How should you improve your returns in the current low-growth environment? Take a look at this month’s Economic Analysis and review the year-to-date returns. This will help you understand what you’re going to need to profit from this market. With new money your focus should be on alternatives to the weak U.S. dollar. There are two components to this approach–precious metals and currency investment. I have long been an advocate for precious metals. In this month’s issue, I give you an overview of some of my top choices for foreign currency funds and four of the six countries that I feel are your best options. I also have a detailed rundown on my Top 10 Countdown along with some of our other Master Monster List stocks. Make it a good month.

Tags: aber diamond, Alcan, Alpha Natural Resources, American Express, Argentina, Australia, Big Mac, Black Hills, Bombardier, British Petroleum, Canada, citigroup, counterbalancing, Credit Suisse, currency, Dodge & Cox Balanced Fund, Federated Investors, Fidelity Canada, Fidelity International real Estate, Ford, Garmin, General Dynamics, harley-davidson, Imus, income tax, inference, iShares Australia, Japan, Jardine Matheson, johnson & johnson, NBC, Newmont Mining, Obama, Pepsi Bottling, Plum Creek, Precious Metals & Mining, reading, ruger, Russia, Singapore, Sturm, Switzerland, Syngenta, T. Rowe Price Emerging Europe & Mediterranean Fund, T. Rowe Price Japan, Tiffany, tort reform, United Kingdom, vanguard

1967’s Monterey International Pop Festival was a catalyst for a financial tidal wave in the pop music industry that lasted an entire decade. My 2008-based Big Idea hitched to the luxury goods supercycle is much the same, if not a whole lot more. Read this month’s issue to find out more about the impact this will have on babyboomer retirements. Also this month, I have a special guide on high-yield investing, along with quite a few new Monster Master List stocks and an update on our agricultural commodities portfolio. Make it a good month.

Tags: 2008, Alcan, Alcoa, Alico, American Express, AMEX, aquarius, barclays, Barrick Gold, Big Idea, Black Army, Black Hills, Bombardier, catalyst, citigroup, Coke, Cresud, default, Dodge & Cox income, ExxonMobil, Federated Investors, Fidelity, First National Bank Shares, Garmin, General Dynamics, general electric, harley-davidson, high yield, iShares, Japan, jet, Newmont Mining, peaks, Pepsi Bottling, Polaris, pop music, Powershares, Retirement Compounders, Royal Bank, ruger, St. Joe, Sturm, supercycle, Syngenta, Tiffany, Unilever, vanguard, yield spread

Simple is Sophisticated is my theme for you this month. In this issue, I offer you a new one-stock program that I think may appeal to those of you interested in a shorter timeframe than my usual buy it and forget it strategy. Also this month I cover a lot of ground on mutual fund investing and where you should put new money today. Plus, I talk about some of our Monster Master List companies and what recent news stories mean for your investments. Make it a good month.

Tags: ABX, American Century Global Gold, Barrick Gold, BGEIX, Burton Malkiel, coca-Cola, DayJet, Delta & Pine, DIA, DIS, Disney, DLP, Dow Diamonds, DRAM, dynamic random access memory, EWS, FAL, Falconbridge, FCEa, FICDX, Fidelity Canada, forest City, GE, general electric, General Electric Capital 6.45%, General Thabit, George Tomsco, GG, GLD, Goldcorp, Goldman Sachs 6.20%, harley-davidson, HDI, HOLBX, Holland balanced Fund, HSBC Financial 6.36%, Inco's, iShares MSCI Singapore, Jack Bogle, Japan, Jeremy Siegel, JNJ, johnson & johnson, KO, magnetoresistive random access memory, Marvel Eneterprises, mcCormick, MKC, MRAM, MVL, N, NEM, Newmont Mining, Norman Petty, PEP, Pepsico, Piedmont Natural gas, PII, PLD, PNY, Polaris Industries, Prologis, Retirement Compounders, Saudi Arabia, Simple is Sophisticated, stretTRACKS Gold Shares, Teck Cominco, TEK-SVB.TO, terrorism, The Fireballs, Vanguard Wellington, Vanguard's Value Index, VIVAX, VLJ, VWELX, Wrigley, WWY, Yankee Candle, YCC

The experts say…”stratospheric oil prices are here to stay and the housing bubble will not burst.” I disagree, and I give you the reasons why for both of these topics. I also discuss hedge funds, the US$ and a slowing world economy, but there still is a lot to be enthusiastic about. This month’s issue is loaded with great opportunities for you in funds (new and old friends), gold and stocks that should capture your attention. All of these stocks and funds connect to my Big Ideas and the impact of China’s growth on the world economy. I also have 2 stocks that I want you to sell and a merger that I want you to buy. I have also added 16 new charts to my Economic Analysis to help you understand what is going on in the world. The August issue is filled with great opportunities for you. This will be the issue that helps you overcome the inertia and take action.

Tags: Alan Greenspan, Alberto Gonzales, Alliance Resource Partners, ARLP, Australia, automobile, BAC, Bank of America, BEGRX, Bernanke, BHP, BHP Billiton, Brazil, CAG, Cameco Corp., Canadian General Investments, cars, CAT, CAtellus, Caterpillar, CCJ, CGi.to, ChevronTexaco (CVX), China, China National Offshore Oil Corp., Christopher Cox, CNOOC, coal, Codelco, commodity, ConAgra, copper, currency reserves, drought, energy, Europe, ExxonMobil, FAL.TO, Falconbridge, Fed, Federal Reserve, Fidelity, Fiduciary/Claymore MLP Opportunity Fund, FL.TO, Florida, FMO, Franklin Mutual Series Beacon, Franklin Mutual Series Qualified, Franklin Mutual Series Shares, gas, GDP, Germany, global warming, gold, gold Panda, harley-davidson, HDI, hedge fund, Hong Kong, housing, hurricane, India, JALSX, Janus Fund, Japan, JOE, Kaz, KL Financial Group, KRB, LCTM, Long-Term Capital Management, Madame Zhang Li Ju, Maine, Martin Feldstein, MBNA, metals, Michael Luttig, Middle East, Milton Friedman, mining, missiles, mortgages, MQIFX, MUTHX, natural gas, natural resources, New Zealand, nickel, Noranda, Norilsk, Norway, NRD, oil, Overseas-China Bank, PandaAmerica, PCL, PLD, Plum Creek, Precious Metals & Mining Fund, PRNEX, Prologis, R. Glen Hubbard, real estate, Renaissance Technologies, RiverTown, Russia, Sandra Day O'Connor, SEC, Singapore, South Africa, St. Joe, T. Rowe Price New Era Fund, TAREX, TAVFX, TAVIX, Third Avenue International Value Fund, Third Avenue Real Estate Value Fund, Third Avenue Value Fund, TOPP, Topps, Univision, uranium, vanguard, VGPMX, water, Weimar Republic, Wintergreen Fund, WMC, WMC Resources, XOM