The Best ''Sleeper'' Investment of the Decade -- $29 Timberland

     Harvard University has some of the best money-management brains in the country running its massive endowment.  So when Harvard puts 12% of its cash into timber, it's time to pay attention.

Timber investors have quietly beaten inflation and the S&P 500 over the past century.

     As global population pressures mount, demand for wood, pulp and paper is soaring.  China has a nearly insatiable need for lumber for housing.  Supply is tight and can't be increased easily.

     Considering its track record, it's puzzling that wood doesn't get more attention from Wall Street.  Timber has outperformed the S&P 500 since 1910... and is the only asset class that has risen in three out of the four major market collapses of the 20th century.

     If you're worried about inflation, look no further.  Timber prices have beaten inflation by +3.3% a year over the last century.  During the raging inflation of 1973-1981, timber rose +22% a year, well ahead of traditional inflation hedges like property and commodities.

     Timber will almost certainly be a safer place for your money than stocks over the next decade.  Trees don't worry about interest rates or budget deficits.  They just keep growing exponentially faster every year.  And the beauty of owning timber is that it can be harvested at any time.  If prices are low, you just let your trees mature further until prices rise.  In the meantime, your trees just get more valuable.

     In our special report, The Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009, you'll see our in-depth analysis of the timber market.  You'll discover:  why investing in timberland stacks up so well versus stocks (from 1973-2002, timber returned +15% annually versus +11% for stocks)... why the demand for timber isn't going away (every American ''consumes'' a 100-foot tree every year, and rising)... and where, if you have an adventurous spirit, you can pick up prime woodlands for as low as $29 an acre.

     We're calling timber the best "sleeper" investment of the decade... but that is just one of our:

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     The StreetAuthority Market Advisor letter, whose annual year-end stock predictions have gained twice as much as the S&P 500, is once again going out on a limb with a series of startling new forecasts, including...

	Oil prices will keep sliding in the early months of 2009, forcing the price of gas at the pump to as low as $1.15 per gallon. Oil-exploration stocks will tumble.  But shrewd investors will sift for bargains in the rubble, because after this massive shakeout oil will rebound and soar through $160 a barrel in the following 18 months.  (See below to get our favorite energy plays.)
	In a move harkening back to FDR's make-work programs of the 1930s, President Obama will pour billions into rebuilding the nation's highways, bridges and other ailing infrastructure.  We have our eye on three construction companies whose revenues will skyrocket.
	The ''bounce back'' investment of the year will be shipping stocks. After plunging -94% in 2008, these stocks are ripe for a monster rebound.  For our two favorite ways to cash in (yielding up to 23.2%), see below.
	A new way to cash in on nanotechnology may make early investors rich.  This is an opportunity of enormous proportions, similar to cellular in 1985.  Read on to see why some people are calling this the ''opportunity of the century.''
	To the surprise of many experts, the Dow will reach 11,700 in 2009 and eventually top 22,000 in four to five years.  This gives you a historic opportunity to multiply your wealth.
	A wind-powered car with a top speed of 45 miles an hour will hit the market in 2009.  Sales will be modest, but it will symbolically crown wind power as the runaway winner in the alternative-energy derby.  Investors in wind-power stocks will enjoy the initial leg of a multi-year surge that will earn some investors payoffs of $40-to-$1.  You'll find our favorite way to play wind power below.
	A small group of drilling stocks clustered near the Arctic Circle may soon explode.  They're speculative -- so don't bet your mortgage money on them.  But they've skyrocketed 118-to-1 in the past and could do so again.
	The ''sleeper'' investment of the decade will be timber.  Wood will beat both stocks and inflation hands down.  You'll find this surprise investment described below, including a way to pick up prime woodland for just $29 an acre.
	War will erupt in a parched area of the globe over water.  We've found two companies that positioned themselves years ago to exploit the increasing scarcity of nature's most critical resource.  More details below.
	Continuing violence in The Congo will cut off the western world's supply of a scarce metal urgently needed by the defense industry.  Prices will soar along with your profits if you establish a position in this metal now (see more below).
	The recession will end by June 2009.  But certain industries will be decimated.  With their stocks at fire-sale stock prices, takeover fever will spread like contagion in corporate America.  Investors who stake out positions in takeover targets will reap huge gains.

     My name is Paul Tracy.  I'm Chief Investment Strategist at StreetAuthority Market Advisor.  These are the investments that my eight-man research team and I believe will offer the most explosive profit potential in 2009 and beyond.

     All of these forecasts, and several more, are described in depth in a report we've just released.  It's called Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009, and you can get a free copy with a trial subscription to StreetAuthority Market Advisor.  But in this letter, I'd like to share the report's highlights with you.

They Told Us We were Crazy to Go Public With Our Predictions

     For years now, we've been sending letters like this alerting investors to the market's most pressing dangers and opportunities.  When we began doing this, people told us we were crazy.  ''You're bound to be wrong sometimes,'' they said, '' and that will kill your sales.''

     But we felt that investors want clear and unhedged forecasts.  And we were determined to provide them for all to see.  What's more, we knew we had developed some exclusive forecasting methods that have given us great confidence in these predictions.

     As it turned out, investors have enjoyed reading our reports, because everyone's interested in getting a handle on the future.  When they saw that our analyses made good sense, and a good many (though certainly not all) of our forecasts came true, our subscriptions soared.

     Of course, there's no guarantee that our new forecasts will be as profitable as our earlier ones.  But when I reviewed them with our publisher, he told me that these could be the most profitable recommendations in our history.

     So, without further ado, let me get to our new forecasts.  Please bear in mind that when I discuss a specific investment, we are a totally independent publisher, with no affiliation to any brokerage or investment products.  We live and die on our subscription revenues.

     When you run an investment publication on subscription fees alone, you're not in business long unless your advice makes money for your customers.  So please consider this letter a free sample of what readers of StreetAuthority Market Advisor receive every month.

     Please also understand that in a letter like this, I'm able only to hit the highlights.  To get the full story on each of these opportunities, I urge you to request a copy of the full report.  It's yours as a free bonus with a trial subscription to StreetAuthority Market Advisor.  (As part of this offer, even if you cancel your subscription and receive your money back, you can still keep the special report.)

Best ''Bounceback'' Investment of the Year

     Of all the industries hurt by this year's credit crunch, none has been more viciously mauled than the shippers.  You'd think that global trade had come to a complete halt judging by the price action of shipping stocks.  Not even basket case financial stocks have suffered as much as the -94% plunge in the Baltic Dry Index, a proxy for shipping stocks.

Shipping stocks were knocked down -94% from their May 2008 highs, but they are likely to rebound just as dramatically.  In the meantime, these stocks offer investors a rich stream of dividends, with some yielding as much as 23.2%.

     Just this past May 20th, 2008, the index, which tracks daily cargo rates around the world, hit a bubbly all-time high of 11,793.   Commodity prices were still on their meteoric climb and commodity buyers were insensitive to shipping costs.  And the U.S. subprime crisis appeared to be contained at its borders -- meaning the rest of the world's trade went on unhampered.  Shipping stocks were hitting new all-time highs in each new trading session.

     Their reversal of fortune was sudden and swift.

     Since May, a perfect storm of downward pressure has hit shipping prices.  The worldwide credit crunch that made it harder to borrow money also made it harder for cargos to get loaded onto ships.  As banks scrambled to retain capital, letters of credit, the lifeblood of trade, were harder to come by.  Commodities began to pile up at the ports.

     Large ships that leased out for $230,000 a day in late May were fetching just $7,340 a day by November.  This barely covers the cost of running the ship and paying the crew.  It can't go much lower before owners decide to simply dry-dock their vessels.

     Meanwhile, the Baltic Dry Index has plunged to 764.

     It's obvious that prices have overshot on the way down just as they did on the way up.  As the credit freeze thaws many short-term pressures weighing on shipping prices are already letting up.

     Bank-to-bank lending rates -- which skyrocketed as credit worries simmered -- have fallen back closer to normal levels.  Governments around the globe have infused hundreds of billions of dollars into the world's banking system... and letters of credit appear to be navigating their way through the system again.

     Unless the world suddenly stops eating and building, trade will continue, and normalcy will return to this critical industry.  And when it does, my money is on a monster rebound in these stocks.

     Talk about an income-investor's paradise!  Their dividends alone are triple the annual return you'll get with most stocks.

     We especially like a cash-rich shipper specializing in the Asia trade.  It yields 23.2%, has a history of strong cash flows and is trading at a single-digit P/E.  If it climbs back to even half its price of a year ago, current buyers are looking at an +82% gain.  You'll get full details on it in your free copy of Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009.

Best Investment of the Decade

     Today, we're convinced that a once-in-a-decade opportunity for spectacular profits is shaping up in nanotechnology.

Nanotech stocks offer early investors the same kind of legendary profits that were made in radio, TV and the Internet.

     By tinkering with atoms and molecules, scientists are creating new materials with properties that are hard to believe.  Like cloth that doesn't stain, golf balls that never wear out and thread that is 100 times stronger than steel.

     It may not be long before we see computers the size of microbes, cancer-killing robots swimming through our bloodstream and nano-factories so small they can fit on top of a soda can.

      This is today's cutting edge of serious science.  And from an investment point of view, it offers more real upside than Internet stocks ever did.  These companies aren't run by 20-somethings thinking up "dot-com" ideas in their garages.  The equipment you need to manipulate atoms costs millions.  Barriers to entry are formidable.  So the number of legitimate companies in this sphere is small.  Right now we have our eye on fewer than a dozen serious contenders.

     But when their products hit the market, watch out!  Getting into the right nanotech plays now is like buying Yahoo when it hit the market in 1996 for 70 cents a share.  Within four years, a $10,000 investment bloomed into $1.5 million.  Even if you didn't sell Yahoo at the top for $105 a share (and who did?) you've still got $212,500 for every $10,000 you invested.  That's the sort of return we're looking at for early investors in the right nano-stocks.

     Your free report identifies our short list of favorites in this burgeoning sector.  Read it and you may agree with long-time investment analyst Daniel Moser, who calls the current nanotechnology situation ''perhaps the greatest investment opportunity of the new century.''  In years to come you may fondly remember the day you discovered this opportunity.

Gains of $40-to-$1 Possible in this Industry

In 2007 the clean electricity generated by wind in the U.S. alone prevented the emission of 28 million tons of filthy carbon dioxide.

     If you still picture windmills as creaky wooden towers with rusty blades spinning in the wind it's time to think again.

     Modern ''wind turbines'' tower hundreds of feet high and can generate enough juice to power a town of 4,000 homes.  In one year, a single 3-megawatt wind turbine produces as much energy as 12,000 barrels of oil -- without emitting any pollution or greenhouse gases.

     There's a lot to like about this inexhaustible domestic energy resource.  Unlike oil, we'll never run out of wind.  And the environmental benefits are immense.  In the next 12 months, U.S. wind turbines will generate as much electricity as burning 23 million tons of coal.  That's a line of 10-ton trucks 9,000 miles long.

     More than $50 billion was pumped into wind-energy technology in 2007.  And by the end of this year, it will hit $85 billion.  No other alternative energy comes close to attracting so much cash.

     The exciting thing for investors is that the wind story is just getting started.  The Department of Energy says that wind energy could generate 20% of U.S. electricity by 2030.  When you compare that to today's one half of one percent that's a 40-bagger industry-wide.  Which means a few of the best wind stocks will likely rise well over 40-to-1 before it's all over.

     The wind business is already growing so fast that turbine makers are running triple shifts just to keep pace with demand.  The orders are pouring in, backlogs are growing, and prices are rising fast.  The average wait for a new turbine is three years and the orders are still piling up.  Unless the wind stops blowing, it's hard to see anything but a bullish future for wind turbine stocks.

     It's too early to say who will be top dog in this evolving industry.  But in an industry that's doubling in size every three years, you can be sure there are some great stock buys.  You'll find our own favorites in Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009.

     Perhaps the best bet of all is the Spanish wind-turbine maker that has already sold its entire production run for the next two years.  Its stock is up +401% in the past five years.  It is making so much money in the wind business that it sold off its solar power division to focus completely on wind.  For a sure play in wind power it's hard to go wrong with this poster child for the global backlog in wind turbines.

Best Cash-Cow Income Play   

     When we discovered this next opportunity, we thought we had died and gone to income-investing heaven.  The yields are truly angelic.

     Thanks to a unique tax-free corporate structure authorized by Canada to attract capital to its markets, many cash-rich companies there have converted themselves into dividend powerhouses called ''income trusts'' yielding up to 19.3%.

     But there's more to these cash cows than their fat dividends.  Some of the trusts you'll find in Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009 have grown steadily.  Over the past 10 years, one of our favorite natural gas retailers has shot up +449%, thanks to 32 consecutive hikes in its distribution.  And even after this rocket ride it still yields 8.8%.

Natural gas and oil exploration companies are among Canada's many high-yielding income trusts.  Because of their unique tax status, these trusts are able to yield as much as 28%.

     The only negative we can find to these trusts is their uncertain future tax status.   Canada authorized its unique trust structure in 1986 to encourage investment in energy-exploration firms.  All the first income trusts were issued by oil and gas companies.

     Then everyone started getting in on the act.  Restaurants, ice makers, fish packers, even the Canadian yellow pages began using this unique pass-through device to dodge the tax man and funnel cash straight to their investors.

     When the biggest phone company in Canada announced in 2006 that it, too, was ''going trust'' it was more than the tax man in Ottawa could stand.

     On Halloween Day that year, the Canadian government announced that virtually all existing trusts would lose their tax-exemption starting in 2011.

     We've seen this tax-grab before.  The previous Labor government proposed taxing income trusts a year earlier, but ran into such heavy opposition that it was forced to shelve the idea.

     Will this latest scare simply be a repeat of 2005's false alarm?  I can't promise you anything, but it's hard to lose if you buy in now.  Trust prices have fallen in the face of taxation uncertainty, giving you a great entry point and super-sized yields.

     And even if they are taxed in 2011, these companies will still be paying yields that dwarf your options in the Dow and S&P.  Dozens of trusts now yield more than 10%, and many pay as high as 17% to 28%.  So even after Canada's 29% average corporate tax, they will still pay you up to 19.9%.

     Warning:  Of the 300-plus trusts in Canada, 153 are off-limits unless you are Canadian.  And there are a few nasty surprises hidden in the rest.  That's why it's so important to send for your free copy of Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009.  Our report takes the guesswork out of choosing a safe, high-yielding Canadian trust without any hidden liabilities that could trip up a U.S. investor.

The Best ''Undiscovered Opportunity'' of the Year

     Few Americans realize what a luxury it is to turn on the faucet for a glass of clear, cool water.  More than one billion people each day don't get enough water to drink, bathe or wash clothes.

     Every analysis we make suggests that the water shortage is going to worsen -- even here in the United States.  Millions of people are pouring into California, Arizona and Florida, where there just isn't enough water to support them.

     Because people will spend their last dime for a substance they need to survive, we're bullish on water.  Rising water prices will make fortunes for investors who position themselves now to profit from the impending shortage.

With dire shortages in many parts of the world, rising water prices are virtually inevitable -- and will make fortunes for investors who buy the right water stocks now.

     The easiest and most obvious way to profit is to buy water-company stocks.

     Our favorites are two forward-thinking firms, one little and the other big, that have set themselves up for years of profits in selling ''blue gold.''  We profile them both in Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009.

     One more thought: If you think oil is a must-have liquid, think about water for a second.  No alternative exists for it.  Nothing can ever replace it.  Less than 3% of the world's water is fresh, and there's no more of it now than there was a million years ago.  But six billion thirsty people must now share it.

     So we're keenly interested in any way to solve the world's water problem.  One revolutionary idea is to move large volumes of fresh water long distances with strings of waterbags floating at sea. Connected like railroad boxcars into long trains, these ''sea trains'' could carry millions of gallons of fresh water to parched areas.

     Using the oceans to transport and store water this way is cheaper than dams, pipelines or desalination plants and it's easier on the environment.  (Desalination requires huge amounts of energy and produces nasty waste products.)

     Beyond providing early investors with fat profits, a breakthrough like this could be a key contributor to world peace.  Most people forget that the Six Day War was triggered by an Arab plan to divert the Jordan River away from Israel.  When war erupts in the parched Middle East over water, as we believe it eventually will, any water-creation technology will be seen as a peace maker.

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     Best penny-stock long-shot:  Near Canada's Arctic Circle, in weather that can freeze human flesh in seconds, an intrepid diamond driller is hoping to repeat a massive strike made nearby 16 years ago.  Investing doesn't get any riskier than this, but the company has delivered the goods before: The last time it found diamonds, its stock exploded 118-to-1, turning $10,000 into $1,180,000.

     Best chance to profit from a shortage in 2009:  Civil war in The Congo may completely cut off the outside world's supply of cobalt.  This scarce metal is urgently needed for America's defense effort.  (It is virtually impossible to make a jet-fighter engine without this high-strength alloy agent.)  Cobalt prices are likely to soar, racking up windfall profits for farsighted investors.  In Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009 you'll see precisely how to profit.

     Best currency play:  You'll see how to double, triple or even quadruple your money in only two months if the Swiss franc rises three cents against our greenback.  This is highly likely in the coming year, as skittish investors continue to flock to the safety of Switzerland's gold-backed currency.  With the investment we recommend in Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009 you know your risk in advance and you cannot lose more than you put up initially.

     Best ''sci-fi'' speculation of the year:  A tiny electronic ID device, virtually undetectable when embedded under the skin, could hit the market in 2009.  Driven by homeland-security concerns -- and because it is more convenient, secure and accurate than outmoded means of personal identification -- sales may soar and make its early backers rich.

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     All the predictions and investment opportunities I've mentioned here, and several others, are explored in detail in Hottest Investment Opportunities of 2009.  We've put this report together because it's a perfect introduction to our Market Advisor newsletter.

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     #1:  We Aim for Spectacular Gains (by Being Defiantly Contrarian).  Despite all the rocket scientists and supercomputers on Wall Street, the best way to get rich from investing is the same low-tech approach that applied a century ago:  to take advantage of ''mob mentality."  That means buying when the crowd is selling (when bargains are plentiful), and selling when the crowd is buying (when you can reap huge gains).

     If you buy the same investments as everyone else, you're going to have the same performance as other people -- which is always mediocre.  This is why Market Advisor is defiantly contrarian.

     It's an approach that has served us well.  For example, every year I send my Market Advisor subscribers a confidential report on my favorite investing ideas for the upcoming year.

     While unpopular and out of fashion with most investors, these picks have beaten the market every year.  By searching out unloved contrarian stocks with strong catalysts behind them, I've generated a compound return of +156.9% versus just +68.1% for the S&P 500.

     #2.  We Never Buy a Stock Without a Firm Catalyst in Mind.  The secret to making money in stocks isn't just finding a great company.  GE is a great company that hasn't gone anywhere in years.  Ditto for Microsoft, Pfizer and Intel.  All these flagship stocks are trading lower than they were 10 years ago.

     The secret is finding great companies that are poised to benefit from a future catalyst.

     Just as chemical catalysts speed reactions between substances... stock catalysts create a dramatic impact on a company's fortunes... and trigger a sudden rush into its stock.

     Catalysts come in all shapes and sizes.  But here are three of the biggest ones I am constantly on the lookout for:

     A surprise takeover announcement -- Like we saw with our own position in Wrigley.  When Mars made a takeover offer our shares jumped +23% in a single day... and our total return so far is +83% and counting.  (We made a total of +78% on that one in less than two years.)

     A killer new product -- Like the iPod, which rescued Apple from being a marginal computer company... added tens of billions of dollars to the firm's market cap... and catapulted its stock from $9 to nearly $200.

     Radically new business conditions -- Like the rush into Caterpillar stock when the bull market in commodities kicked off five years ago and triggered a seller's market for its products.  This major new catalyst for Caterpillar pushed up its revenue by +100%, its profit by +220%, and its stock price by over +200%.

How We Find Stocks With Strong Catalysts

     To help me pinpoint stocks with the most powerful catalysts behind them, I've developed my own Catalyst Rating System.  This tool helps me quantify the real strength behind a stock, rather than just going by a hunch that ''things look good'' for it.

     These catalyst-driven picks have outperformed the market by a long shot.  In fact, my ''Beat the S&P'' Portfolio has tripled the performance of the S&P 500.

     The average total return of every recommendation in the five years since I started this portfolio in May 2003 is an even +110.0%.   Meanwhile the S&P 500 is up +35.4%.

     Because it works so well, I've made my Catalyst Rating System the backbone of my newsletter.  This rating system is behind all my investment decisions.  And the only place you'll find it is in Market Advisor.

     In fact, StreetAuthority Market Advisor is the only service combining a strict contrarian discipline with catalyst investing.  So if you want to know which securities have the strongest catalysts on the market today, there's no other place to look.

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