If you’ve been wondering how you can prepare for economic collapse, the time to act is now. If you don't understand how we can still be in a crisis when stock markets have risen around the world into the start of 2010, please read this article "Gold and Economic Freedom, Reinterpreted for the 21st Century." Since April, 2006, SmartKnowledgeU™ has provided our clients with simple yet powerful strategies create wealth during this monetary crisis, including the best ways to invest in and buy gold and the best ways to invest in and buy silver. But we provide much more guidance than just the best ways to buy gold and the best ways to buy silver. For four years, we’ve correctly predicted every step of this crisis as documented in our investment blog, our investment videos, and most importantly, our subscription information. Though all of our predictions, such as the stock market crash of 2008, were violently opposed by the mainstream media and by the investment pundits months before we made them, the important question to ask is this: Have we been right? At SmartKnowledgeU™, we haven't been fooled by deceit-ridden investment executives and politicians, and we aren't fooled today by their nonsense about economic recovery or about gold and silver bubbles.

This is why our corporate logo consists of a keyhole in the "all-seeing-eye" as it illustrates our strategy of carefully watching those key banking families that operate on Wall Street and in the City of London for clues to future market behavior. Today, when stock markets rise in the face of horrid economic fundamentals (in the form of bear market rallies), fundamental and technical analysis is inadequate when making critical decisions about your financial future. Knowledge that we offer, such as that contained inside our Wealth Secrets membership, will help ensure that you make the proper decisions for your financial future. Four years from today, young children will graduate to a far gloomier employment situation than even that which exists today. The decisions you make TODAY based upon whether you understand the fraud game or not, and not the decisions you make four years from now, will likely determine if you prosper or suffer for the entire next decade. Reality may not be as pleasant as rose-colored glasses, but reality is essential to not only survival but for prosperity during this crisis.

(*Please click the above image to view a larger version*.) Above, we illustrate the returns of our most popular offering, the Crisis Investment Opportunity investment newsletter. YTD 2009, in a tax-deferred account, our investment newsletter returned 63.32%, beating the S&P 500 by 39.87% over the same time period. This is not a one-off performance. In 2008, we beat the S&P 500 by 41.71% and in six-months in 2007, we beat the S&P 500 by almost 28% and returned THIRTY TIMES the yield of the Australian ASX 200. We have not had a single losing year since our launch, despite the huge uncertainty of these markets. How have we accomplished this feat? Our understanding the fraud game has enabled us to make extremely accurate forecasts about market direction for 3 years in a row. And we will help you accomplish the same. If an investor had followed the guidance of our CIO newsletter since our launch, a $250,000 portfolio would have grown to more than $520,600, as illustrated above. On the contrary, a $250,000 portfolio invested in the S&P 500 would have shrunk to $185,060, even given its strong performance in 2009. This means that our Crisis Investment Opportunities newsletter has outperformed the S&P 500 by $335,540 on an initial $250,000 investment as of the end of 2009! Today, our Managing Director, JS Kim, is sure that the WORST OF THIS CRISIS is not yet over despite political and banking leaders that tell you otherwise. While many of the most successful investment newsletter publishers focus only on US markets due to the profitability of targeting such markets, the fact is that the US market has been among the worst performing markets for the last decade. Instead we focus on markets not by region or country, but on markets that we believe will remain strongly profitable through this crisis. Consequently, our membership base reflects our focus on profitability. Today, we have members that span the entire globe including members from Sweden, Switzerland, England, the United States, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, China, Australia, and New Zealand.

Despite the fact that we've been right in predicting virtually every aspect of this crisis since 2006, skepticism in beliefs contrary to your own is healthy and natural. Optimism is a survival trait that encourages most people to block out the possibility of a bleak economic future. Though optimism is an admirable trait to possess, it should never blind you to the REALISM of a situation when your financial life is at stake. Please ask yourself if you can afford to ignore the most-likely probabilities we present for the start of the second phase of this global monetary and economic crisis in 2010 and 2011. If you are wrong, your future will be wiped out. If we are wrong, however, you still can benefit. What do we mean? Since 2006, we have built our investment strategies to significantly outperform all global developed markets WHETHER GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS CRASH OR EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT RALLIES. The enormous success of this strategy is illustrated above by our historical returns. Note that even though the media refers to us as "gloom and doomers" that we were not perpetually shorting markets in 2009. During this time, though the US markets rallied by 23.45%, our newsletter returned 63.32%! (Disclaimer: Past returns do not guarantee future results.)

On April 23, 2008, our Managing Director, JS Kim, wrote this amazingly prescient article: Will US Markets Crash Now or Later? Just 18 business days later, US markets started falling and didn't stop until they had shed more than 50% of their value. If you're skeptical of our claims, we urge you to read all of the comments below the above-referenced article. There you will discover an overwhelming number of retail investors that accused our Managing Director of having no understanding of how markets operate. These accusations were based on ignorance of the fact that all markets - currency, stock, and commodity - are rigged by the financial industry. Understanding this is the key to accurately predicting long-term trends. If you are not American and think that you will be okay, think again. The UK, Japan, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, or Italy may default on their debt before the United States. And if this happens, the Euro, Yen or British Pound will serve to protect your wealth no better than the US dollar when we enter Phase 2 of this crisis. For the past 3 years, JS Kim's financial insight has been so accurate that he has been quoted online by Reuters, the International Business Times, the New York Times, the UK Financial Times, and many other publications. In 2006, JS provided a report titled “the Best Investment for the Next Five Years,” to our Platinum Members. Since 2006, the specific investments JS discussed in this report have soared by more than 200%.

SmartKnowledgeU™'s Managing Director, JS Kim, an expert in gold and silver investing, began advocating the purchase of physical silver to clients when silver was trading barely higher than $9 an ounce, many years before most anyone considered buying silver. As this crisis deepens, he will continue to provide guidance on the best ways to create wealth, including guidance regarding the best ways and best times to invest in gold and silver (believe it or not, some means of investing in gold and silver promoted by investment advisers are actually terrible!) Today, given the stability in the price of gold, Westerners are finally beginning to pay attention to gold. However, frankly we still find most peoples' understanding of the best ways to invest in gold and silver appalling due to anti-gold propaganda and misinformation spread by Central Banks for over a century now. Of the public commentary we read about gold and silver, in our estimation, well over 90% of it is either flat-out wrong or highly flawed. Please beware of "advisers" that have hardly ever spoken of the merits of gold in the past, but are now trying to convince you to buy. Their guidance may come at a cheap price, but there is also a very high probability it will steer you down the wrong path into losses. At SmartKnowledgeU&trade, we provide hard-hitting, easy-to-understand knowledge unavailable from mainstream sources, explained in layman's language, that enables the common man and woman to truly understand this crisis. Furthermore,to ensure that our guidance remains unbiased, we remain fiercely independent and accept no monetary solicitations from the commercial investment industry.

For those interested in the possibility of truly legendary gains beyond the realm of what we offer through our Crisis Investment Opportunities newsletter, please consider our most elite membership, the Platinum Membership. If you've suffered at all during this crisis, it is NOT TOO LATE to reposition your assets properly to prosper during the coming second and most dangerous stage of this monetary crisis. It is a near certainty that future shocks to the economic system will catch the vast majority of all investors unprepared and we expect great shocks to hit the global economy at some point in 2010. At SmartKnowledgeU™, we consider it our job to position you well in advance of these shocks so that you may profit from them. For more detail about our investment philosophy and all of the wealth creation services we offer, kindly consult our detailed fact sheets below.

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