This Will Hit Americans Hard

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This Will Hit Americans
Harder Than Anything
Since the Great Depression

Fail to heed this warning at your own risk!

Dear Reader:

Something bigger and more devastating than the credit crisis of 2008 is headed our way.

For most people, it will hit them like a brick wall.

It will touch Americans harder and deeper than anything else we’ve seen since the Great Depression.

I feel so strongly about the critical warning I’m about to give you, I’ve decided to document it in this audio-video presentation. And I’ve labeled this a controversial video, because most people will not like what I have to say…they will find it hard to believe until they see all the facts as I present them.

My name is Michael Lombardi. You may have heard of me. Maybe you are one of the hundreds of thousand of investors who get my daily Profit Confidential column.

Or maybe you’ve heard of my company, Lombardi Publishing Corporation. I started it back in 1986. It’s served over one million customers in 141 countries since then.

Over the past decade, I’ve been widely recognized as the predictor of five major economic events.

Here they are for you in black and white:

In 2002, I started advising my readers to buy gold-related investments. Gold bullion sold for less than $300 an ounce back then. In fact, in 2002, I put all of my retirement money, and all of my wife’s, in gold-related investments. I’ve been pushing gold for almost 10 years now.

In 2006, I begged my readers to get out of the housing market. I have nothing to hide. This is the exact e-mail alert I sent to my readers on March 1, 2006:

“The proof the party is over in the U.S. housing market could not be clearer to me.The price action of the new-home builder stocks is telling the true story—these stocks are falling in price daily and the media is not picking it up. The latecomers to the U.S. housing market may end up looking like the latecomers to the tech-stock rally that ended so abruptly in 1999.”

Remember, I wrote the above in 2006 when the last thing on people’s minds were declining real estate prices.

By the spring of 2007, I was giving dire warnings to my readers about the economy. On March 22, 2007, I sent this e-mail dispatch to my readers:

“Over the past few weeks I’ve written about subprime lenders and how their demise will hurt the U.S. housing market, the economy and the stock market. There’s no escaping the carnage headed our way because the housing market and subprime business are falling apart. The worst of our problems, because of the easy money made available to borrowers, which fueled the housing boom that peaked in 2005, have yet to arrive.”

I was warning about the severe global recession we experienced in 2008 and 2009 long before anyone else.

And I totally predicted the 2008 economic massacre that later become simply labeled the “credit crisis.” On November 29, 2007, I wrote my followers:

“The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the other major stock market indices finished yesterday with the best two-day showing since 2002. I’m looking at the market rally of the past two days as a classic stock market bear trap. As the economy gets closer to contraction, 2008 will likely be a most challenging economic year for Americans.”

Years after I wrote the above, it was widely recognized that October 2007 was the top for the stock market. And, yes, 2008 was the worst year for the U.S. economy since the Great Depression.

Finally, I correctly predicted the crash in the stock market of 2008 and early 2009. I even wrote an obituary on the stock market in the fall of 2008 that made me somewhat of a forecasting legend:

Here’s what I e-mail-blasted to over 100,000 people on October 6, 2008:

“A Stock Market’s Obituary: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. After a strong and courageous battle, the Dow Jones fell victim to a credit crisis and finally succumbed on Friday, October 3, 2008, when it fell decisively below the mid-point between its 2002 low and its 2007 high.”

The Dow Jones Industrial fell approximately 40% after I wrote this now famous “Stock Market Obituary,” finally hitting bottom on March 9, 2009, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 6,440.

Then…at the depth of the dark days of March 2009, I sent an e-mail alert to my thousands of readers and told them to basically jump into the stock market with both feet.

I turned bullish on stocks in March of 2009 and rode the bear market rally from 6,440 on March 9, 2009.

To recap my big five predictions that all came true, I:

1. Told my readers to get into gold in 2002;
2. Told them to get out of the housing market in 2006;
3. Predicted the recession of late 2007;
4. Told my readers to get out of stocks in the fall of 2008; and
5. Told my readers to get back into stocks in March of 2009.

I didn’t spend the last five minutes of your time telling you about my five key predictions so I could pat myself on the back. Far from it.

In fact, I’m a humble person who prefers a low-key profile. I have a Master’s Degree in International Finance from one of Europe's oldest universities. Most importantly, I’m a successful businessman with a deep love of economic analysis and the stock market.

What I’m about to tell you, my prediction number six, which is about to happen, is so off the wall, so controversial, I didn’t want you to think it was coming from some kind of quack. It’s coming from someone with a proven track record at making economic and financial forecasts.

Let’s fast forward to where we are today.

The U.S. economy is slowing again.

According to the Commerce Department, the U.S. economy grew at only 1.9% in 2013 after growing by 2.8% in 2012.

What economists like me really like to look at, the underemployment rate (that’s the unemployment rate adjusted to include people who have given up looking for work and part-time workers who want full times work) stands stubbornly around 12% in the U.S.

Many European countries are back in recession and, as I'll explain in a moment, I believe the United States is on the cusp of falling back into a recession. Some will call it a new recession. I will call it “Recession Part II.” But this is not the real problem.

While my colleagues will dance around the issue, while other economists will not utter the words, I will put it in writing:

“The U.S. is technically bankrupt.”

Our official national debt has surpassed $17 trillion. Our unofficial national debt, when you take into account unfunded liabilities and entitlement to our citizens, is closer to $100 trillion.

By the end of this decade, according to the White House’s own prediction, the official national debt will surpass $20.0 trillion—not including off-balance-sheet items like old-age security, Medicare, and other government promises to its citizens.

And there’s also hidden government guarantees not on the government books…

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee half the residential mortgages in America. Who owns both of these companies now? Why, it’s the U.S. government. They “censured” both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on September 7, 2008.

In effect, the government either owns or guarantees half the outstanding residential mortgages in this country.

Politician after politician has failed to reduce government spending. Their belief is that spending more money will fix the economic problem. Well, they’ve spent trillions since 2008 and our economic problems are about to get worse.

The U.S. government and the politicians that run it are addicted to spending more money than the government takes in. If we look at it conservatively, and only look at the government’s “official” figures, by the end of this decade, our national debt will be about 150% of our GDP—about the same level it was after World War II.

Why we’ll never get out of this hole

After World War II, America became a superpower. Our manufacturing base grew dramatically; the industrialized revolution was so great that the American dollar replaced gold as the reserve currency of other world central banks. There was a U.S. job boom.

Today, what do we have in America to carry us into the next boom? Nothing. The Internet isn’t creating jobs. Manufacturing, it’s gone to Mexico, India and China. I doubt George Washington ever envisioned a future where Americans would be suffering so much. It’s embarrassing, but true: Over 44 million people in this country are using some form of food stamps! (Source: National Inflation Association)

America, the Empire, is history.

Going back in time a little…

In an e-mail blast to thousands of my followers on July 21, 2005, I said,

“The U.S. lowered interest rates in 2004 to their lowest level in 46 years. And what did Americans do with their access to easy money? They borrowed and borrowed some more, investing the borrowed money into real estate. Looking ahead, perhaps the Fed’s actions (of 2004) will one day be regarded as one of the most costly errors committed by it or any other banking system in the last 75 years.”

I was exactly right.

Artificially low interest rates are actually causing us harm

Interest rates have remained so low for so long that inflation will become a serious problem for America in the months and years ahead. With the price of gold having risen 400% in less than a decade, gold is screaming, “inflation ahead!”

How does the government and an economy deal with inflation? Inflation is dealt with via higher interest rates. Mark my words: The artificially low interest rate policies of the past few years will come to hurt us in the future in the form of hyper-inflation and sharply higher interest rates.

It will get worse

My prediction is not only that we are headed into Recession Part II—my prediction is that this next recession will also be much worse than the 2007-2008 recession and that it will hit as deep as the Great Depression.

You see…

Our government has no money left to bail us out during the next recession. The government is over-extended—if it was a business, it would be bankrupt right now.

The Federal Reserve has kept the economy alive the past four years by keeping its printing presses running overtime. About $3 trillion in new money has been created out of thin air by the Fed.

Let’s face two important facts.

The Fed can’t lower interest rates below the zero they are at today. The more money the Fed prints, the greater the risk of inflation, and the higher long-term interest rates will eventually move, stifling the economy.

Let’s move to the stock market

Courtesy of an unprecedented multi-trillion dollar money-printing program by the Federal Reserve, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has regained all its losses from 2007.

But at the same time that investors are “feeling good” again as the market has been rallying, we have:

Corporate insiders selling stock in the companies they work for at a record pace;

The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, often referred to as the “fear index,” is sitting fairly close to where it was in 2007, just before one of the worst market sell-offs in history;

Last year we saw more stock buy-back programs than we’ve ever seen in history with 70% of the S&P 500 companies buying back stock—a clever way for companies to prop-up per share earnings; and

The percentages of assets mutual funds have invested in the stock market are near multi-year highs.

Remember, investors and stock advisors are usually wrong when the majority of them have the same opinion—in this case, an extreme bullishness for stock prices.

The amount of money investors have borrowed against stocks they own on the NYSE has reached a new record of $451 billion—surpassing the previous record set back in July 2007—and we all know what happened shortly after that—stocks fell like a rock.

The stock market has become a bubble again and it’s only a matter of time before it collapses again.

This time around, for reasons I’ve just explained, the after-effects of the next leg of the bear market could be much worse than the Great Depression.

At this point, I assume you are sitting there, watching and listening to this audio-video presentation and saying, “Okay, Michael, what you say is stark and frightening. But it makes sense, the way you’ve laid out the facts.”

“So what do I do as an investor and
consumer to protect myself?”

The good news is that you could protect yourself from the economic devastation headed our way over the next six months. The better news is that, if you position your portfolio properly, starting today, you could actually make money during the next devastating down leg of this economy, while others struggle like never before.

Here are my four core beliefs about what’s headed our way and how I plan to actually profit from them.

1. The devaluation of the U.S. dollar that started in early
2009 will accelerate as the U.S. economy deteriorates.

After World War II, our government did a masterful job at convincing foreign central banks they should have U.S. dollars as their reserves instead of gold bullion. Today, 62% of world central banks have adopted the U.S. dollar as their official reserve currency.

Right now, as investors run away from the euro because of the financial crisis in Europe, they are running to the false "security" of U.S. dollars. But as the value of the greenback erodes under a mountain of debt and coming rapid inflation, courtesy of too many dollars in the financial system (thank you, Federal Reserve), foreigners will be dumping dollars (as fast as they dumped euros) and moving away from a system where the greenback is the official reserve currency.

Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com

Look at it this way. Since President Obama took office four years, the U.S. national debt has increased by about $7 trillion dollars—70%. At the same time, the Federal Reserve has increased the size of its balance sheet to about $3 trillion.

Where are all these trillions coming from? In the end, I believe the U.S. dollar will collapse under a mountain of unsustainable debt.

Shorting U.S. dollars is too risky and complicated for most of my readers. But there is a simple, easier way to make money as the U.S. dollar continues to devalue. There is an ETF you can buy that goes up when the U.S. dollar declines in value.

This ETF is in the currency that I believe will rise the most against the U.S. dollar over the next two years. No, it’s not gold. It’s a currency of one of the economically strongest countries in the world... A currency that actually rallied after the 2008 credit crisis hit.

You put your money in this ETF, sit back, do nothing, and watch the value of the U.S. dollar fall as inflation and the national debt rise, and just watch this investment rise in value as the months go by.

My analysts have recently completed a research report called The ETF Set to Skyrocket in Price on the Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar. We have hundreds of hours invested in researching, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. Later in this presentation, I'll show you how to get this report for free when you try my Lombardi's Crisis Profit Alert.

2. Gold prices will continue to rise.

When we look at the price of gold bullion today in inflation adjusted terms, it would need to be trading at $2,250 an ounce to be equal to its January 1980 price high of $850 an ounce.

But my public predictions about where gold prices are headed have been much higher. I’m expecting gold to trade at $3,000 before the bull market in the yellow metal is over.

Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com

Here’s an important fact I want you to be aware of:

After reaching an all-time record high of $1,921 an ounce on September 6, 2011, gold bullion prices have fallen back.

But we’ve been down this road many times before! In early 2003, the price of gold bullion fell 16%; in the summer of 2006 the price of gold fell 21%; from the spring to the fall of 2008 gold prices fell 28%; in the spring of 2009 gold prices fell 15%-- and each time the price of gold bullion recovered and moved higher by year’s end.

In fact, for 11 of the past 12 years, the price of gold bullion has closed each year higher in price than it started the year. The recent weakness in gold bullion prices (more like a correction in an ongoing bull market) is a tremendous opportunity for smart investors.

I’m a big bull on gold. Rising inflation, a debasing U.S. dollar, out-of-control government spending, and a currency printing press that never seems to stop will continue to push the price of gold higher.

But when I look at gold, if it moves from $1,600 or $1,700 to $3,000 an ounce over the next five years, as I expect it to, my gain will be close to 100%—as an investment, that’s not enough for me. I’m gunning for much bigger profits than that.

The big winners of the gold bull market will ultimately be the gold mining stocks. Look at this way. If a gold company’s cost to produce one ounce of gold is $900, at a price of $1,800, they are making a 100% profit. But, at price of $3,000, they are making a profit of 233%—and the stock market will reward the stock by multiples of 233%.

I’ve found a security that goes up in value when the stock prices of junior and senior gold producers rise. We started following it at $20; it trades at $36 today. If gold bullion prices go to only $2,500, this security could triple in price to $150.

My analysts have recently completed a research report called Single Best Leveraged Play for the Gold Bull Market. We have hundreds of hours invested in researching, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. Later in this presentation, I'll show you how to get this report for free when you try myLombardi's Crisis Profit Alert.

3. Inflation will become a real problem in America.

While few are talking about it, inflation is a real problem in America.

In fact, the U.S. Producer Price Index for Final Demand Goods is running at an alarming annual rate of 4.8%!

Thanks to years of monetary policies that promoted artificially low interest rates and printing presses churning out dollars in overtime mode, hyperinflation and American sovereign debt issues will become the biggest obstacles for the United States for the remainder of this decade and well into the next decade.

After falling for 30-years, short-term interest rates have bottomed out.

While it may difficult to see today, and as crazy as it may sound, the government will be forced to raise interest rates to fend off inflation—just like it did in the early 1980s..

Higher interest rates will also put the proverbial remaining nails in the coffin known as the U.S. housing market.

Now you see why I said at the very beginning of this presentation that it’s not for the faint of heart. Imagine our government, the economy, housing prices and the stock market all collapsing at the same time?

But, for smart investors, there is more than just hope. As history has shown us, where there is fear, there is also profit.

We’re just putting the finishing touches on a special report that reveals an ETF that rises in value when interest rates rise. It’s called Inflation Hedge: Serious Profits from the New Multi-Year Trend of Higher Interest Rates. We have hundreds of hours invested in research, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. Later in this presentation, I'll show you how to get this report for free when you try myLombardi's Crisis Profit Alert.

4. The stock market will ultimately test its lows of March 2009,
bringing the Dow Jones down 60% from where it sits today.

Yes, this is my final core belief: The bear market rally in stocks will lose steam somewhere in the next few months and move straight down to test its March 2009 lows.

Phase One of a bear market brings stock prices down sharply. That’s what happened when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from 14,164 in October 2007 to 6,440 on March 9, 2009—a tumble of 54%.

Phase Two of a bear market is when the bear lures investors back into stocks. The bear gives investors and analysts the false sense that the economy is improving and it’s okay to own stocks again. That’s where we are today. The bear did a masterful job at convincing investors to own stocks again…and, presto, the Dow Jones got back to over 14,000 and even went to 16,000.

But the bear market is getting old and “long in the tooth” as they say. Phase Three of this bear market will ultimately bring stock prices below their March 2009 lows.

As I said earlier in this presentation, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has regained all its losses.

Investors are “feeling good” about the stock market again.

But the fundamentals for the market are terrible:

Corporate insiders selling stock at a record pace;

The VIX “fear index” sits close to where it was in 2007, just before the market collapsed;

Stock buy-back programs—one way companies prop-up per share earnings—hit a record last year;

The percentage of assets mutual funds have invested in the stock market is near a multi-year high which means investors are blatantly bullish.

And corporate earnings growth is running at its slowest pace since 2009!

The amount of money investors have borrowed against stocks they own on the NYSE has reached a new record of $451 billion—surpassing the previous record set back in July 2007—and we all know what happened shortly after that—stocks fell like a rock.

The stock market has become a bubble again and it’s only a matter of time before it collapses again.

How am I going to make money from this? Easy: I’m not going to short the market, because that’s too risky for most of my readers. I’m not going to buy put options, because they are too short in nature for Phase Three of the bear market.

What I plan to do is to buy a stock that goes up in price when the stock market falls. The stock is very liquid, it trades on a major American exchange at about $33. If the market tanks like I believe it will, this stock will easily move to $60, maybe even $120.

My analysts have recently completed a research report called Lombardi’s Secret Stock That Goes up When the Stock Market Goes Down. We have hundreds of hours invested in researching, compiling and writing this report. My company plans to sell this report for $95. Later in this presentation, I'll show you how to get this report for free when you try my Lombardi's Crisis Profit Alert.

Putting it all together

At this point, you’re probably saying: “Okay, Michael. Everything you’ve said so far makes sense. Now, how do I get my hands on these four new reports you and your analysts have just completed?

The ETF Set to Skyrocket in Price on the Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar

Single Best Leveraged Play for the Gold Bull Market

Inflation Hedge: Serious Profits from the New Multi-Year Trend of Higher Interest Rates

Lombardi’s Secret Stock That Goes up When the Stock Market Goes Down

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Holding your hand all the way

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The greenback will continue to fall in value against other world currencies—we’ll make money from it.

The 12-year old gold bull market will continue—we’ll make money from it.

Inflation will become a real problem in America—we’ll make money from it.

The stock market will proceed to test its March 2009 lows—and we’ll make money from it.

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The ETF Set to Skyrocket in Price on the Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar.

Single Best Leveraged Play for the Gold Bull Market.

Inflation Hedge: Serious Profits from the New Multi-Year Trend of Higher Interest Rates.

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I’ve told you about my five major predictions and how they’ve already come true.

I’ve given you critical warning number six.

And I’ve given you the answers on how to profit from the financial catastrophe headed our way.

The next step is up to you!

Yours truly,
Michael Lombardi
Michael Lombardi, MBA
Founder
Lombardi Publishing Corporation
Celebrating 28 years of service to investors

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