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Dear Reader,

I’m standing over three solid black, truncated cylinders of various diameters, all of them more or less knee-high on the polished floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s concrete-metal-and-glass exhibit hall, a triumph of design in itself...

They don’t look like anything else I’ve ever seen — which is what makes them so interesting to me.

I lean all the way over in the bright light, examining the sculptures, being careful not to touch. I take a knee beside the smallest one to get the closest look possible...

The guard in this particular room is watching me intently. He’s smiling a little.

Perhaps he enjoys seeing someone become wrapped up in a particular work. I’m sure he sees it happen often with the piece I’m scrutinizing now...

The three cylinders appear to be made of thousands of radially oriented layers of some sort of heavy paper — like a really dense, coverless book opened all the way up so that the first and last pages touch flat against each other.

The top edges of these thin layers are not crisp, like the sides. They’re weathered and beaten up, like the artist pressed or hammered them down with something heavy, mashing them together. They’re nicked and jagged in places, too. Like they’ve had keys dragged over them, or something...

The guard, a slight, old-ish Asian man, keeps watching me and smiling.

I ignore him. I’m letting this artist’s vision inhabit me completely. It’s something that doesn’t happen to me often — and it’s moving, I must confess.

More and more people are filing into this section of the gallery. But I barely notice them, so transfixed am I by this brilliant piece. I think I’m finally starting to “get” modern art.

I finally tear my gaze from the piece to the nearby wall. I’m searching for a plaque of some type telling me the details about the artist and the work, but can’t find it. I double-check the floor around the piece. Nothing.

The guard looks like he’s trying to conceal a laugh now. I walk up to him, slightly peeved, and ask, “Excuse me — is there a plaque that goes with that piece?”

He begins to actually laugh now, a small, almost-squeak through which he says in a thick Asian accent...

“No. This not art. This for sitting.”

OK, so maybe I don’t get it.

Or maybe funky-looking stools ARE art.

But whether I get it or not, I’m here to report. I’ve heard there are some Salvador Dali works on this floor. I slink off to find them.

Meanwhile, well-dressed people continue to file into this prestigious Agora Financial Reserve members-only event. It’s an evening of gaming, hors d’oeuvres and fine drink among the works of some of the world’s most famous surrealists: Dali, Ernst, Man Ray, Brassai, and others...

Before long, the blackjack tables are filling up, the poker has commenced in earnest, the money wheel is clacking with regularity, and spirits seem high all around.

But even though I love to gamble, and I really should be out mingling and gathering quotes from Reservists about the Symposium — and all the successful investments they’ve nailed down with Agora Financial’s help...

I’m venturing deeper and deeper into the rabbit-hole acid trip of surrealism. Though we’ve already established that I’m no art critic, there’s something about this particular genre of art that’s attracting me.

And as I walk pensively among the bird-headed men and bent spoons and truncated pornographic torsos and grotesque hodge-podges of disparate objects combined into single pieces that seem like the aborted fetuses of bad dreams, I figure out exactly what it is...

Surrealism is the perfect metaphor for the era we’re living in.

Alternately absurd and disturbing, like the government.

Nonsensical, yet un-ignorable, like the markets.

Frivolous, destructive, and pointless, like the myriad of laws and regulation that hold us back from success and achievement.

Bent, stretched, and distorted almost beyond recognition, like the Constitution.

Surrealism is nightmarish — like many western-world economies, especially the United States. I thought I already knew how bad that dream was...

Then I came to the 2011 Agora Financial Investment Symposium.

Folks, as odd as it sounds for a bleeds-red-white-and-and-blue American like me to say, I believe this year’s Fight or Flight event will radically change the way you think about the future viability of the U.S. of A.

Over the last few days, I’ve tried to give you some insights into the opportunities for wealth that accompany these surreal times.

I’ve also attempted to give you a snapshot of where The West is right now — both the bad and good — straight from the minds and mouths of those who know.

But now, on the final day of the 2011 Symposium, it occurs to me that it’s all bad.

We shouldn’t need to ponder having to fight to save classical capitalism in the western world. It should be thriving here, as it now is in the East...

Nor should we have to ponder ways of building our wealth offshore, and maybe even expatriating ourselves, too...

However, we must.

That’s why the information, recommendations, and specific picks revealed at this year’s Symposium is doubly important — and why it’s vital to your wealth that you get this info (more on how to do this in a moment)...

And that you grapple with this difficult “fight or flight” question NOW.

To help you do just that, let me briefly summarize some of the seminars from the blockbuster final day of the 2011 Agora Financial Investment Symposium:

BRENT COOK

As a breather to the crushing weight of the implications of today’s economic realities I’ve been confronted with over the past few days, it’s nice to hear from a good ol’ fashioned rock hound...

Brent Cook’s a 30-year veteran geologist, long-time advisor to funds and institutions on matters metamorphic, and the author of the successful Exploration Insights newsletter on select mining investment opportunities.

In a nutshell, Brent’s saying that the longest bull run in history (basically, from now ‘til the end of time) is beginning right now, in metals.

“Metal supply, as a function of time, can no longer keep up with metal demand...” says the soft-spoken, silver haired rock jock. “...It is not physically possible to bring new mines into production as fast as we’re using up metals.”

Think about that for a minute...

It seems intuitive in this age of scarcity, but it’s really quite unique. When have you seen or heard of an analyst call the precise “reversal point” in a major commodity class before? The exact moment when global demand for a specific thing eclipses the world’s ability to produce the desired quantities of it?

It’s novel to my ears. And if what Brent’s saying is true (and he’s one of the most seasoned and connected geologists on the planet), that means only one thing...

The metals he’s talking about are only going to get more expensive as time goes on. It’s simple supply and demand. Econ 101.

Why is this “reversal point” happening right now?

There’s a bottleneck in the production mechanism for metals mining.

According to Cook, there are around 400 metals mining projects in the world right now where enough data has been gathering to determine economically viability to a certain degree of confidence.

But because of limitations in engineering, equipment, parts, manpower, and other real-world concerns, a maximum of 20 of these can be brought online in any given year. Take copper, as an example...

“The growth rate of copper production is about .9% per year,” Cook explains, directing us to just one of his many detailed charts. “Yet demand growth is about 4%, so we’re falling behind.”

It’s not just copper, either...

Gold and silver are in a similar pickle.

And it’s not only supplies that are dwindling — it’s also the quality of the minerals being extracted. Take gold, for example. On paper, gold mining seems to keep pace with demand, as has even seemingly increased in just the last year or so...

But that’s NOT due to new discoveries coming online, according to Cook. It’s because a lot of gold mines are extracting far lower-grad ore.

“The average grade of product coming out of gold mines has dropped 25% in the last few years,” Brent adds.

Again, this portends well for the gold and metals bulls...

The best part is that right now, Cook says, three particular junior mining firms are in prime position to become major players is this coming “ever-boom” in metals.

Again, I can’t mention them by name here (so many people could be reading or forwarding this that it could balloon their share prices) — but you can get all the details on them in your CD/MP3 Symposium recordings...

They’re available right now, at a significant discount, below.

KEITH FITZ-GERALD

Not a lot of people really think about the macro ebbs and flows of capital around and across the world...

Yet so much of what impacts our lives in America today is influenced by these tsunamis of cash. How much we pay for things. How much (or little) our money’s worth. Where we’ll fit in the future pecking order for resources and raw materials.

“Money, I believe, is like water,” says the globe-trotting Fitz-Gerald, a respected trading veteran and Chief Investment Strategist at the Baltimore-based Money Map Press. “It’s going to flow out of one part of the world, and into another...”

According to Keith, money goes where it’s treated best. And right now, the world’s money looks like it’s treating investors best in the East.

Looking at the 10 largest economies in 2,000, roughly half of the world’s GDP rested with four nations: The U.S., Germany, Japan, and the U.K. — with Asian nations comprising 25% of global economic production...

In 2010, Asia accounted for better than 30% of world GDP, largely at the expense of the U.S., whose share of the global marketplace declined 17%...

But Keith’s projections of 2015 show the Asian nations accounting for 39% of the world’s economic footprint — again, much of this increase coming at the expense of North America, but also Europe.

That’s a 56% swing in favor of Asia over just 15 years.

Explained in these terms, it’s easy to see just how big this mammoth West-to-East flow of money really is.

To me — and others in the audience whose gasps are audible at the comparative state western economies are in — Keith’s charts documenting this “money migration” are more than alarming...

Fitz-Gerald remains upbeat, however.

“Despite what’s happening around the world today, I’ve never seen as much opportunity as I see now,” he proclaims. “There is a $300 trillion recovery building. Admittedly, it’s very hard to see... But it’s out there.”

And his three recommendations for playing it, starting right now, seem pretty sound...

Yes, they’ll be in your copies of this year’s Symposium recordings — available in CD or MP3 format. Details on how to get them are coming shortly.

But before I give you those, let me fill you in on an exciting NEW Symposium feature — something that’s never been done before in it’s 12-year history...

FIRST EVER RESOURCE INVESTING “DEBATE”

You know what happens when seven of the world’s foremost experts all basically agree about the future of commodities, resources, and energy?

I do.

You learn five times as much when they build on each other’s points as you would if they were divided into battling camps, or each defending a different point of view...

And I’m here to tell you: I learned a TON from the combined 125 years or more of commodities experience and expertise on display at this, the first-ever Symposium resource investing “debate.”

You will, too, when you hear all the action for yourself in your Symposium recordings.

On the stage with moderator (and resource investing legend) Rick Rule were the aforementioned geologist Brent Cook, AF’s own energy and commodity stalwarts Byron King and Alan Knuckman, renowned oil man Marcio Mello of HRT Oil and Gas, Sprott’s CEO David Franklin, and Matt Badiali of Stansberry & Associates.

Much like the Whiskey Bar event, this dialogue was sprinkled with crackling dialogue and good-natured jabs, especially between rapier-witted Rule and Mello...

But unlike the Bar, this panel offered more or less a consensus of what’s ahead, and loads of solid, useful, even revelatory information on why the world commodity situation is the way it is — and what could happen on the road ahead that could derail investors.

Opinion varied as to whether we are in the beginning or middle stages, but all of the panelists agreed that the world is in what Rule calls a “commodities super-cycle” of increasing demand...

The most interesting part, in my opinion, was what these seven resource wizards said about things that could stall or slow such a global resources boom — and spell disaster for speculators.

“I was born and raised during the Cold War,” says King. “When half the world was... politically and economically uninhabitable.”

“Now we are seeing massive growth in those former, shall we say, true ‘red’ states,” Byron adds. “And what’s going off limits now is the developed world.”

Elaborating, Byron explains how it’s now nearly impossible to develop energy resources in much of North America...

“We don’t build this stuff in the United States anymore,” he laments, head shaking.

Metals guru Cook sees another potential monkey wrench in the works — one I’d agree with whole-heartedly, even though it was intended to be tongue-in-cheek...

“In terms of precious metals,” the silver-haired geologist says, “The only thing I could see changing what’s happening... would be if the U.S. government — and the rest of the governments — become fiscally responsible.”

That got a big laugh, although it’s 100% true.

What makes it funny is that everyone knows that alchemy will be perfected before western nations become financially responsible.

As always seems to be the case, I don’t have anywhere near enough space to do this dialogue justice — to touch on all the event’s great insights and hard-won lessons about trading in resources and commodities...

I could literally write a book by fleshing out the revelations these seven experts spilled in just this 50-minute panel debate.

But I haven’t got a book. All I’ve got is this small space, and a looming deadline.

One thing I can promise you, though: If you’re into resources and commodities (and every investor should be, in my opinion), this one event alone is worth the chump change you’ll spend on your CD/MP3 recordings of this year’s Symposium.

And speaking of things being well worth the money, here’s a man whose words are always worth far more than the purchase price...

Of a Mercedes!

(The One and Only) BILL BONNER

It’s almost impossible that you could be reading this and not know who the inimitable Bill Bonner is...

He’s the visionary entrepreneur behind the Agora family of companies, a leader of libertarian political thought, a forty-year veteran critic of western fiscal policy — and without doubt the best speaker and communicator I’ve ever seen. That includes presidents, statesmen, commentators, actors, and car salesmen, too.

He’s like the Mark Twain of contrarian capitalism.

And today, as always, he’s got a point to make...

“My point is that we’re still in a ‘great correction,’” Bonner says in his smooth, almost stentorian voice. “And what we don’t know is exactly what is going to be corrected.”

That got some laughs...

But what he cuts loose with next is perhaps the most frightening thing anyone in the room has heard all week. The reason it’s so frightening is because if history’s any kind of proof, when Bonner say something, it happens...

“You can forget about recovery,” says Bill. “There IS no recovery — and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.”

That didn’t get any laughs at all.

And you could almost hear the crying when Bill proved it with parallels and statistics from antiquity, more recent history, and the U.S. since World War II.

How much has the average income of a college-educated person gone up in the last 40 years? — Bonner asks the standing-room-only crowd...

“Zero,” he answers. Despite huge, orders-of-magnitude increases in college tuitions.

Worse yet for the middle class: How much has the average American’s disposable income gone up in 40 years?

Again, zero.

Why? Because we’re inflating our money supply so we can buy more and more imported stuff — while slowly gutting our own manufacturing abilities...

Thus increasing jobs and disposable incomes in other parts of the world, instead of at home. “Every time we get a stimulus program in the U.S., jobs increase in China,” Bill explains.

Piling onto this point, he reminds us of this nightmare statistic: “Since 2000, there are 30 million fewer payroll jobs in America. And the number of people who are not in the labor force is at an all-time high.”

As if this isn’t bad enough, Bonner lays out a stunning case for why Europe is in BETTER shape than the U.S., by far — and will be, moving forward.

It all comes down to the one word Bill’s been shouting for years: Empire.

I’d elaborate for you, but as always, I’m bumping up against deadline and space restraints here. Besides, I haven’t the ability or the arrogance to try and summarize one of the world’s greatest thinkers...

You’ve simply got to hear him for yourself — if you’ve got the guts to handle it. I’m not exaggerating; this ugly truth is hard to listen to. No matter how dedicated you may be to fighting for a better America...

What Bonner says about the future of this nation will make you want to seriously ponder the same thing I am right now: Flight.

Bottom line: It’s time, right now, for you to make what may be the biggest decision of your fiscal life. Me, too.

America or is bust

I’ll confess something personal to you...

Since 2007 — when I went on a 17-day dangerous game safari in Zimbabwe — I’ve dreamed of moving to South Africa, getting my PH (Professional Hunter) license, and starting a safari outfit for U.S. and international clients.

But before the beginning of the 2011 Agora Financial Investment Symposium, I figured this would be a dumb move.

I thought I’d be leaving too much opportunity and prosperity behind to chase a dream that in 10 years, I’d be too old to keep up with anyway.

Right now, though — after hearing from Bonner, von Greyerz, Wiggin, Casey and others — I’m basically ready to sell everything but the guns and start packing.

And not just because I’m now certain that America’s an Empire in decline...

But also because hearing from folks like Johnston, Clayton, Fitz-Gerald, Mello, and more has opened my eyes about the enormous money I could make outside the U.S.

This is new territory for me — I’m normally an “America or bust” kind of guy...

But now that the “bust” part is looking like a certainty, I’m all of a sudden imagining what might be possible for me in a world that’s not Star Spangled.

Talking in just a fraction of this event was enough to radically change my thinking about the future. And remember: Because of time and space constraints, I didn’t even get to tell you about all of the speakers I saw...

• Like Mike West, PhD, on the pioneering quantum-leap developments being made in stem cell and molecular medicine — especially in the realm of anti-aging. If what Mike says comes to pass, we’ll soon be able to make truckloads of replacement body parts made of real human tissue. He also revealed what may be the very best company to invest in to rake in the most money from this trend: His.
• Or Protext CEO and market veteran Peter Charles, who showed us the lucrative plays waiting right around the corner in the personal electronics world — as one mammoth technology shift changes everything, and may even kill the personal computer. Think one word: Mobile.
• Or the priceless Barry Ritholtz, the veteran, hyper-successful trader whose presentations showed me more of the realities of trading (and the Wall Street “whorehouse”) than any other speaker I’ve ever seen — along with chuckle after guffaw after belly-laugh as only New-York-to-the-marrow Ritholtz can deliver.

And that’s not to mention the NINE other main seminars I wasn’t able to attend...

Or the 48 afternoon “breakout” sessions — where the vast majority of specific “fight or flight” investment plays were revealed!

As you can see, my coverage of this event, as exhausting as it has been for me, was far from exhaustive.

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If you’re a concerned American like me — and trying to decide between “fight” or “flight” — you’ll NEED all of this information to study, act on, and keep for reference.

Believe me: Whichever camp you ultimately decide you fall into once you’ve seen everything I have this week, and more...

Action of one type or another is definitely called for.

And I mean right now.

Surreally Yours,

Jim Amrhein
Roving Reporter

P.S. It has been a great joy to once more be getting the chance to speak directly to you, Agorans. And I hope I’ve been able to help you realize that right now, inaction spells financial disaster. But to get the whole picture — so you can decide on the best course of action (as in “fight” or “flight”) — take the first step and get your Symposium MP3s or CDs now. There’s no reason to wait. In fact, with only 24 hours left to get them at 33% off, there’s a good reason not to wait...

Daily Highlights | Venue | Speakers | Past Themes | Exihibitors | Schedule

Dear Reader,

“Your life sucks!” Mauldin yelled...

That’s a context-free highlight (one of the tamer ones) from the unhinged free-for-all event we’ve all come to know as the Whiskey Bar, which went down last night at the Fairmont’s British Columbia Ballroom.

For 2011, this rogues gallery consisted of Agora Financial talents Chris Mayer, Byron King, and Patrick Cox and Eric Fry (as MC), Whiskey & Gunpowder’s Gary Gibson, plus invited Symposium speakers John Mauldin, Barry Ritholtz -- and the inimitable Whiskey Bar staple, Doug Casey.

As one of the charter Editors of W&G, this event holds special meaning for me -- since I had the good fortune of sharing the stage with some of these same characters in 2007 and 2008.

And it’s true, I found myself practically jumping out of my seat to interject at various points. I was dying to give Mr. Mauldin in particular both barrels about one thing he said. Who cares if he’s rich, brilliant, and writes for the New York Times -- I still think he’s dead wrong about oil...

But I’m here to observe and report, not participate. Besides, Eric took care of it for me, though in a slightly less kinetic way than I would have.

What can I say? He has a rapier wit -- mine’s a Louisville Slugger.

It happened around 16 minutes into the event -- which had warmed up with a lot of laughs as MC Fry asked everyone to share their favorite movie, philosopher, and cocktail (Byron took the laugh prize, with Patton, Patton, and Molotov)...

But then it got down to the nitty-gritty of issues and investment plays for the future. Mauldin was almost three minutes (I timed it) into a rambling monologue about the pace of technological change in the world, when he tossed in this grenade:

“Who cares about peak oil? We won’t be using the stuff. The world is going to change so much faster than you can possibly...”

That’s when Fry -- in a priceless piece of comic timing -- deftly interjected: “Byron, how are those next-generation solar Boeing planes coming along?”

Huge laughs.

Of course, Byron had a different take. The right one, if you ask me...

“It’s going to take decades or generations, in my view, for these things to change. It took probably 75 years for the incandescent light bulb to become the world standard... It took 100 years for steam-powered electric generating turbines to become a standard feature around the...”

“WRONG!” Mauldin thundered.

His evidence: “Fourteen million i-Pads were sold this year. The adoption curve for technology is on such a ramp-up... You’re going back to a model that was SO 1980s.”

Hmmm. I know these guys are brilliant -- and I’m just a gun-toting rube who eats too few vegetables...

But I’m having a hard time understanding how the widespread adoption of the computer interface equivalent of the touch-tone phone equates to a new world standard of energy that’ll obsolete hydrocarbons...

That was just the beginning, though.

Thinking about gold?

Gary says you should buy nickels instead. “Give the bank $100, they give you back $120 in metal.”  A fringe benefit: “If you have $10,000 worth of nickels in your house, whoever breaks in won’t get away with more than like forty bucks.”

Priceless. I could never truly do this event justice in print -- so I’m just going to hit you with some of the juicier sound bites from the discussion. I won’t even attribute them. But if you’re sharp and know the players here, you can probably guess:

“I don’t want to give you a rant on fascism -- it would offend too many Americans... The U.S. is unquestionably a fascist state.”

“I just want to know when my cholesterol-eating nano-bot will be here...”

“You’re going to be able to take this technology, put it on a drone, and blow the crap out of people with turbans on their heads in Afghanistan.”

“They already attached it to a Roomba, and weaponized the Roomba...”

“The most dangerous job in the world today is the #3 man in the Taliban... You’ll notice whenever some senior guy in the Taliban is killed, it’s always the #3 guy.”

“The market’s an idiot... The markets don’t know Jack.”

“All these Hitler-like dogs... all these sociopaths have very acceptable social veneers.”

“Tuscany is not a country.”

“All these damn countries cover the Earth like a skin disease.”

“...You-know-who is going to sell off the whole Strategic Petroleum Reserve...”

“I advocate the active default on the U.S. debt.”

“The situation’s hopeless -- but it’s not serious.”

“Immortality may suck, and it’s not worth it.”

“People are going to die, because of these a**holes from Chicago.”

“The average American is such is whipped dog... If the American people weren’t such wussies, they’d storm into Washington and they’d replicate the execution of Mussolini on every lamppost...”

I think it was the best (and funniest) Whiskey Bar event I’ve ever seen. And like I said, I could never do it justice in print.

But you can hear it all for yourself in the CD/MP recordings of the Symposium -- I’ll show you how to get ‘em below.

Before I do that, though, let me cut you in on some highlights from the stunning array of seminars I was able to attend today...

CHRIS MAYER

This is the one I was waiting for, above all others.

I just love the way Chris thinks about money and investing. And his presentations are always really funny and chock full of info and picks.

His You Can’t Make This Stuff Up seminar this year was no different.

Mayer kicked it off with a selection of the most hilariously off-kilter, screwball, and just plain nutty clippings from the government, Wall Street, so-called industry leaders, and the major media over the last year. Here are just a few of these...

From Bloomberg, 8/6/10:

Christina Romer, who chairs the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, said the U.S. needs stronger job growth to lower the nation’s unemployment rate.

Really? Stronger job growth? Now why didn’t I think of that?

From the USDA, 4/6/11, regarding their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP):

It is estimated that at least 8,900 full-time equivalent jobs are created from $1 billion of SNAP benefits.

$112,359 to create one job? Sounds about right for the U.S. government...

From Newsweek, 11/5/10:

The renewed willingness and confidence to spend money we don’t have is vital to the continuing recovery.

I here I thought that credit-card mentality is what necessitated the recovery!

And this gem, from the Wall Street Journal on 7/1/11:

"If we can figure out how to pass our costs to our customers, we'd have a very successful company..." (American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey)

After some laughs at these and others, Mayer got down to brass tacks. To explain the reasons why Wall Street and rank and file investors continue to get burned in the markets, Mayer turned to some basic psychology.

As it turns out, analysts aren’t objective -- they’re across-the-board optimistic.

Research shows that when analysts were off the mark on predicting market returns, only 23% of the time had they underestimated returns...

Yet they’d overestimated returns a whopping 79% of the time. These findings stayed consistent in bull markets and bear.

Other research reveals a very interesting correlation between the amount of information humans use to make decisions -- and the accuracy of those decisions.

As it turns out, beyond a few basic facts, additional information has NO valid association with the accuracy of decisions we make. In fact, some evidence suggests that our ability to make correct decisions goes down with more information...

However, additional information has a profound affect on our confidence in those decisions. But confidence does not equal accuracy.

Mix it all together, and you get this:

“You can’t rely on forecasts at all,” says Chris. He likens them to a Rorschach Test: “We see what we want to see...  as a species, we’re very optimistic.”

But one doesn’t need to be an optimist to see the merits of the four stocks he went on to reveal. The facts and numbers behind them are pretty hard for rational humans to see in any way but greedy.

I can’t reveal them here (it wouldn’t be fair to paying show attendees)...

But you can get the complete rundown on them -- names, tickers, company details, the works -- in your CD or MP3 Symposium recordings. And there are even more Mayer picks in your FREE companion guide with all of our speakers’ specific recommendations for this year.

You’ll get a shot at ordering these at a significant discount below.

Now, let’s move on to another speaker I was eagerly awaiting...

GARY SHAPIRO

Gary’s presentation, The Comeback: How Innovation will Restore the American Dream, surprised me the most of any I’ve seen so far.

That’s because I expected it to basically be a cheerleading session for the latest and greatest techno-gadgetry -- since Gary’s the President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association...

And “trons” just aren’t what floats my boat.

As long as I don’t have rabbit-ears on my TV, my phone doesn’t have a dial on it, and my computer monitor’s not monochrome green-and-black, I don’t pay much attention to electronics.

But I DO pay attention to things like American entrepreneurship, innovation, government waste, cluelessness, and corruption...

And these things were the underpinnings of Gary’s presentation.

Sure, he revealed four coming mega-trends in consumer electronics he sees coming down the pike. For the tron-o-philes, they are:

• The utilization of spectra formerly reserved for traditional broadcast TV to eliminate the “wireless wait” that plagues PDA, smart-phone and tablet computer users in many areas

• The adaptation of automobiles for all manner of informational applications, and for sophisticated technologies like auto-pilot and collision avoidance and learning GPS systems

• Electronic, integrated home health-care and diagnostic devices

• Advancements in “sensing” technologies -- from automatic light switches and appliances, air quality sensors, security systems, home aid devices and more

But the heart of his presentation was an expose of what American government is doing wrong -- and how they’re killing our ability to compete and innovate with their waste, corruption, overspending, and flawed policy.

Like the fact that 48% of people in America receive some kind of check from the government...

Like the fact that we keep extended and enhancing unemployment, even though studies show that it’s the tendency of people who are in the system to stay in it until it’s exhausted...

Like the fact that we’re failing to foster free trade, and the immigration of the best and brightest minds -- which is what made our nation great.

Though Gary’s are strong words of warning, he’s definitely in the fight camp. And his advice to us isn’t to “buy more Blu-rays” or “get plugged in” or any of the things you’d expect from the President of a major consumer electronics lobby...

Instead, he says simply: “Hold your politicians accountable.”

Damn right.

Now, speaking of accounting...

EGON VON GREYERZ

Everyone told me not to miss this guy. “Great” and “informative” is what they said about his speeches in years’ past...

But they failed to mention “horrifying.”

Trust me, as a long-time Agoran, I’ve seen my share of doom and gloom. It usually doesn’t even phase me to hear this stuff anymore -- not even the fact that it’s all coming true.

Water off a duck’s back, you know?

So perhaps the most descriptive thing I could say about Egon von Greyerz’ presentation -- Return to the Dark Years: Will the Inevitable Consequences of 100 Years of Money Printing and Credit Creation be Hyperinflation, World Economic and Financial Collapse? -- is this:

It made me come more or less unglued with fear.

Seriously, I was so transfixed in horror at the nightmare scenario that Egon proved is coming with more graphs, charts, numbers and analysis than I thought could fit in 50 minutes, that I barely took notes. Thankfully, his seminar was the last one before lunch, and I had time immediately afterward to get some of these things on paper...

It all started just a few seconds in, when Egon cut loose with this statement:

“There are three kinds of money: Money which is already worthless, money that will become worthless (with a picture of a $US100 bill), and there’s real money, gold.”

Clearly, von Greyerz isn’t in the Bernanke “Gold isn’t money” camp.

While we’re on Bernanke, I’ve never seen anyone put what “Helicopter Ben” is doing into more stark perspective than what Egon did at the beginning of his speech...

According to von Greyerz, 100,000 average Americans would have to work the next 330 years at today’s average salary to pay off what Bernanke and company have added to the national debt this year alone.

Even more frightening than that are the REAL facts behind inflation. Using multiple charts and graphs, Egon shows us how U.S. debt has increased every year since 1960 (the 1990s “surplus” was fiction, he says)...

How the debt ceiling has been increased 78 times since then...

And how, starting in 1800, it took the U.S. dollar until 1967 to double from inflation. But since 1971, when Nixon abandoned the Gold Standard, dollar inflation has skyrocketed, whether the government’s reporting it or not.

“Nixon should not have been impeached for Watergate,” say Von Greyerz. “He should have been shot for abolishing the Gold Standard.”

Over the last century, every single currency on Earth has declined between 97% and 99% against gold, says von Greyerz. The U.S. dollar is one of the worst offenders among major economies. According to Egon, the buck has lost 84% of its value just since 1999!

What’s that mean?

It means we’re up the creek, that’s what it means...

“These unfunded liabilities will never be paid in normal money,” von Greyerz warns. “I can absolutely guarantee: Your pensions will not be paid, you will not have Medicare. There will not be enough money...”

Like I said above: Horrifying.

How can you do safeguard against this, you’re asking?

Well, you can buy physical gold, and store it safely. But that’s easier said than done...

Fortunately, von Greyerz has the answer to that problem. His firm is among the world’s best at brokering and storing clients’ privately owned gold in special, tax-free vaults underneath Zurich airport.

More details on this are in your CD/MP3 recordings of the 2011 Symposium -- and in the special companion report with the specific investment recommendations of all of this year’s speakers.

After Egon’s presentation, the words of an acknowledged anarchist will be downright soothing....

DOUG CASEY

There’s only one Doug Casey. And that’s more than enough for most people.

But one thing’s for certain about him: He’s a big draw.

His seminar on Thursday morning was standing room only, with people crowding in long after it began, sitting on stairs, leaning along the walls -- even sitting on the floor for a chance to hear the legend...

And “the legend” did not disappoint.

According to the Symposium schedule, Case was supposed to deliver a seminar called The Greater Depression is the Least of Your Worries.

But soon after he took the podium, he went completely off script, saying, “What I want to talk about now is terrorism. Terrorism is something everybody talks about, and thinks they know about -- but I don’t think they really do.”

He kicked off his presentation by contrasting the various definitions of terrorism according to the FBI and FEMA (which Casey calls “stupid”) with his own definition, which is:

A tactic employed more for psychological purposes than for physical damage, intended to de-legitimize the state, often by getting it to overreact.”

Casey went on to say that both the French and American revolutions were steeped in acts of terrorism...

And interestingly enough, according to Doug, resulted in less freedom for citizens of the resulting republic. But that was a digression. Remember, this was more or less improvised.

Casey’s larger point, which he built up using several historical examples, is this:

Terrorism is like shrimp.

Say what?

Turns out, Doug was making reference to how many ways shrimp can be prepared (as described by Bubba in the movie Forrest Gump) -- and with new ways hitting the scene with regularity. Just like terrorism...

“How do you recognize it?” asks Casey. “It’s constantly evolving and mutating...”
 
Also, there’s the problem of perspective. What’s terrorism to one nation is heroism to another. He uses the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut as an example. “If 250 Islamic soldiers were in New York,” says Casey, “I would hope some American would do the same to them.”

Yet according to most modern definitions, it would be considered terrorism to do so. Casey’s point, if I understand it correctly, is that whether or not a thing is an act of terrorism or heroism depends on which foot the shoe is on.

Beyond such philosophical ruminations, however, is the underlying truth (no matter what your definition of the term is) that terrorism is a very effective tactic.

According to Casey, the capital cost of terrorism is close to zero. But the costs to victim states -- both in sustaining it and fighting it -- are enormous...

Examples: An IED in Iraq costs virtually nothing, yet the U.S. humvee and crew it blows up are worth millions in training, insurance, and outfitting.

Same with an RPG and a U.S. tank -- or a SAM and an F-16.

A Muslim teen with a $200 AK-47 who trades his life for a U.S. serviceman the government has spent a million dollars training, insuring, transporting and equipping is pulling down a return on investment of 500,000%...

And that’s the whole point of terrorism. To disrupt and bankrupt. To demoralize and monopolize. To win by absorbing a vastly disproportionate amount of your opponent’s time, money, thought, energy, and resources.

By that measure, the U.S. is losing the War on Terror it began the better part of a decade ago.

What’s the solution?

It’s simple, Doug says. It’s a national policy called “Mind your own business.” Don’t occupy other nations. And don’t bully them around with your foreign policy...

So what’s the investing takeaway from all this terror talk?

Your guess is as good as mine.

“Let me tell you the problem with investment advice,” Casey said, as he began to wrap things up. “Everybody’s got an opinion... Buy this, sell that... But if you don’t understand the context of the world you’re living in, you’re gonna be roadkill.”

There’s a lesson in there somewhere, I just know it.

Maybe you can figure it out from his full presentation (I’ve only hit a few of the high spots here) -- available now as CD or MP3 recordings of this prestigious event.

And at 16 minutes until my midnight deadline for this piece, I’ve got just enough time to give you the ordering specifics once more. Here they are...

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Once more, here are the specifics: For just $99, you’ll get complete digital, downloadable MP3 files of every marquis speaker’s presentation...

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Oops, 12:02AM. Gotta run. More to come tomorrow.

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Daily Highlights | Venue | Speakers | Past Themes | Exihibitors | Schedule

Dear Reader,

You wouldn’t know it to look at me -- and don’t tell any of my hunting buddies -- but I’m a total movie buff. Always have been...

Not just the action films and thrillers that are the typical cinema-fodder for my demographic (boorish, over 40 males), but all of it: Animated flicks, sci-fi, comic-book superhero movies, bio-pics, documentaries -- even cheesy formula rom-coms and select foreign language films.

There’s almost nothing I won’t go see on the big screen. I love it all.

And I love talking about films, too. You may even have read a movie review or two of mine in the past -- I seem to remember having penned a few for Whiskey & Gunpowder over the years...

But I’ve never been able to say that I actually know any film directors, or screenwriters.

Until now, that is.

Last night, I was lucky enough to be one of the privileged guests invited to the Fairmont’s British Columbia Ballroom for a special “focus group” screening of the newest film from Agora Entertainment (of I.O.U.S.A. fame)...

It’s called Risk!And it’s a full-length documentary written and directed by a friend of mine, Agora Financial’s own Executive Publisher, Addison Wiggin.

What’s it about, you’re asking?

Well, it’s a tricky thing to say what a film is “about.” Especially a documentary. That’s because there’s usually a metaphorical main story that serves as a looking glass through which the filmmaker focuses on other, larger themes.

You could correctly say the film is about the never-say-die, risk-taking spirit of the entrepreneur in pursuit of success -- as revealed by the compelling story of Odyssey Marine, the discoverer (and recoverer) of not one, but TWO of the biggest sunken treasure hauls ever found...

The $180 million wreck of the SS Republic, which went down off the coast of Georgia in 1885 -- and an unidentified vessel code-named by “Black Swan” by the Odyssey crew. The ship is thought by some to be the Spanish frigate Nuestra Senora de la Mercedes, sunk by the British in an engagement off the Portuguese coast in 1804...

To date, Odyssey has hoisted as much as half a billion dollars worth of coinage and other artifacts from the wreck. And according to their estimates, as much as 50% of the Mercedes’ riches still lie on the bottom.

Why haven’t they dredged up all of it, you’re wondering?

The answer to this question speaks directly to the other major theme one could rightly claim Wiggin’s film is about: The risks entrepreneurs face from a government that’s increasingly hostile to success -- and to capitalism itself, for that matter.

Right now, Odyssey marine is in what looks to be the final stages of a nearly five-year legal battle with the Spanish government (with the aid of the U.S. federal government) over rightful ownership of the recovered and remaining coinage.

The odds do not look good for the American firm, in my opinion. Especially given Spain’s status as yet another failing, cash-strapped Euro-pit.

The stalemate has cost Odyssey huge amounts of cash -- and forced them to adapt their proprietary technology to other industries, like underwater mining...

Which they’re preparing to undertake by partnering up with foreign companies.

That’s what entrepreneurs do —they improvise, adapt, and overcome. Like the Marines. And more and more lately, that means leaving the U.S.

But beyond these two polarized themes, I think Wiggin’s Risk! is also about something even bigger:

What AMERICA risks in terms of lost jobs, dwindling revenue, and a deteriorating ability to innovate if it continues to thwart private enterprise at every turn.

I found even this in-progress cut of Risk! to be an understated, yet deftly assembled film that’s both inspiring and depressing -- and I truly hope it finds its way onto the American public’s consciousness...

And the sooner the better.

Now, let me take off my Ebert hat and get back to the job I’m here to do: Report on the risks and rewards you could discover at Agora Financial’s 2011 Fight or Flight Investment Symposium...

Getting Down To The Money-Making

Necessarily, the opening afternoon of these Agora Symposia are more focused on cementing the broader thematic foundations of the event.

And true to form, yesterday was when we all got our initiation-by-fire with the biggest, farthest-reaching, and most mind-blowing macro-concept stuff...

It’ll re-fry my brain into the mush it was at deadline time last night if I recap all of it here -- but this year, it’s things like:

• Growing new replacements for all manner of human organs

• Upgrading the human species through genetic mapping and modification

• Cures for a myriad of diseases and conditions that shorten our lives

• The sudden emergence of beaten-down nations as economic contenders

• The bull case for commodities in global markets many think are flat-lining

• Whether Americans should attempt to restore a system that nurtures and encourages success -- or whether they should take their money, ideas, and entrepreneurial spirit to more enterprise-friendly places

Don’t get me wrong: This big-picture stuff is invaluable to understanding what to do with your money in a “fight or flight” wealth environment...

So important, in fact, that it caught the attention of the Vancouver Sun newspaper -- they printed a nice little feature on the “life sciences revolution” revealed by Juan Enriquez at our opening afternoon seminars.

But now we’re really beginning to cook on the opportunities end of things here at the Fairmont. And I’ve managed to cram five speakers into my schedule today for your investment planning pleasure.

So let’s get rolling on them right now...

STEPHEN JOHNSTON

The soft-spoken, credible-looking Johnston of AgCapita Partners led off with the famous Twain quote: “Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.”

The citation brought polite chuckles, but Johnston was dead-pan serious. And over the next 40 minutes, he proceeded to do something I would NEVER have thought possible...

Make me want to race out and buy real estate.

Not the kinds of real estate you might expect people to play in a dicey market, like foreclosed homes or distressed city properties in “transitional” neighborhoods -- but large, sweeping tracts of glorious country acreage.

I’m not kidding.

It would be nearly impossible for a rational, profit-minded person to see Johnston’s Farmland as a Portfolio Allocation presentation and NOT want to liquidate stocks, bonds, IRAs and everything else -- and dump all of it into crop fields...

It’s an investment that’s right under everyone’s nose, just about everywhere on Earth. Yet it’s almost universally overlooked. But it won’t be for very long.

According to Johnston, soon everyone with two pennies to rub together will be clamoring for farmland to invest in. Here’s the simple reason why...

“Every year, we have less arable land per capita,” says Johnston.

That shouldn’t shock anyone. What should shock investors, however, is how little farmland we’ll have to go around very shortly.

Says Johnston: In 1960, there were three acres of farmland for every person on Earth. Now, it’s more like 1.2 acres per capita -- and in 20 more years, that ratio will be around .03 acres...

That’s about half the size of a tennis court.

See the problem?

By that time, cropland in Mayberry, R.F.D could be worth as much as a Park Avenue condo. And if you take Stephen’s advice on how to play it NOW, you may soon need a farm tractor to pull around all the money you’ve made.

This isn’t even the half of it, though. There are three major demand drivers of massive farmland returns in the future...

And they’re only going to get worse.

He explains them far better than I could -- with loads of supporting numbers that simply boggle the mind. You’ll see what I mean when you listen to his presentation via the CD/MP3 recordings of this event.

But I warn you: Johnston’s arguments for farmland as an investment are more persuasive than anything I’ve ever heard about any other kind of commodity. If you don’t want to be tempted to invest in AG real estate (though you don’t actually have to buy the land), then DON’T listen to this seminar.

Just move on to the next one in order -- the one and only...

JOHN MAULDIN

You probably already know John...

He’s the New York Times bestselling author of well-known financial titles Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market, Just One Thing: Twelve of the World’s Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can’t Overlook, and Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How it Changes Everything...

He’s also one of America’s highest-profile financial voices, and editor of the most widely distributed investment newsletter in the world, Thoughts from the Frontline...

And he’s got an opinion or two about gold, the dollar, and other things directly related to the “fight or flight” theme. For instance:

“I think gold is a stupid investment,” says the outspoken, somewhat dramatic Mauldin. “Gold, however, as insurance is brilliant... I buy the gold ‘cause I don’t trust the bastards.”

The “bastards” being Congressmen and Senators and Governors and Presidents.

As proof of their inability to properly lead us, Mauldin brings forth a pricelessly telling piece of forgotten U.S. history -- a 1932 propaganda film produced in the FDR era putting forth the case that inflation will save America...

That was jarringly surreal to see. Inflation is Nation’s Salvation, read a newspaper headline from the time. According to Mauldin, we’re indeed approaching the end of what he calls a “debt super-cycle” here in the U.S., and in other parts of the world. And inflation’s a part of it.

You may think from these thought-provoking points that Mauldin’s bearish on America. But he’s really not...

“The Unites States isn’t all that bad...” posits Mauldin. “You want to find the real basket-cases, you go to Europe.”

According to the highly connected commentator, most of the bankers in Europe’s most solvent nation, Germany, don’t think the Euro’s going to be around in another five years...

“Europe’s going to implooode,” he drawls, elongating the word for emphasis. “The European problem is the sub-prime crisis on steroids.”

Does that mean America’s in the clear on its debt crisis? Not at all. There’s still a lot the U.S. could do to make us follow Europe down the drain. In fact, there’s one objective measure of debt that most economists aren’t looking at, Mauldin says. And it’s critical to understanding how Uncle Sam can climb back on top...

I could attempt to sum it up for you, but I’d fear losing something crucial in the translation, and steering you wrong.

Better you should get the Symposium recordings from this year, so you can hear it from the horse’s mouth -- and have it at your fingertips to help you form a solid opinion about whether to put your money to work in the U.S., or to start trying to accrue wealth offshore.

I will leave you with this one last thing Mauldin said, which you can get more clarification on once you get your CDs or MP3s...

“The dollar’s getting ready to rebound, boys and girls. You can take that to the bank.”

Not to doubt the man -- but if I were you, I’d find out exactly why he said that before I made any big decisions with my money...

Speaking of big money decisions, you may want to pay attention to this next guy.

BYRON KING

You already know Byron, for sure. He’s the Editor of Agora Financial’s Outstanding Investments -- the Hulbert’s #1 rated investment newsletter 10 years running.

He’s also a Harvard graduate, a practicing attorney, a geologist, and a former Navy fighter pilot. So I’d say he probably warrants your attention.

In his presentation, entitled Re-mining the Wealth of Nations’ Past: Discovering Assets Hidden by History, Byron walks us through several major future sources of valuable commodities...

That have already been discovered -- yet have in some way or another been lost in the shuffle of history.

“The world’s been picked over for literally thousands of years,” Byron explains. “There are ore deposits, there are mines in this world that go back to before the days of the Roman Empire, over 2,000 years ago...”

And as hard as it is to believe in this, some of these past deposits are still incredible stores of resources -- and ultimately, wealth. Among these:

• A mammoth gold mine that’s been sealed up for more than seven decades in the war-torn Serbia/Yugoslavia region -- opened back up by one small mining company just two years ago...

• “Secret Laboratory #10,” a Cold War-era Russian nuclear facility that another pioneering company is about to turn into a top processor of Rare Earth elements collected from the site of a 1000-year-old gold mine in Kurdistan...

• The U.S. National Potash Reserve, a WW1-era fertilizer production facility that was lost to the red tape of history -- until one ambitious miner recently secured the rights to restart the facility’s potash production in response to global demand for fertilizer...

• The lost gold mine of Limpopo, South Africa, an early 20th century mine that was dwarfed out of production by larger regional mining interests in the 1940s, and fell off the radar entirely in the latter Apartheid era. But now, one company’s trying to bring the resource back on line...

These are just a few of the more interesting ones -- Byron’s presentation contains several more...

But more importantly, each of these “lost” resources is now being serviced by small, independent companies that are hungry for growth, success, and wealth.

In other words: Entrepreneurs.

It would be irresponsible of me to name these small firms in such a wide-reaching forum as this one (it might artificially affect their price) -- but you can get ALL the details on these from Byron himself, in your CD or MP3 Symposium recordings... 

They’re available below for as little as $99, for a short time only.

These plays are what you’ve been waiting for -- where the rubber hits the road...

And to keep that engine rolling along, let me introduce you to the man that oil guru Byron claims has “found more oil than anyone else on Earth.”

He’s the irrepressible...

DR. MARCIO MELLO

A geologist with expertise in petroleum exploration, systems, and geochemistry, the legendary Marcio Mello discovered the largest oil find on Earth in the last 40 years...

A 24-year veteran of Brazilian oil major Petrobras, Mello broke out on his own in 2004 to found the Southern Hemisphere’s leading “G&G” (geological and geophysical), environmental services, and petro-laboratory company.

Among other zones, Mello’s company is focusing on one of the world’s mammoth hidden oil resources, a field of as much as 70 billion barrels off the Namibia coast in southern Africa.

In his Symposium presentation, the energetic (almost manic) Mello explains how he found the oil -- by extrapolating its location based on plate tectonic movements projected back over 250 million years...

To when all the land on Earth was all clumped together in one big mass, called “Pangaea” by scientists.

Using detailed maps, Mello explained to Symposium attendees -- in his thick, one-of-a-kind Brazilian accent -- how the continent of South America separated from Africa and began to drift apart...

He then showed us that by plotting this continental drift, he could approximately predict where oil fields might be off Africa’s south-western coast, based on the known locations of similar large oil fields off South America’s eastern coast.

As it turns out, he was right.

Today, his firm is developing both South American and African oil fields...

And has already jumped over 6,775% in value, and looks poised to go miles higher.

Marcio gives you all the details in his presentation -- and also explains to you why the Deepwater Horizon spill was a good thing -- as part of your CD/MP3 recordings of this year’s AF Fight or Flight Symposium.

But before I once again give you the details on how to get that, I want to briefly revisit one of yesterday’s speakers with you. Believe me, I’ve got a good reason for doing it. It’s worth your while to stay with me for another minute here...

PATRICK COX

In yesterday’s dispatch, you read about Patrick’s incredible presentation -- in which he alluded to having knowledge of cures (or vastly improved treatments) for certain common diseases...

Well, I’d be remiss if I didn’t share with you the highlights of Cox’s afternoon workshop today. Get ready.

As it turns out, he was understating things a bit on kick-off day. In his seminar today, he reveals no less than EIGHT specific companies that he’s convinced are poised to all but eradicate:

• Joint and tissue inflammation
• Obesity
• Alzheimer’s
• Liver and other cancers
• Practically ALL human viruses, including flu, herpes, and more.

As he said yesterday, he doesn’t expect you to believe him about all this -- but he does ask that you simply look at the evidence and make an informed decision...

According to Patrick, these firms are among the handful that are on the cutting edge of genetic and molecular medicine.

More importantly, he thinks every one of them has the potential to become mammoth global super-players in healing and life extension.

If even ONE of them achieves this, it would mean incredible, almost unbelievable wealth for those who got in early -- like now.

There’s one thing you should know, though: Since they were revealed in an afternoon “breakout” session instead of in Cox’s main seminar, the names and details of these firms are NOT showcased on the audio recordings of this event...

However, they are included in a special “companion volume” to those recordings -- along with ALL the breakout session recommendations of our 2011 Agora Financial Investment Symposium speakers.

Once more, here’s how to get those right now...

Long Days -- But Lucrative, Too

As usual, I’m right up against deadline here -- 11:56 PM. Long days for me, these are. But I’ve got time to recap the deal for you. Here it is:

Just $99 gets you the digital, downloadable MP3 files of the 2011 Symposium recordings -- while $149 gets you the boxed-set of them on CD.

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Again, whichever option you choose, you’ll also get the special Breakout Session Report -- which includes ALL the picks highlighted by our Symposium speakers in their afternoon seminars.

This report alone -- with all the names, tickers, and details on these cutting-edge picks -- would be worth many times more than you’ll pay for whichever recording package you select.

It’s up to you, but if it were me...

I’d move fast to get hold of this information NOW, before prices on some of these small picks start running up on the buzz from this event.

Oops, out of time. Over by 11 minutes, in fact.

Until tomorrow,

Jim Amrhein
Roving Reporter

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