A Commodities Boom for the Ages Starts Now

By Dave Forest, editor, International Speculator

I just secured $5 million of financing for a gold project in Brazil.

It’s a good project—a redevelopment of a famous mine, with significant high-grade mineralization remaining.

And funding it has been a telling experience. One that’s led me to a raft of research showing that another major commodities boom could be starting as soon as this autumn.

Let me start from the beginning.

I secured the Brazilian mine through a complex bankruptcy purchase. It took nearly a year of working with insolvency lawyers and industry specialists to design a strategy for salvaging the asset.

When that got done early in 2018, I started looking for financing.

The Low-Risk Way to Profit From “Skim Trades”

In September 2017, word leaked that cellular service provider T-Mobile had offered to buy rival Sprint for $6.71 per share.

Today, Sprint trades around $6.10 per share while both sides continue to work on the deal.

But those who invest in Sprint today could get a guaranteed 10% profit whenever the deal closes. That’s because T-Mobile has already agreed to buy the shares at the previously mentioned $6.71 per share—60 cents more than where it trades now.

Wall Street calls these money-making opportunities “merger arbitrage” plays. At PBRG, we call these “Skim Trades.”

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Pure Global Cannabis (PURE) is up 51% since August!

Koios Beverage Crop. (KBEV) is up 130% in just the past two weeks!

What’s incredible, though, is that these companies have barely gotten started and the upside here for both of them is enormous.

The Future Money Trends Letter was the first financial publisher in the world to cover these two tiny under-the-radar companies, which are now receiving incredible investor attention.

But we’ve barely scratched the surface.

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What Truckers & Railroads Said About the Economy: Blistering Demand is Backing Off, Cyclicality Lives

But the cost of shipping surges, no holds barred.

The signs that the infamous cyclicality of the transportation industry is changing direction once again are still timid. This industry is a thermometer of the goods-based economy. And it has been hopping! But the first such signs are appearing, even as activity is at record highs, amid complaints of equipment and driver shortages, bottlenecks and delays in the supply chains, and a massive double-digit surge in pricing.

Freight shipment volume across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – rose 6.0% in August, compared to a year earlier, according to the Cass Freight Index. The index covers merchandise for the consumer and industrial economy but does not include shipments of bulk commodities, such as grains or chemicals

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If you’re considering getting into the asset management business… I share what I think the future of the industry looks like… along with some great advice.  

For all you sports fans out there… Week one of the NFL is in the books. I tell you what I learned from the first week—and who to watch out for.

When it comes to transporting energy, our country is going through a massive transition that presents a fantastic opportunity. I explain what’s happening… and also give you my favorite stock to buy right now.

My thoughts and prayers are with all of you in the path of Hurricane Florence. Be safe.

The 'Plunge-Protection Team' Arrives in China

The entire Chinese stock market soared 155% in less than one year... ending on June 12, 2015 – only three years ago.

That's an incredible return... But I expect we will see similarly incredible returns in China again soon.

My prediction is that – sometime in the next five years – we will see a 100%-plus move in Chinese stocks within an 18-month period.

That's the good part of the story. But what about the bad part of the story? What about the recent downturn in China?

I'll share the conclusion with you up front: Last month, the Chinese government stepped in...

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Avoid the Con Artists. Here’s the Critical Demand Secret in the Copper Market

Copper is a vital element used in nearly everything around you.

It’s used for plumbing in houses and factories. Since copper is also a wonderful conductor of electricity, it is used in power lines, electric motors, wiring, cars, and appliances as well.

This aspect – copper’s excellent electrical conductivity – makes it a critical part of the electric vehicle (EV) revolution.

For example, an electric vehicle requires three times more copper than conventional internal combustion engine vehicles.

On average, a car with an internal combustion engine uses 55 pounds of copper. A hybrid uses about 110 pounds, and an EV uses 165 pounds of copper.

I’m long term bullish on copper, especially companies that produce a specific kind. Which I’ll get to in a moment.

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Ten years after the crisis… they’re doing the same thing and expecting different results

“Holy Crap– turn on your TV! This is crazy!”

It was Sunday, September 14, 2008. Exactly 10 years ago to the day.

My friend Jeff called me and told me to turn on the television—where I saw dozens of people on the streets of Manhattan filing out of a skyscraper carrying boxes full of their office junk.

They were all employees of Lehman Brothers, one of the largest investment banks in the world.

Lehman was hours away from filing bankruptcy in what would go down as THE biggest bankruptcy in US history.

The next day the US stock market tanked. And for most of the next several weeks, all global financial markets were a roller coaster of surreal panic and chaos.

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Teeka Tiwari on the World’s Hidden Currency Crisis

By Nick Rokke, analyst, The Palm Beach Daily

Nick: Hi, T. Can you tell us about this hidden currency crisis?

Teeka: Sure. Emerging market currencies are getting hammered right now.

Most people have probably heard a little something about what’s going on in Venezuela. The inflation rate there is nearing 1,000,000%. Stores are empty, and people are starving. Millions of Venezuelans are fleeing their country to survive.

But that’s not the only currency crisis going on.

The Argentine peso has lost 51% of its value so far this year. And the currency continues to fall.

Argentina is relying on a $50 billion bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund. Why anyone would give Argentina money is beyond me. The country has gone bankrupt seven times in the past 200 years… But that’s something for another day.

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How to handle a big winner

It’s a nice problem to have… One of our positions is up over 280%. Should you take money off the table?

I answer a great question about what to do with this name… explain how to manage positions and diversify across a lot of terrific ideas… and tell you what to look for so you can find more big winners.

I also break down a big data company and give you a few key items to pay attention to if you’re thinking about buying this name. This is a fantastic teachable moment you’ll want to listen to more than once.

Keep the questions coming in at frank@curzioresearch.com.

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Get Ready for the “Strongest Commodities Bull Market of All Time”

Investors hate gold.

Sentiment’s so bad that The Vanguard Group—one of the world’s biggest money managers—is overhauling its gold fund. Not only that, speculators are shorting (betting against) gold more aggressively than ever before.

Regular readers know what I’m talking about. I laid this all out in the August 28 Dispatch.

I need to repeat a critical point of that essay. This sort of bad press sends investors running for the hills. And it keeps other investors from wanting anything to do with that asset.

But not us.

• We’re contrarians here at Casey Research…

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My Theory about Gold and Silver for Long-Term Investors

Why are these trends so long and so big — both, up and down?

My early experience with silver gave rise to decades of observations that have formed my theory about the price cycles of gold and silver versus the US dollar. My first big loss – “big” only in percentage terms since I was just starting out – was with silver in the early 1980s. I did all the right things: I researched it; I bought physical silver; and I bought after it had crashed 70% from its spike. The spike had been caused by the Hunt brothers’ efforts to corner the silver market – manipulation of precious-metals prices being as old as the precious-metal trade itself.

Silver had spiked to over $45 an ounce. After it collapsed, I saw an opportunity. I bought at $14 an ounce in early 1981. Then I learned the meaning of “catching a falling knife.” Silver continued plunging to around $5/oz, for me a 65% paper-loss. It then experienced a surge of nearly 200%, to where I was, briefly, in the black, and euphoria set it. After which I learned the meaning of “dead-cat bounce” as silver plunged again. In 1984, I sold at $7 an ounce, my first-ever 50% loss. I annotated those events in this chart by Goldbroker.com: