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Mega Trends Will Deliver Huge Gains in 2018

“This is an aging bull market. A crash is coming.”

“This bubble market fueled by the Fed is going to crash.”

“Trump’s going to cause the market to crash.”

For nearly all of 2016 and most of 2017, investors have been reading these kinds of headlines.

When I joined Banyan Hill, my first article, “Stocks: The Big Opportunity You’re Missing,”made many investors so angry that they wrote my publisher asking him to have me fired.

In that article, I told you that stocks were a good deal. And I told people that they should be buying stocks instead of panicking and selling them.

 Congratulations!

My suggestion to readers was to simply buy the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA).

If you were one of the readers who bought this exchange-traded fund, you are now up 65%. Well done and congratulations!

These are the best stocks to invest in this year because they follow the business mega trends that will lead to huge gains.

You deserve this because I know how hard it can be to buy when the markets are down.

It also took a lot of guts on your part to buy when most people told you to sell.

Those gains were hard-won by you.

But now that buying stocks is no longer scary, you might be wondering if it’s time for you to cash in your hard-won gains and sell everything.

 My GoingUpness System

For sure, stocks are a more popular trade than when I told you to buy in February 2016.

After all, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 28% in 2017 alone.

However, 2017’s large gains mean there’s a good chance that 2018’s gains will be smaller. My best guess is something like 8% to 10%, perhaps as high as 15%.

The way I come up with this estimate is by using my GoingUpness system. GoingUpness is the system that I use to pick stocks in my three paid services.

The GoingUpness system is based around the potential demand and supply for stocks. GoingUpness focuses on the most important benefit of owning shares: a rising stock price.

After two years of gains, my GoingUpness system says that at higher prices there are fewer people who are going to come in to buy stocks than in 2016 or 2017. That also means you’ll see some periods where some people cash in and sell.

The bottom line: Less demand and more supply means that you’re going to see smaller gains in 2018.

 A Focus on Mega Trends Reveals the Best Stocks to Invest In

However, for certain segments of the market, like the ones I focus on in my paid services, I believe we’ll see much higher returns.

The reason for that is because these stocks are going to be experiencing more growth. More growth means more demand for their stocks and bigger gains.

This is why readers in my Profits Unlimited  service have seen gains of over 200% in the Internet of Things (IoT).

Nearly every stock in the Profits Unlimited portfolio is up today. And I fully expect that we’ll see more big winners in 2018.

The reason for these gains, I believe, is a focus on mega trends like the IoT, precision medicine and the millennial generation.

And in 2018, we’ll add new trends:

  • Financial technology, or fintech (which includes using technologies like blockchain, mobile payments, peer-to-peer lending and artificial intelligence agents).
  • New energy (which includes natural, sustainable, renewable energy, lithium- and hydrogen-based energy sources, and portable, storable and local sourcing).

This focus on mega trends is the reason why I believe Profits Unlimited stocks are going to keep outperforming. And their contributions to market indices like the Dow and the S&P 500 are the reasons why I expect the overall market to keep going up.

That means while stocks are still a good bet for your money, the big mega trends like the ones in Profits Unlimited are going to be an even better bet for your money in 2018.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly
Editor, Profits Unlimited

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Amazon Is Going to Crush This Entire Group of Companies

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is about to strike at a new target.

“It’s a matter of when, not if,” David Larsen told clients in a report last Thursday.

Larsen is an analyst at Leerink Partners, an elite boutique brokerage firm that’s an expert on health care stocks.

From my 20 years on Wall Street, I know that Leerink’s analysts are top-notch.

When they say something, you pay attention … which is exactly what many of you need to do now.

Because if Amazon enters this market, it would pose an immediate threat to many of your stocks.

 These are popular, dividend-paying stocks that I’m certain many of you own.

And that’s terrible news for you and your portfolio.

See, here’s what happens when Amazon targets your stock…

First, they start going down.

Second, as the business that your stock controls gets “Amazoned,” it keeps going down.

In this case, it’s a business that’s seen as safe. It has many barriers to entry, according to one of the CEOs who’s being targeted.

However, an analyst at a consultancy believes otherwise.

“They are disruptive instantly if they do it differently,” says Linda Cahn at Pharmacy Benefit Consultants.

So, what’s the business that Amazon is getting ready to disrupt?

Ripe to Be Amazoned

It’s the prescription drug market.

You may not have known this, but before you get your drugs from your local drugstore, they go through quite a wild ride.

Just take a look at this infographic to see what I’m talking about:

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(Source: USA Today)

This convoluted pipeline enriches middlemen. It also makes drugs more expensive by as much as 36%.

This is a big deal. Total prescription drug spending in the U.S. was $457 billion in 2015. And it’s set to skyrocket to $610 billion by 2021, according to recent research.

The current system is a gold mine for the middlemen — companies like Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), CVS Health Corp. (NYSE: CVS) and Express Scripts Holding Co. (Nasdaq: ESRX) get rich off of us.

That’s because in the end, all the extra cash comes from you and me, most directly through higher copays at the pharmacy and from rising health insurance rates. Finally, we also pay through our taxes when we pay for government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

In other words, this group of companies is ripe to be Amazoned.

Transparency and Efficiency

You see, Amazon specializes in bringing price transparency and efficiency to the businesses it goes after. That’s because these are businesses that make their money because they lack transparency and efficiency.

“Amazon could bring transparency into a marketplace that is entirely lacking,” says Cahn.

Amazon poses a real, direct threat to the big drugstore companies, according to Leerink Partners.

I agree. And the stock market is noticing and beginning to price in this threat.

Already, the stock of CVS is down 28% from its high point hit in May 2016. Walgreen is down 27% from its high in August 2015. Finally, Express Scripts is down 37% from its high point in July 2015.

I believe that these companies are going to get destroyed by Amazon. That’s because their only true competitive advantage is information.

It used to be hard to get information about drug prices and pharma spending. However, this is no longer true.

This information is now available widely. And in Amazon’s hands, it’ll become a flamethrower that destroys the profits these middlemen businesses generate.

Death Traps for Your Money

When Amazon enters this business, it’ll cut prices. We know this because of other businesses that have been Amazoned. It’s also the first thing that Amazon did when it got control of Whole Foods, which it recently acquired.

With that, the profits margins of CVS, Walgreens and Express Scripts are going to be crushed. Their stocks will follow.

Now, many of you are going to be tempted to buy these stocks. They are going to look cheap. And they’ll keep looking cheap. But don’t be lured into them.

I believe these companies are death traps for your money. They are doomed. Amazon and innovative companies like it are going to crush them until they are gone.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly
Editor, Profits Unlimited

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Apple Is Doomed

Apple is doomed. And 2018 is the year where I believe you’ll start to see that this once-great American company has peaked and the Apple stock price is ready to decline.

Truthfully, I’ve been wrong on Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) stock for a year now.

Driven by Warren Buffett’s huge buying spree — over $20 billion in shares — the Apple stock price has gone up, up and up.

This has happened despite its business being stagnant or in slight decline, depending on which quarter you look at.

 To me, most people buying Apple stock are buying into a memory.

That memory is of Steve Jobs introducing truly revolutionary products.

Like the iPod in October 2001, which by allowing you to carry tens of thousands of songs in your pocket transformed the way you listen to music.

Like the iPhone in June 2007, which shrunk a computer so that you could have access to everything you used to use your desktop computer for.

Like the iPad in April 2010, which perfected the tablet computer as an alternative to laptops.

But then Jobs died in October 2011. Since then, Apple has introduced no new revolutionary products.

Instead, Apple now tinkers with models, sizes and colors. Apple sells five different models of its iPhone. You can get them in six colors and in multiple sizes.

Apple’s latest phone, the iPhone X, has facial recognition and an OLED display.

Some people think this is a big deal. Steve Wozniak, one of the co-founders of Apple, thinks it’s no big deal at all.

“I’d rather wait and watch that one. I’m happy with my iPhone 8, which is the same as the iPhone 7, which is the same as the iPhone 6, to me,” says Wozniak.

Now there’s an even bigger thing happening. One that guarantees that Apple’s future is one that’s going to disappoint the people who have been buying its stock.

An Incredible Red Flag for the Apple Stock Price

That thing is the Chromebook. A Chromebook is a cloud-based computer that uses Google’s software.

Chromebook sales are on fire in a market that Apple used to dominate: schools.

Chromebooks now have an astonishing 58% market share in K-12 schools.

Even my kids use Chromebooks. Their school uses Google’s cloud-based word processing, spreadsheet and presentation apps.

People looking at the Apple stock price through the eyes of iPhone sales are going to miss this incredible red flag.

You see, Apple’s brand, reputation and customer loyalty begin with kids using its products.

I believe that Apple’s seeding schools with computers set the platform for Apple’s success. By the 2000s, those kids had jobs and money, and had formed a connection to Apple because their first exposure was through the company’s computers.

Steve Jobs confirmed this in a 1995 interview:

One of the things that built Apple IIs was schools buying Apple IIs. … We realized that a whole generation of kids was going to go through the school before they even got their first computer, so we thought the kids can’t wait.

Now Google is forming that relationship with kids. Already my kids and their classmates are learning to use Google by using voice commands instead of typing.

Amazon is forming that relationship with kids as well through the use of its Echo devices and Alexa platform.

The Innovation Race

Using voice instead of a keyboard is a revolutionary shift in how we use computers. This is a revolution you can see unfolding slowly right now through the sales of speakers that connect to cloud platforms like Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa.

Apple had the lead in this market when it introduced Siri in October 2011. However, since then, it stopped innovating and improving Siri. It let Amazon and now Google overtake it.

And I believe that because Apple’s focusing on tinkering rather than innovation, Amazon and Google’s lead are only going to increase while the price of Apple stock declines.

Apple wiped out the old cellphone leaders — Nokia, BlackBerry and others — because those companies sat on their lead and tinkered instead of innovating. I believe the same thing is going to happen to Apple.

Now, the Apple stock price continues to go up because investors like Warren Buffett are willing to bid it up. Plus, the company is buying back billions of dollars in stock each quarter.

However, this doesn’t change the fact that Apple is now losing “mind share” among the customers of the future — kids — and losing the innovation race by falling behind in the next wave of computing, which is going to be in voice-based cloud platforms. Watch in 2018 for the decline in the Apple stock price.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly

Editor, Profits Unlimited

Right now, an untapped ocean of energy—found underneath all 50 states—is about to transform the world’s energy industry. In fact, there’s enough of this energy in the first six miles of the earth’s crust to power the United States for the next 30,000 years. Wanna know this untapped energy source? Learn NOW! And as companies rush to extract this energy from the ground, they’ll need the help of one Midwestern company’s technology to make use of it. This is your chance to take advantage of John D. Rockefeller-type fortunes. Early Bird Gets The Worm...

Source: Banyan Hill

The No. 1 Stock to Own for 2018

My windshield was smashed. Everything of value in my car was gone. They had rifled through every single thing in my car, leaving a mess.

That’s what happened to me the first time I took my car to New York City.

This was in 1989. My entire summer job’s earnings were in this car that I had paid $800 for.

It was a nine-year-old, unpleasantly yellow two-door Toyota Tercel. Still, it worked, and best of all, I had a car for the first time since I’d come to the United States.

So, of course, one of the first things I did when I got back to college … was drive it to New York City.

Back then, New York City was crime-ridden. Bryant Park, which is now a fancy place, had so much drug activity that you’d see needles scattered through the park.

So, why am bringing this up to you today? You see, the stock market is a bit like New York City in the 1980s. There is incredible risk if you’re buying the wrong stocks, and you’ll end up losing more than you bargained for…

Learning the Hard Way

People had warned me: Don’t take your car to New York City. Just take the bus.

Or if you take your car, park it in a paid parking lot. They told me my car would be safe because someone was watching the lot.

Of course, I didn’t follow any of this advice. I was a poor college student, and the idea that I was going to stand around waiting for a bus, then pay $12 for round-trip tickets seemed silly when I had a car.

Paying $15 for parking also sounded ludicrous, especially when parking on the streets of New York City was free.

You can say I learned my lesson the hard way.

To repair my windshield cost $100. The value of the things in my car was another $40. Then, to add insult to injury, I was ticketed because I stayed over the time limit for the spot I parked in. That was another $50.

Following the guidance of people who had experience would have saved me valuable money.

Right now, if you make the wrong moves in the market, I believe you’re going to find yourself in a similar position. Not, however, if you look to mega trends.

The Lens of Mega Trends

You see, many people think that the market is too expensive. They use backward-looking statistical measures like cyclically adjusted price to earnings, or CAPE, to justify their view.

However, the problem with CAPE is that it’s incredibly backward-looking. It looks backward, when stock markets look forward.

And when you look forward using the lens of mega trends like the Internet of Things (IoT), CAPE looks wrong. Completely wrong. The reason for this is productivity growth.

Productivity leaped by 3% in the last quarter. That’s the fastest level the U.S. economy has experienced in three years.

Most economists think this is a fluke. However, the stock market is a better forecaster than any economist. The S&P 500 is up 3.2% since this was announced.

I believe this is the beginning of a huge rise in productivity growth that’s going to go on for years, thanks to these mega trends.

 More Money in Your Pocket

The causes of productivity growth are hard to see in the data today. However, I believe it’s the early dividend due to the rising use of IoT technology like Big Data, artificial intelligence and robotics. These technologies are being used in more countries and in a rising number of industries.

This is why I am optimistic about where the prices of stocks can go in the U.S. and many parts of the world. In fact, the No. 1 stock for subscribers of my Profits Unlimited service is up over 200%, and it’s an international sensor/chip company that’s involved in every facet of the IoT.

As productivity rises, we’re going to see this stock and others continue to rise.

The bottom line is, doing the right thing now means more money in your pocket later. And based on what I’m seeing today, I believe that the right thing to do is own stocks in general, and then to focus on those that are exposed to rising growth and productivity.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly

Editor, Profits Unlimited

In this exciting NEW VIDEO, Wall Street legend and former multibillion hedge fund manager Paul Mampilly pulls back the curtain on the biggest investment opportunity in the market today. What insiders are calling “The Greatest Innovation in History,” this revolution will mint more millionaires and billions than any technology that came before it. Right now, the current market for this technology is just $235 billion, but given how fast this technology is moving experts predict it will soar to $19 trillion by 2020. But 8,000% growth is just the beginning—and now’s your chance to get in on the action. [CONTINUE TO VIDEO]

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Is a Cryptocurrency Crash About to Happen?

“I’m rich!” my friend Tess said to me.

“How?” I asked her.

“My stock is up over 1,000%.”

“Wow!” I gasped.

That was late in the year of 1999, during the greatest bubble ever.

To know how incredible this bubble was, listen to this.

Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) rose 2,619%. Twelve other stocks, including the one that my friend Tess was in, rose by at least 1,000%. Another seven rose by 900%.

Now, just understand that many of these stocks represented big companies in the Nasdaq Composite. So, for Qualcomm and these companies to go up by this much was a clear sign that a mania — a bubble of gigantic proportions — was going on.

Right now, another incredible bubble is going on, and I’ve got a strong feeling that history is about to repeat itself.

My Money Was Safe

Personally, I sold all my stocks in 1999. And I watched from the sidelines as daily stocks jumped by 20%, 30% or even 50%, representing insane gains. For a while, I felt dumb.

However, when these stocks cratered in 2000 and 2001 … my money was safe.

There may be a massive cryptocurrency bubble underway that could cause a cryptocurrency crash. Here's what you need to know.

I warned my friend Tess many times. However, she didn’t heed my advice.

She never sold. And the stock that at one point had made her rich lost all its gains.

An Enormous Bubble Will Make Cryptocurrency Crash

Right now, I believe there’s a massive bubble going on in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ethereum that will lead to a cryptocurrency crash.

This Thanksgiving, you might’ve even heard your family and friends talk about the money they’ve made in one of these two currencies. And it’s true: some people have made millions. Others have made hundreds of thousands of dollars.

After all, bitcoin is up an astonishing 1,172% in the last 12 months, hitting a high of more than $11,000. In the last month, bitcoin is up 50%. Over the last seven days, it’s up 17%.

There may be a massive cryptocurrency bubble underway that could cause a cryptocurrency crash. Here's what you need to know.

Now, many people have written to me already telling me that my negative feelings about bitcoin are because I missed out.

The truth is, this is exactly what people told me in 1999, when I told them that stocks were a bubble and going to crash. Tess even stopped talking to me for a while when I told her she should sell the stock that had made her rich.

That’s the thing about bubbles. No one wants to sell. Once prices peak, people keep looking back, waiting to sell at the recent high. And they keep doing this till their gains are washed away.

The Essence of a Bubble

Clearly, my previous warning to stay away from bitcoin was too early. However, there’s no question that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are an enormous bubble that’s going to crash sooner rather than later.

The reason why I believe this is because in 1999, there was nothing underpinning the incredible daily gains in bubble stocks, and the same is true today for bitcoin.

The only thing propelling bitcoin is the news that it’s going up. That’s the essence of a bubble, where the idea that something can go up is the thing that people value the most.

And the thing about bubbles is that, eventually, everyone who is ever going to buy into it gets in. Then the selling begins.

When this happens, people will lose the incredible gains that they currently have in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Like in 1999, I feel a bit foolish because I’ve been wrong. However, I’ve gone through many bubbles in my 25-plus years of investing experience. And there’s no question in my mind that what’s going on in cryptocurrencies is a bubble that’s going to end badly.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly

Editor, Profits Unlimited

In this exciting NEW VIDEO, Wall Street legend and former multibillion hedge fund manager Paul Mampilly pulls back the curtain on the biggest investment opportunity in the market today. What insiders are calling “The Greatest Innovation in History,” this revolution will mint more millionaires and billions than any technology that came before it. Right now, the current market for this technology is just $235 billion, but given how fast this technology is moving experts predict it will soar to $19 trillion by 2020. But 8,000% growth is just the beginning—and now’s your chance to get in on the action. [CONTINUE TO VIDEO]

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2 New Mega Trends Coming up to Bat

Every holiday season I’m reminded of my first few years living as an immigrant in the United States.

You see, when I first came to this country, I’d never heard of Thanksgiving Day. In fact, I spent the first few years that I lived here believing that Thanksgiving was a national holiday dedicated to appreciating whatever you were most thankful for in your life.

And while I would eventually go on to learn all about American history and the story of the harvest festival, this time of year still makes me humble. It forces me to take a step back and think about what I’m most grateful for.

I would encourage you to do the same this holiday season. The markets are now closed in observance of Thanksgiving, so take some well-deserved time this weekend to enjoy the presence of your loved ones.

There will be plenty of time to worry about the markets next week, so I’m going to use this article as an opportunity to tell you about two brand-new mega trends I’ll be looking to add to my flagship newsletter, Profits Unlimited, in 2018.

Blockchain Is Creating A Truly Decentralized Economy

The first of these new themes is going to be blockchain as it relates to finance.

 You’ve probably heard of blockchain before, but in case you have only a loose understanding of the term, I’ll give you a brief explanation.

Blockchain is an online global ledger that anyone can use, but that also doesn’t exist in any master location. Think of it like an Excel spreadsheet that exists on multiple computers at the same time and that automatically updates itself every 10 minutes.

The decentralization aspect of this ledger makes it impossible for hackers to encrypt it and also makes it communal, because anyone who has an internet connection and who wants the database can do so.

This technology has turned the financial industry on its head, because for the first time in history, two different parties can come together to make a safe exchange without having to involve intermediaries, such as banks, rating agencies or bodies of government.

Add in the fact that our traditional banking system is overrun with fraud, additional fees and lots of paperwork, and you can immediately see why more and more people are turning to blockchain to make their transactions.

Given how completely disruptive this technology is, it’s no surprise that the global banking community is scrambling to implement blockchain technology into its existing infrastructure. But banks aren’t the only entities about to be disrupted by blockchain.

Imagine a truly decentralized economy where the middleman could be cut out of all transactions. It would affect every single industry in the world, from retail to transportation, to crowdfunding initiatives.

This is the kind of game-changing technology I want to be a part of, because the returns it could bring early investors are potentially limitless.

Ridiculous Amounts of Energy

Having said that, there is one major drawback to blockchain that also affects the Internet of Things mega trend. Both emerging industries require ridiculous amounts of energy output.

In fact, a 2014 study by researchers Karl J. O’Dwyer and David Malone showed that the bitcoin network alone was likely to take up as much electricity consumption as the entire country of Ireland. So, imagine how much energy we would need if all the banks in the world started to move toward digital currencies just to keep up with their competition.

That’s just not sustainable with our current energy grid, and it’s the reason why I’ll be looking to bring storable, renewable, natural energy-solution companies into my Profits Unlimited portfolio next year.

I don’t want to give anything away just yet, but between my current mega trends and the two new themes I’m beginning to track, I can promise you that next year will be a very exciting time to be a Profits Unlimited reader.

If you’d like to get in on the action and join me as I unearth companies taking advantage of these brand-new themes.

I’m going to end there for this week, but from my family to yours, I wish you the happiest holiday season.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly

Editor, Profits Unlimited

Right now, an untapped ocean of energy—found underneath all 50 states—is about to transform the world’s energy industry. In fact, there’s enough of this energy in the first six miles of the earth’s crust to power the United States for the next 30,000 years. Wanna know this untapped energy source? Learn NOW! And as companies rush to extract this energy from the ground, they’ll need the help of one Midwestern company’s technology to make use of it. This is your chance to take advantage of John D. Rockefeller-type fortunes. Early Bird Gets The Worm...

The Auto Industry Is About to Completely Change

“Will we need to learn to drive?” my son asked me recently.

Before I tell you what I told him as an answer, I want to give you an idea of why he asked me this question.

You see, right now, we’re at a moment when things that once seemed permanent are now in question.

Cars and driving are one of these things. Just to get a sense of car history, consider this:

Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker and their dog, Bud, made the first successful transcontinental automobile trip in 1903. Car technology was primitive. They relied on stagecoaches to ferry spare parts.

One time a cow had to tow them. And another time, a team of horses had to be sent to get them out of a Vermont bog. The 4,500-mile journey took 63 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes.

Few then would have imagined what would happen next.

An Insane Level of Growth

Incredibly, the U.S. went from 800 cars in 1900 to 458,500 in 1910 to 8.2 million cars by 1920 to 253 million now. That’s an insane level of growth.

And car growth has exploded even higher in recent years. In 2016, U.S. vehicle sales totaled 17.55 million. That beats 2015’s record of 17.47 million and was the seventh consecutive year of unprecedented growth.

However, I’m incredibly pessimistic about car sales because I believe that we’ve seen their peak.

In 10 years, we’ll have fewer cars on the road. And fewer still in 20. That’s why I told my son it’s unlikely he’d need to learn to drive.

The reason I’m so pessimistic is because new innovations are going to wipe out cars as we know them.

A Total Wipeout for the Auto Industry

The average price of a car is $35,000, but the costs of traditional car ownership go far beyond the price tag. There is also interest paid on car loans, insurance, taxes, fuel and maintenance. Some expenses are nonobvious, such as parking, property taxes and construction costs for home garages, and the value of our time.

And according to research by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, our cars are only used for about 4% of the day.

In other words, buying a car is one of the most wasteful expenses imaginable. If you take the 4% number at face value, it means a total wipeout for the auto industry. That’s because it means we could get by with 96% fewer cars if we had a system that uses the cars we own optimally.

This same study also says that, right now, as many as 25% of people are better off using ride-sharing services. These are services like Uber and Lyft that you can call from your smartphone.

I believe this study is right. The automobile of today is the equivalent of the horse and buggy-based transportation system of the 1800s. It’s primed to be replaced by a new transportation system that’s driven by electric, self-driving, internet-connected cars that will completely change transportation and, in time, life as we know it.

Waymo, the autonomous car unit of Google parent Alphabet, already has plans to start testing a new kind of transportation system.

“Because you’re accessing vehicles rather than owning, in the future, you could choose from an entire fleet of vehicle options that are tailored to each trip you want to make,” said Waymo CEO John Krafcik. People could claim the cars for a day, a week or even longer, he said. And, according to Krafcik, driverless cars could be completely redesigned, such as to include a dining area.

Now, many of you will think that this forecast is too strong. You’ll think that just because cars have endured for as long as they have, they’ll continue to be something that people rely on. And because of that, you’ll be tempted to buy car-company stocks as they go down.

However, don’t buy these stocks, however cheap they look. They are doomed.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly
Editor, Profits Unlimited

In this exciting NEW VIDEO, Wall Street legend and former multibillion hedge fund manager Paul Mampilly pulls back the curtain on the biggest investment opportunity in the market today. What insiders are calling “The Greatest Innovation in History,” this revolution will mint more millionaires and billions than any technology that came before it. Right now, the current market for this technology is just $235 billion, but given how fast this technology is moving experts predict it will soar to $19 trillion by 2020. But 8,000% growth is just the beginning—and now’s your chance to get in on the action. [CONTINUE TO VIDEO]

Source: Banyan Hill 

3-D Printing Could Make Your Next Home 40% Cheaper

My father’s dream was to build his own house.

However, building a house in India was an incredibly complicated affair.

First, you had to buy a plot of land. Next, you had to get an allocation from the government for all the materials you needed to make a house — cement, steel rebar, piping, you name it.

It was all in short supply because of India’s socialist economy, along with a quota system to dole out the limited quantities then available. And then to get your water, sewage and electricity connected … that was yet another ordeal.

Simply getting all this together was an enormous effort that took years. Of course, there was an easier way…

You hired a “fixer.”

 In India, and anywhere else with a dysfunctional bureaucracy, a fixer is someone who knows all the right people. He greases someone’s palm over here and trades a favor with someone else over there to get things done.

With a fixer, what might have taken two or three years instead took just a few months.

Still, with all that, the house my father built took years to finish. However, today, a new technology is emerging that can shrink build times and make constructing a home much cheaper.

The Incredible Costs of Rebuilding

That technology is 3-D printing.

And this technology may suddenly become mainstream because of the incredible damage to housing that Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have done in 2017.

Harvey is estimated to have completely destroyed 12,700 homes.

Irma is estimated to have destroyed 25% of all homes in the Florida Keys.

Maria is estimated to have caused damage worth as much as $30 billion across the Caribbean.

Dominica, an island that I’ve been to go hiking and canyoning, experienced a near 100% loss of houses and buildings. It’s unlikely that Dominica can afford to reconstruct itself using the old-fashioned, traditional way of building houses and buildings. It would cost too much money, and it would take too long.

However, Cazza, a 3-D printing company, could have a solution.

Using Cazza’s X1 robot, 3-D printed buildings like houses, villas, shelters, warehouses and commercial buildings can go up in as little as one week.

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Cazza believes that using its 3-D printing technology will save as much 40% on the old, traditional ways of building.

That’s a $20,000 savings on a house that costs $50,000 to put up. And remember, the 3-D printed model gets you your house in a week instead of months or years.

The current estimate for the still-incomplete hurricane season is already as much as $340 billion.

If you assume that 30% of this damage is destroyed homes and buildings, implementing 3-D printing technology like the Cazza X1 to rebuild will save as much as $40.8 billion. That’s a big deal.

This is why I’m watching the 3-D printing technology used on homes and buildings carefully. Because, in time, the techniques used to rebuild from disasters are also going to be used to make regular homes less expensive too. And the company that makes the 3-D printing technology is going to have a stock that soars for years.

These are the kinds of companies that I focus on for my readers across my publications. Join me if you’d like to get in on these kinds of incredible technologies that also deliver real, meaningful benefits to people.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly
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Wall Street’s Glory Days Are Numbered

“Welcome to Wall Street,” said the investment banker.

The year was 1989, and my college’s financial club had organized a trip to the New York Stock Exchange.

Our guide led us to the floor of the exchange because, back then, that’s where all the action took place.

Orders came flying in by phone, and some people even had portable devices to keep track of their stocks on the go.

As the open got closer, the noise rose to where you could barely hear the person standing next to you. But that was nothing compared to when the minute hand of the clock struck 9:30.

The minute we heard the “ding, ding, ding” of the opening bell, it was pure pandemonium.

Today, the floor is a little less exuberant, being mostly there for show now that a good portion of today’s trading takes place via computers.

But even though Wall Street’s essence has remained the same since it began in 1792, I believe its glory days are numbered.

See, Wall Street still has a monopoly on one essential part of trading … but in time, the internet is going to wipe out this current advantage.

Cutting Out the Middleman

Right now, Wall Street is made up by an army of middlemen.

These are your investment bankers, securities exchanges (like the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq), corporate lawyers, analysts, consulting companies, auditors, accounting firms, rating agencies and all-around paper pushers.

These entities exist for one main purpose: to help sell equity or stock to the public. So if you want in on the action, you have to go through this vast network.

And for this monopoly, you pay a heavy price.

According to PwC, an elite consulting company, investment banks charge a 5% to 7% fee to do an IPO, or initial public offering. This is the first time that a company’s stock is offered for sale to the public.

That means if your company’s IPO is worth $1 billion, investment bankers net as much as $70 million in fees.

However, that’s just the beginning…

Exorbitant Fees Cannibalize IPOs

According to a survey of registrations filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission — an arm of the government that regulates stocks — the average cost of these middlemen’s fees amounts to $3.7 million.

While that may sound like a lot of money to you, I actually believe that this average is way too low.

Bottom line: It costs way too much to become a publicly traded company today.

The best evidence of this is the lack of IPOs. After peaking in 1999 with 486 companies going public, IPOs have since crashed.

In 2008, just 31 companies became publicly traded.

And 2016 marked the lowest number of companies going public in nearly a decade, with only 105 IPOs.

Wall Street still has a monopoly on one essential part of trading … but in time, the internet is going to wipe out this current advantage.

A Better Way to Go Public

It’s clear that more companies are choosing to stay private longer.

But now, these companies will have a new way to get their shares and stock to people wanting a slice of the pie.

This new process is called an ICO/ITO, or initial coin/token offering, which is being popularized by cryptocurrencies.

Basically, this is the process of digitizing an asset to make it publically traded via the internet. And if used to sell stocks, this process has been shown to dramatically reduce costs.

According to one Quora user, an ICO can be done for as little as $100. On the high end of the spectrum, an expensive ICO might cost $300,000, said a lawyer on the same site.

That’s still peanuts compared to the $70 million an investment bank will charge your $1 billion company. Or the lowball $3.7 million estimated fees you’d pay an army of middlemen to do an IPO.

Now, to my knowledge, no one has gone this route yet. But the dramatic cost reduction in doing an ICO/ITO offering vs. an IPO means it’s only a matter of time before someone tries this method out.

And once a successful model has been built, it’ll be curtains for Wall Street’s current IPO business.

That’s one of the reasons I’m staying away from traditional Wall Street companies in my services.

Instead, I’m looking for companies that are going to benefit from the new school of finance — be it through ICO/ITOs, mobile payments or even the implementation of blockchain technology.

These trends are the future of investing, and they’re what I research in my flagship Profits Unlimited newsletter. So, if you too want to explore the cutting-edge areas of finance — before other people even hear about them — I encourage you to read up on my service.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly
Editor, Profits Unlimited

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