Hoo boy, Oskar. Are you ever right and I disappointed.
How can he go on and on about how political power corrupts and war is an example of this then out the other side of his mouth state that people who make wartime investments will be happy???
Anyhow. I will obviously need to continue to pre-read the books I send the kids’ direction.
He doesn’t promote wartime investments in his “Uncle Eric” books.
Apparently he has added himself to the long list of people who’ve been corrupted by power.
How can investing in “the machine” that enables war to continue and kill be “Treat others as you would have them treat you.”
We may be missing something.
I have always read him as a concerned soul who wants what is best for everyone.
ISH! That isn’t coming across here.
Thank-you.
God bless.Richard Maybury is widely regarded as one of the top free-market writers in America. His articles have appeared in the WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and other major publications.
President of Henry Madison Research, Inc., Mr. Maybury is a world-renowned author, lecturer and analyst who consults with business firms and individuals in the U.S. and Europe.
Mr. Maybury is often compared to General Billy Mitchell. You may remember that Mitchell foretold the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; he was one of those rare individuals with the amazing knack for seeing through the "conventional wisdom" and political smoke screens, to spot crucial new trends - the kind that catch most other experts by surprise.
Throughout the 1990s, Mr. Maybury warned about a coming world war between Washington and Muslims, but few listened, just as few listened to Mitchell.
Now, ever since 9-11, thousands have been hanging on Mr. Maybury's every word. Subscribers who have been taking his advice - to invest in things that do well in wartime - have been reaping astounding profits.
Mr. Maybury stresses repeatedly that the war is still quite young, and small, compared to what is coming. He says, "Ten years from now the world, including America, will be greatly changed, almost unrecognizable from what it is today. But those who put their money in wartime investments will be vastly more wealthy, and those who don't will be, to put it mildly, not very happy."
Mr. Maybury specializes in writing about geopolitics and economics, especially those of Chaostan, a term he coined in 1992 meaning, the land of the great chaos.
Chaostan covers roughly the area from the Arctic Ocean to the Indian Ocean and Poland to the Pacific, plus North Africa.
Mr. Maybury is the inventor of the Chaostan model, as well as the Maybury Complete Consumer Price Index, and the New Axis model. He uses these, and others, including the free-market "Austrian" economics of Nobel Prize winner F.A. Hayek, to give his readers information regarding their businesses and investments that they cannot get anywhere else, only in his newsletter, U.S. & World Early Warning Report.
Says Mr. Maybury, "Investment trends are caused primarily by economic conditions, and economic conditions are determined, unfortunately, by that horrible scourge called politics. To forecast what our investments will do we must forecast what governments will do. Every investment analysis should begin with a look at the politics behind it."
The mainstream media pay little attention to the crucial topics Mr. Maybury often writes about, because they simply do not have the training to sort the wheat from the chaff. You have probably noticed that most newspaper and TV reports are heavily laden with "filler." In U.S. & World Early Warning Report you get only insights that are relevant.
In each of his books, Mr. Maybury includes an introduction explaining,
"For reasons I do not understand, writers today are supposed to be objective. Few disclose the viewpoints or opinions they use to decide what information is important and what is not, or what shall be presented or omitted. I do not adhere to this standard and make no pretense of being objective. I am biased in favor of liberty, free markets, and international neutrality, and proud of it."
He calls his viewpoint "Juris Naturalism," meaning the belief in a natural law that is higher than any government's law. This, incidentally, was also the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and the other American founders.
"Let me be very clear about this," says Mr. Maybury. "I'm proud of my viewpoint and do not try to hide it behind a smokescreen of phony objectivity. I believe political power is the most evil thing humans ever discovered. It corrupts the morals and the judgment."
For investors, he says, "Throughout history, and everywhere in the world, where we see greater exercise of liberty, we see things getting better, and where we see more use of power, we see war, tyranny, economic disruptions and poverty. For investors, it's the granddaddy of all no-brainers. Buy where you see more liberty, and sell where you see more power."
"Unfortunately," he warns, "we've all been raised in government-controlled schools, and we've been taught to see political power as our friend, a protector. In fact, power is poisoning our civilization and surreptitiously leading us into wars throughout the region where it is worshiped - Chaostan."
He gives a tip: "One of the easiest tricks for investors is to watch the way power changes flows of money. Move into investments that are on the receiving end of the flows, and move away from those that are on the losing end."
When asked, "So investing is all political?," Mr. Maybury answers, "Well, not all. Maybe 95%, and the more savvy you are about power, the more profit you will earn."
"This is why," he explains, "the political foundation of my investment analysis is not democrats vs. republicans, or liberals vs. conservatives, it's liberty vs. power. Both political parties are on the power side, which is why every election in the U.S. is just a contest between tweedledum and tweedledummer."
Now you know why, over the years, many readers have observed that Mr. Maybury's newsletter is not for the faint-hearted. He looks at investment trends in ways no mainstream analyst would dare.
For instance, "Washington meddled in Chaostan incessantly for more than five decades until millions grew to hate America," explains Mr. Maybury. On 9-11, Washington's enemies sprung a trap, luring us into a giant guerrilla war in Asia. The federal government fell for it hook, line and sinker."
Again, "political power corrupts not only the morals, but the judgment."
"Americans," he believes, "see the war as a problem, but Washington's enemies see it as a solution - a way to keep America tied up so that they can do as they please. Washington's enemies do not want the war to end until America is a backwater has-been where freedom and three meals a day are just memories."
But there is good news, if you are willing to see things the way few others have the courage to. Says Mr. Maybury in his January 2007 newsletter:
"Look back at all the worst disasters in human history - World War II, the Great Depression, the Black Plague, the destruction of the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, and so on. In every case, while much of the population was suffering, there were exceptions. Some people were in the right places at the right times, doing exactly what was needed to prosper. Most of these exceptions were probably due to luck, but some people were knowledgeable enough for luck to play only a small part.
I think when the Soviet empire began falling apart 17 years ago, the world entered another of those awful periods of turmoil. Already, in that 17 years, more than a hundred wars have broken out, killing more than five million. 1
But, it is possible for knowledgeable individuals and their families to copy the successful exceptions of the past. If you have been following EWR's strategy of investing in things that do well in wartime, you have been one of the exceptions for well over a decade. Congratulations."
Mr. Maybury has written 22 books and monographs and has been interviewed on more than 250 radio and TV shows across America, on topics ranging from monetary policy, investments and business cycles to the geopolitics of the Mideast oil region and former Soviet Union, as well as U.S. foreign policy. His "Uncle Eric" series of books focuses on economics, law and history.
In the realm of geopolitics, Mr. Maybury's insights come not only from a great deal of education, both formal and self-taught, but also from hard experience. During the Vietnam War, he was in the Air Force's 605th Air Commando Squadron, a special operations unit involved in covert warfare in Central and South America. He was a crewmember on AC-47 gunships, and C-46, C-47 and C-141 transport planes, and helped train scores of the CIA's foreign troops from the notorious School of the Americas. He learned first hand the truth of Senator Hiram Johnson's remark that the first casualty when war comes is truth.
Married more than 39 years, Mr. Maybury has lived abroad, traveled around the world, and visited 47 states and 45 countries.
It is this unusually broad and deep "real world" background that enables him to see, like Billy Mitchell, just a little bit more clearly than others. It led best-selling investment author Harry Browne to say, "I was in the financial newsletter business for 24 years, and I still know a lot of people in the business, and I don't know anybody who is as universally respected by his fellow newsletter writers as Richard Maybury is. There is so much competition, and even antagonisms in that business, but Maybury seems to stand apart from all of them."
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