We recently had an IDE editorial meeting in Delray Beach. I got a sound reminder of the diversified talents represented by your IDE editors at this get together. There was clearly an air of excitement and anticipation regarding ways to navigate the present economic and financial mess. It also became painfully obvious to me that most investors stand little chance of ever gaining financial freedom. You needn’t have that concern.My fellow editor Andrew Gordon and I had an intense conversation about the plummeting earnings on the S&P 500. In fact, he just wrote an editorial portraying this unfolding scenario.

It was a real mind blower for both of us to fathom the profound meaning of these disappearing earnings. Mr. Gordon (he is a tiny bit older than I am) subsequently e-mailed a confirming chart my way:

Turn Away if You Suffer from Vertigo

Please grab a sickness bag. While many investors follow the Dow, the S&P 500 provides the most accurate measure of the status of the overall US market. As Andy reported, S&P earnings have “nosedived from $80 to $7 – the biggest drop ever recorded.” Both Andy and I are putting an exclamation point on this pathetic event.

You, also, should be extremely wary. This chart indicates that the earnings on one of the world’s most important stock indices are pitiful and plummeting. Little wonder corporate insiders are selling their company stock en masse.

Without earnings stock prices are temporarily levitating. Earnings have gone up in smoke! Isn’t that the life you’ve personally experienced over the last year as budgets are reigned in and unemployment has become pervasive? The S&P index has traded sideways within a range for the past few weeks, but it is still extremely overbought.

Personally, I have been shorting the S&P, but it’s hard to glean any satisfaction from making money from this catastrophe. There is no reason to hold stocks without sufficient earnings. I continually claim we’ve long been in depression mode and this ugly chart screams the truth. A picture (chart) can be worth a thousand words.

What should you do about it? I’m afraid you’re going to have to escape the CNBC, Wall Street and nightly news cheerleaders. These are all inside the box players and you will never regain your lost wealth or become rich following these puppets.

It’s a major stretch to believe you can randomly buy the general market and make 10% per year, though that is a common misconception. Factor inflation into the equation and you clearly see the folly. Most investors will never regain their lost wealth from the 2008 historic carnage. Only those of you wise enough to seek unique and highly profitable investment earnings will become whole again. The opportunity for enviable riches is also present.

Your IDE pundits are, to a person outside the box, offering commentary and services designed to protect and enhance your wealth. You cannot buy general stocks with miniscule earnings and expect to do anything but lose more money. No earnings directly equates to no capital gains.

Nor can your portfolio sit idle as it will end up looking like the nasty graph you just inspected. Ninety nine percent of us must have income or capital gains especially in a hyperinflationary environment.

As you may know, I’m primarily a resource stock investor. I’m also utilizing the incredible IDE brain trust in all of my financial decision making processes. You should be as well. I like and have confidence in each of these experts. We offer a very diverse range of worthy services that are designed to enhance your profits and assist you in escaping the failing financial matrix.

Check them out and see which of us best fits your investment temperament. We cover the total investment spectrum from bonds, blue chip stocks, options and natural resource speculations. The S&P index is down approximately 4% year to date but the last 14 picks I recommended in my Resource Windfall Speculator are up an average of 44%. All of your IDE editors are dead serious about bringing heady profits your way.

You simply must find the right escape hatch out of this historic mess.

Invest Resourcefully,

Rusty