great experts on staff, and a great deal of cash... but an artificially low stock price. One that's destined to boom over the coming 12 to 24 months.

Companies like the C$5 per share outfit that Doug has found in the famous gold district of Venezuela. They have mining rights to over 2,000,000 acres of property that contains a 10-million-ounce gold deposit worth more than C$500 million. Add to this the C$30 million in capital they have sitting in the bank. This puts the total real value of the company at at least C$530 million. Yet the total value of all their outstanding shares (33.5 million shares at C$5 a piece) is just C$167.5 million - which means every share of this very promising company is selling right now for almost 70% less than it's really worth.

If it's anything like we've seen in the past - even when opportunities weren't as ripe as they are right now - the potential is enormous.

How enormous? Consider during 1995-96 - some U.S. stock investors were content with 20% annual gains. Okay, not bad. But investors in carefully chosen mining and exploration stocks reaped returns of 100%, 200%, 300%... and, as unbelievable as it sounds, some even walked away with 10,000% - in less than two years! (See Fool's Gold on page 6).

As you'll see, the next few years ahead offer even more opportunity...

 

Secrets of the Gold Rush #2
Who Really Won The Cold War?

Seven years after the Cold War ended, who's really doing better?

When you look around the world today and see which nations are most improved, the net winners of the nineties are clearly in Asia and the Third World. While the fat and happy Western world continues to flirt with socialism, the rest of the earth is fed up. They're moving - fast - to capitalism.

The trend is snowballing in China, Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia ... in Indonesia and the Philippines ... in Europe's former Eastern Bloc ... in Argentina and Chile ... even in parts of Africa ... people are increasingly freer to make their own economic decisions.

Until very recently, these Third World countries weren't pretty places to contemplate. Let's be brutally honest - they were basket cases. Things couldn't get any worse.

But that's just the point. Things couldn't get worse and now they're getting better. These countries have been through the wringer. Now they're lean and hungry. Their people have a genuine stake. They're working smarter. Working harder.

Guess what? They're getting wealthier. And they account for 80% of the world's population.

Granted, it may not seem like "wealth" when a worker who once made $50 a month now makes $100. But that's a doubling of income on a per capita basis. And these increases are multiplied over billions of "capitas."

Suddenly, 80% of the world's population has dramatically more disposable income. Asia and the rest of the Third World are exploding at astonishing rates of economic growth.

What happens then? I've seen it myself many times in my own travels. Maybe you have too. You go to Indonesia, for example. On the equator. You go into a village of perhaps a thousand dwellings.

What happens when the first person in that village gets a refrigerator? Trust me, it's miserably hot down there. No matter the cost, everyone's got to have it. Bang! A thousand refrigerators, please. And that's just one item. One village. One country.

Increasingly, consumers all over the Third World now have the ability to afford these things. Billions of them. Having babies all the time.

It follows that billions of dollars will be changing hands very soon. There will it go... and how can you share in this windfall?

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