• Up 88.3% since October 2008:
  The SPDR Gold Trust (an ETF that actually owns the gold) is an excellent way to participate in the continuing run up in the yellow metal – and a superior hedge against inflation.
  
  
• Up 171.2% since December 2008:
  Current yield 5%. A highly reliable but liquid MLP. Avoids corporate taxes.
  
  
• Up 86.1% since November 2007:
  A hot emerging market sector play, this Brazilian holding company’s subsidiaries generate and distribute electricity to that country’s explosively expanding industries. Current yield is a market-beating 5.9%
  
  
• Up 92% since November 2007:
  North American midstream energy company providing pipelines, processing and other services to producers and consumers of natural gas, crude oil and petrochemicals.  It’s about to build a new 149-mile pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico for six oil producers. Current yield: 5.3%
  
  
• Up 61% since March 2007:
  A utility company that provides drinking water, wastewater and other water-related services to 15 million people in over 30 states and two Canadian provinces. Has recently improved margins and profitability through increased revenues and cost controls.
  
  
• Up 94.3% since February 2008:
  A REIT that’s practically immune to current real estate woes. Owns 2,300 “dream” properties and has never had an occupancy rate under 96%! Has paid distributions every single month since 1970 – with a total of 63 dividend hikes! Current yield is 4.9%.
  
  
• Up 121.6% since December 2008:
  This computer tech powerhouse continues to reward investors with both strong growth and respectable dividends. Current yield: 3.3%.

In 2011, high quality dividend stocks pulled ahead of the markets.  The profits jumped for the year–which didn’t take our readers by surprise at all.

The message for you in this grand megashift is encouraging:

You may have been tempted in the past few years to give up on your major retirement dreams.  But don’t do it!

Leeb Income Peformance is here to help now.  You no longer need to bang your head against the wall for lack of sound and high profit places to put your remaining money in this treacherous world.

Yes, the Goldilocks investment economy is dead and gone.  But you can still reap the same rewards you once earned when things were easy.

Large regions of the world are printing money, and there’s an ocean of cash sloshing around out there with your name written on it.

That means you don’t have to accept the paltry profits that Wall Street wants to dole out to you, the spare change that the system gives to those at the bottom of the Street’s pecking order.

Yes, the government is broke, but thousands of corporations are rolling in green stuff.  The irony, though, is that it’s not always doing investors a lot of good.  Because of the sluggish economy, many banks are afraid to lend or invest.

The good part of this: Tough times mean cheap money, and that’s a wide-open invitation for you to jump on board an accelerating train and ride it to riches.  It’s not too late to make big profits from bad times.  This is not a wise time to slow down or stop.  It would be a serious mistake to rely too much on risk-free but return-free (and brainless) alternatives like cash, low-yield government bonds, and annuities.  We have surprises for you.

For instance, despite little economic improvement in the last three years, the values of many assets related and leveraged to commodities in our portfolios: (income, income & growth, fixed income, and mutual and ETF funds) have soared. 

Yes, as William Marstellar said, 80% of all surprises are negative.  But these are the good times.  Our readers are getting rich, collecting acorns for the winter.  Right now is the crucial time to stock up on high-yield investments because bad things are always lurking in the shadows, waiting to surprise you.

For a very major instance . . .

Seventy years later–to the very day–a second calamity strangely befell Wall Street as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were downgraded to mere bank holding companies. Two days later, on Monday, September 23, 2008, the markets opened with the Dow starting its catastrophic collapse by 370 points, then cascading to further losses of 777, 800, 500, and 678.  And you know the rest.

No, such coincidences are too messy to discover–much less to track.  You shouldn’t bother.  (How could you have predicted the start of WWII? . . .  the “Long Island Express,” the first hurricane to hit New York City since 1816? . . .  and the crash of 2008?)

What I’ve learned is to expect surprises.  So Leeb Income Peformance is geared to being prepared, overcoming hard times, and profiting from sudden shocks.  As a poet once said, “Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.”

All that said, there are clear-cut trends that you should stay aware of . . .  and there’s nothing eerie about them at all.  In our shop, we have consistently outperformed all but a tiny fraction of the main trend-following advisories.

Take inflation, for instance (the main subject of this piece), a trend that Wall Street tracks poorly but we track.

Inflation is engraved into the DNA of the human heart–and all civilization.  It’s almost eternal.  You’ll never be able to escape it.

Even if you moved to Easter Island and learned to subsist on an annual sack of rice, you would eventually find that some greedy so and so has jacked up the price of your rice, upsetting the tranquility of your splendid isolation.

Cycles come and cycles go, but inflation flows from the human heart.  And yet. . . 

It’s been even worse than I predicted.  Thanks to our wrong-headed and incredibly heavy-handed government, millions of Americans have their backs against the wall.

But despair not!  As shaky as the markets have been over the last few years. . . and may be in the future, they still harbor dozens of highly lucrative and prudent investments that will make your day.

Though most of them are off the beaten path, they are quite easy to access and buy.  Income, growth, and risk avoidance are what we do best.

Someday when your grandchildren ask you,  “Why did everything get so bad after 2008?” you can tell them about the Goldilocks economy and how everything was “just right” in the mid to late 1990s.

But then, you can truthfully say, the government snuck in to “help out,” and made it all worse.
The collapse actually got started back in 1977 with the COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT ACT, which was supposed to make homes more affordable for everyone–whether they could pay for them or not.

This led to a lot of “subprime” mortgage loans.  And as the years rolled on, government became more and more pushy about forcing banks to loosen their credit requirements and make loans to anything with a pulse.

Pretty soon, the banks and their cousins were bundling up stacks of loans of dubious value–or no value at all–and trading them like baseball cards.

Eventually, the bubble burst, as bubbles always do, and home values collapsed, along with stocks and banks and car makers and the corporate jobs market.  And nobody lived happily ever after.

The world was finally running out of oil. To be more clear, OPEC announced in 1999 that it could no longer act as the backup for the world’s various oil producers.  The bottomless wells of Arabia and Iraq were (as I said then) part myth, part downright lies.

When I broke this news in my book, The Oil Factor, I became known as “the $100 oil guy,” not actually ridiculed, but somewhat resented as the Grinch who spoiled the party.

At that point, oil was still at $30 a barrel.  I had to wait a few years for it to peak at $147, but I didn’t enjoy being vindicated.  I was too busy clutching my stomach, like everybody else.

See, at that time I didn’t have Leeb Income Peformance to provide my readers with an easy alternative to normal, bullish investing.  My outstanding staff and I did manage to beat the socks off the markets (and Warren Buffett!), thanks to our foreknowledge about oil and gold and global shifts.  But in general, when stocks went up, our portfolios went up–and when they went down, well, our profits sagged just a bit.

With the advent of Leeb Income Peformance, created to make hay from the dark side of Wall Street’s game-playing, you now have 87 stunning ways in just the portfolios alone, to profit while everyone else is losing their collective shirts.

While Washington continues to bleed the economy dry, you will be floating on a sea of profits from hard-luck stocks and emerging-markets commodities. . . with dividend profits payable in growing, not shrinking, currencies.

Death Traps:  While traditional havens like blue chip stocks, bonds, and CDs turn into financial death traps, your brilliant Leeb Income Peformance alternatives, flying well below Wall Street’s radar, will be siphoning off huge amounts of ready cash from deep within uncharted markets like China, Brazil, Australia . . .  or right next door in Canada.

Ben Bernanke is good at one thing, and only one: printing money.

Lock him in a closet with a printing press, and he’ll be in hog heaven.  Slip a pizza under his door once a day, and that’s all he’d need–until the next installment came due on his promised monthly $75 billion helicopter drop (to add to the $1.7 trillion he’s already printed).

In speeches, he is careful to mention the danger of Japanese-style deflation now and then.  But if deflation hits, it won’t come from Bernanke.  He can’t find a balance between gold and inflation for the same reason a burglar can’t find a cop.

He got his nickname of “Helicopter Ben” back in 2002, when he quoted Milton Friedman’s goofy idea that the government could halt deflation by dropping quantities of money out of a helicopter.  Sorry, Ben, it’s not that simple anymore.

What’s changed?  For one thing, the Internet happened.

We’ve wired up the East to the rest of civilization.  So we now have, counting just India and China, 3.4 billion new capitalists.

Sure, this new generation of entrepreneurs has produced an ocean of cheaper goods (China) and services (India).  But their economic help is far outweighed by their demand for stuff.  Waving their new paychecks, they have descended en masse on stores from Mumbai to Shanghai, demanding their fair share of cars, computers, cameras, air conditioners, kitchen gadgets, and cool clothes like they see on TV.

Yes, my friend, free-market capitalism is inflationary.  With all that demand and commotion, the danger of deflation almost disappears.  The devil himself would have a hard time deflating such a bustling economy.  Besides, Bernanke has already spoken for all the helicopters.

Coming on top of the oil “runout” and the screaming need for more and more gasoline, the booming demand for earth’s ever-dwindling resources is an utter tragedy.

It almost seems like everything is running out all at once.  Even water is growing scarce and expensive.

And it doesn’t help that after a whole century of inflation, we’re still handling it so poorly:

• The typical household budget is being whittled away by a death of a thousand cuts.


• Generally, the bailouts and stimulus packages haven’t worked–mainly because they’re based on socialist assumptions.  Infusions of cash are not a solution for a fundamentally flawed system.


• On August 5, 2011, the ratings firm Standard & Poor’s removed for the first time the triple-A rating U.S. debt had held for 70 years.  To add insult to injury, it put the new AA+ grade on “negative outlook,” meaning the U.S. was unlikely to regain the top rating in the near term.

How do doctrinaire liberals handle such numbers?  Typically, they simply shrug them off as part of the unfathomable future.

Your share of the overall debt–if you’re a taxpayer–comes to a six-figure total!

What’s that? You say you can’t pay that much?

Oh, you will.  One way or another, you’ll pay every penny of it.  That’s the scary thing about massive debt overload; some sort of “economic cleansing” is inevitable.  No institution can go on compounding debt forever.  Just make darned sure you learn to ride the inflation bull well enough to grow a debt-free nest egg.  This letter is your last big chance to escape the debt avalanche.

• We should have begun to devote major money toward alternative fuels by about 1960 at the latest.  It’s much too late to play catch-up now.  Unless you enjoy riding your bicycle everywhere, the best you can do is use your Leeb Income Peformance profits to buy a Prius or two and simply learn to enjoy your Sunday afternoon ride in the country while ordinary citizens gnash their teeth as you drive by.  (After all, we’re an income advisory, not a social justice center.)
  
  
• Whatever you do, don’t kick back and assume that the government is going to take care of you.  It can’t and it won’t.  We at Leeb Income Peformance can help you tremendously, but those bailouts and stimulus plans were a farce and fixed nothing.

Besides, there has never before been a season when the government had to bail out private businesses–outfits like Lee Iacocca’s Chrysler notwithstanding.  Basically, we are sailing in uncharted waters.

• Don’t be misled by Wall Street cheerleaders.  In bear markets, they hail every rally as “the bottom”!
  
  
• Touching upon oil again, fourteen years from now, we in the U.S. will be seeking 54% more of it.

And where will it come from?  It won’t.  That’s the problem.  In 2003, the top ten oil companies spent $8 billion on exploration, but only found $4 billion in oil and gas.  So try to be grateful the next time you fill your tank.  At least the pumps are still working.

But the bittersweet fact is that as your Leeb Income Peformance profits start pouring in, you’ll easily be able to afford all the gas you want; however, you may be kind of lonely standing at the pump when gas is $15 a gallon.  (It’s lonely at the top, but you eat better, plus there’s more elbow room.)

Massively compounding the problem, oil will take everything skyward along with it:

• shoes and ships and sealing wax
• buttons and bows and bailing wire
• computers and corn and carpet tacks, etc.

Oil is connected to everything; and when oil goes up, everything goes up because the dollar goes down.

Even the oil costs on Old MacDonald’s farm will spike.  Back in 1999, fuel was soaking up 22% of MacDonald’s expenses.  But when oil hits $200, it will gobble up a devastating 83% of the entire farm.

Set your watch back 40 years.  The next decade will be the ‘70s again–on steroids.

In case you’ve forgotten, the ‘70s were way worse than the 1930s for investors.  Stocks, bonds, and even cash were net losers, adjusted for inflation.  A $100,000 purchase in bonds in 1965 was worth $43,000 by 1980.  Meanwhile, gold prices were growing 33% per year.

But in the 1930s, the S&P 500 grew 22%, cash grew 29%, and bonds grew 95%.

Our conclusion:  Get ready for a rerun of the ‘70s.  The ‘30s were notorious for the man-eating Great Depression.  But for you as an investor, inflation will be worse than a depression.  By a mile.

That’s assuming you never heard of Leeb Income Peformance.  And that’s assuming you don’t know which rock to look under–to find one of the few alternative investments that are hard-wired to benefit from the topsy-turvy markets of today.

For most investors, inflation is their worst enemy.  It eats the heart out of every bull market rally.

We’ll agree with that–to a point.  Frankly, inflation is bad for the whole country.  But it can be a good friend for your wallet, now that you have Leeb Income Performance Letter to point out the few investments that are geared to go in the opposite direction from “good times” investments, surviving like a duck survives a rainstorm.

As investors realize more and more that they can get bigger profits from our picks than from typical Wall Street flotsam, they will pile onto the same picks you’ve bought–and bid them up.  Hard assets and hard-times selections will attract them like flies to honey.  Gold, silver, oil, lumber, copper, and other things made by God will soon outclass pieces of paper concocted by lawyers.  From now on, the more inflation and chaos, the more income you’ll get.

Back in the days of yore (yore being 1982), Fed Chairman Paul Volcker was able to break the back of inflation by raising interest rates way above the inflation rate, nipping inflation in the bud.

But if Bernanke were to try that, he would kick us straight into a ‘30s-style Depression.  The difference is, today we’re up to our noses in debt–debt paid for by mortgages and plastic.  So it would be, like, Depression squared.

Housing used to be the anchor of U.S. prosperity.  Now it’s our albatross.  When Bernanke raised interest rates, he put ARM mortgage payment rates out of reach –and killed the housing industry.

Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Geithner are facing one of the hardest tasks in the history of any central bank:  handling a huge, complex, and sick economy with almost no tools to do so.  All they can do is jawbone the banks and Congress and tweak interest rates… which are already at an untweakable rock bottom.  Small wonder that Greenspan wanted out!

What’s worse is that our central bank is not free and independent any more.  We now have to follow the lead of the 800-pound gorilla, the Bank of China.  They have the money and we don’t.

Worse yet, the Fed’s only path to survival is “growth at any cost.”  They must achieve global expansion, or else run out of momentum and wobble off into the ashes.  The only way to keep the dance music playing is to keep interest rates near zip… which will soon allow inflation to balloon out of control anyway. (And have you ever tried to dance with a gorilla?)

Ironically, inflation would already have gone into double digits if it were not for the recession.

At this point, there are only two things keeping the U.S. solvent:  hocus and pocus.

The fine folks at Bernanke’s Ministry of Economic Magic rival the best minds at Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Academy.

But it’s not just the raw numbers or the plain movements of carloads of cash that can fake you out, it’s the verbal camouflage that goes along with it.  To illustrate, take a glance at the progress of inflation:

In early 2002, it was 1.14%.  In mid-2008, it was 5.62%.  That’s a clear review of the big-picture trend.

But now (thanks only to the grinding recession) it’s coming in under 3.5% most months, which means anemic business.

However, when Chinese and Indian demand meets up with commodity shortages, as it soon will, prepare yourself to hear a chorus of pundits, Fed staffers, and CNBC cheerleaders singing, “Happy days are here again!  The recession is over!”

Don’t believe it.  Within 3-4 months, people will smell the scam.  Yet the Fed will still be unwilling to raise interest rates to dampen inflation.

At first, the Fed and Obama will just let rates slide upward, explaining it as a sure sign of the long-awaited recovery, not as a collapsing dollar.  But as the months tick by and inflation bursts through the 10% barrier. . .  and then 15%. . .   and 20%, Americans–and those in other developed nations–will take hit after hit to the solar plexus.

Meanwhile, many of your friends and family will be bearing the brunt of the dark side of inflation:  the painful slide into the cesspool of unpaid bills and permanently deferred maintenance.

Certainly, most investors do have advisors.  Problem is, even the best of them treat inflation as a blip, an annoying seasonal oddity that always blows over. . .  after which, life will return to normal.

It grieves me to tell you this, but normal is a figment of the past.  All paper currencies are in trouble today, many commodities and natural resources are in runout mode, and yet prices will not be allowed to sink because vibrant, resource-rich nations are expanding up to 10% a year and bidding up prices for the rest of us.

I urge you in the strongest terms I know:  Reverse your strategies, turn around, and learn to profit from income–reliable income based on the new and permanent reality of profitable inflation.

Please click the button below now.  There is still time, but you need all the time you can get.  Even though there is no rush, hurry!  You know what happens to things you dawdle with.

• Long-Term Stock Recommendations with Multi-Decade Growth Potential! These are greatly undervalued energy and resource stocks that have the potential for breathtaking growth, and not just for the next few years - but even for the next few decades!
  
  
• Top Undervalued Commodity Plays. You'll learn smart, easy, low-risk ways to invest in the commodity boom. While Wall Street's trying to cash in on commodities by playing the high-risk futures market, we'll show you easier, cheaper and safer ways to play this lucrative bull.
  
  
• Outstanding Income Investments. Inflation will wreak havoc on the broader market, and P/E ratios will plummet but there are a handful of generations-old stalwarts whose growth will be so spectacular they will outshine even inflation. While most retirees and income investors will watch their income checks wither away, you won't have to.

In addition to the monthly issues, we post a Weekly Update every Thursday to our website that keeps you abreast of market developments between issues.  You can also receive these updates via email.

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In this report you’ll learn about:

• The one financial sanctuary you can count on in the upcoming oil-strapped, inflation-afflicted times ahead. They can offer you fat rising yields for the rest of your days–practically tax-free. We’ll tell you our two top picks!
  
  
• A Global Energy Behemoth–with decades of reserves, a superior management team, and a currency play to boot!
  
  
• How to get up to 3 times the average yield a normal investor would get on a stock!
  
  
• America’s Last Great Income King! This corporate titan has been increasing its payout to shareholders. Now it’s poised for explosive growth in China and India which means which means fat rising yields for you.

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In Inflation Survival Guide you’ll learn about these investments, including:

• The #1 Global Commodity King. It’s one of the most profitable major miners in the world. And it can double its multi-billion dollar profits. Yet Wall Street has shafted it–even though it’s raining copper, diamonds, gold, aluminum, coal and more!
  
  
• The Modern Financial Miracle–and one of the most effective inflation-fighting tools known to man. It should form an essential component of every investor’s portfolio. Profits are government guaranteed! We’ll tell you little-known ways to purchase, plus special types that can win you triple-tax exemption!
  
  
• The #1 Gold Stock to Own. This company has by far the best production profile of any major gold producer.  And its cash cost of production makes it one of the lowest-cost producers in the business.
  
  
• The Retirement Vehicle of the Future. A great money migration has already begun, and it’s pouring into international bonds. The super rich have led the way. But anyone can invest. We’ll tell you about the most attractive international bond fund on the market today…
  
  
• The Easiest and the Most Convenient Way to Buy Gold.  Although not offering a dividend, this gold investment offers investors both inflation and deflation protection and is a pure gold play, without the production costs, uncertainties and complications inherent in mining stocks.
  
  
• The Foreign Utility that can serve as a hedge against rising inflation–as inflation leads to rising revenue and earnings for it, and income for you!

These investments are already rising. But inflation starts to kick in, these investments should ratchet up to dizzying heights very quickly. Wall Street will gape in awe as the broader market gets blown to bits, and these alternative plays reach valuations they haven’t seen since the inflationary seventies. This may be your last chance to get in on them cheap. Sign up for Leeb Income Peformance today, and we’ll rush you a copy. Just click on the button below. 

• The single best investment you could own right now and for the next five years.
  
  
• 7 widely-held beliefs about the U.S. economy what will be proven false–to the detriment of millions of investors.
  
  
• Why the old solutions to financial crises won’t work this time around.
  
  
• How many of today’s wealthy will suffer devastating losses, while a new generation of multimillionaires will emerge.
  
  
• Why the secret to making millions in the future is to be more like John Rockefeller than Warren Buffett.
  
  
• Key natural resources that will soon suffer from severe shortfalls, despite the recession.
  
  
• The major industries that will be worst hit over the next few years.
  
  
• Severely undervalued stocks which will become the new market leaders.
  
  
• How to make a fortune investing in the government’s “must-have” solutions.

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Leeb Income Peformance

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