This video was spawned by a post by Bill Bonner over at Daily Reckoning.

Also, in the video I made a brief mention of the Amazon Kindle. I thought everyone had heard of it by now, but just in the past week, I’ve had two friends in my house pick up my Kindle and say, “What in the world is this?”

I hope the two insights about inflation & deflation are helpful to you.

Have a great weekend 

Ok, here’s the deal…

Highly sophisticated investors are…

…setting up a self-directed IRA or Solo 401k and then getting stuck in the rut of investing the same way most other self-directed IRA and Solo 401k investors are doing it. They are pursuing the same types of deals, making the same kinds of assumptions, and getting the same kinds of results.

And those results aren’t necessarily good. In fact, I am 100% convinced that the majority of self-directed investors are either losing wealth or becoming long-term illiquid (and most likely losing wealth ultimately).

That’s right. It’s the dirty little shameful truth of this niche industry. But self-directed IRA custodians don’t want to let that cat out of the bag or else they would deter the majority of their clients.

Novice investors are…

…not setting up self-directed retirement accounts because they seem too complicated and too counter-culture.

End result? They are getting slammed by a stock market that can’t deliver and the unrelenting inflation that comes with a phony monetary system.

So who is actually winning this game and what are they doing?

Now that’s a question worth asking. That’s the one that matters. It’s where my brain resides for dozens of hours per week—and has been for years. And, of course, the game to which I refer is that of protecting and building wealth. Not money, but wealth (there’s a difference). For most Americans, this game largely comes down to how the player handles his retirement funds.

After thousands of hours of pondering our important question, the answer is much simpler than I thought it would be. It’s simple enough that even the extremely novice investor can get better results than the ultra-sophisticated investors who are asking highly technical questions to me here on this blog.

What this means for you

You, dear reader, are in for a treat. A multi-faceted project is underway at my company, Nabers Group, to go far beyond setting up a structure (such as IRA LLC or Solo 401k) that has the potential to deliver your wealth building and wealth protection goals.

We’ll soon be launching a variety of new services and information products that will empower you to manifest your wealth building and protection goals. Rather than give you a map, we’ll hold your hand to get you there.

This may sound vague because it is. After all, isn’t that what a secret project is all about?

I’ve leaked a bit of info to my Nabers Group clients about my secret project and how it will help them, and the feedback has been full of excitement and anticipation.

So whether you consider yourself highly sophisticated or a novice when it comes to investing, keep an eye on this blog for access to our new programs, courses, and products. And one hint and somewhat of a fair warning… some of these programs will naturally be of a limited nature, so it will pay get my updates instantly. Hint: Subscribe to the blog feed in the upper right area  

Take action now and make America Great by building your business. Call Nabers Group: 877-903-2220. Read more about preserving and increasing your wealth: Five Steps to Freedom: How to Cut Your Dependence on Institutions and Escape Financial Slavery. For more helpful information visit: Your Financial News: video stories to help you succeed in business.

I guess I should tell you that I’ve been physically ill since last weekend, but Obama’s speech isn’t helping. It was way too reminiscent of the scenes in the book (or movie) 1984 where the public is forced to participate in mass hate and love demonstrations for their enemies and leaders.

The Painter Announces He Will Install the Plumbing

The first thing that blows my mind about what was spoken on the topic of economics is the absolute retardation of reason. Nobody in the government knows anything about economics. Time and time again, they make predictions and statements that turn out to be completely wrong. These people (Congress, the President, and other bureaucrats) are not economists (and they only acknowledge the economists who support the philosophy of never-ending increases in government spending and power).

They are not the bringers of solutions. If our problems went away, then they’d lose their jobs because we’d have no need for them. They are problem-creators. They are hired to fail.

We are expected to celebrate an announcement that the stimulus worked? Hey didn’t the last President announce our swift victory in Iraq? Why do we forget so easily that talk is cheap no matter how smooth it sounds?

Rally Against The Enemy!

The next elephant in the room is the government’s dedication to deal with “Wall Street.” What a farce. The government created Wall Street. How else do you think something so unnatural, hated, and powerful could come into being in a so-called free market?

Wall Street is created by government regulation. The stock market crashed in 1929. Then the government created the Securities Act. The Securities Act regulates investment. Regulation creates a cost to doing business. Cost means big, well funded ventures can deal with the regulation while small businesses (the engine of our economy according to Obama) cannot. Ultimately, investment into small businesses is nearly illegalized while regulation steers virtually all the investment capital into the hands of… well, the regulators’ friends.

So let’s put this story together. The government created Wall Street. In fact, Wall Street and the government are really the same organization. Those in charge simply swap titles from one year to the next as they go back and forth between being an executive and a government official. But the titles are just semantics. It’s all one big organization.

So the big organization sucking up power, authority, and resources, and destroying prosperity says it will start to get the enemy (itself) under control. Well, golly, everyone on the TV screen is standing up and applauding so this must be it. Finally! Somebody said they would fix our problems!

I hate to spoil the fun, but there is a long history of government saying it will fix the problems of society, and the history of them actually doing it just doesn’t exist.

America is the story of the most enormous and rapidly-built prosperity in the history of humankind. And it wasn’t the government that made it happen. It was the lack of government. We did a little experiment in freedom and spent so much time celebrating the outstanding results that we lost our freedom when we weren’t looking.

The Hidden Meaning

So if your job has been destroyed in the process of creating half of one phony stimulus job, you were just in the wrong industry. You should have paid attention to the phony demand the government would create with its spending of the new money it just printed up in its basement.

If your business has been destroyed in the process of “stimulating” Obama’s friend’s business, you made the wrong friends.

The hidden meaning behind Obama’s recent telepromtedly-smooth speech is that the government is out of its mind and nobody is stopping it. Don’t think they are so moral that they won’t inflate you into poverty and steal your retirement fund from the bankers who you are letting possess it.

Think for yourself. Question authority.

What now? Well, don’t fret. Just quit leaving your savings and retirement funds in the hands of government-regulated oligopolies. Take control. Put your wealth back into your own hands, literally. Avoid dollar-based assets like the plague, and you won’t get sick.

I’m going to go throw up now, and I’m not sure if it’s from my cold or the State of the Union address. But no matter how sickening viruses and bureaucrats can be, I feel at ease for knowing my hard-earned wealth is safe and protected.

Poor economic times are not dampening the desire for entrepreneurs to start their own business. A study recently showed that there’s little change in the number of U.S. business start-ups in good or bad times. With more people out of work, many are deciding to start their own company, instead of seek employment. They’re following their passion and ideas to create their own wealth and, when they run into obstacles, they’re finding creative ways to finance their business. With traditional funding sources drying up, watch the video to find out how one successful entrepreneur, who launched his company during the recession, received funding and used his own retirement account, Solo 401(k), to help him through difficult times. In just one year his business is booming.

To learn more about the Solo 401(k) and how it can help you, visit Nabers.com or call Nabers Group: (877) 903-2220.

Finally! I’ve received many requests to make the book available in Kindle format. We started working on that about 6 months ago, and as of just a few days ago, it’s available.

Go here to purchase 5 Steps To Freedom on Kindle.

The book is more than financial education… it’s an action plan. And it’s more than only an action plan… it’s a proven action plan backed by over a dozen cases studies. It shows you true stories of friends and clients who have found massive success in their self-directed wealth management.

You’ll find that most case studies involved the use of a Solo 401(k) or a self-directed IRA LLC. If you’ve been brainstorming ways to make the most of a self-directed IRA LLC or Solo 401(k), then 5 Steps To Freedom can really pull things together for you in how it brings real success (and failure) stories to you. Knowing what works and what doesn’t can mean the difference between incredible achievements and embarrassing failure when using your self-directed IRA LLC or Solo 401(k).

Perhaps the most powerful information in the book is the simple exercises you can follow to remove the confusing “inflation goggles” and see what’s really happening to your wealth.

Check out the book in Kindle today and feedback is always welcomed!

I was just listening to a recording of a conference call this morning where a financial planner began his presentation with this premise:

Taxes will be increasing in the future

I haven’t listened to the rest of it because I had to pause it and write this post. I’m sure when I go back this guy will paint a whole picture based on the assumption of taxes increasing in the future.

Really?

Maximum Taxes

Well, first, let’s admit to ourselves that there is a very real, hard maximum taxation point. That’s 100%. A taxpayer cannot pay more in taxes than he has. Beyond that is impossible.

Second, let’s admit that there is effectively a maximum taxation point that is well below 100% of what a taxpayer has. Taxes going beyond this point is improbable. Let me explain…

Whether you may realize this or not, you probably pay 60%, 70% or more of every dollar that has ever been “yours” in taxes. Income taxes, property taxes, sin taxes (on booze), gas taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, franchise taxes, death taxes, etc. Some of these taxes show up on paper that you can see, and some of these taxes are never declared to you at the point at which you pay them.

Where the Line is Drawn

So with the majority of the money that was ever yours already going to these direct taxes, how much more taxation can you take? Imagine a scenario where we go from systematically losing 70% of our money to losing 90% of our money.

Do you think hundreds of thousands of Americans would march to Washington, D.C. with guns to shoot at our government? Probably.

Do you think millions of Americans would simply stop paying taxes? Undoubtedly.

Do you think underground markets would develop where Americans could work and spend money outside of the government system? Surely.

…and the government knows this. That’s why it has been drastically increasing its taxation on us without us even knowing and without us even paying it directly.

Of course I speak of the most disastrous tax: inflation. Inflation is a hidden tax that takes wealth away from every American without permission or awareness.

The Secret Government Funding Source

It’s the secret government funding program. Without inflation, taxpayers would have never funded the trillions in boondoggles that our government has become famous for. You see, we don’t vote on whether or not to print up money and give it to the government for their wasteful programs. That’s why it’s the easiest tax to collect.

And with our government schools making dummies out of everyone, our populace is almost completely ignorant to the inflation tax.

To me, the government has already shown its cards. It knows it can’t directly tax us as much as it wants to or else we would fire it, kill it, and replace it (or maybe not replace it but that’s another blog post).

Since 1913, the dollar has lost over 95% of its value. The message is clear: we are near the point of maximum direct taxation. There are millions of republicans with an itchy trigger finger ready to make a big stink if Obama raises direct taxes.

The Government Wants to Survive

Obama, his advisors, and his puppet masters are not dumb enough to raise direct taxes significantly. They will do what the last men in power did. They will cover the bulk of their bankruptcy through borrowing and inflation… and the borrowing will eventually be paid back through inflation or war (kill the lender and the loan goes away!).

So next time a financial advisor wants to talk to you about distribution planning and prefaces the entire game with the idea that taxes will be increasing a lot in the future, I think you should walk out on him (or hang up the phone) and start looking for someone who will acknowledge what’s really going on.

Oh, and I almost forgot. The most exciting part is that once you acknowledge what’s really going on… investing, wealth building, and wealth protection become MUCH easier. Stay tuned for future posts that address the “Okay, what now?” voice in your head 

2009 is marked as the year hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars bailed out poor Wall Street’s big banks, only to see those same banks hit record profits by the end of the year, and much of the bailout money completely lost—never to be repaid, according to a recent report by the TARP inspector general. Meanwhile, $20 billion to $30 billion bonuses are expected to be handed out by these very same banks whose reckless behavior caused a financial crisis that the average American is now paying for and will for a very longtime… only because our government insisted “they are too big to fail”.

All this while, Main Street suffers despite pleas to stop the printing of excessive money and shut off the Federal Reserve’s endless financial faucet … Americans are losing their jobs, homes, and life savings. Hyperinflation is already increasing the prices of ordinary goods, leaving Americans wondering who is to blame and, more important, how can they preserve their wealth.

Watch this video to learn more or you can pick up the phone right now and call Nabers Group directly at 877-903-2220.

Take advantage of this unfair tax break being offered now to the self employed.

Thinking about rolling over your 401k to purchase a new franchise or a personal business venture, then you might want to think again?

Authors Jeff Nabers and Phoebe Chongchua (Five Steps to Freedom: How to Cut Your Dependence on Institutions and Escape Financial Slavery) suggest that using an investment structure known as Rollovers As Business Startups (ROBS) to fund a business startup or franchise is an IRA prohibited transaction.

Jeff Nabers is CEO of Nabers Group, an unconventional planning company in Denver, Colorado. His research and personal dealings with the Department of Labor compel him to recommend against the Rollovers as Business Startups strategy.

Nabers Group can be reached at (877) 903-2220.  Watch more Nabers videos.