Frank: Look where the road took us in 8 years:
Clinton's Legacy: The Dangerous Decade.
When most of us think of financial centers that affect our investment portfolios, we think of places like New York, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and perhaps even Washington DC and Silicon Valley. But over the next 10 years there are some place names that may have an even greater affect on your investments. Places like the Taiwan Strait, the Spratly Islands, Pyongyang, Kashmir, the Strait of Hormuz, Kabul, Johannesburg, the West Bank, the Caucasus, Chechnya, Bogota, Caracas, Nigeria and even outer space.
Many American investors have their heads buried in the sand. While they watch CNBC and "surf" the internet for the latest online investment craze, trouble is brewing in the world. Trouble is brewing out of sight and out of the minds of Wall Street pundits, Washington politicians, and the so-called "mainstream" news media.
Although it may not seem that way now, if you own a home or have any investments, events halfway around the world will have a dramatic impact on your life. To help you protect your future, Blanchard and Company is offering an authoritative special report: Clinton's Legacy: The Dangerous Decade.
The Forgotten Dimension
Most Wall Street analysts have enjoyed considerable success over the past several years by taking their lead from Federal Reserve policy, news headlines, the latest economic statistics--even presidential elections. They have been able to totally ignore the foreign dimension. Cisco and AOL can announce great earnings, maybe even Amazon.com could have a positive earnings surprise, but ask yourself, how will the markets react and what will happen to your investment portfolio if:
China launches a ballistic missile strike on Taiwan?
North Korea launches a surprise attack on South Korea?
India and Pakistan have a nuclear exchange?
Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz with a cruise missile strike?
South Africa plunges into civil war?
Russia becomes dominated by a nationalistic, totalitarian regime?
Terrorists conduct a biological warfare attack in a major city?
Narco-terrorists disrupt democracy in Mexico and wipe out all the euphoria over NAFTA virtually overnight?
Any one of these events could rock the international financial markets. Suppose one of these scenarios does occur, don't you want to be prepared? We can help you.
The Center for Security Policy and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit have teamed up to create The Dangerous Decade; CSP's scholars have identified the threats and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit has outlined the economic implications and offer specific portfolio diversification recommendations to help you weather the storm.
Make no mistake. Turmoil, tensions and even outright war are very real possibilities in the coming years. The Clinton administration may be nearing an end, but years of neglect of our armed forces and ill-advised foreign policy decisions will haunt us into the 21st century. Our nation better be prepared. And individual investors better be prepared also. Precarious global financial markets could convulse due to political and economic conflict that is simmering below the surface even now.
The Center for Security Policy is one of the national security world's most respected think-tanks: it is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that informs the world about all aspects of national security, notably those policies bearing on the foreign, economic, and financial interests of the United States.
America Sleeps
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact was supposed to bring an end to the never-ending line of crises that was known as the Cold War. But, unfortunately, the world has only become different, not safer. Meanwhile, the Clinton administration has been asleep at the wheel, allowing America to become vulnerable. The Dangerous Decade will explain exactly what threats do exist, as well as what steps you should take to preserve your hard-earned wealth.
The world in the next decade will be fraught with uncertainties of new and troubling dimensions which will not necessarily be improved by parallel advances in technology or risk management. The national security issues facing America are already evident in trends and indicators. How the U.S. responds to these challenges will determine our domestic quality of life as well as world economic and political stability.
Specifically, The Dangerous Decade explores 8 challenges to U.S. national security which will severely impact the world economy and financial markets in the years to come:
1. Weapons of Mass Destruction - The Dangerous Decade includes straightforward, in-depth analyses of the Rumsfeld, Cox, and Deutch Reports on proliferation issues, as well as the CIA's own recent Intelligence Estimate on nuclear weapons. The spread of weapons of mass destruction--and ballistic missile delivery systems--has already altered the world's security calculus. How will the financial markets react to being potential nuclear hostages to rogue states and madmen like Saddam Hussein and Moamar Qaddafi?
2. Troubled Behemoths - The Dangerous Decade details how Russia, China, India and Indonesia are all in various stages of change beset with internal factional, ethnic and religious struggles and financial disparities. Together, they make up half of the world's population. Instability in these nations has implications for the entire world.
3. Drugs, Thugs, and Plagues - Narco-states, syndicates, and kleptocracies threaten states and world systems. Terrorism in all its varieties--conventional, chemical, biological, radiological, and cyber-based--will have cross-cutting effects around the globe. The Dangerous Decade identifies threats you may never have heard of before.
4. Systems, Supplies and Structures - The majority of the world's key mineral resources are located--and/or transit--in areas of current or projected instability (Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa) producing the real possibility of shortages and crises. Meanwhile, 95% of the world's population growth is taking place in Third World countries, a strain that could eventually lead to migration/refugee problems and epidemics for the First World.
5. Chaos: More Than a Theory - Potential adversaries, be they terrorist organizations or rogue nations, have a growing ability to produce chaos for the United States, and we have an ever-lower tolerance threshold for such events. The chaos can come in the form of economic, political and military activities--even all three at once. Learn how in The Dangerous Decade.
6. Information and Space: Securing the Insecurable - Increasingly major portions of military, civil and commercial systems rely on space-based technology. Potential adversaries such as China and Russia, and others, have active space, anti-space, and space denial programs underway. This brings a new level of political and commercial insecurity to a heretofore military mission. The Dangerous Decade explains why this vulnerability is perhaps the least addressed major U.S. security and intelligence issue.
7. Latin America - Threats are metastasizing in Colombia and Venezuela. The persistent success of narco-guerilla enterprises, and any further reversals of democracy in the region, will sharply impact already fragile structures in Latin America. As explained in The Dangerous Decade, if Central America's fledgling democracies could revert; the immigration, infrastructure and security costs for the U.S. would be huge.
8. Africa - HIV infection rates of 25% and higher in many major countries will reverse the marginal gains from market reforms and debt forgiveness. Fights over food and water will continue and the predators of international organized crime, terrorism, and Muslim fundamentalism will further expand activities into weak-state areas including Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and other U.S. trading partners.
In short, The Dangerous Decade unmasks the nonsense that passes for conventional wisdom in the "mainstream" press and looks directly into the future to help you protect yourself against these possible events. Why should you care about what happens thousands of miles away? After all, the U.S. is the world's only superpower and Wall Street investment gurus claim that international tensions only represent investment opportunities, not threats.
The Lessons of History
Here's one good reason: take a lesson from history. The Yom Kippur War of October 1973 between Israel and the Arab world sent the world into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. On October 5, 1973, the day before the war broke out, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 947. One year later, it had lost 40% of its value, falling all the way to 587. The Arab Oil Boycott, which was a direct result of the war, led to oil and gas shortages throughout the industrialized world. The U.S. economy was beset with high unemployment and double-digit inflation. It took nearly a decade for the stock market to fully recover.
What else happened on the first day of the Yom Kippur War? The price of gold exceeded $100 per ounce for the first time in history and nearly doubled over the next year.
Could it happen again? Read Clinton's Legacy: The Dangerous Decade and judge for yourself. If you value your financial security and independence if protecting your family's lifestyle is worth just one hour of your time then call 1-888-524-4653 immediately and order this landmark report.
The world is changing. Just as the Arab-Israeli War, the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan racked the financial markets in the 1970s, world crisis will impact the financial markets during the first decade of the 21st century. And it is not enough to just react to these crises. The Dangerous Decade forecasts the trends that are shaping the future now and then provides recommendations so you can prepare for them in advance.
Those who fail to foresee the shocking events that are detailed in The Dangerous Decade, could see their wealth shrink overnight. When a crisis hits, the Wall Street pundits will scramble in shock to react to events. By then the damage will already have been done.
You see, Wall Street is so mesmerized with the dot-com craze that they don't believe that national security and foreign affairs matter. That was true yesterday; it won't hold true tomorrow. How will they react when China is transformed from today's emerging market opportunity into tomorrow's menacing threat to world peace?
The information contained in The Dangerous Decade simply is not available anywhere else. You certainly won't hear about it from today's liberal media. The Dangerous Decade gives you access to the uncensored truth behind tomorrow's headlines.
The Center for Security Policy and the Blanchard Economic Research Unit have combined their networks of worldwide confidential sources to help ensure that you are not blindsided by unexpected developments that could affect your investments, your businesses and your family's future. With The Dangerous Decade, they have written a report that gives you an astonishing preview of historic events to come.
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Christopher W. Holton President
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