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One investment should rocket even faster than gold over the next 12-24 months... yielding at least 3-to-1 gains on every dollar invested... GUARANTEED.

In fact, I'm so sure of this, I won't charge you a penny to show you how...

Dear Fellow Vindicated Reader,

If soaring gold feels good... when this "other" metals investment makes its next big move, it's going to feel even better. With much greater potential for high returns.

Look, I don't know about you.

But I'm already feeling vindicated now that gold has taken off.

After all, the group of potential investors I work with closely has already had the chance to make gains as high as 332% on Glamis Gold... 263% gains on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 83% gains on Placer Dome... 156% on Newmont... 540% gains on American Century Global Gold... and 668% gains on Metallica Resources...

In fact, that's just a sample of how well we've done.

We expect to make a heck of a lot more, too. I'm telling other potential investors right now to hang on for gold bullion trading 198% higher than today's already high levels, within the next 12—24 months.

But there's another, "alternative" investment to gold I want to talk to you about first. One I'm certain should soar even FASTER and FARTHER than gold, on a percentage basis, over the next year.

In a Good Year for Gold, This "Other" Metal Will
Do Even Better

In case you haven't guessed, I'm talking — of course — about the "other" precious metal, silver. In a good year for gold, especially with the cycle we've just locked into right now, silver can give you even greater gains... driven by the same precise megatrends.

I'm going to show you my current favorite silver play in just a second. I also want to send you a FREE report that explains huge alternative investing strategies for both the gold and silver markets over the next year or two ahead.

This FREE report is called Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead! I've commissioned the best experts on my team of analysts to write it up. You'll pay nothing for it. I can either mail it to you or you can download it right away, just minutes after reading this letter.

Inside, you'll discover an exceptional way to play the huge boom ahead in silver, plus four more completely new ways to protect and grow your wealth with gold... and for both, a full explanation of the powerful "megatrends" driving this once-in-a-lifetime, wealth-fortifying opportunity.

How high could this really go?

The key to this is that when gold jumps, silver almost always follows. Because both respond to many of the same trends. There's even what's called the gold-to-silver ratio built into the price.

Over the long term, gold has sold for about 30 times the price of silver. But right now the ratio is way out of whack... gold sells for about 53 times the price of silver.

Just on that basis alone, to rise to the historical mean silver would have to climb 75%!

But if gold soars to the levels I'm predicting... and silver returns to its average historical relationship with the gold price... now we're talking a breathtaking gain of at least 303%.

That's three times every dollar invested.

Could it happen?Absolutely.

Because many other forces drive the price of silver, specifically, even beyond those driving megatrends the white metal shares with gold.

Just take a look...

  • The supply-and-demand dynamic for silver looks even better right now than for any other metal, including gold and platinum, because more and more industries want silver, but fewer mines are producing it

  • Maybe you've heard, however, that the huge rise in digital photography spells doom for silver demand. Not so. In fact, only 8% of world silver demand ever came from the photography market

  • What many amateur investors don't realize is that silver is one of the best electrical conductors in the world. But it doesn't corrode like other metals. Virtually all modern electrical switches, from batteries to computer circuit boards, use silver-based solder

  • That means you need silver to make digital cameras. And iPods. And laptop computers. Not to mention dishwashers, microwaves, televisions, washing machines, refrigerators and more

  • The electronics industry alone uses up 44% of all the silver produced each year

  • You need silver to make solder for most metal pipes, because it's also temperature resistant. And smooth. Which has also hiked up silver demand because it's an excellent lubricant for jet engines

  • Silver has anti-bacterial properties too. The water you drink or use to fill your pool was filtered using silver. Silver is used to help process almost all pre-packaged food, too

  • The $300 billion plastics industry couldn't exist without silver. It's the perfect chemical catalyst. You use it to make everything from adhesives and heat-resistant surfaces to toys, car parts and more

  • Even the U.S. Mint churned through 15.5 million ounces of silver in the most recent year on record, to make coins and medals. We haven't even touched on jewelry demand, which sucks up another 30% of the total annual silver production.

We're not alone on this. Not at all.

George Soros and Bill Gates also own huge positions in silver.

Meanwhile, my group of private, potential investors has already had the chance to lock in gains like these on silver's surging performance:

  • 270% on silver calls
  • 177% on one of the oldest silver producers around
  • 111% (and counting) on an up-and-coming silver miner.

But as you'll see in this letter... and in the FREE copy of Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead! I want to send you... you can easily make a lot more.

How so, and why now?

For one thing, there are only 22 pure silver mines around the world. For 15 years straight, they've fallen short of meeting total silver demand. In the last two years alone, they were off by nearly 76 million ounces.

So why have silver prices stayed so low, relative to gold's amazing rebound?

Well, silver, like gold, is a metal governments like to keep in reserve. That matters because over the last few years, governments have dumped millions of ounces of silver on the market to raise cash... which has, until recently, kept down silver prices.

Today, most of the U.S. silver stockpile is gone. And other governments are running low, too. And here's something else: Unlike gold, when silver goes into industry, it gets used up. Burned away. And that's happening now at a rapid pace.

The world once had about 2.2 billion ounces of silver aboveground.

Now it has only about 300 million ounces. In other words, total world silver supply has plummeted by over 86% just in the last few years... while silver demand has gone UP!

When the Gold-to-Silver Ratio Slides Into Balance, You Get Rich

You can look at it this way, too.

The world has about five times more gold than silver.

What if silver cost one-fifth the price of gold?

It would skyrocket over 950%!

I'm not saying it will soar that high. I'm not ruling it out, either. At the very least, I'm convinced you'll see the white metal price rocket above the 300% level very soon. Even the pressure from rising gold prices alone demands it.

Here's the tricky part.

You'll have a much harder time finding ways to get into the silver boom than you would with gold or some other investments. Because it's just not practical to buy only the physical metal. Even $10,000 will get you considerably less than 1 pound of gold... it would get you nearly 34 pounds of silver right now.

That's just too much to store or insure safely.

So what should you do? Sure, you can invest in the silver exchange-traded fund (ETF). It's like a proxy for owning silver, only you buy in with shares. Just like owning a piece of the stock market through an index fund. It has the same sort of 303% upside potential of the bullion.

Or... you could go for even bigger gains. You could do what one of my most experienced analysts — a Harvard-trained geologist and expert stock-picker — is recommending: Buy shares of a silver producer with an advantage none of its competitors can touch.

That's why, even before we get into the rest of this letter, I URGE you to read our report, Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead! Again, it's FREE. I'll show you how to send for it at the end of this letter.

I'll give you a little preview...

The silver company you'll find in the report is a powder keg play... with a solid track record going back to 1891. This firm recently took 100% control of Alaska's largest silver mine... doubling its annual silver output and growing its silver reserves by 150%.

That might sound impressive enough. But here's the real opportunity: The mine is so rich in other minerals — gold, lead and zinc — that production of those metals alone covers the mine's operating costs. Whatever silver comes out of the ground is gravy.

That means the company is pulling silver out of the ground at effectively no cost, right?

Actually, if you run the numbers, it's better than that. For every ounce of silver that comes out of this mine, the company actually puts $7.42 of cold hard cash on its balance sheet.

Multiply that by 9 million ounces per year and you start to see the enormous potential.

It's like a triple play on silver. You could profit from the rising price of the metal... plus the appreciation in the share price... plus the chance for growing dividend income.

Do this now and I see you tripling or quadrupling your money overnight. Read all the details in your FREE report.

And be aware, it's obviously not just silver that's going to make a few smart investors very rich over the next couple of years. Because, as I said, many of the core forces pushing up silver right now... are also the driving influence behind much-more-valuable gold!

Here's another way those facts can also help you make a fortune...

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In 2002, our readers locked in 84% gains on Corner Bay... 96% gains on EOG Resources... 75% gains on American Water Works... 136% gains on R.J. Reynolds... and 137% gains on KeyWest Energy.... plus another 151% gain on Wheaton River Minerals... 162% gains on Intrepid Minerals... a solid 332% gain on Glamis/Francisco Gold... and 668% gains on Metallica Resources

In 2003, our readers socked away another 88% gains on Northgate Exploration... plus 105% gains on Gentry Resources... 151% gains on Tocqueville Gold... 235% gains on Niko Resources... and 263% gains on Coeur d'Alene Mines... just to name a few

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In 2005, we took in another 43%, 44% and 45% gains on Harmony Gold, Schlumberger and PetroKazakhstan Inc. and posted 50% gains on CONSOL Energy just a few weeks later. We hit with a fat 55% gain on both Suez SA and Petro-Canada... and 73% gains on Wheaton River Minerals and Anadarko Petroleum Corp., plus 85% on Precision Drilling... 86% on Kerr-McGee... 88% on the INVESCO Energy Fund... 101% gains on the ICON Energy Fund...107% gains on Norsk Hydro... 108% gains on Anglo American PLC... 160% gains on Western Oil Sands.... and an impressive 179% gain on Talisman Energy

In 2006 and 2007, we booked 83% gains on Placer Dome... another 177% on Coeur d'Alene Mines... 147% gains on BG Group... 78% on OMI Corp.... and 87% on Walter Industries. We didn't close very many positions in the last two years because they're still holding up so well despite the recent downturn. Take a look...

As of March 31, 2008, we're up 277% on EnCana Corp... with 123% returns on Cemex... 136% gains on Tesoro Petroleum... 144% on Jacobs Engineering... 150% so far on Newmont Mining... 399% and climbing on Valero ... 539% gains so far on American Century Global Gold... and 679% so far on Suncor Energy!

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Epic Boom Opportunity #1:
HOW TO SNAP UP RAW GOLD...
AT JUST 1 PENNY PER OUNCE!

What if just before the biggest gold price surge in recent history, you could get your hands on a large stash of the yellow metal... for less than one penny per ounce?

There's no alchemy involved. No secret technology. And no smoke and mirrors. But a small upstart new mining company is doing exactly that.

Its technique is simple.

But it's just about the only company across the entire mining industry that's able to do this right now.

In 2005, it mined about 100,000 ounces this way. For 2006, it quadrupled that haul, using this same technique. Now it's on track to be a million-ounce producer... with at least 12 million ounces of gold still in the ground.

The math is simple...

Four Times Your Money Even if
Gold Prices Don't Budge Another Inch

Think about it.

Anybody who can get gold out of the ground for a penny...

And sell it for even $500 per ounce or $400 per ounce stands to make a handsome return. And so do their shareholders.

What I'll show you here is gold hitting as high as $1,000... or even $2,000 per ounce... over the next 12—24 months.

Owning shares of this company could mean at least a 400% gain in that time period, even if only half of what we're calling for comes through.

So here's how this works.

For most miners, getting gold out of the ground is done in pretty much the same way across the industry. But not for this wily little company I've been telling you about.

What it's done is invent a way to mine the gold — and rich veins of raw copper — at the same time.

The copper mining is so lucrative the profits more than cover the cost of pulling the gold out of the same hole. And that means close to 100% upside potential on the gold, no matter the current spot price on the market.

Any way you slice it, it's booking massive profits.

At Least 2 Years of Locked-in Value,
No Matter How High Gold Actually Soars

Right now, this "little" undiscovered, new mining company already has five mines up and running. Plus, one more under construction. And three more projects after that heading into development.

It also has enormous land holdings with lots of undisclosed mineral potential. Plus, it just swallowed whole another holding with as much as 2 million more ounces of gold in the ground.

Add that to measured and recorded reserves of 12 million ounces... plus another 14 million ounces that are either "inferred" or "proven and probable."

Sounds rich?

Don't forget, I haven't even said anything yet about the nearly 2 billion pounds of copper tucked under this company's territory. And copper is the key to this whole secret.

Because it's the steady flow of cash from the copper — remember, this company has innovated a way to get both the copper and gold out of the ground at the same time — that's making the gold production, in relative terms, possible for less than one penny per ounce.

Here's the best part...

This little company's savvy management had the foresight to hedge the entire copper reserve by making deals that locked in its copper sales at record levels for essentially the next two years.

So even if the global economy keels over and copper prices, in general, fall, this company will keep on raking it in on its copper discoveries... which means it keeps on getting the gold out of the ground for next to nothing at the same time.

Did I mention?

This company has no debt. It's also sitting on a massive pile of cash. And that pile just keeps getting bigger. This is partly why the stock not only has huge upward potential, but it also pays a dividend.

This is a powder keg waiting to pop. With gold prices creeping higher... and then accelerating... this isn't going to stay off mainstream radars for long. You'll need to make a move on this soon.

I want you to have everything you need to make the call, as educated about the pros and cons of this as possible.

So I've commissioned the best experts on my team of analysts to write it up in a FREE special report I want to send you. It's called Bullion and Beyond: Five Stunning Ways to Get Richer on the Epic Metals Boom Ahead!

I'd like to get this into your hands as soon as possible. At no charge. Inside, you'll find out everything you'd want to know about "penny-per-ounce” gold. You'll also discover even more brilliant and innovative new ways to get in on the sudden new surge in the yellow metal, inside this same free report.

But maybe you're already asking yourself...

Why Gold, and Why Now?

Before I rush you that FREE report, let me ask you this...

Do you remember the last time gold sold for over $2,000 per ounce?

Of course you do. Maybe you didn't think of it that way. But actually, gold has already sold for more than $2,000 per ounce. Let me show you.

First, you have to think for a moment as if it's 1971. Gold is selling for $35. This is the year Nixon breaks it from ties to the dollar. Gold prices start climbing. By 1975, it's hit $196. And by 1980, we're talking $850. Sure, you say, that I remember.

But maybe you also remember back then you could you could also make $27,700 per year and it was a pretty decent living. About as good as making $100,000 per year today.

You could also buy a house for $50,000 then and, just on an inflation basis, it would be worth $250,000 today. (In real estate terms, it might sell now for $500,000 or more.) And back then, you could retire on $270,000 in savings... and it would be as good today as being a millionaire.

So you can see, trying to compare yesterday's gold price to today's — on an even basis — is like trying to compare apples and armadillos!

Take a look at this chart...

In today's dollars, 1975 gold at $196 is more like $750 in the current market. And 1980 gold, the peak year at the historical price of $850, would now clock in closer to $2,176. And remember, this is what you get using only the most conservative market calculation of gold's worth. There are other, even more telling ways to value gold.

Try this on for size...

$38,349 per Ounce!

Remember, for a good part of America's history, every dollar in your pocket was a dollar backed by gold. So it's not so crazy to ask yourself... if America has 8,180 tons — nearly 261.7 million ounces — of gold in reserve... how many dollars does that buy?

The answer will shock you.

When dollars became unhinged from gold, the printing presses at the Fed cranked up. By 1980, for every ounce of gold in America, the financial system carried $6,966 in cash. That's $1.8 trillion total. But get this — by the end of 2005, the total real money supply shot to over $10 trillion.

That's $38,349 in circulation for every ounce of gold in reserve!

Of course, it's even higher now. The printing presses are still cranking, well into 2008. Only now, it's much harder for you to know how fat the actual money supply has gotten. See, by March 23, 2006... the number had gotten so embarrassing... the Fed actually "retired" a number, "M3," which was the most broad-reaching measure of how much cash floats around in the system.

Yep. Instead of fixing the problem, the politicians just stopped talking about it. Is that any surprise? Fortunately, you don't need Washington's help to get the real picture of what's happening today in the economy... or to find out what's next for the price of gold.

Because you can just read on and see for yourself...

Precious Metals Megatrend:
3 Charts and the Truth

I'm about to show you three charts.

Take a look at these first two side by side...

A hundred different snapshots could show you the mess we're in. Soaring personal and government debt. A plunging savings rate. Record-high mortgages as a percentage of GDP. Plunging yields on 10-year Treasuries. Soaring but "hidden" unfunded government liabilities, to the tune of $53 trillion...

But none show it better — and more plainly — than these two charts I'm showing you right here, above. The first is our skyrocketing money supply. The second is our plummeting purchasing power. That's about as plain as you need to get.

How so?

Because this is the starkest vision you'll ever get of the absolute carnage that's piling up in a "secret war" Washington's fighting right now... and has fought, unsuccessfully, for the last 20-plus years. No, not the war in Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or even some possible future conflict with Iran.

This is another kind of war... right here at home.

The enemy is a dark nemesis — a dead and stagnant economy. And the Fed secretly fights to hold it off desperately every single day. This is a worse enemy than recession. It's the enemy called deflation, an economy in which nothing moves and nobody buys a thing.

The weapon of choice in this ongoing secret war is flooding the market with cash and easy credit. Because regular cash and credit injections make everyone feel rich. The theory goes, when you've got cash and low-priced credit, companies borrow and expand. Consumers borrow and spend. Families borrow and buy homes.

This is why, since 1950, the total amount of money in circulation has soared well over 3,000%! And it's all good... or seems good... until it goes all wrong.

See, the trouble is even money can't escape the natural law of supply and demand. When there's too much of it floating around, each dollar is worth that much less relative to the whole. Suddenly, you've got price inflation.

Suddenly, every dollar you have in the bank is worth less.

Hemingway called it the "first panacea of a mismanaged nation."

And in our case, it's helped plummet the purchasing power of our dollars by a mind-blowing 96%. The dollar's worth today is just pennies compared with what it bought a century ago. In fact, its worth is just a fraction now — as we just demonstrated — compared with the last time gold prices boomed, in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Only now, unlike then, the "wiggle room" we have left now between us and a complete dollar implosion is so thin it's practically transparent. Could total implosion actually happen? Absolutely.

Take what relatively new Fed Chairman professor Ben Bernanke famously said in a speech at the National Economists Club in Washington, in November 2002:

Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent) that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost... We conclude that under a paper money system, a determined government can always generate higher spending and, hence, positive inflation.

In other words, if you want to juice an economy... turn on the printing presses and make it as easy as all get-out to borrow money at a low, low rate of interest. Bernanke and others in the Fed think that's no problem. They think they can handle it, just so long as short-term interest rates don't go to zero.

But a brilliant and famous colleague of mine — someone I'll introduce you to in just a second — completely disagrees. Flooding the market with easy money, he recently told me in private, is more like burning your furniture to keep warm. It cannot last as a stopgap measure. It's courting disaster.

He and I both like to think an even smarter economist, Ludwig von Mises, got it right instead, when he said:

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of the voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

See, thanks to all that Fed-driven loose credit, consumer debt has soared. It's never been higher. In 1987, when Alan Greenspan first took his job in Washington, consumers were in the hole by about $10 trillion. Where are they now? An unbelievable $37.3 trillion in the red — or nearly 350% of GDP!

Think about that.

As a whole, Americans owe 3½ times more than the entire U.S. economy — the largest in history — produces in a year. If you or I owed that much on a personal level, we'd be suicidal.

Meanwhile, the government doesn't seem to worry. It spends money even faster. It borrows even deeper. Even this administration now, with full knowledge of the implications of a credit disaster, has already borrowed more money since 2000 than every White House since the time of Washington!

By 2017 — says the Heritage Foundation — our federal deficits should be soaring by at least $1 trillion per year. After that, it will jump to $2 trillion. That's not how much we'll owe. It's how much we'll add to what we owe... every 12 months, for as far as the eye can see.

Doesn't that sound to you like we're at a turning point?

"This Isn't 1979."

Then, they had Paul Volcker, who crushed inflation. Today, we've got Ben Bernanke, who embraces it. Then, they had a national debt of just $845 billion. Today, it's between $8.2 trillion and $53 trillion, depending on whom you believe.

Then, we had a hostage crisis in Iran. It ended. Today, we've got Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Nigeria, Afghanistan... and an unending "war on terror." Plus bin Laden still hiding in caves and Chavez mouthing off in oil-rich Venezuela. Then, you paid 78 cents for gas. Last summer, it hit as high as $3.20. Oil cost $38 per barrel. Today, it's closer to $120. Then, the oil shortage was political. Today, it's physical — supply just can't meet higher demand.

Then, the weak dollar still bought more than the dollar today. And our only real economic competitor was Japan. Now we've got China, India, the euro... and a resurgence in Japan.

Brace yourself. Because while this might spell doom for most Wall Street stocks, it virtually guarantees a global resurgence for resource investments, silver and especially gold. Protect your wealth and grow your riches with the cutting-edge resource recommendations in Outstanding Investments.

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