Introducing the World's Best "Emergency Currency"

It's been eight days since the power grid went down...

You thank God for the disaster "prepping" you did in advance. It's kept you and your family alive up to this point.

But you never imagined you'd need more than a week's worth of supplies...

Now your food and water are running dangerously low – there are a few packs of chips and some cookies in the kitchen cabinet... they'll keep your family fed another day. But you need a Plan B – FAST – because "normal service" isn't resuming anytime soon...

The local grocery store's shelves were stripped bare by panic buyers and looters on day one. It's since been boarded up and abandoned by the owners.

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Why the Stock Market Could Go MUCH Higher From Here

To understand why the stock market does what it does, you need to think like a money manager. A very specific type of money manager...

That's because individual investors don't have much influence on stock prices. Nor do professional speculators or hedge funds.

So what is the strongest force driving stock prices?

The answer: institutional investors.

Institutional investors are the blue whales of the investing world. The rest of us are plankton, comparatively speaking.

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The Only Safe Way to Double... or Even Triple... Your Income

If you live in the US, you're getting paid interest of less than 1% per year on your CD.

Bonds are yielding next to nothing. And dividend stocks are starting to look like a crowded play.

But there is a safe source of high yields available to you. It's a strategy called "covered call writing."

This strategy allows you to earn extra income on your dividend-paying stocks by collecting a steady stream of payments in the options market.

This may sound like a confusing – even a risky – way to boost your income. It isn't. You can use this strategy to double... or even triple... your regular dividend income over and over again without adding risk to your portfolio.

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Rick Rule: Why I Am Still a Gold Bug

I think that one of the things you have to look at in the gold market is that we are changing the nature of ownership, from institutional momentum holders who are leveraged, which is a long way of saying "weak hands," to physical individual buyers on a global basis, which is a different way of saying "strong hands." So one of the things that happened in the gold smackdown is that gold did what many things do in bear markets: It went from weak hands to strong hands.

– Resource investor Rick Rule, Sprott Group

Here's a chart you should be aware of. It signals lower, not higher, gold prices in the near future.


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What you're looking at is a six-month chart of daily price movements of spot gold. After regaining about half of its losses following the mid-April "mini crash," the gold price is rolling over.

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