The Only Way to Protect Yourself From the Fed’s Money Crimes

Up… up… up…

Dow 100,000… here we come.

The Nasdaq and all of its techie components continue to smash records. Amazon (AMZN), Tesla (TSLA) and Facebook (FB) continue their magic trick of turning free money into cold hard cash.

Elon Musk is now the fifth-richest person on the planet, and Jeff Bezos made $13 billion on Monday alone.

Meanwhile… Congress is up against the wall to print more money and mail it to everyday Americans.

With just days to save the nation from eating itself, all eyes are on Washington.

How much money will it print this time?

Another trillion? Maybe three?

Will your neighbor get $600 each week for not taking a job? Or has the price of votes fallen so much over the last few months that it doesn’t matter anymore?

The countdown is on…

The stock market certainly expects good news.
[mw-adbox]

Free Money in Europe

While we wait for Washington to make up its mind, those oh-so-efficient states in Europe have come to a decision of their own.

After five days of backroom dealing, the puppeteers controlling the EU’s multiheaded dragon are patting themselves on their backs. They just dished out $858 billion of somebody else’s money… and they’re proud of it.

“The European Union has never before decided to invest so ambitiously in the future,” said Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès.

Ha… as if this has anything to do with the future.

What a mess.

Calling this an investment is like buying a fire truck while the fire station is ablaze… and calling it a win for public safety.

The EU has paid only the deductible on their insurance. The big bill is yet to come.

But, hey, at least stocks are soaring.

We sure hope you’re buying.

It’s the only way not to get swallowed by this monster.

How Will It End?

That’s the idea that has us sticking our hand in the mailbag to see what your fellow readers are pondering this morning.

Do they believe us that now is the time to buy, or will they sit on the sidewalk again as the bulls stampede past?

Here we go…

In your article you mention it won’t end well. What’s your assessment of a possible scenario? – Reader J.R.

This is the most powerful economic question of our time. The meltdown is obvious. No country has ever committed so many economic crimes and walked free.

The jury is impartial. It will demand its $26 trillion back. (Or is it $27 trillion by now?)

But when?

Ahh… the hands of justice are slow and old.

The fingers of the card sharks behind these games, though, are fast and shifty. They can stick an ace here and a face card there with no one seeming to notice or care.

But then, with just one slip… BANG. A shot rings out from below the table.

The cheater rolls off his chair onto a pile of gutshot bodies, and a new player nervously sits down to a fresh deck of cards.

History Tells All

Washington and its brethren will pump and pump and pump. As long as everybody has an ace or two up their sleeve, nobody will get shot.

But eventually somebody will get all the chips. He won’t need to cheat anymore. And he’ll no longer tolerate the cheaters at his table.

America still has all her chips. That’s what’s keeping this mess together and has our stock market zooming.

But the deck will turn someday.

Will it be Canada with all the chips? Not likely.

How about Brazil? No.

Australia? Hardly.

Ghana? Doubtful.

Belgium? Been there.

You know the answer. China is No. 2… and it’s eager to be No. 1.

It’ll come, and it’ll be messy. But not this year… or next year. Maybe not until 2050.

The currency will shake. The government will roar. And our little empire will join the bodies on the floor.

If life has taught us anything, it’s that all things must come to an end.

So we might as well enjoy the days we have.

Dow 100K… here we come.

More from the mailbag tomorrow…

For now, let’s hear it. What’s your guess for how this mess will end? Drop us a line at [email protected].

Editor’s Note: Andy’s been telling readers for weeks that you can’t sit on the sidelines. That’s why he just released his latest research on a $7 stock that’s a perfect buy right now. It’s so cheap that anyone can get in… so what are you waiting for? Get all the details here.

The post The Only Way to Protect Yourself From the Fed’s Money Crimes appeared first on Investment U.

Founded in 1999, the goal of Investment U is to give you impartial, no-nonsense investment advice and investment research on how to build long-lasting wealth.