Alan’s Money Blog

There are lots of “newbies” on the financial affiliate marketing
scene. They look good on the surface, talk a good game, but the
reality is that many of them are just testing out stuff they
learned at a weekend marketing seminar.

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* These guys have been marketing online since 2001.

* They were among the very first to implement big ticket product
launches in the forex and stock niches, cranking in around $20M
in launches in just a few years.

* They shelled out over $2M in affiliate commissions in just
2009 alone.

* Their in-house trading “guru” has been trading the markets
since 1974.

* Their in-house marketing geek & company co-founder has been
recognized by top internet marketers such as Jeff Walker,
Stephen Pierce, Yanik Silver and others as a product launch
expert.

* They’re constantly spending big bucks ($1M+ so far) on paid
media testing out promos with “cold traffic” to make sure what
you get WORKS and CONVERTS.

* They have a REAL OFFICE with real employees.

* They have a dedicated affiliate manager to make sure YOU get
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* …and maybe best of all, they have a HUGE new product launch
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But there IS a catch.

* This is a CLOSED affiliate program and you need to apply.

However, since I am inviting you, there’s a very good chance
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Go here and get in on the action:

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To your success,
Alan

p.s. It’s not every day that you’ll find a “top gun” affiliate
program like this one, so make sure you explore this while this
invite is still valid:

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(the way the professionals trade)…

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Best of luck!

Alan

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The Economic Crisis No One Saw Coming: A Convenient Untruth

August 9, 2010

By Elliott Wave International

The single most convenient untruth about the 2008 (and counting)
financial crisis is that it was unforeseen. For two years policymakers
have insisted “There was no way to know ahead of time” that
the liquidity boom would come to a screeching halt. Back in November
2008, in fact, the usually tight-lipped Queen of England herself
publicly described the turmoil of international markets as “awful” and
openly asked a panel of experts from the London School of Economics “Why
did nobody notice?“

Her Majesty is right: Most financial authorities did
NOT notice the crisis before it was too late. Comedy Central’s “The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart” of all places provided the
most poignant evidence: A March 2009 video montage
shows executives and economists from the world’s leading financial
firms repeatedly forecasting continued upside strength in stocks,
plus renewed bull market growth in financials — right as debt
markets came unhinged and the US stock market headed into a 50%-plus
selloff.

Dubbed the “8-Minute Rap” (after the “18-Minute
Gap” of Nixon’s Watergate tapes), the Daily Show video feature
sent an equally powerful message, as the clip
below makes plain.

Yet even as the mainstream authorities failed to detect the
economic earthquake moving below their own feet, somebody did “notice” well
in advance. That person was EWI’s president Bob Prechter.

The clip below is from a 2007 Bloomberg interview.
Clear as PLAY, the foreseeable nature of the crisis emerges from
Bob’s October 19, 2007 interview.

As the historic trend change began to unfold, Bob issued this
timely insight:

“We’ve seen the first crack in the credit structure
with a huge drop in commercial paper… These are the harbingers
of a change toward the downside for the stock market, commodities
including oil, and the debt market itself.”

Don’t believe the convenient untruths. Get objective market
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There is still time to prepare if deflation is indeed in our future.

By Elliott Wave International

“Fed’s Bullard Raises Specter of Japanese-Style Deflation,” read a July 29 Washington Post headline.

When the St. Louis Fed Chief speaks, people listen. Now that deflation — something that EWI’s president Robert Prechter has been warning about for several years — is making mainstream news headlines, is it too late to prepare?

It’s not too late.

There are still steps you can take if deflation is indeed in our future. The first step is to understand what it is. So we’ve put together a special, free, 60-page Club EWI resource, “The Guide to Understanding Deflation: Robert Prechter’s most important warnings about deflation.” Enjoy this quick excerpt. (For details on how to read this important report free, look below.)

When Does Deflation Occur?
By Robert Prechter

To understand inflation and deflation, we have to understand the terms money and credit.

Money is a socially accepted medium of exchange, value storage and final payment; credit may be summarized as a right to access money. In today’s economy, most credit is lent, so people often use the terms “credit” and “debt” interchangeably, as money lent by one entity is simultaneously money borrowed by another.

Deflation requires a precondition: a major societal buildup in the extension of credit (and its flip side, the assumption of debt). Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek warned of the consequences of credit expansion, as have a handful of other economists, who today are mostly ignored. Bank credit and Elliott wave expert Hamilton Bolton, in a 1957 letter, summarized his observations this way:

In reading a history of major depressions in the U.S. from 1830 on, I was impressed with the following:
(a) All were set off by a deflation of excess credit. This was the one factor in common.
(b) Sometimes the excess-of-credit situation seemed to last years before the bubble broke.
(c) Some outside event, such as a major failure, brought the thing to a head, but the signs were visible many months, and in some cases years, in advance.
(d) None was ever quite like the last, so that the public was always fooled thereby.
(e) Some panics occurred under great government surpluses of revenue (1837, for instance) and some under great government deficits.

Near the end of a major expansion, few creditors expect default, which is why they lend freely to weak borrowers. Few borrowers expect their fortunes to change, which is why they borrow freely. The psychological aspect of deflation and depression cannot be overstated. …

It has been months now since the new healthcare reform bill was passed into law.  As is so typical, this massive piece of legislation was passed with a sense of urgency so acute that leadership declared America could not afford to wait until legislators, their staff and the general public had time to thoroughly read the bill.

The truth comes out eventually, however.  Much like the recently discovered exemption from Freedom of Information Act requirements for the SEC that was slipped into the equally massive and “urgent” financial reform bill, we are finally seeing what other insidiousness has been hiding in the fine print of the healthcare reform bill.  It seems that all provisions in this poorly written and poorly conceived monstrosity need to be repealed as soon as possible.

One such disaster-waiting-to-happen is one of the revenue generating provisions used to claim that the healthcare reform bill was “paid for”.  $17 billion in additional tax revenues is supposed to come from an onerous new IRS reporting requirement that any taxpayer with business income who spends over $600 in one year with one business will have to report those expenditures to the IRS.  Mind you, this is a cumulative total of $600 in transactions in one year.  This will involve so much extra accounting and paperwork that the IRS claims it will be unable to deal with it effectively, and even the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (to whom it should be a boon) has come out against it!  Apparently they realize they will actually lose customers, especially small businesses, to bankruptcy because of this!

Gold dealers are especially alarmed by this provision, as most of their transactions easily top $600.  This represents a significant outlay of time and paperwork and no additional revenue for businesses with which to hire people.  Not to mention this makes every business a de facto IRS agent, as if they didn’t have enough to worry about already!

Of course, there is a tremendous outcry against this.  Several other legislators also see how unreasonable this is and are trying to repeal it.  However, this would simply mean that $17 billion in healthcare funding will have to come from somewhere else, and there are no good options.  Taxes from some other equally bad collection scheme?  Borrowing and more debt?  Creating more money from thin air and adding to inflationary pressures?

The best answer, of course, would be to repeal the entire health care law, along with all other unconstitutional spending.  But Congress is more likely to continue the shell game to cover the fact that we are broke and can afford none of this.

This whole idea of “paying for” new programs is a political euphemism that suggests that raising taxes is just as good as cutting spending since neither one increases the national debt.  Raising taxes and overwhelming small businesses with paperwork and regulations still increases governmental burden on our fragile economy.  But this is our government’s idea of “fiscal restraint” in action.  Washington needs to stop creating new programs and spending so much money.  That would be true fiscal restraint.

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Cheers,

Alan