The San Francisco Federal Reserve bank came out with a gloomy forecast last month. Its analysts said that stocks were likely to earn paltry returns over the next 10 years. The reason cited was simple enough; stockholders don't live forever.
'Demography is destiny,' said Auguste Comte. 'It works the other way around too,' he might have added. If they thought they were going to live longer, America's most ubiquitous age cohort -- the baby boomers -- might continue to buy stocks. Instead, the cold hand of the grave is on their shoulders and on the whole economy. The boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 per day over the next 18 years. They will sell stocks to finance their remaining years.
Old people have always been a drag on an economy. Migrating tribes left them behind. Eskimos put them out on the ice. Old people generally bowed to their fate with good grace. In times of famine, for example, they stopped eating so the young might live.
Mortality has doomed the stock market, says the S.F. Fed. P/E ratios will likely be cut in half. Investors are unlikely to see their stocks return to 2010 levels, says the report, until 2027. And this assumes that US companies will continue to grow profits as they did since 1954. Not very likely. Because democracy, energy, and financial quackery are destiny too. Jointly and severally, they are responsible for the biggest financial debacle in history.
This week, Deutsche Bank came out with a report of its own. It, too, is confident that the "Golden Age" -- 1982-2007 -- is over. In its place is a "Grey Age." Instead of the nominal 12.8% gains of the Golden Age, investors have gotten returns of -- 2.8% per annum for the last 4 years. Deutsche Bank expects stock market investors to lose about 10% of their money -- in real terms -- over the next 10 years, while the economy goes through 3 recessions!
But what would you expect? Everything droops. For the last 3 or 4 centuries the winning formula for developed economies and their governments has been simple: More energy. More output. More people. More credit. More promises. This formula has been so effective for so long people began to think it was destiny itself. It's not. Instead, it is slave to destiny not its master.
By 2007, the slave was put in his place. The business cycle turned sour. Native populations in Europe and Japan are falling. Energy use per person in the developed world has leveled off. Private sector credit is shrinking. So is real private sector output.
The feds responded to this challenge as they had to every post-WWII slowdown. They added more -- more money, more credit. The government itself spent more money and used more energy. But the economy did not react in the old manner.
An obvious reason: people are no longer as young and sans-soucis as they used to be. A young man's eye may be drawn to fast German cars or slick Italian suits. But an old man can barely see at all. The baby boomers no longer roll their joints; they rub them. And they are no longer the source of an economic boom; now, they are the proximate cause of the bust.
But there's more to this new Grey Age than demography. People too are subject to the law of declining marginal utility. They wear out. But so do even the most enduring and impressive economic trends. There were only 450 million people on the planet in 1500. It took 99,000 years to reach that level. Then, over the next 5 centuries -- the population soared 10 times. Today, it is hard to find a parking place in any major city. How was such a big jump in population possible? Destiny was demography. With ready, cheap energy at hand, man could grow more food. And then he could ship it all around the world. And he could put his talents to work making more and better machines...which would vastly increase his output and his standard of living.
But the Machine Age ages too. The first tractors appeared more than 100 years ago. They may have increased production 10...20...100 times. Since then, improvements have been incremental, not revolutionary. We have bigger, faster, better tractors -- that use more energy than ever.
Meanwhile, energy itself came to be more expensive. When the price of energy rose in the '70s, the "30 glorious years" that followed WWII were soon over. Hourly wage rates stopped increasing and have not gone up since.
Yes, there is plenty of energy around. But it is net output that you get from energy that counts, not the raw output. If a gallon of gasoline costs $5...it must produce more than $5 in additional output or the economy gets poorer. As the price rises fewer and fewer new energy apps pay off.
Likewise, credit is subject to the law of declining marginal utility too. In 1950, an additional dollar of credit added about 70 cents to GDP. By 2007, the US economy was adding more than $5 of debt to produce a single new dollar's worth of GDP. Now, the feds' new credit inputs produce negative real returns.
The jig is up. More no longer works.
Regards,
Bill Bonner,
for The Daily Reckoning
Joel's Note: The "hard math of demography," as they called it, is a subject Bill and co-author, Addison Wiggin, addressed at some length in their groundbreaking book, Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft Depression of the 21st Century. In it, the intrepid pair foretold much of the turmoil that would later come to pass, both in the financial markets and in the Middle East.
Interestingly enough, the "hard math" is coming home to roost in the United States too. Look, for example, at the inter-generational friction lighting up the Social Security debate. Retiring baby boomers want back what they paid (by governmental force) into the scheme. Meanwhile, younger generations, themselves struggling with soaring unemployment and diminished job opportunities, are loath to pay into something they've already written off as an economically unsustainable scam. Needless to say, something's gonna give.
"It's one of the major themes we'll be exploring in Apogee going forward," explained Addison in a conference call yesterday. Addison's Apogee Advisory seeks to cover the nexus between money and politics, between Wall Street and Washington. How will these trends impact you? How can you prepare yourself? And what, exactly, should you even be looking out for? Check out Addison's latest presentation here for a sneak peak at one particularly unsettling theme already well underway...and what you can do about it.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Chinese Communists Would Love President Rick Perry !
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — China must be secretly rooting for a guy like Rick Perry as the next U.S. president. They’d love competing against an America led by another Texas governor who talks from a big hat, loves war spending and tea parties, thinks the Fed chairman is acting “treasonous,” believes Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and admits he’s an antiscience, antievolution, anti-intellectual who will turn back the clock to the 19th century frontier Wild West.
Inflation watch in China
Inflation is still China's biggest economic headache, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said on a visit to the world's No. 2 economy. Dinny McMahon and Tom Orlik discuss the outlook for inflation, and Beijing's policy options.
Yes, China’s rooting for a guy who will not only make Washington “inconsequential” for all Americans, he’ll make America “inconsequential” in a world where China knows that its competitive edge and economic growth all hinge on investing in science, innovation and intellectuals with a vision of the future.
You can bet China’s leaders are cheering for a president who’ll stall the American economy even further while China races ahead of us in the global economic war. China would probably settle for the other leading GOP candidate, that ex-governor whose values shift with the latest polls and Tea Party questions … whatever happened to the GOP’s Bill Buckley soul?
China’s commie-capitalism beating GOP’s Reaganomics since 2000
Adam Smith’s original 1776 capitalism made America the world’s greatest superpower. We’ve lost that too. So America’s now in a handicap race with China, and losing. Why?
In just the past decade China’s state-run hybrid commie-capitalism has beaten the American economy, going from a “poor country” to racing ahead to global economic dominance. Unfortunately, our politicians just don’t get it. They’re like high school teens fighting a turf war who can’t see the building’s burning down.
In his “Triumph of Politics Over Economics,” Reagan’s budget director David Stockman warns: “America’s at a crossroads struggling to redefine ourselves, at a time when even Reagan couldn’t win the GOP nomination. Why? Because myopic politicians have hijacked the economy. Politicians are the new economists. Politicians now run the economy, puppets of the Super Rich and special-interest lobbyists.”
Stockman calls this corrupt system Crony Capitalism. We call it Reaganomics and Doomsday Capitalism, a sellf-destructive ideology that works to China’s advantage.
Here are 11 reasons China’s leaders would love an inconsequential president making America inconsequential in China’s march to economic world domination:
1. China’s economy: $123 trillion, 3 times America’s by 2040
In an eye-opening Foreign Policy cover story last year titled “$123,000,000,000,000: Why China’s economy will grow to $123 trillion by 2040,” Nobel economist Robert W. Fogel of the University of Chicago writes about China’s unbelievable leap forward. Back in 2000, just one decade ago, China was a “poor country” when the GOP and its “war president” took over control of America, announcing that “debt doesn’t matter.”
Yes, by 2040 “the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three times the economic output of the entire globe in 2000. China’s per capita income will hit $85,000, more than double the forecast for the European Union … much higher than that of India and Japan … the average Chinese megacity dweller will be living twice as well as the average Frenchman … Although it will not have overtaken the United States in per capita wealth … China’s share of global GDP— 40% — will dwarf that of the United States (14%) and the EU (5%) 30 years from now,” one brief generation.
2. China’s political system is more capitalist than America’s
“The Chinese political system is likely not what you think,” says Fogel, “Most economic reforms, including the most successful ones, have been locally driven and overseen.” Today there’s “more criticism and debate in upper echelons of policymaking.”
Fogel attends meetings of the Chinese Economists Society. Many economists are openly “critical of the Chinese government,” will even “point out that the latest decision by the finance ministry is flawed … even publish a critical letter in a Beijing newspaper.”
3. China is rapidly turning into a capitalist consumer economy
Yes, “China’s long-repressed consumerist tendencies” are exploding,” says Fogel: “In many ways, China is the most capitalist country in the world right now.”
Get it? While we borrow from China then waste money fighting wars, while Wall Street and the Super Rich are amassing wealth in the hands of the top 1%, “in the big Chinese cities, living standards and per capita income are at the level of countries the World Bank would deem ‘high middle-income,’ with a clear, growing affinity for acquiring clothes, electronics, fast food, automobiles.”
Why? Because China’s leaders “made the judgment that increasing domestic consumption will be critical to China’s economy, and a host of domestic policies now aim to increase Chinese consumers’ appetite for acquisitions.”
4. China’s massive investments in education, ahead of America
China’s making “enormous investments” in education, says Fogel. They know “educated workers are much more productive workers. … college-educated workers are three times as productive … a high school graduate is 1.8 times as productive as a worker with less than a ninth-grade education.”
In the next generation China’s high school enrollment rate could reach 100%, the college rate about 50%, adding “more than 6 percentage points to the country’s annual economic growth rate.” Meanwhile, America runs up massive debts wasting trillions on wars, shortchanging education.
5: China’s locking up global resources, using U.S. dollar reserves
The title of a Malcolm Knox feature in BusinessWeek says it all: “The deal is simple. Australia gets money. China gets Australia.” Wake up America: While our clueless myopic politicians are fighting self-destructive election turf wars, China is using its reserves (U.S. dollars!) to buy rights to Australia’s commodities and natural resources, giving China long-term access to natural gas, minerals, iron ore.
And that’s just one continent: China’s quietly buying up future rights to commodity-resources worldwide.
6. China’s rural economy of 700 million adding to growth rate
Go beyond the Shanghai high-rises and Guangdong factories,” says Fogel. You’ll see “changes afoot in the Chinese countryside … an under-appreciated economic engine.”
From 1978 to 2003 China’s labor productivity averaged about 6%. In the future, productivity will also increase in rural areas, for about 700 million or half of China. “That large rural sector is responsible for about a third of Chinese economic growth today” and will explode as a new generation adds another hundred million.
7. China’s government statistics underreporting progress
Don’t be misled by reports that “Chinese data are flawed or deliberately inflated in key ways,” says Fogel. Just the opposite: Their “statisticians may well be underestimating economic progress … Small firms often don’t report their numbers to the government.”
And as in America, “official estimates of GDP badly underestimate national growth” because they don’t “take into account improvements in services such as education and health care.” In short, “the rapid growth of China’s service sector makes the underestimation more pronounced.”
8: Yes, China does have a long-range plan to conquer America
China is America’s worst nightmare, engaged in economic warfare against us on multiple fronts: Stealing millions of jobs, stealing U.S. state secrets, stealing proprietary patents, stealing technology, stealing our wealth. China has also forged strategic alliances with our enemies, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. China is engaged in a not-so-secret cyber-war against America.
Ross Terrill, a China expert at Harvard, wrote in the Wilson Quarterly: “The Chinese Communists are very aware of this contest with the United States, though Americans (beyond the Pentagon) are not.” Terrill warns: “By being a shrinking violet, the United States would simply hand over the future to China.”
9: China’s aware of Pentagon strategies, is one-upping generals
You know China’s generals have copies of the Pentagon’s strategic war manual. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman warns of China’s long-range plans beyond waging “economic warfare” and tying up long-term natural resources.
Krugman says China’s actions tell us they’re planning long-term military strategies as well as economic war. He warns that in the near future, some seemly inconsequential incident may provoke “dangerously trigger-happy” Chinese leaders into escalating from defensive military strategies to a preemptive strike to advance China’s economic power.
10. The “Goldman Conspiracy” is helping China sabotage America
Li Delin’s “The Goldman Sachs Conspiracy” was a best seller in China. His Chinese readers love his vivid description: “Goldman Sachs knows when to go for your neck” like a “Manchurian tiger.”
Actually China’s playing a clever game: As author Matt Taibbi might say, China is now a “vampire squid wrapped around the face of Goldman, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into Goldman’s capital, talent and connections.” Eventually China will suck the life out of Goldman.
11. By 2040 China will be the world’s biggest superpower (again)
“To the West, the notion of a world in which the center of global economic gravity lies in Asia may seem unimaginable,” says Fogel. “But it wouldn’t be the first time. … China was the world’s largest economy for 18 of the past 20 centuries. … While Europe was fumbling in the Dark Ages and fighting disastrous religious wars, China cultivated the highest standards of living in the world. Today, the notion of a rising China is, in Chinese eyes, merely a return to the status quo.”
And thanks to guys like Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Barack Obama, the Goldman Conspiracy and buddies, China is destined to once again become the world’s superpower by 2040, when China’s economy is three times bigger than America’s.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — China must be secretly rooting for a guy like Rick Perry as the next U.S. president. They’d love competing against an America led by another Texas governor who talks from a big hat, loves war spending and tea parties, thinks the Fed chairman is acting “treasonous,” believes Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and admits he’s an antiscience, antievolution, anti-intellectual who will turn back the clock to the 19th century frontier Wild West.
Inflation watch in China
Inflation is still China's biggest economic headache, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said on a visit to the world's No. 2 economy. Dinny McMahon and Tom Orlik discuss the outlook for inflation, and Beijing's policy options.
Yes, China’s rooting for a guy who will not only make Washington “inconsequential” for all Americans, he’ll make America “inconsequential” in a world where China knows that its competitive edge and economic growth all hinge on investing in science, innovation and intellectuals with a vision of the future.
You can bet China’s leaders are cheering for a president who’ll stall the American economy even further while China races ahead of us in the global economic war. China would probably settle for the other leading GOP candidate, that ex-governor whose values shift with the latest polls and Tea Party questions … whatever happened to the GOP’s Bill Buckley soul?
China’s commie-capitalism beating GOP’s Reaganomics since 2000
Adam Smith’s original 1776 capitalism made America the world’s greatest superpower. We’ve lost that too. So America’s now in a handicap race with China, and losing. Why?
In just the past decade China’s state-run hybrid commie-capitalism has beaten the American economy, going from a “poor country” to racing ahead to global economic dominance. Unfortunately, our politicians just don’t get it. They’re like high school teens fighting a turf war who can’t see the building’s burning down.
In his “Triumph of Politics Over Economics,” Reagan’s budget director David Stockman warns: “America’s at a crossroads struggling to redefine ourselves, at a time when even Reagan couldn’t win the GOP nomination. Why? Because myopic politicians have hijacked the economy. Politicians are the new economists. Politicians now run the economy, puppets of the Super Rich and special-interest lobbyists.”
Stockman calls this corrupt system Crony Capitalism. We call it Reaganomics and Doomsday Capitalism, a sellf-destructive ideology that works to China’s advantage.
Here are 11 reasons China’s leaders would love an inconsequential president making America inconsequential in China’s march to economic world domination:
1. China’s economy: $123 trillion, 3 times America’s by 2040
In an eye-opening Foreign Policy cover story last year titled “$123,000,000,000,000: Why China’s economy will grow to $123 trillion by 2040,” Nobel economist Robert W. Fogel of the University of Chicago writes about China’s unbelievable leap forward. Back in 2000, just one decade ago, China was a “poor country” when the GOP and its “war president” took over control of America, announcing that “debt doesn’t matter.”
Yes, by 2040 “the Chinese economy will reach $123 trillion, or nearly three times the economic output of the entire globe in 2000. China’s per capita income will hit $85,000, more than double the forecast for the European Union … much higher than that of India and Japan … the average Chinese megacity dweller will be living twice as well as the average Frenchman … Although it will not have overtaken the United States in per capita wealth … China’s share of global GDP— 40% — will dwarf that of the United States (14%) and the EU (5%) 30 years from now,” one brief generation.
2. China’s political system is more capitalist than America’s
“The Chinese political system is likely not what you think,” says Fogel, “Most economic reforms, including the most successful ones, have been locally driven and overseen.” Today there’s “more criticism and debate in upper echelons of policymaking.”
Fogel attends meetings of the Chinese Economists Society. Many economists are openly “critical of the Chinese government,” will even “point out that the latest decision by the finance ministry is flawed … even publish a critical letter in a Beijing newspaper.”
3. China is rapidly turning into a capitalist consumer economy
Yes, “China’s long-repressed consumerist tendencies” are exploding,” says Fogel: “In many ways, China is the most capitalist country in the world right now.”
Get it? While we borrow from China then waste money fighting wars, while Wall Street and the Super Rich are amassing wealth in the hands of the top 1%, “in the big Chinese cities, living standards and per capita income are at the level of countries the World Bank would deem ‘high middle-income,’ with a clear, growing affinity for acquiring clothes, electronics, fast food, automobiles.”
Why? Because China’s leaders “made the judgment that increasing domestic consumption will be critical to China’s economy, and a host of domestic policies now aim to increase Chinese consumers’ appetite for acquisitions.”
4. China’s massive investments in education, ahead of America
China’s making “enormous investments” in education, says Fogel. They know “educated workers are much more productive workers. … college-educated workers are three times as productive … a high school graduate is 1.8 times as productive as a worker with less than a ninth-grade education.”
In the next generation China’s high school enrollment rate could reach 100%, the college rate about 50%, adding “more than 6 percentage points to the country’s annual economic growth rate.” Meanwhile, America runs up massive debts wasting trillions on wars, shortchanging education.
5: China’s locking up global resources, using U.S. dollar reserves
The title of a Malcolm Knox feature in BusinessWeek says it all: “The deal is simple. Australia gets money. China gets Australia.” Wake up America: While our clueless myopic politicians are fighting self-destructive election turf wars, China is using its reserves (U.S. dollars!) to buy rights to Australia’s commodities and natural resources, giving China long-term access to natural gas, minerals, iron ore.
And that’s just one continent: China’s quietly buying up future rights to commodity-resources worldwide.
6. China’s rural economy of 700 million adding to growth rate
Go beyond the Shanghai high-rises and Guangdong factories,” says Fogel. You’ll see “changes afoot in the Chinese countryside … an under-appreciated economic engine.”
From 1978 to 2003 China’s labor productivity averaged about 6%. In the future, productivity will also increase in rural areas, for about 700 million or half of China. “That large rural sector is responsible for about a third of Chinese economic growth today” and will explode as a new generation adds another hundred million.
7. China’s government statistics underreporting progress
Don’t be misled by reports that “Chinese data are flawed or deliberately inflated in key ways,” says Fogel. Just the opposite: Their “statisticians may well be underestimating economic progress … Small firms often don’t report their numbers to the government.”
And as in America, “official estimates of GDP badly underestimate national growth” because they don’t “take into account improvements in services such as education and health care.” In short, “the rapid growth of China’s service sector makes the underestimation more pronounced.”
8: Yes, China does have a long-range plan to conquer America
China is America’s worst nightmare, engaged in economic warfare against us on multiple fronts: Stealing millions of jobs, stealing U.S. state secrets, stealing proprietary patents, stealing technology, stealing our wealth. China has also forged strategic alliances with our enemies, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. China is engaged in a not-so-secret cyber-war against America.
Ross Terrill, a China expert at Harvard, wrote in the Wilson Quarterly: “The Chinese Communists are very aware of this contest with the United States, though Americans (beyond the Pentagon) are not.” Terrill warns: “By being a shrinking violet, the United States would simply hand over the future to China.”
9: China’s aware of Pentagon strategies, is one-upping generals
You know China’s generals have copies of the Pentagon’s strategic war manual. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman warns of China’s long-range plans beyond waging “economic warfare” and tying up long-term natural resources.
Krugman says China’s actions tell us they’re planning long-term military strategies as well as economic war. He warns that in the near future, some seemly inconsequential incident may provoke “dangerously trigger-happy” Chinese leaders into escalating from defensive military strategies to a preemptive strike to advance China’s economic power.
10. The “Goldman Conspiracy” is helping China sabotage America
Li Delin’s “The Goldman Sachs Conspiracy” was a best seller in China. His Chinese readers love his vivid description: “Goldman Sachs knows when to go for your neck” like a “Manchurian tiger.”
Actually China’s playing a clever game: As author Matt Taibbi might say, China is now a “vampire squid wrapped around the face of Goldman, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into Goldman’s capital, talent and connections.” Eventually China will suck the life out of Goldman.
11. By 2040 China will be the world’s biggest superpower (again)
“To the West, the notion of a world in which the center of global economic gravity lies in Asia may seem unimaginable,” says Fogel. “But it wouldn’t be the first time. … China was the world’s largest economy for 18 of the past 20 centuries. … While Europe was fumbling in the Dark Ages and fighting disastrous religious wars, China cultivated the highest standards of living in the world. Today, the notion of a rising China is, in Chinese eyes, merely a return to the status quo.”
And thanks to guys like Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Rick Perry, Barack Obama, the Goldman Conspiracy and buddies, China is destined to once again become the world’s superpower by 2040, when China’s economy is three times bigger than America’s.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Viking Minerals: A mining company with huge potential
VKML is engaged in the acquisition and development of near-term producing copper, gold and silver properties in the United States and Canada.
Viking is focusing on developing its Dolly Varden properties in northeastern Nevada, adjacent to the Victoria Copper mine. The large resource of copper in this area has been well documented and hosts two large operating mines Battle Mountain and Robinson.
Positive assay results and "growing anticipation"
On Tuesday after the closing bell, VKML reported up to 5.23 percent copper from its first five assay results at the Dolly Varden Claims in Nevada.
The property continues to prove itself "as being highly mineralised with the potential for bulk tonnage copper, gold and silver recovery," said VKML's President Charles Irizarry in a September 6 press release.
"These results of up to 5.23% Copper from our first hole have exceeded our expectations," Irizarry said. "Especially when considering the neighboring Robinson Mine averages 0.5% copper. There is growing anticipation on what our next set of results will bring."
"Very optimistic that our property will be an important one"
In early June, VKML announced the acquisition of 16 claims in the Dolly Varden district in Elko County, Nevada -- "the world's third most prolific mining region," according to a June 1 press release.
The 16 claim property is adjacent to the Victoria Mine, which operated in the 1970's and 1980's producing over 24 million pounds of copper as well as the Dolly Varden Property which was a gold and copper producing mine, the press release stated.
"We are excited about the potential of our property. With its location in Elko County, which is a prolific mining area, and based on the results of our grab samples to date, we are very optimistic that our property will be an important one," Irizarry said in the June 1 press release.
Situated near properties with a history of production
There are 298 mines in Elko County, Nevada, located between Reno and Salt Lake City. Two of the most noteworthy mines include the Robinson Mine which is an open pit copper and gold mine that has operated continuously since 2005 producing averagely 121-126 million pounds per year of copper, and the Bingham Canyon Mine, which is the world's largest open pit mine and has produced more copper than any other mine in history - approximately 14.5 million tons.
According to VKML's Web site, The Dolly Varden property is located 75 miles south of the Victoria Mine and is close to Quadra Mining Co.'s huge Robinson mine, which in 2005 produced 126 million lbs. copper and 81,000 oz gold at grades of 0.6% Cu and 0.25 g/t Au. And 100 miles to the east is the Bingham Canyon mine.
Steps to increase shareholder value
Just a few months ago, VKML announced that it cancelled 240 million common shares in order to "greatly enhance the position of its shareholders," a June 23 press release stated.
"By reducing the issued and outstanding shares in our company by 240,000,000 or two thirds, we have not only dramatically enhanced our shareholders value, but also provided the company with the flexibility to acquire production assets using both cash and stock with minimal dilution to our share holders," Irizarry said in the June 23 press release.
An emphasis on near-term production
The Dolly Varden property could be a huge find for VKML. With a string of positive news releases in recent months, and positive assay results, VKML could be on the verge of a new phase of growth.
"The general market for Gold and Copper keeps getting better and better, it only makes sense to ramp up both exploration on the Dolly Varden as well as further acquisitions in Elko County area with an emphasis on near term production of both Gold and Copper," Irizarry said in a June 15 press release.
To learn more about VKML, visit: http://www.vikingmineralsinc.com/
Disclaimer:
THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE COMPANY OR COMPANIES MENTIONED IN THIS PUBLICATION. DO NOT BASE ANY INVESTMENT DECISION UPON ANY MATERIALS FOUND ON THIS NEWSLETTER OR ON OUR WEBSITE.
The information contained on our website or in any of our newsletters should be viewed as commercial advertisement and is not intended to be investment advice. Our Web site and our newsletter are services of Longview Communications Corp., a media and advertising firm that is from time-to-time compensated by the companies profiled on our web site or in our newsletter. When compensated in shares, readers should be aware that it is our policy to liquidate all shares immediately. All direct and third party compensation received has been disclosed on our newsletter and/or our website in accordance with section 1 7 (b) of the Securities Act of 1 9 3 3.
Compensation: We are expecting to receive six thousand five hundred dollars from a third party, Block Investments, Inc., for a two-day e-mail advertising campaign for Viking Minerals, Inc.
Viking is focusing on developing its Dolly Varden properties in northeastern Nevada, adjacent to the Victoria Copper mine. The large resource of copper in this area has been well documented and hosts two large operating mines Battle Mountain and Robinson.
Positive assay results and "growing anticipation"
On Tuesday after the closing bell, VKML reported up to 5.23 percent copper from its first five assay results at the Dolly Varden Claims in Nevada.
The property continues to prove itself "as being highly mineralised with the potential for bulk tonnage copper, gold and silver recovery," said VKML's President Charles Irizarry in a September 6 press release.
"These results of up to 5.23% Copper from our first hole have exceeded our expectations," Irizarry said. "Especially when considering the neighboring Robinson Mine averages 0.5% copper. There is growing anticipation on what our next set of results will bring."
"Very optimistic that our property will be an important one"
In early June, VKML announced the acquisition of 16 claims in the Dolly Varden district in Elko County, Nevada -- "the world's third most prolific mining region," according to a June 1 press release.
The 16 claim property is adjacent to the Victoria Mine, which operated in the 1970's and 1980's producing over 24 million pounds of copper as well as the Dolly Varden Property which was a gold and copper producing mine, the press release stated.
"We are excited about the potential of our property. With its location in Elko County, which is a prolific mining area, and based on the results of our grab samples to date, we are very optimistic that our property will be an important one," Irizarry said in the June 1 press release.
Situated near properties with a history of production
There are 298 mines in Elko County, Nevada, located between Reno and Salt Lake City. Two of the most noteworthy mines include the Robinson Mine which is an open pit copper and gold mine that has operated continuously since 2005 producing averagely 121-126 million pounds per year of copper, and the Bingham Canyon Mine, which is the world's largest open pit mine and has produced more copper than any other mine in history - approximately 14.5 million tons.
According to VKML's Web site, The Dolly Varden property is located 75 miles south of the Victoria Mine and is close to Quadra Mining Co.'s huge Robinson mine, which in 2005 produced 126 million lbs. copper and 81,000 oz gold at grades of 0.6% Cu and 0.25 g/t Au. And 100 miles to the east is the Bingham Canyon mine.
Steps to increase shareholder value
Just a few months ago, VKML announced that it cancelled 240 million common shares in order to "greatly enhance the position of its shareholders," a June 23 press release stated.
"By reducing the issued and outstanding shares in our company by 240,000,000 or two thirds, we have not only dramatically enhanced our shareholders value, but also provided the company with the flexibility to acquire production assets using both cash and stock with minimal dilution to our share holders," Irizarry said in the June 23 press release.
An emphasis on near-term production
The Dolly Varden property could be a huge find for VKML. With a string of positive news releases in recent months, and positive assay results, VKML could be on the verge of a new phase of growth.
"The general market for Gold and Copper keeps getting better and better, it only makes sense to ramp up both exploration on the Dolly Varden as well as further acquisitions in Elko County area with an emphasis on near term production of both Gold and Copper," Irizarry said in a June 15 press release.
To learn more about VKML, visit: http://www.vikingmineralsinc.com/
Disclaimer:
THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE COMPANY OR COMPANIES MENTIONED IN THIS PUBLICATION. DO NOT BASE ANY INVESTMENT DECISION UPON ANY MATERIALS FOUND ON THIS NEWSLETTER OR ON OUR WEBSITE.
The information contained on our website or in any of our newsletters should be viewed as commercial advertisement and is not intended to be investment advice. Our Web site and our newsletter are services of Longview Communications Corp., a media and advertising firm that is from time-to-time compensated by the companies profiled on our web site or in our newsletter. When compensated in shares, readers should be aware that it is our policy to liquidate all shares immediately. All direct and third party compensation received has been disclosed on our newsletter and/or our website in accordance with section 1 7 (b) of the Securities Act of 1 9 3 3.
Compensation: We are expecting to receive six thousand five hundred dollars from a third party, Block Investments, Inc., for a two-day e-mail advertising campaign for Viking Minerals, Inc.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Gov. Rick Perry Lives Under a GOP Rock While Denying Climate Change Despite Record-Breaking Heat
HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today as arguments inexplicably continue about climate change
August 23, 2011 by Andy Wilson
Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re going to not just be breaking the record, but adding several more days onto it (to a total of at least 73 or 74- assuming this is the last hot pattern we have in the next month), we may want to ask ourselves what is going on?
Well, we are faced with a La Nina weather pattern, bringing hot, dry weather to the Lonestar state. La Ninas have happened before and they’ll happen again- as evidence by the 86 year old record og 68 days of 100+ heat. For it to be hot in Texas in the summer is normal, but it’s not normal for it to be this hot for this many days.
Which brings us to climate change. Scientists theorizing about climate change decades ago predicted exactly what we are seeing now: slight upticks in temperature giving us more slightly hotter days. So, a day that would normally be 98 or 99 is now 101 or 102 due to the radiative forcings of the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Or, like this informative video from Futurama explains it:
Things are even getting so bad that they’re delaying Texas football games by an hour to let the temperatures cool off. So, as unprecedented as these individual points are, they don’t necessarily individually indicate a pattern of warming. However, when you consider that in 2009 we were also in danger of breaking the 1925 record, and 2008 was also an unseasonably hot year, the fact that climate is getting hotter is in no doubt.
truth o meter rick perry false climate change
Meanwhile, there are a lot of folks wasting their time debating the science of climate change. Our Texas governor, Rick Perry, himself a well-known source of greenhouse gases, recently told people in New Hampshire that “I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. I think we’re seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.” Call me crazy, but Perry sounds. . . well, crazy. Politifact looked into it and called his statement False. That’s putting it nicely. Perry was probably obliquely referring to the non-scandal known as Climategate, the only real scandal of which was that several scientists had their private emails hacked and published. Despite looking for problems with the scientists’ actual work reviews by several major agencies have cleared the scientists, including yet another one, today, from the National Science Foundation.
So, it’s hot. Those of us with functioning brains can understand why it’s hot, and getting hotter. So what do we do about it?
The first and most obvious step is energy efficiency. If we’re going to be demanding more cooling, rather than pumping out more pollution, let’s use that energy as efficiently as we can by sealing leaks in our homes, offices, etc. Let’s use more efficient lighting and appliances, all of which help keep our energy bills low. Let’s look at harnessing the power of that big hot Texas sun to do more than just melt our snowcones. Let’s look at our energy policy holistically so that we can come up with cheaper, cleaner, cooler solutions to our energy needs.
Look for a solution at Sauer Energy's Wind Charger
August 23, 2011 by Andy Wilson
Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. Since we’re going to not just be breaking the record, but adding several more days onto it (to a total of at least 73 or 74- assuming this is the last hot pattern we have in the next month), we may want to ask ourselves what is going on?
Well, we are faced with a La Nina weather pattern, bringing hot, dry weather to the Lonestar state. La Ninas have happened before and they’ll happen again- as evidence by the 86 year old record og 68 days of 100+ heat. For it to be hot in Texas in the summer is normal, but it’s not normal for it to be this hot for this many days.
Which brings us to climate change. Scientists theorizing about climate change decades ago predicted exactly what we are seeing now: slight upticks in temperature giving us more slightly hotter days. So, a day that would normally be 98 or 99 is now 101 or 102 due to the radiative forcings of the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Or, like this informative video from Futurama explains it:
Things are even getting so bad that they’re delaying Texas football games by an hour to let the temperatures cool off. So, as unprecedented as these individual points are, they don’t necessarily individually indicate a pattern of warming. However, when you consider that in 2009 we were also in danger of breaking the 1925 record, and 2008 was also an unseasonably hot year, the fact that climate is getting hotter is in no doubt.
truth o meter rick perry false climate change
Meanwhile, there are a lot of folks wasting their time debating the science of climate change. Our Texas governor, Rick Perry, himself a well-known source of greenhouse gases, recently told people in New Hampshire that “I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. I think we’re seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.” Call me crazy, but Perry sounds. . . well, crazy. Politifact looked into it and called his statement False. That’s putting it nicely. Perry was probably obliquely referring to the non-scandal known as Climategate, the only real scandal of which was that several scientists had their private emails hacked and published. Despite looking for problems with the scientists’ actual work reviews by several major agencies have cleared the scientists, including yet another one, today, from the National Science Foundation.
So, it’s hot. Those of us with functioning brains can understand why it’s hot, and getting hotter. So what do we do about it?
The first and most obvious step is energy efficiency. If we’re going to be demanding more cooling, rather than pumping out more pollution, let’s use that energy as efficiently as we can by sealing leaks in our homes, offices, etc. Let’s use more efficient lighting and appliances, all of which help keep our energy bills low. Let’s look at harnessing the power of that big hot Texas sun to do more than just melt our snowcones. Let’s look at our energy policy holistically so that we can come up with cheaper, cleaner, cooler solutions to our energy needs.
Look for a solution at Sauer Energy's Wind Charger
Saturday, September 3, 2011
The Truth About “Regulatory Reform”
June 22, 2011 http://www.citizen.org
Public Citizen, 1600 20th Street,N.W.,Washington, D.C. 20008 (202)588-1000
Critics of regulation characterize the regulatory process as an opaque, anti-democratic exercise of power by unelected bureaucrats who are not beholden to the public. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The rulemaking process provides numerous opportunities for public input. The final implementation of a regulation is the result of a lengthy deliberation that includes numerous opportunities for public participation by all small businesses, private industries, state and local governments, and members of the public subject to the regulation.
Small businesses have multiple chances to influence regulations.
o The Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act1 assure small business involvement at two stages of the regulatory process when regulations are proposed that would impact small business interests. Agencies must prepare an initial and final regulatory flexibility analysis which determines the number of smabusinesses affected, compliance requirements for them, and any alternatives to minimize economic
o Three agencies, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), must give small businesses a preview of new proposals and receive extensive feedback from small businesses by convening special panels before even giving notice to other affected groups and the broader public.
o
The Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration is specifically designated to represent small business interests in the regulatory process by consulting and providing input to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).3
Corporate Interests have unparalleled access to influence regulations. As part of the Cost-Benefit Analysis stage of the regulatory process, mandated by Executive Order 12,866,4 private
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1 5 U.S.C. §§ 601‐612 (2011).
2 5 U.S.C. § 603(a)‐(c) (2011). 3 Id. regulations the OMB deems ‘major’. This analysis must quantify both the costs of implementing the regulation (including compliance costs for impacted entities) and the benefits that would accrue from the regulation. Then, OMB subjects this analysis to its own intensive review process including another layer of cost‐benefit analysis. Finally, OMB either approves the rule without changes, approves the rule contingent upon certain changes requested by OMB, or returns the rule to the issuing agency for reconsideration. Cost‐benefit analyses have been criticized for being unduly deferential to a riance costs while underestimating potential benefits.
regulation’s implementation and complh
http://www.progressivereform.org/costBenefit.cfm Executive Order 12,866 § 6(b)(4)(B). 44of a Key Public Safety Rule,” Public Citizen (April 2011) available at redirect.cfm?ID=3317
“Cranes and Derricks: The Prolonged Creation http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroom.
4 H.R. 10 sponsored by Rep. Geoff Davis (R‐KY).
_________________________________________________________________________________
industry and affected stakeholders are often given a first chance to review and influence proposed rules in private meetings with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs staff at the OMB.5 These non-transparent meetings result in business interests having disproportionately greater access and ability to influence final rules compared to the general public.
Public comments are encouraged and highly valued. Once a proposed regulation is published, agencies encourage commenters to provide criticism and suggestions for improving the proposed regulation. The public comment period is a critical feature of the regulatory process that agencies take very seriously as an opportunity to benefit from the additional expertise that many members of the public possess. They thoroughly review all comments submitted to determine how best to improve the proposed regulation.
Incorporating public input is time-consuming. Agencies typically take care in soliciting, responding to, and incorporating public input, which unfortunately can result in long delays of much-needed public protections. For instance, the Cranes and Derricks Rule: It took a dozen years for the OSHA to finalize a non-controversial regulation that was badly-needed to prevent workers from the dangers posed by cranes at construction sites and actually solicited by industry. 6
Many recent “regulatory reform” proposals are misguided and dangerous. These reform proposals would place more burdens on resource-strapped agencies, in turn potentially dissuading agencies from undertaking implementation of essential regulations.
The REINS Act (H.R. 10/S 299) kills any final rule not explicitly approved by Congress and the president within 70 legislative days, no matter how important or uncontroversial the rule.7
Small business “regulatory reform” bills introduce judicial review earlier in the rulemaking process, require agencies to determine ‘indirect’ costs of proposed rules, and tie up resource-strapped agencies with periodic reviews of existing rules, all of which lead to more regulatory uncertainty.8
The Bottom Line: “regulatory reform” legislation would touch all agencies and would delay or kill even non-controversial protections.
We should not risk bringing public protections to a grinding halt when the current regulatory process offers abundant opportunities for public participation.
__________________________________________________________________________________
4 See S. Amdt. 390 sponsored by Sen. Snowe (R‐ME). 4 58 Fed. Reg. 51,735 ( Sept. 30, 1993). Executive Order 12,866 requires both the agency issuing the regulation, as well as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), located within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to conduct reviews of the proposed regulation. First, the issuing agency must conduct a Regulatory Impact Analysis for all regulations the OMB deems ‘major’. This analysis must quantify both the costs of implementing the regulation (including compliance costs for impacted entities) and the benefits that would accrue from the regulation. Then, OMB subjects this analysis to its own intensive review process including another layer of cost‐benefit analysis. Finally, OMB either approves the rule without changes, approves the rule contingent upon certain changes requested by OMB, or returns the rule to the issuing agency for reconsideration. Cost‐benefit analyses hferential to a regulation’s implementation and compliance costs while
ave been criticized for being unduly deu
nderestimating potential benefits. http://www.progressivereform.org/costBenefit.cfm Executive Order 12,866 § 6(b)(4)(B). 56of a Key Public Safety Rule,” Public Citizen (April 2011) available at ct.cfm?ID=3317
“Cranes and Derricks: The Prolonged Creation htp
t://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredire .
7 H.R. 10 sponsored by Rep. Geoff Davis (R‐KY). 8 See S. Amdt. 390 sponsored by Sen. Snowe (R‐ME).
Public Citizen, 1600 20th Street,N.W.,Washington, D.C. 20008 (202)588-1000
Critics of regulation characterize the regulatory process as an opaque, anti-democratic exercise of power by unelected bureaucrats who are not beholden to the public. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The rulemaking process provides numerous opportunities for public input. The final implementation of a regulation is the result of a lengthy deliberation that includes numerous opportunities for public participation by all small businesses, private industries, state and local governments, and members of the public subject to the regulation.
Small businesses have multiple chances to influence regulations.
o The Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act1 assure small business involvement at two stages of the regulatory process when regulations are proposed that would impact small business interests. Agencies must prepare an initial and final regulatory flexibility analysis which determines the number of smabusinesses affected, compliance requirements for them, and any alternatives to minimize economic
o Three agencies, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), must give small businesses a preview of new proposals and receive extensive feedback from small businesses by convening special panels before even giving notice to other affected groups and the broader public.
o
The Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration is specifically designated to represent small business interests in the regulatory process by consulting and providing input to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).3
Corporate Interests have unparalleled access to influence regulations. As part of the Cost-Benefit Analysis stage of the regulatory process, mandated by Executive Order 12,866,4 private
__________________________________________________________________________________
1 5 U.S.C. §§ 601‐612 (2011).
2 5 U.S.C. § 603(a)‐(c) (2011). 3 Id. regulations the OMB deems ‘major’. This analysis must quantify both the costs of implementing the regulation (including compliance costs for impacted entities) and the benefits that would accrue from the regulation. Then, OMB subjects this analysis to its own intensive review process including another layer of cost‐benefit analysis. Finally, OMB either approves the rule without changes, approves the rule contingent upon certain changes requested by OMB, or returns the rule to the issuing agency for reconsideration. Cost‐benefit analyses have been criticized for being unduly deferential to a riance costs while underestimating potential benefits.
regulation’s implementation and complh
http://www.progressivereform.org/costBenefit.cfm Executive Order 12,866 § 6(b)(4)(B). 44of a Key Public Safety Rule,” Public Citizen (April 2011) available at redirect.cfm?ID=3317
“Cranes and Derricks: The Prolonged Creation http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroom.
4 H.R. 10 sponsored by Rep. Geoff Davis (R‐KY).
_________________________________________________________________________________
industry and affected stakeholders are often given a first chance to review and influence proposed rules in private meetings with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs staff at the OMB.5 These non-transparent meetings result in business interests having disproportionately greater access and ability to influence final rules compared to the general public.
Public comments are encouraged and highly valued. Once a proposed regulation is published, agencies encourage commenters to provide criticism and suggestions for improving the proposed regulation. The public comment period is a critical feature of the regulatory process that agencies take very seriously as an opportunity to benefit from the additional expertise that many members of the public possess. They thoroughly review all comments submitted to determine how best to improve the proposed regulation.
Incorporating public input is time-consuming. Agencies typically take care in soliciting, responding to, and incorporating public input, which unfortunately can result in long delays of much-needed public protections. For instance, the Cranes and Derricks Rule: It took a dozen years for the OSHA to finalize a non-controversial regulation that was badly-needed to prevent workers from the dangers posed by cranes at construction sites and actually solicited by industry. 6
Many recent “regulatory reform” proposals are misguided and dangerous. These reform proposals would place more burdens on resource-strapped agencies, in turn potentially dissuading agencies from undertaking implementation of essential regulations.
The REINS Act (H.R. 10/S 299) kills any final rule not explicitly approved by Congress and the president within 70 legislative days, no matter how important or uncontroversial the rule.7
Small business “regulatory reform” bills introduce judicial review earlier in the rulemaking process, require agencies to determine ‘indirect’ costs of proposed rules, and tie up resource-strapped agencies with periodic reviews of existing rules, all of which lead to more regulatory uncertainty.8
The Bottom Line: “regulatory reform” legislation would touch all agencies and would delay or kill even non-controversial protections.
We should not risk bringing public protections to a grinding halt when the current regulatory process offers abundant opportunities for public participation.
__________________________________________________________________________________
4 See S. Amdt. 390 sponsored by Sen. Snowe (R‐ME). 4 58 Fed. Reg. 51,735 ( Sept. 30, 1993). Executive Order 12,866 requires both the agency issuing the regulation, as well as the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), located within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to conduct reviews of the proposed regulation. First, the issuing agency must conduct a Regulatory Impact Analysis for all regulations the OMB deems ‘major’. This analysis must quantify both the costs of implementing the regulation (including compliance costs for impacted entities) and the benefits that would accrue from the regulation. Then, OMB subjects this analysis to its own intensive review process including another layer of cost‐benefit analysis. Finally, OMB either approves the rule without changes, approves the rule contingent upon certain changes requested by OMB, or returns the rule to the issuing agency for reconsideration. Cost‐benefit analyses hferential to a regulation’s implementation and compliance costs while
ave been criticized for being unduly deu
nderestimating potential benefits. http://www.progressivereform.org/costBenefit.cfm Executive Order 12,866 § 6(b)(4)(B). 56of a Key Public Safety Rule,” Public Citizen (April 2011) available at ct.cfm?ID=3317
“Cranes and Derricks: The Prolonged Creation htp
t://www.citizen.org/pressroom/pressroomredire .
7 H.R. 10 sponsored by Rep. Geoff Davis (R‐KY). 8 See S. Amdt. 390 sponsored by Sen. Snowe (R‐ME).
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Death of the PC : 3 Companies that Will Rule the Post-Microsoft World
The two words Bill Gates
doesn't want you to hear... Let Us Figure Out What the Names of the Companies are
They spooked the Microsoft founder into early retirement. Now they're going to bring down his empire and make a handful of investors rich. You can join them -- but you must act now.
Good Afternoon Opportunistic Investor,
On October 30, 2005, something incredible happened...
In Redmond, Washington, one of the world's richest -- and most powerful -- businessmen sent an urgent memo to his top engineers and most-trusted managers.
It sounded the alarm that a very disruptive "wave" was about to wash over the entire world -- forever changing the way we get information and do business.
It also warned this would wipe out the $200 billion business empire he'd spent
his life building.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles south, on the banks of the Columbia River, a mysterious outfit known only as "Design LLC" quietly constructed two massive, windowless warehouses.
This mammoth undertaking was code-named "Project 2," and the International Herald Tribune described the towering monolithic structures as "looming like an information-age nuclear plant."
I realize this may sound like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, but I think you'll want to bear with me, because...
Analysts estimate this "wave" has grown into a $160 billion tsunami
And experts say it's going to upend a $1 trillion industry. Yet very few investors understand just how huge it's going to be.
That's why I urge you to take the next few minutes to read this report in its entirety.
At the very least, you'll get the full story so you can decide for yourself if you'll be front and center when the big money starts rolling in.
But I warn you, the smart money is on the move...
A handful of investors are already quietly positioning themselves to cash in on this incredible economic shift. Soon, tens of thousands will be rushing to join them.
One of the most lucrative investment opportunities
we'll ever encounter
This story is so big that we have to step clear back to February 28, 1881, to put it into perspective.
On that chilly winter night, a 21-year-old British stenographer named Samuel Insull arrived in the port of New York aboard the City of Chester.
Thomas Edison's chief engineer had lured him to America to serve as Edison's private secretary.
11 years later, Insull oversaw the merger that created General Electric, and shortly thereafter was offered the presidency of the Chicago Edison Company.
Little did anyone know, the world of electricity was about to drastically change.
At the time, cities like Chicago had dozens of small, privately owned power stations transmitting direct current (DC) electricity to neighborhoods within a small radius.
With due respect to Edison, Insull knew that the model Edison had created was flawed.
So he set out to transform Edison's legacy into something far greater and more efficient than its creator had ever imagined.
In doing so, he forever changed the world
Insull realized if he could create a "utility" by building giant central power stations that would transmit alternating current (AC) electricity over great distances...
These power stations could be linked to form a giant grid that would serve homes, businesses, and industries in even the most remote locations.
Once electricity was readily available everywhere, more and more electric-powered devices would come to market -- creating more and more demand for the electricity that the utilities produced.
And here's the kicker...
Because these utilities could match supply with demand, realize superior economies of scale, and use their generating capacity much more efficiently, they could deliver electricity for a fraction of what it cost people to produce it on their own.
And Insull was right on the money!
By 1907, utilities produced 40% of the power in the U.S. In 1920, that number stood at 70%, and a decade later, it was over 90%.
What was once unimaginable had suddenly become reality.
Now, history is repeating itself
The next great technological revolution is already under way.
And now that the last pieces are falling into place, the floodgates are beginning to open -- meaning the big money is about to start rolling in...
Which is exactly why I'm writing you today.
You see, one of the most successful investors I've ever met is convinced that this technological shift will dump millions of dollars into the portfolios of investors just like you.
But in order to claim your fair share of the wealth, you have to know who the dominant players are -- and you have to get invested now.
That's why I want to introduce you to this legendary investor and tell you about three companies he's identified as "top dogs" and "first movers" in this breakout industry.
These are the companies he believes will dominate their industries over the next 5 to 10 years and hand investors life-changing wealth along the way.
I'll also reveal the six traits he looks for in a growth stock -- and explain how they have led him to companies that have soared 199%, 231%, 233%, 375%, and even 478% in just the past five years.
But first, let me tell you a little bit more about this amazing technology and why, once again...
The unimaginable is fast becoming a reality
You probably remember when computers took up entire rooms and were used only by companies that needed to do intense mathematical calculations.
That all changed when Intel unveiled the microprocessor and a geeky college dropout started writing software with his former high school pal.
Thanks to the virtual desktop they developed, the PC quickly replaced the mainframe as the center of corporate computing and began showing up in homes across America.
Before long, companies began building intraoffice networks so that their employees could run programs like Microsoft Word and Excel on their PCs, and also access programs, files, and printers from a central server.
But, like Edison's, this model was far from perfect.
Due to a lack of standards in computing hardware and software, competing products were rarely compatible -- making PC networks far more inefficient than their mainframe predecessors.
In fact, most servers ended up being used as single-purpose machines that ran a single software application or database.
And every time a company needed to add a new application, it was forced to expand its data centers, replace or reprogram old systems, and hire IT technicians to keep everything running.
As a result, global IT spending jumped from under $100 billion a year in the early 1970s to over $1 trillion a year by the turn of the century.
Here's the dirty secret behind this mind-boggling growth --
and the two words that will put an end to the party
IT-consulting firm IDC reports that every dollar a company spends on a Microsoft product results in an additional $8 of IT expenses.
And one IT expert admits, "Trillions of dollars that companies have invested into information technology have gone to waste."
Yet, companies have had no choice but to run these obscenely expensive and highly inefficient networks.
But that's all about to change...
And that's precisely why the two words "cloud computing" scare the hell out of Bill Gates.
You see, he realizes that thanks to the thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable laid during the late 1990s, the speed of computer networks has finally caught up to the speed of computer processors.
As IT expert Nicholas Carr explains, "What the fiber-optic Internet does for computing is exactly what the alternating-current network did for electricity."
Suddenly, computers that were once incompatible and isolated are now linked in a giant network, or "cloud."
As a result, computing is fast becoming a utility in much the same way that electricity did...
"The next sea change is upon us." -- Bill Gates
Think back a few years -- any time you wanted to type a letter, create a spreadsheet, edit a photo, or play a game, you had to go to the store, buy the software, and install it on your computer.
But nowadays, if you want to look up restaurants on Google... find directions on MapQuest... watch a video on YouTube... or sell furniture on Craigslist... all you need is a computer with an Internet connection.
Although these activities require you to use your PC, none of the content you are accessing or the applications you are running are actually stored on your computer -- instead they're stored at a giant data center somewhere in the "cloud."
And you don't give any of it a second thought... just like you don't think twice about where the electricity is coming from when you plug an appliance into the wall.
But cloud computing isn't going to be just a modern convenience -- it's going to be an enormous industry.
You see, everyone from individuals to multinational corporations can now simply tap into the "cloud" to get all the things they used to have to supply and maintain themselves. This will save some companies millions and make others billions.
"Is cloud computing the next big thing?"
That's the title of an article in PC Magazine.
The answer was an overwhelming yes. And PC Magazine isn't the only one taking note of this sweeping trend...
Computing Heads for the Clouds
The Death of Hardware
'Cloud Computing' seen as next wave for technology investors
The Economist claims, "As computing moves online, the sources of power and money will increasingly be enormous 'computing clouds.'"
David Hamilton of the Financial Post says this technology "has the potential to shower billions in revenues on companies that embrace it."
And Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, has even written an entire book on the subject, titled The Big Switch. In it, he asserts: "The PC age is giving way to a new era: the utility age."
He goes on to make this prediction: "Rendered obsolete, the traditional PC is replaced by a simple terminal -- a "thin client" that's little more than a monitor hooked up to the Internet."
While that may sound far-fetched, in the corporate market, sales of these "thin clients" have been growing at over 20% per year -- far outpacing that of PCs.
According to market-research firm IDC, the U.S. is now home to more than 7,000 data centers just like the one constructed on the banks of the Columbia River in 2005.
And the number of servers operating within these massive data centers is expected to grow to nearly 16 million by 2010 -- that's three times as many as a decade ago.
"Data centers have become as vital to the functioning of
society as power stations." -- The Economist
The simple truth is that cloud computing is becoming as big a part of our everyday lives as cell phones or cable television.
That's why I'm so eager to tell you all about the three companies that are leading the charge and look poised to rule the post-Microsoft world.
One is the undisputed leader of the cloud computing pack.
You may already know who I'm talking about... and you may have even guessed that it is the real face behind Design LLC.
But what you may not realize is that right now is the perfect time to get invested -- despite what many so-called "experts" in the financial media might be telling you.
Buying this tech juggernaut today is like buying Microsoft in 1990
Don't forget, even after the dot-com collapse and the recent market sell-off, every $10,000 invested in Microsoft would now be worth over $466,601.
Even a modest $3,000 investment would have grown into more than $139,980!
Just imagine what you could do with that kind of money...
Now imagine being given a second chance to secure that kind of profit.
Well, look here... this is your second chance.
You see, like Microsoft in the early 1990s, Google is just getting started.
They've already won the search engine war, set the standard for online advertising, and turned the company's name into a word tens of millions of people use daily.
And now they're fast becoming synonymous with the future of computing...
Over 500,000 companies -- including GE and Procter & Gamble -- have already signed up for Google Apps.
This grab bag of business applications can be purchased and run over the Web for just $50 per year and is just one of many Google products now giving Microsoft a run for its money.
Considering that Google Apps costs just 1/10th of what a traditional business software suite does, it's no surprise that more than 3,000 businesses are signing up per day.
No wonder the Financial Post says, "The cost savings in offering scaled-down versions of large enterprise software is making cloud computing a huge business."
But at just $50 a pop, you might be wondering how big this business can really get.
Industry research firm Gartner Inc. says the market for Internet-based software hit $5.1 billion last year and conservatively estimates it will more than double to $11.5 billion by 2011.
But don't forget, this is just one small part of the giant and highly profitable cloud computing world.
Given its dominance over the online world, massive network of strategic partnerships, and unmatched ability to innovate, you can bet the great majority of the fortunes generated by cloud computing will flow through Google's coffers.
Even so, you may be wondering...
Isn't it too late to buy Google?
Not at all!
In fact, as I mentioned, one of America's most trusted stock pickers is convinced that right now is the perfect time to get invested in the future of cloud computing -- and especially in Google.
But why should you trust him?
Well, let's just say this isn't the first time this maverick investor has recommended a stock after the hotshots on Wall Street declared it was "too late"...
Back in 2005, he recommended robotic surgery specialist Intuitive Surgical to a small group of opportunistic investors.
At the time, shares were selling for $44.17. One year prior, shares had sold for $17.46, and a year before that they were selling for just $8.68.
You read that right... Intuitive Surgical had risen 500% in the two years before he recommended it -- and that scared lesser investors off.
But this visionary investor recognized that Intuitive Surgical was both "top dog" and "first mover" in its industry and still had plenty of room to run...
Shares traded as high as $359.59, and even after the recent market downturn, those who followed his lead are sitting on a whopping 478% gain.
And this wasn't just some sort of lucky break or fluke, either.
You see, this world-famous investor first caught the financial media's attention when he recommended AOL in the summer of 1994 -- after it had quadrupled in just 12 short months.
Of course, the story is the same with AOL -- he recognized it as both a top dog and a first mover in an important emerging industry and knew it was only getting started.
Six years later, AOL was a 100-bagger, turning every $10,000 invested into a whopping $1 million -- and this growth investor into a living legend.
Here are just a few more of the top dogs and first movers he's uncovered recently:
* Myriad Genetics -- Locked in 252% gains
* Millennium Pharmaceuticals -- Locked in 142% gains
* Baidu.com -- Up 375%...
By now, I imagine you're ready to meet this legendary investor and find out exactly what I mean by "top dog" and "first mover." But first...
Allow me a proper introduction
My name is Kate Ward, and I publish an award-winning financial newsletter that carries the same name as the small community of investors I mentioned a moment ago...
It's called Motley Fool Rule Breakers, and it's headed up by the extremely successful stock picker I've been telling you about...
You may have already guessed that I'm talking about David Gardner -- co-founder of The Motley Fool. After all, he's pretty well-known...
You've probably seen David on CNBC discussing his favorite growth stocks with some of the nation's other top-tier equity analysts...
Or perhaps you've read one of his many best-selling investment books...
Or maybe you're just familiar with some of his remarkable stock recommendations... eBay in 1999... Starbucks in 1998... AOL in 1994... Amgen in 1998... Amazon in 1997.
Regardless, it's not hard to see why Money.com says he's "among the most widely followed stock advisors in the world."
And I'm sure you can understand why any time David gets excited about an investment opportunity, I stand up and take notice...
Well, let me tell you, right now David is extremely excited about what he calls...
"The 3 Kings of Cloud Computing"
These are 3 exceptionally well-run companies that David and his team of cutting-edge equity analysts have identified as both top dogs and first movers in their respective industries.
You've already heard a little bit about the first of these three, and I imagine you're beginning to see why David thinks any serious investor should get it in his portfolio right this minute.
But as I mentioned before, you deserve to get the full story so you can decide for yourself whether or not to take advantage of this incredible opportunity.
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First things first... what's a "top dog" and a "first mover"?
It's quite simple really.
A "top dog" is a company that dominates its industry... and a "first mover" is a company with a technology or product so revolutionary that it disrupts an existing industry and creates an entirely new one.
On the rare occasion that you find a company that is both a top dog and a first mover, the chances are pretty good that you've found your next big winner...
Just think of eBay in the online auction market... Amazon in the online retail market... or Netflix in the DVD-rental market (David led investors to big gains on all three).
These companies redefined the way business was done, launched entirely new industries, and continue to dominate those industries to this day. And you don't need me to tell you how handsomely they've rewarded shareholders along the way.
So you can see why David and his Rule Breakers team work around the clock to find companies that are both top dogs and first movers.
But they don't stop there... You see, David discovered long ago that in order to find companies that will deliver truly life-changing investment returns, you have to break the rules and go against much of what passes for "wisdom" on Wall Street.
That's why he searches for companies with...
* a sustainable competitive advantage that can be exploited for years to come
* strong past price appreciation
* excellent management
* strong consumer appeal
And here's the big one...
* documented proof that the financial media thinks it's "overvalued"
Remember, many of David's biggest winners were recommended after all the fast-talking experts on Wall Street already declared you'd missed your chance to buy.
It's the exact same story with the second company I'm going to tell you about today...
The company that makes the Internet fly
When David first recommended it to the Rule Breakers community back in 2005, he admitted it wasn't "cheap."
With the arrival of cloud computing, he's more excited than ever about its potential to make investors rich.
You see, this company works behind the scenes to make sure you can access everything the Web has to offer at lightning-fast speeds.
And thanks to the ever-growing number of people now using the Internet to do everything from watch movies to buy houses, this once-flailing refugee of the dot-com meltdown is now one of the most important tech companies in the world.
Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy, and Nintendo are among its top clients -- and they're all more than happy to pay up for the quality this company consistently delivers.
While this usually runs somewhere in the neighborhood of $275,000 per year, more and more complex applications are coming online all the time -- giving this company greater pricing power.
At last count, it had more than 100 clients paying $1 million or more per year. So it's no wonder that cash from operations has more than tripled from $83 million in 2005 to over $380 million today... Or that the cash on its balance sheet has grown from just $92 million to a whopping $321 million.
And you can bet that this growth will only accelerate as cloud computing becomes an even more vital part of our personal and professional lives.
You see, because this company is both a top dog and a first mover, it has been able to gain an almost insurmountable lead in market share, allowing it to sport superb operating margins.
The gross margin currently sits at an incredible 76%; meanwhile, the net margin has climbed to an all-time high of 18% -- and continues to grow.
All things considered, I think you can understand why David thinks this will be one of the dominant players in the cloud computing world for years to come.
And it's the exact same story with the third company he reveals in The 3 Kings of Cloud Computing...
A bona fide Rule Breaker with very real profits
Not only does this rising tech superstar meet all 6 of David's criteria for a classic Rule Breaker, but it also has a stranglehold on a niche market that's absolutely essential to the future of cloud computing.
Whereas the last company I mentioned keeps the massive amounts of Web traffic flowing smoothly and efficiently, this company designs extremely complex software that allows central servers to function in the first place.
While the market for this software sits at roughly $1 billion today, it is estimated to soar to $5 billion by 2011 -- an astonishing 50% compound growth rate.
And thanks to various patents, a considerable head start, and immense technical know-how, there is very little chance competitors will be able to wrestle the lion's share of that $5 billion away from this company.
But you may be asking yourself...
Is now really a good time to be buying growth stocks?
I won't lie... it takes guts to make money in this market.
But here's some good news...
Our current economic situation actually bears a striking similarity to the economic downturn of the early 1990s. And Morningstar reports that during that recession, growth stocks more than doubled the return of "value" stocks.
Furthermore, SmartMoney recently confirmed that "growth stocks can excel even if the broad market continues to stumble." In fact, it reported that right now, "analysts expect better profit prospects for growth stocks than for value stocks."
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This company started out as a top dog and first mover in another emerging area of technology, but it has quietly transformed into a budding cloud computing powerhouse that's positioned to host all of the corporate data on the Web.
But it wasn't its robust developer network (literally tens of thousands of developers are now invested in the success of this company) nor its 50,000-plus corporate client list that initially caught David's eye...
It was the fact that, like many of the other companies I've told you about today, all the "pros" on Wall Street claimed it was drastically overvalued -- while overlooking the fact that it'd more than doubled its customer base in just over two years and more than doubled its free cash flow in just over one.
Not to mention, it outperforms nearly every other company out there (even Google) in turning research and development investments into returns for shareholders.
Combine this with the fact that its cloud computing services are extremely simple to use and can save clients tens of millions of dollars over time, and you can see why David and his team dubbed this as one of "The New Kings of Cloud Computing" and urged our Rule Breakers community to snap shares up right away.
At the time, they were selling for just $27.57.
Today they fetch about $62 -- meaning investors who followed David's advice are already up 126% in a short time.
But don't worry... as with all the companies I've told you about today, David and his team are convinced that this one is just getting started and that the big money is yet to be made.
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They spooked the Microsoft founder into early retirement. Now they're going to bring down his empire and make a handful of investors rich. You can join them -- but you must act now.
Good Afternoon Opportunistic Investor,
On October 30, 2005, something incredible happened...
In Redmond, Washington, one of the world's richest -- and most powerful -- businessmen sent an urgent memo to his top engineers and most-trusted managers.
It sounded the alarm that a very disruptive "wave" was about to wash over the entire world -- forever changing the way we get information and do business.
It also warned this would wipe out the $200 billion business empire he'd spent
his life building.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles south, on the banks of the Columbia River, a mysterious outfit known only as "Design LLC" quietly constructed two massive, windowless warehouses.
This mammoth undertaking was code-named "Project 2," and the International Herald Tribune described the towering monolithic structures as "looming like an information-age nuclear plant."
I realize this may sound like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, but I think you'll want to bear with me, because...
Analysts estimate this "wave" has grown into a $160 billion tsunami
And experts say it's going to upend a $1 trillion industry. Yet very few investors understand just how huge it's going to be.
That's why I urge you to take the next few minutes to read this report in its entirety.
At the very least, you'll get the full story so you can decide for yourself if you'll be front and center when the big money starts rolling in.
But I warn you, the smart money is on the move...
A handful of investors are already quietly positioning themselves to cash in on this incredible economic shift. Soon, tens of thousands will be rushing to join them.
One of the most lucrative investment opportunities
we'll ever encounter
This story is so big that we have to step clear back to February 28, 1881, to put it into perspective.
On that chilly winter night, a 21-year-old British stenographer named Samuel Insull arrived in the port of New York aboard the City of Chester.
Thomas Edison's chief engineer had lured him to America to serve as Edison's private secretary.
11 years later, Insull oversaw the merger that created General Electric, and shortly thereafter was offered the presidency of the Chicago Edison Company.
Little did anyone know, the world of electricity was about to drastically change.
At the time, cities like Chicago had dozens of small, privately owned power stations transmitting direct current (DC) electricity to neighborhoods within a small radius.
With due respect to Edison, Insull knew that the model Edison had created was flawed.
So he set out to transform Edison's legacy into something far greater and more efficient than its creator had ever imagined.
In doing so, he forever changed the world
Insull realized if he could create a "utility" by building giant central power stations that would transmit alternating current (AC) electricity over great distances...
These power stations could be linked to form a giant grid that would serve homes, businesses, and industries in even the most remote locations.
Once electricity was readily available everywhere, more and more electric-powered devices would come to market -- creating more and more demand for the electricity that the utilities produced.
And here's the kicker...
Because these utilities could match supply with demand, realize superior economies of scale, and use their generating capacity much more efficiently, they could deliver electricity for a fraction of what it cost people to produce it on their own.
And Insull was right on the money!
By 1907, utilities produced 40% of the power in the U.S. In 1920, that number stood at 70%, and a decade later, it was over 90%.
What was once unimaginable had suddenly become reality.
Now, history is repeating itself
The next great technological revolution is already under way.
And now that the last pieces are falling into place, the floodgates are beginning to open -- meaning the big money is about to start rolling in...
Which is exactly why I'm writing you today.
You see, one of the most successful investors I've ever met is convinced that this technological shift will dump millions of dollars into the portfolios of investors just like you.
But in order to claim your fair share of the wealth, you have to know who the dominant players are -- and you have to get invested now.
That's why I want to introduce you to this legendary investor and tell you about three companies he's identified as "top dogs" and "first movers" in this breakout industry.
These are the companies he believes will dominate their industries over the next 5 to 10 years and hand investors life-changing wealth along the way.
I'll also reveal the six traits he looks for in a growth stock -- and explain how they have led him to companies that have soared 199%, 231%, 233%, 375%, and even 478% in just the past five years.
But first, let me tell you a little bit more about this amazing technology and why, once again...
The unimaginable is fast becoming a reality
You probably remember when computers took up entire rooms and were used only by companies that needed to do intense mathematical calculations.
That all changed when Intel unveiled the microprocessor and a geeky college dropout started writing software with his former high school pal.
Thanks to the virtual desktop they developed, the PC quickly replaced the mainframe as the center of corporate computing and began showing up in homes across America.
Before long, companies began building intraoffice networks so that their employees could run programs like Microsoft Word and Excel on their PCs, and also access programs, files, and printers from a central server.
But, like Edison's, this model was far from perfect.
Due to a lack of standards in computing hardware and software, competing products were rarely compatible -- making PC networks far more inefficient than their mainframe predecessors.
In fact, most servers ended up being used as single-purpose machines that ran a single software application or database.
And every time a company needed to add a new application, it was forced to expand its data centers, replace or reprogram old systems, and hire IT technicians to keep everything running.
As a result, global IT spending jumped from under $100 billion a year in the early 1970s to over $1 trillion a year by the turn of the century.
Here's the dirty secret behind this mind-boggling growth --
and the two words that will put an end to the party
IT-consulting firm IDC reports that every dollar a company spends on a Microsoft product results in an additional $8 of IT expenses.
And one IT expert admits, "Trillions of dollars that companies have invested into information technology have gone to waste."
Yet, companies have had no choice but to run these obscenely expensive and highly inefficient networks.
But that's all about to change...
And that's precisely why the two words "cloud computing" scare the hell out of Bill Gates.
You see, he realizes that thanks to the thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable laid during the late 1990s, the speed of computer networks has finally caught up to the speed of computer processors.
As IT expert Nicholas Carr explains, "What the fiber-optic Internet does for computing is exactly what the alternating-current network did for electricity."
Suddenly, computers that were once incompatible and isolated are now linked in a giant network, or "cloud."
As a result, computing is fast becoming a utility in much the same way that electricity did...
"The next sea change is upon us." -- Bill Gates
Think back a few years -- any time you wanted to type a letter, create a spreadsheet, edit a photo, or play a game, you had to go to the store, buy the software, and install it on your computer.
But nowadays, if you want to look up restaurants on Google... find directions on MapQuest... watch a video on YouTube... or sell furniture on Craigslist... all you need is a computer with an Internet connection.
Although these activities require you to use your PC, none of the content you are accessing or the applications you are running are actually stored on your computer -- instead they're stored at a giant data center somewhere in the "cloud."
And you don't give any of it a second thought... just like you don't think twice about where the electricity is coming from when you plug an appliance into the wall.
But cloud computing isn't going to be just a modern convenience -- it's going to be an enormous industry.
You see, everyone from individuals to multinational corporations can now simply tap into the "cloud" to get all the things they used to have to supply and maintain themselves. This will save some companies millions and make others billions.
"Is cloud computing the next big thing?"
That's the title of an article in PC Magazine.
The answer was an overwhelming yes. And PC Magazine isn't the only one taking note of this sweeping trend...
Computing Heads for the Clouds
The Death of Hardware
'Cloud Computing' seen as next wave for technology investors
The Economist claims, "As computing moves online, the sources of power and money will increasingly be enormous 'computing clouds.'"
David Hamilton of the Financial Post says this technology "has the potential to shower billions in revenues on companies that embrace it."
And Nicholas Carr, former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, has even written an entire book on the subject, titled The Big Switch. In it, he asserts: "The PC age is giving way to a new era: the utility age."
He goes on to make this prediction: "Rendered obsolete, the traditional PC is replaced by a simple terminal -- a "thin client" that's little more than a monitor hooked up to the Internet."
While that may sound far-fetched, in the corporate market, sales of these "thin clients" have been growing at over 20% per year -- far outpacing that of PCs.
According to market-research firm IDC, the U.S. is now home to more than 7,000 data centers just like the one constructed on the banks of the Columbia River in 2005.
And the number of servers operating within these massive data centers is expected to grow to nearly 16 million by 2010 -- that's three times as many as a decade ago.
"Data centers have become as vital to the functioning of
society as power stations." -- The Economist
The simple truth is that cloud computing is becoming as big a part of our everyday lives as cell phones or cable television.
That's why I'm so eager to tell you all about the three companies that are leading the charge and look poised to rule the post-Microsoft world.
One is the undisputed leader of the cloud computing pack.
You may already know who I'm talking about... and you may have even guessed that it is the real face behind Design LLC.
But what you may not realize is that right now is the perfect time to get invested -- despite what many so-called "experts" in the financial media might be telling you.
Buying this tech juggernaut today is like buying Microsoft in 1990
Don't forget, even after the dot-com collapse and the recent market sell-off, every $10,000 invested in Microsoft would now be worth over $466,601.
Even a modest $3,000 investment would have grown into more than $139,980!
Just imagine what you could do with that kind of money...
Now imagine being given a second chance to secure that kind of profit.
Well, look here... this is your second chance.
You see, like Microsoft in the early 1990s, Google is just getting started.
They've already won the search engine war, set the standard for online advertising, and turned the company's name into a word tens of millions of people use daily.
And now they're fast becoming synonymous with the future of computing...
Over 500,000 companies -- including GE and Procter & Gamble -- have already signed up for Google Apps.
This grab bag of business applications can be purchased and run over the Web for just $50 per year and is just one of many Google products now giving Microsoft a run for its money.
Considering that Google Apps costs just 1/10th of what a traditional business software suite does, it's no surprise that more than 3,000 businesses are signing up per day.
No wonder the Financial Post says, "The cost savings in offering scaled-down versions of large enterprise software is making cloud computing a huge business."
But at just $50 a pop, you might be wondering how big this business can really get.
Industry research firm Gartner Inc. says the market for Internet-based software hit $5.1 billion last year and conservatively estimates it will more than double to $11.5 billion by 2011.
But don't forget, this is just one small part of the giant and highly profitable cloud computing world.
Given its dominance over the online world, massive network of strategic partnerships, and unmatched ability to innovate, you can bet the great majority of the fortunes generated by cloud computing will flow through Google's coffers.
Even so, you may be wondering...
Isn't it too late to buy Google?
Not at all!
In fact, as I mentioned, one of America's most trusted stock pickers is convinced that right now is the perfect time to get invested in the future of cloud computing -- and especially in Google.
But why should you trust him?
Well, let's just say this isn't the first time this maverick investor has recommended a stock after the hotshots on Wall Street declared it was "too late"...
Back in 2005, he recommended robotic surgery specialist Intuitive Surgical to a small group of opportunistic investors.
At the time, shares were selling for $44.17. One year prior, shares had sold for $17.46, and a year before that they were selling for just $8.68.
You read that right... Intuitive Surgical had risen 500% in the two years before he recommended it -- and that scared lesser investors off.
But this visionary investor recognized that Intuitive Surgical was both "top dog" and "first mover" in its industry and still had plenty of room to run...
Shares traded as high as $359.59, and even after the recent market downturn, those who followed his lead are sitting on a whopping 478% gain.
And this wasn't just some sort of lucky break or fluke, either.
You see, this world-famous investor first caught the financial media's attention when he recommended AOL in the summer of 1994 -- after it had quadrupled in just 12 short months.
Of course, the story is the same with AOL -- he recognized it as both a top dog and a first mover in an important emerging industry and knew it was only getting started.
Six years later, AOL was a 100-bagger, turning every $10,000 invested into a whopping $1 million -- and this growth investor into a living legend.
Here are just a few more of the top dogs and first movers he's uncovered recently:
* Myriad Genetics -- Locked in 252% gains
* Millennium Pharmaceuticals -- Locked in 142% gains
* Baidu.com -- Up 375%...
By now, I imagine you're ready to meet this legendary investor and find out exactly what I mean by "top dog" and "first mover." But first...
Allow me a proper introduction
My name is Kate Ward, and I publish an award-winning financial newsletter that carries the same name as the small community of investors I mentioned a moment ago...
It's called Motley Fool Rule Breakers, and it's headed up by the extremely successful stock picker I've been telling you about...
You may have already guessed that I'm talking about David Gardner -- co-founder of The Motley Fool. After all, he's pretty well-known...
You've probably seen David on CNBC discussing his favorite growth stocks with some of the nation's other top-tier equity analysts...
Or perhaps you've read one of his many best-selling investment books...
Or maybe you're just familiar with some of his remarkable stock recommendations... eBay in 1999... Starbucks in 1998... AOL in 1994... Amgen in 1998... Amazon in 1997.
Regardless, it's not hard to see why Money.com says he's "among the most widely followed stock advisors in the world."
And I'm sure you can understand why any time David gets excited about an investment opportunity, I stand up and take notice...
Well, let me tell you, right now David is extremely excited about what he calls...
"The 3 Kings of Cloud Computing"
These are 3 exceptionally well-run companies that David and his team of cutting-edge equity analysts have identified as both top dogs and first movers in their respective industries.
You've already heard a little bit about the first of these three, and I imagine you're beginning to see why David thinks any serious investor should get it in his portfolio right this minute.
But as I mentioned before, you deserve to get the full story so you can decide for yourself whether or not to take advantage of this incredible opportunity.
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First things first... what's a "top dog" and a "first mover"?
It's quite simple really.
A "top dog" is a company that dominates its industry... and a "first mover" is a company with a technology or product so revolutionary that it disrupts an existing industry and creates an entirely new one.
On the rare occasion that you find a company that is both a top dog and a first mover, the chances are pretty good that you've found your next big winner...
Just think of eBay in the online auction market... Amazon in the online retail market... or Netflix in the DVD-rental market (David led investors to big gains on all three).
These companies redefined the way business was done, launched entirely new industries, and continue to dominate those industries to this day. And you don't need me to tell you how handsomely they've rewarded shareholders along the way.
So you can see why David and his Rule Breakers team work around the clock to find companies that are both top dogs and first movers.
But they don't stop there... You see, David discovered long ago that in order to find companies that will deliver truly life-changing investment returns, you have to break the rules and go against much of what passes for "wisdom" on Wall Street.
That's why he searches for companies with...
* a sustainable competitive advantage that can be exploited for years to come
* strong past price appreciation
* excellent management
* strong consumer appeal
And here's the big one...
* documented proof that the financial media thinks it's "overvalued"
Remember, many of David's biggest winners were recommended after all the fast-talking experts on Wall Street already declared you'd missed your chance to buy.
It's the exact same story with the second company I'm going to tell you about today...
The company that makes the Internet fly
When David first recommended it to the Rule Breakers community back in 2005, he admitted it wasn't "cheap."
With the arrival of cloud computing, he's more excited than ever about its potential to make investors rich.
You see, this company works behind the scenes to make sure you can access everything the Web has to offer at lightning-fast speeds.
And thanks to the ever-growing number of people now using the Internet to do everything from watch movies to buy houses, this once-flailing refugee of the dot-com meltdown is now one of the most important tech companies in the world.
Apple, Microsoft, Best Buy, and Nintendo are among its top clients -- and they're all more than happy to pay up for the quality this company consistently delivers.
While this usually runs somewhere in the neighborhood of $275,000 per year, more and more complex applications are coming online all the time -- giving this company greater pricing power.
At last count, it had more than 100 clients paying $1 million or more per year. So it's no wonder that cash from operations has more than tripled from $83 million in 2005 to over $380 million today... Or that the cash on its balance sheet has grown from just $92 million to a whopping $321 million.
And you can bet that this growth will only accelerate as cloud computing becomes an even more vital part of our personal and professional lives.
You see, because this company is both a top dog and a first mover, it has been able to gain an almost insurmountable lead in market share, allowing it to sport superb operating margins.
The gross margin currently sits at an incredible 76%; meanwhile, the net margin has climbed to an all-time high of 18% -- and continues to grow.
All things considered, I think you can understand why David thinks this will be one of the dominant players in the cloud computing world for years to come.
And it's the exact same story with the third company he reveals in The 3 Kings of Cloud Computing...
A bona fide Rule Breaker with very real profits
Not only does this rising tech superstar meet all 6 of David's criteria for a classic Rule Breaker, but it also has a stranglehold on a niche market that's absolutely essential to the future of cloud computing.
Whereas the last company I mentioned keeps the massive amounts of Web traffic flowing smoothly and efficiently, this company designs extremely complex software that allows central servers to function in the first place.
While the market for this software sits at roughly $1 billion today, it is estimated to soar to $5 billion by 2011 -- an astonishing 50% compound growth rate.
And thanks to various patents, a considerable head start, and immense technical know-how, there is very little chance competitors will be able to wrestle the lion's share of that $5 billion away from this company.
But you may be asking yourself...
Is now really a good time to be buying growth stocks?
I won't lie... it takes guts to make money in this market.
But here's some good news...
Our current economic situation actually bears a striking similarity to the economic downturn of the early 1990s. And Morningstar reports that during that recession, growth stocks more than doubled the return of "value" stocks.
Furthermore, SmartMoney recently confirmed that "growth stocks can excel even if the broad market continues to stumble." In fact, it reported that right now, "analysts expect better profit prospects for growth stocks than for value stocks."
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This company started out as a top dog and first mover in another emerging area of technology, but it has quietly transformed into a budding cloud computing powerhouse that's positioned to host all of the corporate data on the Web.
But it wasn't its robust developer network (literally tens of thousands of developers are now invested in the success of this company) nor its 50,000-plus corporate client list that initially caught David's eye...
It was the fact that, like many of the other companies I've told you about today, all the "pros" on Wall Street claimed it was drastically overvalued -- while overlooking the fact that it'd more than doubled its customer base in just over two years and more than doubled its free cash flow in just over one.
Not to mention, it outperforms nearly every other company out there (even Google) in turning research and development investments into returns for shareholders.
Combine this with the fact that its cloud computing services are extremely simple to use and can save clients tens of millions of dollars over time, and you can see why David and his team dubbed this as one of "The New Kings of Cloud Computing" and urged our Rule Breakers community to snap shares up right away.
At the time, they were selling for just $27.57.
Today they fetch about $62 -- meaning investors who followed David's advice are already up 126% in a short time.
But don't worry... as with all the companies I've told you about today, David and his team are convinced that this one is just getting started and that the big money is yet to be made.
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