Obama’s New “Economic Fuel”… and 7 Ways to Profit

by David Fessler, Advisory Panelist, Investment U
Monday, November 10, 2008: Issue #883

Our next President will be faced with unprecedented challenges in health care, energy, global warming, an aging infrastructure and huge “legacy” automobile businesses that are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy.



He’s also being presented with an incredible opportunity… one that, if implemented correctly, could have profoundly positive effects on the economic health of the world, just when we need it.

For years, the engine that fueled global economic growth was the spending of the American consumer. Market crashes because of the dot-coms and the housing boom have left many individuals with too much debt and not enough money. Americans are tapped out, and they’re closing their wallets.

Reinvigorating our economy rests upon jumpstarting consumer spending - and ultimately improving the financial condition of millions of Americans. It’s much easier said than done - and this new administration will have its work cut out for it.

If you’ve got an eye on how these government actions could benefit your bottom line, you should take a look at our past. You might find these newest sources of “economic fuel” and wealth creation look surprisingly familiar. The government’s solution could be just the thing our portfolio needs for a healthy return in the years to come…

The Cause of The Current U.S. Economic Slowdown

Ask most people to give you the cause of the current economic slowdown enveloping the United States and the rest of the world, and their likely answer will be the explosion of housing and the subsequent bubble in the credit markets.

But that was just the peak of the problem, not the beginning. The trouble has its roots in something that started 20 or 30 years ago.

That was when we started seeing the shift away from personal savings in America and toward the beginning of a huge consumer credit crisis.

And now, we are witnessing first-hand the effects of the increasing use of massive leverage can have on the markets, and ultimately on the American consumer. They’re broke and can no longer be the fuel that powers the world’s economic engine.

With consumer spending slowing, layoffs increasing and hiring all but stopped, the prospects for future economic growth aren’t particularly bright. Or are they? We have almost everything we need to fire up the world’s economic engine again: The ingenuity of the American people, plenty of factories, etc.

There’s only one thing missing… the fuel to get it going again.