The Doomsday "Preppers" Portfolio... and Why it's Time to Buy the Cheapest Market in the World

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Investment Analyst and Host of The Oxford Club's Market Wake-Up Call, Steve McDonald, runs down the key issues affecting the global economy - and your investments. (Click the image to play.) This week, you'll find... The latest scoop on Apple's television... It's time to get back into this forgotten sector... The "Slap In The Face" Award: Pool Cleaner's Edition... You can check it out in this video. Steve Jobs 'Spiritual Mentor' Finds $300 Billion in Desert The man Steve Jobs called a "spiritual mentor" led his company into one of the world's harshest deserts. Now, after years of development, the company is about to unveil a $300-billion secret project. Not only will it turn the industry on its head, the company behind it might just become one of the greatest stock stories of our time. Here's everything you need to know... Here are the top stories that were featured in our Investment U Daily this week... Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Proof That Investors Are Getting Smarter A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reports that, "Many investors, rightly or wrongly, are simply fed up with stocks and are piling into bonds despite record-low interest rates." Let's face it. Savvy investors - the ones who understand how badly you can get burned in bonds when rates tick up - are not plowing their hard-earned capital into ultra-low-yielding bonds right now. Stocks, offering higher income and far superior long-term prospects, are a much more attractive alternative right now... Click here to read full story Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist When the Safest Investments Turn Risky Many investors lump money market funds in with Treasury bills and certificates of deposit. Don't be one of them. Treasury bills and CDs are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government. Money market funds are not. Read your history and you'll find that the money market industry has a few blemishes... Click here to read full story Matthew Carr Senior Analyst The Doomsday "Preppers" Portfolio For many, an apocalypse seems to be breathing down upon us in multiple forms: economic, societal, environmental, or prophesized. There's plenty to be tense about. People go home at night, watch the news and are understandably afraid. One time bomb after another has gone off. So, it's no surprise that over the last several years, a new trend emerged: Preparing for the worst. These are the "Survivalists"... The Doomsday Preppers... Click here to read full story Marc Lichtenfeld Senior Analyst The Reason Stocks Are Up 20% in the Past Year When someone recovers from the flu, it takes a week or two before they're feeling 100%. On the other hand, if someone was in intensive care with double pneumonia, it's going to be quite a while before they're feeling back to themselves. Well, in 2008 and early 2009, not only was the U.S. economy in intensive care with double pneumonia, but Presidents Bush and Obama, along with Hank Paulson, had to break out the defibrillator a few times to revive the patient. The recuperation process was going to be long... Click here to read full story Carl Delfeld Senior Analyst Why it's Time to Buy the Cheapest Market in the World To put it mildly, there is not much I like about Russia. A couple of weeks ago, I highlighted Russia's abysmal record on economic freedom. It ranks a pathetic No. 144 in the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom. Political freedom? What can you say about a government that puts a renegade band in jail for two years just because it doesn't like their lyrics? Still, I had to smile when I checked my Pacific Rim country portfolio this week and saw that the Market Vector Russia ETF (NYSE: RSX) was the recent top performer... Click here to read full story Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published this week on our website at: www.InvestmentU.com The Art of Predicting Takeover Targets Three Warnings Signs for Gold Bugs Emerging Market Small Caps: The Best Stocks For a Slowing Global Economy OPK: Why an Insider is plowing $17 Million into This Stock

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