How the World’s Wealthiest Families Make Money Even When Stocks, Bonds, and Real Estate Lose Value

By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, Ph.D. (June 2006)
Edited by Mike Palmer, with Ryan Markish and Greg Yenoli

One investment – which most Americans know nothing about – is one of the secrets behind some of the world’s richest families.

I’m going to show you how to take advantage of it personally... and very soon... with amazing results.

We call this investment a “secret currency” because it is beyond the reach of any government or corporation. And because many of the world’s wealthiest families have used it for generations to grow dynasties.

The secret currency is a form of gold.

But it’s not your typical gold investment.

It has nothing to do with mining stocks, mutual funds, options, futures, or bullion. Instead, this is a kind of currency used for centuries by the richest families to profit on financial windfalls created by governments around the world. This secret currency is not old-fashioned or obsolete. In fact, look through the rolls of the richest people in the world and you find dozens of families using this investment to both grow and safeguard their wealth. For example..

• The Rothschilds (at one time, the wealthiest family in the world)
• The Onassis family (Greek shipping magnate Aristotle married Jackie Kennedy after JFK died)
• The Hunt family of Texas (H.L. Hunt made his billions as an oil wildcatter)
• The DuPonts (whose descendants today run the second biggest chemical company in the United States)
• The Morgans (JP was one of the richest railroad men of the last 100 years)
• The Adams family (famous for producing two U.S. presidents)
• The Hopkins family (Johns gave money to build the university and the world-famous hospital, which both bear his name in Baltimore)
• The Green family (Hetty Green was once the wealthiest person in the world – wealthier than Bill Gates today)
• The royal Farouk family (which produced the last two kings of Egypt)

This investment is like gold, only better – with the potential for much higher returns.

• From 1972 to 1974, this investment rose 348%, according to an index that keeps track of its market as a whole. At the same time, stocks dropped 34% according to the S&P 500 stock market index.
• From 1976 to 1980, while the stock market plummeted 35%, according to the S&P 500 index, the investment I want to tell you about realized 1,195% profits.
• Then, more recently, between 1987 and 1989, investors who took advantage of the secret currency saw profits of 665%. Stocks, meanwhile, went on a roller coaster ride – up and down dozens of times (sound familiar?) during this period.

The last time the Salomon Brothers brokerage firm included this vehicle in its annual investment survey, the secret ranked #1 over the prior 20-year span, with an annual return of 17.3%. In other words, it was the single most profitable thing you could do with your money over the previous 20 years.

It beats stocks, bonds, gold, silver, artwork, diamonds, U.S. Treasury bills, real estate, and oil, according to an article in the Chicago Tribune.