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The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy… and Get On With Your Life.

The Gone Fishin’ Portfolio isn’t just another investment book.. It gives you a complete investment strategy from perhaps the leading investment maverick of his generation. Alexander Green was a top investment mind at the world’s #1 investment bank. He is a regular guest on nationally televised investing programs, such as The Factor… He was a consultant and writer for Wall Street Week, and is regularly quoted in leading financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal. He now serves as the Chairman of Investment U and the Investment Director for The Oxford Club, the largest private investing research club in America. Bottom line: He’s helped his readers and clients make millions over the years - and his advice is in high demand (and very expensive). But now you can get his best investment idea in one clear, concise book… for less than you’d pay for a pair of new sneakers.


IU Recommended Reading

China Bans USA from the “World’s Greatest Agriculture Play”

Fast-Track Investor’s Guide

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Our experts just uncovered the one secret “loophole” that could hand you 1,166% gains… China has 20% of the global population but only 7% of the world’s farmable land. That means there’s not enough farmland to feed 845 million Chinese people!The government has plans to more than quadruple its spending on agriculture technology by 2010. The money is heading straight toward a handful of companies that are developing “next generation” seeds that will dramatically increase grain yield.Our researchers just uncovered a “loophole” in China’s new law. It will allow U.S. investors to sidestep the ban, safely and legally, for potentially enormous gains.That’s why we’ve included this opportunity in our brand new report Profit from the World’s Dawning Agriboom. All together, our analysts narrowed it down to five top plays on the biggest moneymaking trend in the world today. Click below for more details…
 
 

 


5 “Income Exploders” to Pummel the S&P 500 by 383%… 452%… even 609% in the next 6 months Investment U’s top researchers are about to unveil their most important secret of the year.It’s a newly emerging market opportunity with extraordinary moneymaking potential. Experts call these “Income Exploders” because they are the safest and most profitable, income investments available today… designed to protect you from anything the market throws at us.In total, we’ve identified five opportunities that are fully detailed in a brand-new report called 5 “Super-Income” Opportunities Set to Surge. In it you’ll discover how you can use these investments to smash the S&P 500 by 383%… 452%… even 609% starting now.And we’d like to send you a FREE copy. Please see click details on how to claim yours today..


Surviving the Audit Process

Trusts and Gifts

If You Make Over $100,000 a Year, Uncle Sam Wants You… To Personally Bail Out America When He Sends the IRS to Collect, Here’s How You Can Legally Tell Him, “Go Pound Sand.” With its new $500 million mandate to step up “enforcement” efforts - the IRS is set to shake down approximately 1 out of every 20 taxpayers who make $100,000 or more a year. And based on the IRS’ own past collection data, these face-to-face audits could result in a high-net-worth citizen depositing an extra $27,000 directly into the U.S. Treasury.Fortunately you have access to perhaps the most powerful wealth defense resource ever created in the battle against the IRS. It’s called An Insider’s Guide to Surviving the Audit Process. For a fraction of what you’d pay your attorney to deal with an audit, An Insider’s Guide will show you how to… Use 9 Often Over-Looked Strategies to dramatically reduce the chances of being audited or paying audit taxes ID 5 “Red Flags” the IRS looks for on Schedule C returns - and avoid them Master 3 Techniques to turn the tables during an IRS audit.

In this report, you will learn all about trusts - what they are, how to create one, and how they work. And you will learn how trusts are among the most valuable assets you can have to protect your wealth - for yourself and your family. When you’ve spent a lifetime creating and building your wealth, the very last thing that you want is for your legacy to wind up ravaged by estate taxes or a fight in probate.We will show you how you may create a trust to conduct a business, hold title to and invest in real estate, pay medical, educational expenses and much more. All the information has been carefully prepared by experts - tax, legal, financial and asset protection professionals with impeccable credentials. These world-class specialists can help you bring fruition to your wealth and asset protection plans. We urge you to secure a better future for your family today.


Secrets of the Masters

The Ultimate Options Primer

This book will provide you with 31 wealth-building strategies from the world’s most successful investors… Bill Gross, Jim Rogers and Richard Russell just to name a few. Others you may not recognize - people like David Ryan and Ned Davies.What these great investing minds have in common is that their insights, techniques, and strategies can help you increase your wealth many times over.

Most investors shy away from options, confused by the terminology, unsure of the risks, or skeptical of the profit potential.But ignoring them could be a huge mistake. That’s why we developed The Ultimate Options Primer - it explains the ins and outs of the options world in a practical, easily understood form.And once you understand the essential strategies needed to put options investing to work, you can truly start to maximize your gains.


Guide to navigating Wall Street

Like-Kind Exchanges…

Investing 1,2,3 - Become an expert by mastering the basics and beyond. The investment world is one that thrives on insider terms and talk. Covered calls,derivatives, trailing stops, selling short, closed funds, P/E ratios, basis points and LEAPS are just some of the terms bandied about. You’re not alone if you’d like to learn more about basic investment styles and strategies.To help all members become masters of Wall Street (and not the other way around!) the Club’s Research Team has just updated The Oxford Club Guide to Navigating Wall Street. This comprehensive guide will take you from making basic trades to using complex and advanced services.

In this proprietary report, Oxford Club Corporate Attorney Matt Turner explains how easily you can pocket an additional 15% or more when selling real estate.Specifically, he provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step instructions on how to sidestep paying capital gains taxes - legally - by using 1031 like-kind exchanges. By doing so, you take the 15% previously earmarked for Uncle Sam, and put it to work for you.


 

 

 

 

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Affiliate Recomendations

Changing the Channel:
12 Easy Ways to Make
Millions for Your Business

Michael Masterson & MaryEllen Tribby

Given the multitude of avenues that a business owner or marketer can use to access today’s customers, the days when one could rely on a single channel to bring in great results and big profits are gone. Today’s most successful campaigns take advantage of multi-channel marketing by offering customers multiple ways to buy. In Changing the Channel, authors Michael Masterson and MaryEllen Tribby provide readers with a detailed overview of multi-channel marketing and explain its benefits, pitfalls, and great potential for profits. They also offer advice on how readers can launch their own campaigns and make the best use of the results that each channel brings in.

I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation.
Under Stress. In Debt.

Addison Wiggin & Kate Incontrera

The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the mess-but who’s paying attention?

To answer that question, the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A. talks with some of the most revered voices in the nation, including Warren Buffett; former Treasury Secretaries Paul O’Neill and Robert Rubin; Pete Peterson, CEO of The Blackstone Group; Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas); and bestselling Empire of Debt author Bill Bonner.

Armed with these interviews, historical references, and damning statistics, the book takes a lively and entertaining romp through the four deficits the nation faces: the budget deficit, the personal savings deficit, the trade deficit-and what former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, who resigned abruptly in 2008 over Congress’s lack of action, calls the “leadership deficit” in Washington.


The Demise of the Dollar…
And Why It’s Even Better
For Your Investments

Addison Wiggin

As the dollar continues to weaken throughout the world, it has become clear that the impact is going to be significant as well as far reaching. This book explores the number of reasons for the dollar’s current state, including the prior structural flaws of the dollar, the growing trade deficit, the Euro and other international factors. It also discusses the results of the dollar’s fall and how it will impact economies worldwide. Continuing where The Demise of the Dollar left off, it explores the dollar’s increasingly sharp decline over the past few years and provides readers with updated suggestions for protecting their portfolios.

Invest Like a Dealmaker:
Secrets from a Former
Banking Insider

Christopher Mayer

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Invest Like a Dealmaker outlines an approach to investing that is far removed from what most investors have been conditioned to believe, but which has produced consistent profits for its practitioners decade after decade. While the concepts covered are not well known by the average investor, they are well appreciated by Wall Street insiders and dealmakers-particularly those who think about stocks as whole companies, as things with real assets, and cash flows that exist in the real world.


Ready, Fire, Aim:
Zero to $100 Million
in No Time Flat

Michael Masterson

If you had the opportunity to work where, when, and with whom you wanted-all while getting paid very well-would you take it? Self-made multimillionaire and bestselling author Michael Masterson did, and with Ready, Fire, Aim he’ll show you how to do the same.

Whether you’re thinking about starting a new business or growing an existing one, Ready, Fire, Aim has what you need to succeed in your entrepreneurial endeavors. In it, Masterson shares the knowledge he has gained from creating and expanding numerous businesses and outlines a focused strategy for guiding a small business through the four stages of entrepreneurial growth. Along the way, Masterson teaches you the different skills needed in order to excel in this dynamic environment.

Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets:
Surviving the Public Spectacle
in Finance and Politics

Bill Bonner & Lila Rajiva

In Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets, Bonner and Rajiva use literary economics to offer broader insights into mass behavior and its devastating effects on society. Why is it, they ask, that perfectly sane and responsible individuals can get together, and by some bizarre alchemy turn into an irrational mob?

In attempting an answer, the authors weave a light-hearted journey through history, politics and finance to show groupthink at work in an improbable array of instances, from medieval crusades to the architectural follies of hedge-fund managers and ultimately to the desk of the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.

 


Gold: The Once
and Future Money

Nathan Lewis

For most of the last three millennia, the world’s commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. In Gold, Nathan Lewis makes a forceful, well-documented case for a worldwide return to the gold standard.

A Maniac Commodity Trader’s
Guide to Making a Fortune:
A Not-So-Crazy Roadmap to Riches

Kevin Kerr

In A Maniac Commodity Trader’s Guide to Making a Fortune, Kerr dispels the common myths and misconceptions about these markets, offering an insider’s view of what he calls “the last bastion of pure capitalism on Earth.” Whether you’re a novice or an experienced trader, Kerr’s down-to-earth, clear-cut guidance will make you more savvy, more confident, and more able to jump right in and grab those profit opportunities that are waiting for you.


Get Rich with Options:
Four Winning Strategies
Straight from the Exchange Floor

Lee Lowell

After numerous years as a market maker in the trenches of the New York Mercantile Exchange, few analysts know how to make money trading options like author Lee Lowell. In this first of its kind book, Lowell shows readers in great detail exactly what works and what doesn’t. He quickly covers the basics-how options are priced, strike price selection, the use of Delta, using volatility to one’s advantage-before moving on to the option trading strategies that have helped him profit in this arena time and again.

Seven Years to Seven Figures:
The Fast-Track Plan to
Becoming a Millionaire

Michael Masterson

Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Seven Years to Seven Figures reveals how you can increase your income, get the highest possible return on your investments, and save for the future in order to reach seven figures within seven years.

Self-made millionaire Michael Masterson draws upon his own experiences, as well as those he has mentored who have built a seven-figure net worth in seven years or less, to offer you a complete program for reaching your wealth-building goals.


Automatic Wealth for Grads…
And Anyone Else Just Starting Out

Michael Masterson

Organized around proven wealth-creating principles, Automatic Wealth for Grads shows graduates how to increase their income and continue to save for the future; how to go about making the right career choices; how to gain equity in a business that will provide an income stream for the future; how to buy real estate; and how to invest the rest of their money. Filled with in-depth insight and practical advice, this helpful guide offers a three- to 15-year plan to reach millionaire status - that can easily be followed by any motivated individual.

Power and Persuasion:
How To Command Success in
Business and Your Personal Life

Michael Masterson

It takes a rare combination of openness and resolution, toughness and compassion, cooperation and competition to become successful in life. In Power and Persuasion, Michael Masterson challenges many of today’s popular notions about success and shows you how to master the two universal rules of power and success - the keys to unlocking massive personal and professional power.


J. Christoph Amberger’s
Hot Trading Secrets: How to
Get In and Out of the Market
with Huge Gains In Any Climate

J. Christoph Amberger

Trading, as opposed to investing, is all about technical analysis. Its premise lies not in the fundamental values of a company, but in understanding how and why the market itself reacts, as well as how traders get a jump on which way the market is going to move. In Hot Trading Secrets, Amberger reveals his revolutionary theory for how to get in and out of the market, in any climate, with profits in tow.

Empire of Debt:
The Rise of An Epic Financial Crisis

Bill Bonner & Addison Wiggin

Empire of Debt: The Rise Of An Epic Financial Crisis has quickly become “the most feared book in Washington” by confronting critical concerns about the United States’ position as the world’s leading economy and its greatest military might. Authors Bonner and Wiggin also expose the 10 Deadly Deceptions that have been (mis)guiding the most recent U.S. political and economic decisions.


The Bull Hunter:
Tracking Today’s
Hottest Investments

Dan Denning

Dan Denning reveals the seemingly obvious reality of global investing, that somewhere on earth, a bull market in a little-publicized region is providing savvy investors with double- and triple-digit returns. Dan and his group of global experts identify full-fledged and emerging bull markets, and more importantly, reveal the most promising investment opportunities therein.

Automatic Wealth:
The Six Steps to
Financial Independence

Michael Masterson

Self-made millionaire Michael Masterson draws upon his own experience and that of experts in the fields of direct marketing, investing, and real estate to offer you a complete program that will develop your wealth-building skills and help you achieve financial independence.


 

Financial Reckoning Day:
Surviving the Soft Depression
of the 21st Century

Bill Bonner & Addison Wiggin

According to maverick investment writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin, the country’s current economic picture mirrors that of Japan’s decade-old “soft depression”-caused by an aging population and a structural reaction to its record-breaking financial boom. As the U.S. downturn drags on, investors want to know what’s behind it all, what’s in store, and what they can do to safeguard their investments.

 

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Trade With Passion and Purpose Freakonomics The Four Pillars of Investing Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Trade With Passion and
Purpose: Spiritual,
Psychological and
Philosophical Keys to
Becoming a Top Trader

Mark Whistler

Freakonomics:
A Rogue Economist
Explores the Hidden Side
of Everything
Steven D. Levitt &
Stephen J. Dubner

 

The Four Pillars of
Investing: Lessons for
Building a Winning
Portfolio

William Bernstein

 

Secrets of the Millionaire
Mind: Mastering the Inner
Game of Wealth
T. Harv Eker

 


Stock Market Wizards Good to Great The Intelligent Asset Allocator No B.S. Time Management

Stock Market Wizards:
Interviews with
America’s Top
Stock Traders
Jack D. Schwager

Good to Great:
Why Some Companies
Make the Leap… and
Others Don’t

Jim Collins

The Intelligent Asset
Allocator: How to Build
Your Portfolio to Maximize
Returns and Minimize Risk

William Bernstein

No B.S. Time Management
for Entrepreneurs
Dan Kennedy

 


How to Make Money in Stocks

The Language of Empire

Security Analysis

The Intelligent Asset Allocator

How To Make Money
In Stocks: A Winning
System in Good Times
or Bad
William J. O’Neil

The Language of Empire:
Abu Ghraib and the
American Media

Lila Rajiva

Security Analysis:
The Classic 1951 Edition
Benjamin Graham &
David L. Dodd

 

The New Market
Wizards: Conversations
with America’s Top Traders

Jack D. Schwager


Building Wealth One House at a Time What Works on Wall Street It's Earnings That Count Smartest Guys in the Room

Building Wealth
One House at a Time:
Making it Big on
Little Deals

John W. Schaub

What Works on
Wall Street:
A Guide to the Best-
Performing Investment
Strategies of All Time

James P. O’Shaughnessy

It’s Earnings
That Count:
Finding Stocks with
Earnings Power for
Long-Term Profits

Hewitt Heiserman

The Smartest Guys
in the Room:
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Bethany McLean &
Peter Elkind


Chasing Daylight Trend Following Colossus Four Biggest Mistakes

Chasing Daylight Eugene O’Kelly

Trend Following:
How Great Traders Make
Millions in Up or
Down Markets
Michael W. Covel

Colossus: The Rise
and Fall of the
American Empire

Niall Ferguson

The Four Biggest Mistakes
in Option Trading

Jay Kaeppel


Free to Choose Capitalism & Freedom The Road to Serfdom The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Free to Choose
Milton & Rose D. Friedman

Capitalism and
Freedom

Milton & Rose D. Friedman

The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich A. Hayek

Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man

John Perkins.


Options Made Easy Blink The World is Flat The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Options Made Easy:
Your Guide to
Profitable Trading

Guy Cohen

 

Blink: The Power
of Thinking without
Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

 

Disney War
James B. Stewart

 

Execution:
The Discipline of Getting
Things Done

Larry Bossidy &
Ram Charan


When Genius Failed Rich Dad, Poor Dad Liar's Poker The Intelligent Asset Allocator

When Genius Failed:
The Rise and Fall of
Long-Term Capital
Management

Roger Lowenstein

Rich Dad, Poor Dad:
What the Rich Teach
Their Kids about Money –
That the Poor and
Middle Class Do Not!

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Liar’s Poker:
Rising through the
Wreckage on Wall Street

Michael Lewis

The Intelligent
Investor: Revised Edition

Benjamin Graham &
Jason Zweig

 


Option Pricing A Random Walk Down Wall Street Who Moved My Cheese? The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Option Pricing:
Black-Scholes
Made Easy

Jerry Marlow

A Random Walk
Down Wall Street:
Revised and Updated
Eighth Edition
Burton G. Malkiel

Who Moved
My Cheese?:
An Amazing Way to
Deal with Change
in Your Work
and in Your Life
Spencer Johnson

Execution:
The Discipline of Getting
Things Done

Larry Bossidy &
Ram Charan


The Wisdom of Crowds Devil Take the Hindmost Confessions of an Economic Hit Man The Intelligent Asset Allocator

The Wisdom of
Crowds: Why the Many
Are Smarter Than the
Few and How Collective
Wisdom Shapes Business,
Economies, Societies
and Nations

James Surowiecki

Devil Take the Hindmost:
A History of Financial
Speculation

Edward Chancellor

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne

Hot Commodities:
How Anyone Can Invest
Profitably in the
World’s Best Market

Jim Rogers


The Book of Investing Wisdom Methods of a Wall Street Master The Tipping Point The Intelligent Asset Allocator

The Book of Investing
Wisdom: Classic Writings
by Great Stock-Pickers and
Legends of Wall Street

Peter Krass (Editor)

Trader Vic: Methods of a
Wall Street Master

Victor Sperandeo

The Tipping Point:
How Little Things Can
Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell

The Four Biggest Mistakes
in Option Trading

Jay Kaeppel


Bull's Eye Investing How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short Loopholes of the Rich The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders
Curtis Faith

How to Make Money
Selling Stocks Short
William J. O’Neil

Loopholes of the Rich:
How the Rich Legally
Make More Money and
Pay Less Tax

Diane Kennedy.

The Compleated Autobiography by
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Skousen (Editor)


The Little Book that Beats the Market China, Inc. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator The Intelligent Asset Allocator

The Little Book
That Beats the Market

Joel Greenblatt

China, Inc.: How the Rise
of the Next Superpower
Challenges America
and the World
Ted C. Fishman

Reminiscences of a
Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

The World Is Flat
(Updated and Expanded):
A Brief History of the
Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman


How To Be Rich Economics in One Lesson Extraordinary Popular Delusions & Madness of Crowd The Intelligent Asset Allocator

How To Be Rich
J. Paul Getty

Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt

Extraordinary Popular
Delusions and the
Madness of Crowds

Charles MacKay

Bull’s Eye Investing:
Targeting Real Returns
in a Smoke and
Mirrors Market
John Mauldin


The Importance of Living How to Make Money in Coins Right Now The Automatic Millionaire The Intelligent Asset Allocator

The Importance
of Living

Lin Yutang

How to Make Money
in Coins Right Now
Scott A. Travers

The Automatic Millionaire:
A Powerful One-Step
Plan to Live and Finish Rich

David Bach

Action!: Nothing Happens
Until Something Moves

Robert Ringer


Disney War Market Wizards You Can Be a Stock Market Genius The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Fooled by Randomness:
The Hidden Role of
Chance in Life and
in the Markets

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Jim Cramer’s Real Money:
Sane Investing in an
Insane World

James Cramer

The Millionaire Mind Thomas J. Stanley

Market Wizards:
Interviews with Top Traders

Jack D. Schwager


Investing in Real Estate Waiting for Your Cat to Bark? The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Investing in Real Estate,
5th Edition

Andrew McLean & Gary W. Eldred

Waiting for Your
Cat to Bark?:
Persuading Customers
When They Ignore Marketing
Bryan & Jeffrey Eisenberg

The 21 Irrefutable
Laws of Leadership
Workbook: Follow
Them and People
Will Follow You

John C. Maxwell

Action!: Nothing Happens
Until Something Moves

Robert Ringer


Fooled by Randomness Buy Low, Rent Smart, Sell High Eat the Rich The Intelligent Asset Allocator

Smart Women Finish
Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and
Funding Your Dreams

David Bach

Buy Low, Rent Smart,
Sell High: Real Estate
Investing for the Long Run

Scott Frank & Andy Heller

Eat the Rich:
A Treatise on Economics

P.J. O’Rourke

Vienna & Chicago,
Friends or Foes?: A Tale
of Two Schools of Free-
Market Economics

Mark Skousen


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