This Silent Threat May Destroy Your Retirement Dreams

Falling for financial doom and gloom?... Regretting my 1,000-plus TV appearances... This silent threat may destroy your retirement dreams... I can't wait to share my top 100X gain idea with you... Reserve your seat to my critical announcement...

The financial headlines today are horrible...

The Bank of England is warning that crypto could cause a 2008-level meltdown.

Apple (AAPL) cut iPhone 13 production by 10 million phones because it can't get semiconductor chips. And Toyota Motor (TM) expects to make 100,000 to 150,000 fewer cars next month because it can't get auto parts.

Base metals are hitting all-time highs. The last time we saw this kind of rally in metals like aluminum, copper, and zinc was in 2007 and 2008, right before the global financial crisis.

Energy prices are soaring, too. Higher natural gas prices are going to make it tough for people to heat their homes this winter. Oil just broke $85 per barrel. And the cost of filling up your gas tank is up more than 50% from this time last year.

In fact, prices for almost everything across the country – from groceries to car rentals to the toys you're planning to put under the Christmas tree – are often anywhere from 20% to 50% higher than a year ago.

About one in three central banks across the world is raising key interest rates. Wall Street is laser-focused on what the Federal Reserve might do as soon as next month.

What should you do about it?

If you're not careful, there is one threat that could destroy your retirement dreams...

It's not inflation or supply-chain problems. It doesn't matter what the Federal Reserve does with interest rates. And I (Matt McCall) am not at all worried about whether the government raises the debt ceiling for the 100th time.

These are the problems the financial media wants you to focus on...

Why? A newspaper adage that still holds true today is that if it bleeds, it leads. When it comes to financial coverage, a story about an imminent market crash is always going to get top billing over a story about more upside ahead.

Fear sells. And the media preys on that fear.

But all these doom-and-gloom stories do is scare ordinary Americans out of the stock market.

That doesn't mean that inflation isn't out there... It is. Nor does it mean that the Federal Reserve's money printing won't have ramifications for the nation down the line... It will. These things are serious issues with serious consequences. I'm not downplaying that.

But that doesn't mean you should have all your money in cash, or that you should sit on your hands for the next 10 years.

I'm a bit embarrassed to say that I was once a huge part of the media machine...

Over the past 20 years, I've appeared more than 1,000 times as a featured financial expert on Fox News, Fox Business, Bloomberg, CNBC, and CNN... and I've been featured in the Wall Street Journal and countless other financial publications.

Being on TV was great. It made me feel like a celebrity. I'd walk around New York City and folks on the street would recognize me.

But today, I regret my television past.

At some point, I started to notice that I was beginning to "drink the Kool-Aid."

In fact, if you've ever acted on something you heard from your TV, the newspaper, or most financial websites, you probably made a bad decision for your long-term investment results.

In an experiment by "gold standard" behavioral economists Richard Thaler, Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman, and Alan Schwartz, learning more information about short-term market moves ended up losing investors a significant amount of money... even if that information was completely accurate. As they wrote in the Quarterly Journal of Economics...

Providing such investors with frequent feedback about their outcomes is likely to encourage their worst tendencies... More is not always better. The subjects with the most data did the worst in terms of money earned.

The investors who got their information less frequently and traded less outperformed those who received information more often. And not just by a little bit. Their returns were twice as high!

And as my personal hero, the legendary investor Peter Lynch, noted in his seminal work One Up on Wall Street...

Stock market news has gone from hard to find (in the 1970s and early 1980s), then easy to find (in the late 1980s), then hard to get away from. The financial weather is followed as closely as the real weather: highs, lows, troughs, turbulence, and endless speculation about what's next and how to handle it. People are advised to think long-term, but the constant comment on every gyration puts people on edge and keeps them focused on the short term.

Lynch published his book more than 30 years ago... And Thaler and company published their research nearly 25 years ago. Yet they relate to today's environment more than ever.

Do you think the financial media cares that its single-minded focus on short-term market action is likely doing more to hurt investors today than any other market event in the past 50 years?

Of course not.

So, that's where I come in...

Stop listening to fearmongering headlines...

The more you listen to them, the less likely you are to buy and hold the winners that really matter for your portfolio...

For example, in the past decade, we've gone through three presidents, multiple Fed chairs, trillions of additional dollars printed, debt-ceiling debates, wars, natural disasters, and a global pandemic... and yet the stock market has more than tripled.

That's huge. This is the best-performing bull market since World War II. And many individual stocks are standouts in the overall rising tide.

Right now, finding those select "10X" and "100X" winners is all that matters for your retirement.

But the financial media's "narrative of fear" hasn't changed one bit. Today, the easiest and quickest way to get attention and an invite on a financial news show is to make a huge prediction about an imminent market crash.

And it doesn't even matter if that predication is right...

This sort of media environment is totally and incredibly wrong.

And it's leading millions of everyday Americans to give up on stocks and the type of retirement they deserve.

The next 10 years will be the greatest 10 years in stock market history...

If you don't think that you're making the kind of money that you should be... if you haven't experienced at least one 10X winner in the past decade... then you need to tune in to my announcement this Wednesday, October 20, at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

You see, right now, the market reminds me a lot of the early 1990s.

But first, let's back up a little further...

There was a huge bull run in stocks from 1982 to 1989. The market had more than doubled in seven years.

But as the new decade approached, folks in the media were warning that it was time to take profits and prepare for a long downturn. Here are just a few examples...

• Michael Lewis' classic Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street about the excesses of Wall Street was climbing to the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

• Businessweek published a somber cover story: "Does the Market Matter?"

• The New York Times quoted one trader who said if "you overdid the bullish scenario on the upside, you went above real value," while another said that "the market moved on air... [eroding] the real value of these companies."

• And Time observed that the market had reached "such dizzying heights that a correction of some sort seemed almost inevitable."

The Washington Post capped off the year on December 31, 1989 in an article titled "The Stock Market From the Roaring '80s to the Sober '90s"...

In 1989 the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 stocks soared by about 25 percent, capping off the greatest decade of stock market performance since the 1950s. And yet, as the year drew to a close, there was relatively little enthusiasm about stocks to be found among investors or stock market analysts.

Practically everyone on Wall Street and in the media business thought the good times were over. It was inevitable. The boom had run its course. Better get out while the getting was still good...

Then the 1990s came – and they were an even bigger success than the 1980s...

Employment surged to record levels with Baby Boomers in their prime. It was the longest-running economic expansion in U.S. history. And the stock market soared, too.

In fact, the '90s were one of the best decades ever for stocks. The market quadrupled in value.

Many of the most innovative stocks did even better. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index was up nearly 900% over the same time frame. U.S. tech companies like Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), and AOL all became global juggernauts.

All of this happened because of technology. Three important technologies were just emerging – the cellphone, the personal computer, and the Internet.

Whenever new technologies enable companies to do things cheaper, faster, and better, you can expect a boom. And that's exactly what happened in the '90s.

By the end of the decade, everyone had a cellphone and a personal computer and was using the Internet.

As a result of these life-changing technologies, people and companies became more efficient and more productive.

Stocks raged in response. The average annual return for the decade was over 18% per year.

And today, that's the exact setup we're seeing...

Except this time, the trends and technologies are even more powerful...

It's so powerful that I'm calling the next decade the "Roaring 2020s"...

The U.S. economy is on the verge of a massive expansion... a period of unimaginable innovation and vast wealth creation. This phenomenon is massive, and it's the overarching trend I will be researching and recommending over the coming months and years.

It's going to be an amazing decade to be invested in stocks, especially technology stocks...

Think 5G and the Internet of Things... artificial intelligence and the future of health care... electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous vehicles, and even flying cars... the blockchain... The real opportunity will be when these new technologies begin to overlap.

At the end of this decade, our lives will be very different than they are now. Most people will be driving EVs, whereas now only 2% of cars are electric. That will be a $1 trillion-plus market generating 100-fold returns.

Self-driving cars exist today, but for the most part, they live at tech conferences and testing grounds. In 10 years, there will be mass adoption... Driverless cars will be routine, chauffeuring millions of people to work and to play. The repercussions across so many other industries as a result of this will be monumental...

Health care will become more effective and less invasive... Gene editing and telehealth, to name just two niche fields in the space, will lead to breakthrough technologies and great investments.

Artificial intelligence will change the way we operate businesses... and how we shop online.

Over the next decade, the convergence of artificial intelligence, 5G networks, genomics, breakthrough battery technology, EVs, alternative energy, quantum computing, and so much more will lead to the creation of industries that we cannot fathom today.

These are just a few of the industries home to tiny companies you can buy today set to become multitrillion-dollar behemoths by the end of the decade – the next Apples, Amazons (AMZN), Microsofts, and Alphabets (GOOGL). These companies will deliver long-term investors life-changing returns.

Soon, we'll see more rapid changes in a single year than your grandparents saw in their entire lifetime.

But none of that will matter if you listen to the average financial news headline...

Sure, you might buy a few of these ultimate 100X winners. But will you own them long enough to capture the real gains?

I doubt it.

You're far more likely to give in to the fear that the media thrives on. They'll give you a thousand reasons to sell. And they'll make you feel smart about selling... until you realize that you missed out.

Over the next decade, I fully expect the broad stock market indexes to climb more than 100%.

The innovative "household names" that everyone knows... like Facebook (FB), Apple, Amazon, Netflix (NFLX), and Google... will be in a race to become the first to cross the coveted $10 trillion valuation line. That means potential 500% to 1,000% growth from here.

But the truly innovative companies – the ones that can return 100 times your money – won't be found anywhere near the top of today's S&P 500 Index list... They are just getting started.

I'm talking about businesses that can return 10,000% on your capital. That's a target of $1 million for every $10,000 that you put in.

If you hit just a few 100X winners, you can be completely assured of financial security in retirement.

And you'll never have to watch CNBC or CNN again.

I can't wait to share my ideas with you...

To hear more, you need to tune in to the big event on Wednesday, October 20.

I've been waiting and preparing for it for months. And I'll be sharing the name and ticker of my favorite tiny stock. If I had to pick just one stock with 100X potential, this would be it.

So if you haven't already, please RSVP to the event and submit a question for me. I'll do my best to answer as many of the most common ones as I can on Wednesday.

Bitcoin Is a 'True Asset Class'

As I (Matt) told our editor-at-large Daniela Cambone recently, "Bitcoin is now a true asset class." The world's most popular cryptocurrency reaching $250,000 is "very obtainable in the next three years," with demand increasing and supply at a standstill.

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New 52-week highs (as of 10/15/21): Brown & Brown (BRO), CBRE Group (CBRE), Freehold Royalties (FRU.TO), Home Depot (HD), Cheniere Energy (LNG), Markel (MKL), Cloudflare (NET), Northrop Grumman (NOC), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite Fund (PBP), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-B), VanEck Vectors Russia Fund (RSX), Sea Limited (SE), AMERCO (UHAL), United States Commodity Index Fund (USCI), ProShares Ultra Financials Fund (UYG), Viper Energy Partners (VNOM), and Waste Management (WM).

In today's mailbag, feedback on Dan Ferris' Friday Digest and my new role as senior analyst here... Do you have a comment or question? As always, e-mail us at feedback@stansberryresearch.com.

"I just wanted Dan to know that, even though the topic of a looming top is sobering, I was literally laughing out loud at his prose, especially when he said that Fed economists are no more than boobs pretending to have the economic skills of brain surgeons. Dan, you and I are soul brothers. And thanks for calling out Jamie Dimon. He tasks me to no end, but few feel about him like I do. I am glad you feel the same way. I am no longer alone in my views." – Paid-up subscriber Fred S.

"Great work, Dan!

"One of your best. I get and agree with your point that a few 'educated' individuals cannot possibly manage complex markets – it always ends in disaster!

"That said, [former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker] did stop rampant inflation heading into the 1980s. And yes, this did cause economic collateral damage. I'm making no value judgement here, but the question is compared to what? Were we heading the way of Zimbabwe and Argentina had Volcker not acted?

"Bill Bonner has written much on this topic and I agree with his premise that maybe the only thing Volcker did was delay the inevitable. The real problem was decoupling the dollar from its gold backing and allowing the Fed 'unlimited money printing' that we now have. The larger inflationary forces that began in the early 1970s may now finally be starting to appear again. In this sense, Volcker bought time and that is all.

"Keep on thinking and writing!" – Paid-up subscriber Andy L.

"I've been following Matt for several years and hold some of his recommendations in my portfolio. I have been thrilled to see him during a few Stansberry Research presentations.

"His 'basket' approach to investing in small, cutting-edge technology has worked very well for me. This approach works! I look forward to seeing Matt McCall as part of Stansberry Research!" – Stansberry Alliance member Jerry F.

Here's to exponential returns,

Matt McCall
Baltimore, Maryland
October 18, 2021