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Dear Wealth-Builder,
Oil crisis? Baloney! Wall Street is like a bird dazzled by the shiny object inches from its beak. And if Wall Street can't stop talking about oil, it's the last thing you should invest in.
You've heard the news. Oil at $75 a barrel! "Everyone" knows we're in an energy bull market. "Everyone" knows that demand for oil is skyrocketing. "Everyone" knows where the next billion barrels of oil are coming from. "Everyone" is telling you to buy oil stocks.
Mainstream media, such as Barron's, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, are reporting on our "pain at the pump," "our dangerous dependence on foreign oil" or "price gouging by oil companies." Even the popular financial magazines are recommending several oil stock picks.
But I'm telling my readers NOT to follow the crowd and invest in oil stocks. And I bet that as a market-savvy watcher with a strong contrarian streak, you might be feeling a little uncomfortable about investing with the herd too. That's why I'm writing to you today.
Hello, I'm Chris Mayer, editor of Capital & Crisis. My job is to constantly challenge mainstream thinking and alert the unsuspecting to the pitfalls of Wall Street's latest declaration... such as today's "buy oil and energy stocks" craze. 
And here's why.
Nobody ever got rich - SERIOUSLY rich - by following what Wall Street had to say. And you only need to look at the paltry 0.54% average return of the S&P 500 for the past five years to see what I mean. And so far in 2006 - the S&P is returning zilch!
But if you had known about the stocks I have been talking about, you would have seen a 48% average gain on every stock bought and sold. That's a far cry from Wall Street's advice.
It does appear that once Wall Street starts talking about a "new" trend, the "current" crisis or a "hot-moving" stock, you can bet the profit ride is pretty much over. Any highly favored Wall Street stock has most likely already seen the big juggernaut gains. And the "Johnny-come-lately" investors who follow the crowd are usually left with small, pitiful upticks.
I'd say about 99% of investors buy what's "Wall Street hot"... and are happy with the measly returns. Today, it's happening again with oil stocks. The lemmings are only now rushing in to buy oil stocks at high prices. Oil and gas stocks may still do OK, but the time to buy them for double, triple, even quadruple gains was five years ago. Not now!
If you remember, the monster bull market in oil began in 1999 and 2000 with oil at $10-11 a barrel. It's currently selling at $75-77 a barrel. That's a 700% increase! And it's only NOW that Wall Street and the mainstream media decide to jump on the oil play? Come on!
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| Chris Mayer is an old-fashioned kind of guy. He's a man who loves old books and old ideas. He reads newspapers and magazines - in print, not online. He cuts out fascinating, yet often overlooked items of economic, political or curious note and stuffs them in folders around his office. He doesn't own a BlackBerry or bother to blog or podcast. He likes old guys, too. All of his favorite investors are 80 years or older (or dead)... and they're all filthy rich - Marty Whitman, Benjamin Graham and Seth Klarman (a mere youngster just shy of 50). He likes his authors dead too - Twain, Donleavy, Chandler, Hammett, Mencken. It's no wonder his approach to investing can only be categorized as "old school"... a throwback to the glory days of obscene gains in the smart man's portfolio. And Chris has the rare qualifications to confidently recommend investment opportunities to you. You see, Chris didn't start out hustling stocks on Wall Street. He began his financial career as a commercial banker at the prestigious "bank of presidents," the Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C. In a few short years, he was promoted to vice president and was saying yea or nay to billion-dollar loans. His loan decisions were based on a thorough examination of a company's books. After all, it was his professional reputation on the line if a company defaulted or misused the loan. He applies this same laser intensity to the stocks he recommends to you. When he finds a company that sparks interest, he digs deep, the archaic way. He looks at dusty financial statements, reads mind-numbing 10-Ks and 10-Qs. He knows his way around a boring SEC filing and an 8-K. Chris never believes the shallow Wall Street hype of a stock story, but instead goes on a crusade to find the stubborn facts. And when only on-the-ground reporting will do, he hits the road to diligently inspect the companies or attend the obscure conferences to glean the hidden truths. You'll be happy to know that this rarely seen work ethic really pays off for readers of his Capital & Crisis. Since Chris began as its editor, every position he has bought and sold has had an average gain of 48% on each sale! Now, there's a chance to be making money the old-fashioned way! Please join Chris at Capital & Crisis risk-free and discover how you can grow substantially richer investing in crisis opportunities Wall Street remains blissfully unaware of! Just so you know... Chris has made one concession to modernity: He carries a cell phone. But you can never reach him, because he never turns it on. |
Forget oil! What's NEXT?
If Wall Street wants to keep talking about oil, let them. But don't listen to them. That big revenue ride is over. For windfall wealth-building gains, sharp investors are moving on to ask, "What's NEXT?"
To answer that simple, but lucrative question, I have 3 Breaking Crises I'd like to share with you right now. And not one of them has anything to do with the price of oil. But each crisis could make you a great deal richer over the next few years. Yet no one is talking about them.
Please take just a few moments to continue reading. I want you to know what only a handful of farsighted analysts are discussing and where the next big bull run crisis is set to occur. I want you to discover the companies that are moving in now to tackle these up-and-coming crises before they do serious harm to our economies and well-being.
I want you to discover these stocks - right now - before they hit the radar screens of the Wall Street crowd and before the stocks start their meteoric climb. Once the enormous gains from these crisis opportunities are safely tucked into your portfolio - then, and only then - will they be on "everyone's" lips... and potential gains will slow to a trickle.
So don't wait five years or even five minutes to find out. Keep reading. It's so urgent that you discover this information right now, before Wall Street... that I'm going to invite you to send for my just published report, 3 Breaking Crises to Ride to Spectacular Wealth - absolutely FREE.
Each crisis I'll tell you about is real and happening right now. You'll certainly wonder why news outlets are silent about them. You may even be surprised to discover how astonishingly simple it is to make money in these well-managed, fast-growing, fundamentally sound companies tackling the three crises head-on... and sending their stock prices soaring.
Just take a look at how well you would have done with stocks I have recommended over the past couple of years. Remember, the S&P 500 average return for the past five years is only 0.54%! I'm not resting on my laurels. Currently, the Capital & Crisis Portfolio has 16 value stocks with an average return of 12.5% on each stock! Compare that to the S&P's measly returns all year!
Here's the first crisis completely unnoticed by Wall Street and Main Street. Yet if not resolved, people in America could starve in eight days or less!
Crisis Opportunity #1:
THE SHIPPING CRISIS
Imagine you're on the deck of a transport ship making its way to Anchorage, Alaska. It's not a "fun ship." There's no shuffleboard on the Lido deck. Instead, it's packed with huge shipping containers of food and necessary supplies. The icy wind bites your face. It's breathtakingly cold.
The people of Alaska wait anxiously for you to arrive. You see, Alaska has only an eight-day supply of food. And without regular shipments from the continental USA, the people here could starve. Yet even with such a demanding market, few ships ever make the voyage to Alaska... because the U.S. government won't let them!
That's right... the U.S. government bars most ships from these lucrative shipping lanes. In 1920, Congress passed the Merchant Marine Act, also known as the Jones Act. The Act simply states that all cargo-carrying vessels going from one U.S. port to another must be on ships made in American shipyards and owned by U.S. citizens and all officers and 75% of the crew must be American citizens.
In other words... no foreign ships allowed!
This severely limits the number of ships that are available to ship goods. And it's not just from L.A. to Alaska. It's from L.A. to Hawaii. Boston to New Orleans. New York to Puerto Rico (an American territory). Any U.S. port to any U.S. port.
And in the era of terrorism and American protectionism, I don't think this law is going to be overturned anytime soon. If the U.S. kicked up such a fuss with an Arab-owned company wanting to run six of our ports in the Dubai port deal fiasco, then it's not about to open up American-only shipping lanes to foreign ships.
That might be good news to protectionists - but here's the thing. Today, only 36 Jones Act ships are in operation, with high barriers to market entry by any foreign ships. With such a small number, American cities relying on American goods are facing a shipping crisis.
Only 36 ships are available to deliver perishable goods and necessities to all of our American ports. So for example, Alaskans - with their eight-day supply of food - must have a ship deliver food 48 times in one year... or they starve!
Yet shipping companies are stepping up to the plate to meet this crisis. The company I'll introduce to you in my FREE report, 3 Breaking Crises to Ride to Spectacular Wealth, has 16 of the 36 Jones Act ships. Plus, it's the only shipping company to operate in all three high-traffic markets - Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, plus overseas Pacific ports as well.
Double your money on tangible assets that sweat
These 16 ships are what I call "tangible assets that sweat" - meaning the business assets (the ships) throw off a lot of cash.
One important point to remember: Cash flow is NOT earnings. Cash flow is the cash a business actually produces in a given period of time. Cash flow is what meets the payroll, keeps the products moving and repays the loans. And it is cash flow that creates value for the investor. Wall Street often forgets this fine point and goes after companies with good "earnings," which is just a paper report-driven result... not really cash on hand to run the business.
Could this be another reason Wall Street is experiencing dreary returns again this year?
And I have to say, I'm quite excited about this company's very steady cash flow - $60-80 million this year. That's a fat 13-17% free cash flow yield, which is outstanding in today's market.
But the reason I think this company is going to be a double-your-money pick is: It's a classic "tangible asset that sweats." It's a stock rich in tangible, physical assets that support the stock price (covering our downside), and it sweats cash - big time.
"Tangible" simply means its assets have a real value in the marketplace. They're hard assets the company actually owns - cash, land, equipment. It's not "goodwill" or "capitalized research and development" or other intangibles. In other words, you can touch it, feel it, sell it, smell it. You might be surprised to know that very few companies ever write down the value of their tangible assets.
But this sort of deep cash flow and asset analysis - which I do on every company whose stock I'm considering recommending - is what gives you a healthy margin of safety on your investment. It's what protects you in an overall market downturn.
And this company that's taking on the shipping crisis is sweating assets all over the place. But if that weren't enough, thanks to the government's protectionism laws and America's growing distrust of foreign ownership of anything having to do with our ports...
The U.S. government has NO CHOICE but to let YOU grow rich on this one company
I'll give you all the details about this outstanding company in your FREE copy of 3 Breaking Crises to Ride to Spectacular Wealth. Americans depend on the highly regulated shipping industry to keep goods flowing freely from one U.S. port to the next. And this one company is THE industry with nearly half the total number of ships able to run under the restrictive Jones Act. The U.S. government has NO choice but to let this one company - and its investors - grow rich delivering America's much-needed perishable items between U.S. ports.
What do you think you'd have to pay for this $1 billion U.S. company for which our government has legally barred any and all foreign competition... and which has already captured 40% of its market?
You might be surprised to learn that this well-run company is currently trading at a 50% discount to net asset value. In other words, its hard tangible assets are worth twice as much as its total outstanding share value... so you can pick this one up at half the price! And here's a bit of icing on the cake - a 3% dividend yield - 44 cents a share! Sweet riches, indeed.
I urge you to send for the full story on this "What's Next?" stock #1 and an in-depth analysis of our country's shipping crisis in your FREE copy of 3 Breaking Crises to Ride to Spectacular Wealth. I'm convinced that this opportunity could easily double, triple or quadruple your money in the years ahead. And best yet, it's a nice place to hide your money in a bear market - thanks to the stability of a government-protected industry.
But this is just the first crisis I want to alert you to. This next crisis - if ignored for much longer - has serious global implications and could lead to our most terrifying war yet!
Crisis Opportunity #2:
THE WATER CRISIS
While water falls from the sky on a pretty regular basis and covers most of the planet, you may be surprised to know that only 3% of it is fresh water.
And with pollution and disease, most of that fresh water is undrinkable. According to the World Health Organization, less than 1% of fresh water is drinkable. Contaminated water is the leading cause of death. In fact, drinking unsafe water is the leading cause of death worldwide for children under 5, and every 3.5 seconds, someone dies from drinking contaminated water. China is facing a critical clean water shortage... less than 15% of China's population has safe drinking water from the tap. India, Africa and Asia all have clean water shortages. For most of the world, clean drinking water is a far more precious commodity than oil.
And as we all know, you need to drink water in order to live. It's the most basic in-demand commodity, with no substitutes. Unlike oil, there are no alternative sources for water.
Clean water access is a huge economic problem for every populous country in the world, as billions, even trillions, are spent to install and upgrade water infrastructure.
Just as the shipping crisis revolves around the transportation of perishable goods, so the transportation of clean water is at the core of the water crisis. I don't think it's too far-fetched to believe that, as with all scarce commodities, countries will begin hoarding their clean water and exporting it at astronomical prices. And then, is it too hard to imagine that world wars may be fought to protect the water pipelines and flow of clean water?
Yet today, very few people are aware of this water crisis. Just recently, I attended the First Annual Water Infrastructure Conference. To my surprise, I was one of only two dozen in attendance. Eleven executives of private companies explained to us what they were doing to solve the water crisis. But only two dozen people were listening!
That's why the water crisis is going to be such a huge juggernaut for the smart investor who gets in now. This ride is going to last a long time, and it may be years before Wall Street even mentions it. But right now, I have the perfect stock play for you to jump on so you can...
Claim your piece of America's $1 trillion water jackpot!
In America today, there's a growing need to upgrade, repair and replace our aging water infrastructure. In fact, the American Society of Civil Engineers in its 2005 report estimates the cost to replace and rebuild our infrastructure at $1 trillion over the next 20 years.
As we all know, construction projects have a way of getting a lot more expensive once you start pulling the pipes out of the ground. It could go even higher than $1 trillion. No matter. No one really knows how much we'll have to spend, but I do know the estimates keep getting bigger. Because it's no longer a question of if America will replace the pipes, but when. 
This makes solving the water crisis a long-term profit opportunity for the serious investor. And I have a great company to get you started. It already leads the water infrastructure market with a 44% share and is at the forefront of solving our nation's water transport crisis.
Quite simply, it makes steel water pipes for delivering drinking water. Steel is more durable than the concrete alternative. It's also easier to ship, so the company is able to sell cost-effectively in any region.
And the pipe replacement era is just getting started. By conservative estimates, it has $1 trillion to go. This company has already seen its business grow at a 14% compound rate for the past five years. The company owns outright eight of its nine manufacturing plants (great tangible assets that sweat!).
And you're going to love this: It has about $100 million in excess capacity. So it's in good shape to take advantage of growth opportunities. Plus, its cash flow is strong and its debt is manageable. As of this writing, it's trading close to its 52-week low - a great time to buy.
50% gains in two years?
With a big wave coming in pipe replacement costs, in two years time, this stock could be 50% higher than it is now. Right now, it's a good company at a cheap price... and the best play on the water crisis I've found so far.
Once Wall Street finally recognizes how much money this company will make in rebuilding our nation's leaking water infrastructure, I doubt you'll be able to buy this "What's Next?" crisis stock #2 at such a great bargain.
Thankfully for us, it's not a household name, but in a few years when Wall Street starts to talk about it the water crisis, it will be. So you may want to put it into your portfolio now, so you don't miss the stunning double-, even triple-, digit gains of this stock's potential.
It's why I urge you to send for your FREE copy of my 3 Breaking Crises to Ride to Spectacular Wealth, and do it NOW while so few people are interested in this company or even know there's a water crisis. Don't let your window of opportunity close on this steamroller.
Believe me, I've just scratched the surface of this ignored, but growing crisis set to overwhelm the world's economies. It really is a life-and-death crisis, but fortunately, there are good, smart companies working on it. Yet mainstream investors remain unaware. It's why you need my free report.
Plus, the only place you may find to read about the water crisis in the years to come is in upcoming issues of Capital & Crisis. I plan to continue reporting on this growing crisis and offer you more opportunities to invest in innovative companies solving it.
If attendance at the water infrastructure conference is any indication, it will be years before you'll hear anything about it from Wall Street.
And while a fortune could be made in the years ahead on the shipping and water crises alone, there's yet another windfall crisis that Wall Street is failing to notice. I want you to get your share too.