible to calculate…it really is priceless.
A Parent’s Gift of Knowledge covers how to manage personal finance, stock and property investments, economic events and family decisions in this new world. I invite you to download your copy — and to give copies to your children.
There’s ONE MORE very special resource that you’ll get when you click on the link below this video window…
This comes to you as a gift from my friend Bill Bonner…
Like me, Bill has been observing our growing credit system. And he’s seen shocking similarities to other large-scale disasters in history.
And that what’s about to happen shares a very important common thread with almost every single big failure and disaster.
But what’s more intriguing is that this same thread pops up everywhere, even in places you’d least expect. It’s a very simple phenomenon. It’s been recorded by scientists, and yet most people don’t realise it exists.
That’s astounding because everything, from national debt and credit, to war, to making money and getting rich, to success in business, or how you interact and get along with other people, to almost any task we undertake, even your own projects and life’s ambitions, are deeply affected by this one thing.
As Bill Bonner says:
‘Had Napoleon understood this, his family might be still ruling half of Europe. If that seems incredible, it’s precisely why I find this one thing so fascinating. It’s everywhere.’
If more people understood it, says Bill, we’d be leading much healthier, longer lives, with much less government.
It’s so exceptional, he’s actually written a book about it. It’s called Hormegeddon: How to Much of a Good Thing Leads to Disaster.
I would say that it’s the best book he’s ever written. And Bill believes it’s the last book he’ll ever write…because he considers it to be the final word on everything he’s spent the last 40 years building.
Hormegeddon is not a self-help book.
But it’s almost impossible to truly understand what’s about to happen to us without understanding what the word ‘Hormegeddon’ means.
Here’s what bestselling Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University, had to say about Hormegeddon:
‘This is a must-must-must-read… It is deep, illustrative, witty, pleasant to read.’
And contrarian economist Marc Faber, aka ‘Dr Doom’, said:
‘I am seldom jealous of anybody, but I truly envy Bill Bonner’s writing and intellectual skills… It is funny, cynical, sarcastic, highly informative, beautifully written, entertaining, and most importantly, written by a man who is not afraid to tell the truth, and stand up for it. I do not say this often, but when I read his Hormegeddon, I was truly in awe.’
Another reviewer writes:
‘This is a book that works on so many levels…and it’s the kind of advice you wish your dad would have given you.’
You can buy a hardcover copy online.
But Bill has kindly given me permission to include an electronic copy of Hormegeddon in the intelligence library I’ve already mentioned.
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It’s a pretty impressive package.
My publisher at Port Phillip Publishing has never released a dossier of resources of this size and importance before.
What makes this package of resources so unique?
Well, for a start, it’s information and advice from a completely independent source.
Port Phillip Publishing is not publicly funded. Nor are we listed and beholden to shareholders.
We are independent of the Big Four banks, the Australian financial-industrial-complex, the large media companies, and Big Business.
This is important.
None of those actors are going to advise you correctly in the event of a prolonged downturn in the Australian share market.
We don’t have to pretend not to see this huge credit bubble getting ready to pop. And who’s really responsible for it. We’re all out here on our own.
We owe all our success to individuals just like you, not to Big Money
We are one of the few sources warning about what could be the defining collapse of the global financial system we’ve gotten used to for so long.
Right now, I’m worried about what might happen to you, and to other Australians, when the credit markets seize up…superannuation funds are gutted…it spreads to every facet of the economy…and it takes YEARS to recover.
For that reason, probably the most important thing I’m going to offer you is something I haven’t even mentioned yet.
It’s a pass to a very special group…
Here is the problem you face if you gamble your future on ‘mainstream’ investment advice…
Never — not once in over 30 years in the investment business — have I heard the following two terms used: Secular Bull and Secular Bear market.
Not in presentations. Not in seminars. Not in research papers.
But they exist.
We know from share market charts that, over the very long term (100-plus years), the market’s positive (bullish) periods have certainly outweighed the negative (bearish) ones.
Progress has been made with a pattern of ‘two steps forward and one step back’.
But that when the secular bear markets DO come…they are BRUTAL.
The problem you have now is that investors don’t have 100-year timeframes. The majority of people have investment horizons that stretch between 20 to 40 years.
So people think that what we’ve had over the last 40 years is normal.
And the industry is more than happy to perpetuate that myth.
It ISN’T normal.
And I’d like to invite you to join a group that faces up to this fact.
It’s like a passport into our world, one that’s not governed by political correctness, the ‘official line’, or partisan media networks.
You see, what I think comes next is going to be shocking. It’s going to be very distressing.
It will likely be a reckoning so severe that it will transcend financial markets and seep into every area of society.
That’s why, as well as my new book, and all the resources I’ve outlined so far, I invite you to take a trial subscription to my newsletter, The Gowdie Letter.
It’s not an investing service, although I will occasionally cue my readers to an actionable tip if I think it’s worthwhile.
It’s definitely not a trading service or self-help guide. For me, The Gowdie Letter is a personal project.
But for you, it’s a front-row seat to some of the biggest economic changes of our time.
This is a service for people who want more than what they see on TV and in the financial media…who want to tune out all the guff that we’re constantly bombarded with, tuning into something fresh instead.
It’s for people who know that there’s another point of view out there, and who just want a way to tap into it.
Today, I’m inviting you to join The Gowdie Letter and claim everything I’ve mentioned so far, including digital copies of…
>> A digital copy of my brand new book, How Much Bull Can Investors Bear: Seeing Through the Investment Industry’s Smoke and Mirrors.
PLUS digital copies of:
>> Five ‘Flashpoints’ to Watch Out for in Australia in 2017
>> Five Fatal Stocks to Sell Now
>> A Parent’s Gift of Knowledge
>> Bill Bonner’s Hormegeddon
I really think this package of resources could easily sell for $500.00, or even $5,000.00, but I truly want to get this message out to as many people as possible.
That’s why the price for an all-access 12-month pass to The Gowdie Letter is just $99.00.
However, as a ‘thank you’ for hearing me out, I want to give you a substantial discount, so I’m cutting that down to just $49
And you can try it at my risk…
I will give you a full 30 days to try out everything you’re about to get…
And if you’re not totally satisfied, if you are in any way underwhelmed, then you can just call in and get a full refund during that 30-day period.
There’s no obligation for you to stay on and, frankly, there’s a lot to be gained.
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If you do, there is one more piece of research that I think you’ll find extremely useful, and which I will make sure is included in your package (at no extra cost).
I think you’ll love it. I’ll explain…
In previous writings, I have called the period of major financial upheaval that’s coming the ‘Long Bust’.
During this period, the government will not have your back. It will be much more concerned with saving itself.
But as far as taking care of your own money — to make sure you don’t lose money and even use this situation to come out quite a bit ahead — there is a plan of action you can take…
An Survival Plan for Australia’s Coming ‘Long Bust’
How Much Bull Can Investor’s Bear? shines a light into the murky world of the Australian investment industry.
This final resource examines the coming crisis in more detail…and looks at the Long Bust through a wider lens.
I put it together so you can do sensible things to make sure YOU are not blindsided by a downturn so severe…so destructive…that you may not live long enough to recover your losses.
It’s a financial survival plan boiled down to two steps.
And it is laid out in full in my previous book, published in 2015, called The End of Australia: The Real Story Behind Australia’s Coming Economic Collapse and What You Can Do to Survive It.
I take heart from the fact that 30,000 have either ordered or downloaded this book over the last year. Hopefully many of them already have this plan in place.
All of the moves I recommend are fairly straightforward to implement — at least right now. If you wait to do these things, however, they will almost certainly get very expensive, difficult, and even impossible to do.
These strategies are based on years of research and analysis, studying the markets and how they move in boom and bust conditions.
If you do these things now, not only will you be better prepared to weather the coming storm…I believe you could lock in massive rebound-gains if you pick the right assets, at the right time.
I’m going to include a digital version of this book in the library of resources you’ll receive, IF YOU CLICK HERE.
It will help you understand what’s coming.
Prepare for it.
But, most importantly, be ready to use it to your advantage when the time comes.
When the valuation metrics reach a certain point — which I outline in the book — it will be time to start gradually committing your capital to my ‘post-crash portfolio’.
I’ll show you which assets to target…and in what order…
…and how to gradually shift into these assets while they are still heavily discounted by investors at wits’ end.
We’ve covered some dark material in this video.
But chances to make true fortunes tend to come in times of great dislocation.
I wrote The End of Australia so you can see what’s coming.
Survive it.
And THEN beat the herd into once-in-a-lifetime buying opportunities at deeply discounted levels.
As dire as the current situation is, I believe the end will pave the way for a new beginning. An Australia that’s not addicted to debt. A nation where our children and grandchildren no longer have to bear the burden of our overindulgences.
The core message of this letter is simple:
No one cares for your money like you
By clicking the link below, you will arm yourself with some of the resources you need to weather a coming storm.
And the choices you make today will decide where you’ll be when the slide is on, when our financial services industry and economy implodes, and when decades of recession-free living come to an end.
As I said, there’s no obligation to stay on as a subscriber by downloading these ‘defense assets’.
You’ll have 30 days to make a decision about whether this is for you.
If you decide it’s not, all you have to do is let us know within 30 days. You’ll receive a 100% full refund. That’s my guarantee. But the decision is yours. After all, it’s your money, your life, and your call. Please click below to get started immediately.