[Originally posted at JeffNabers.com]

Cliff notes version:

• I will be offering free one-on-one phone consulting to qualified people
• In order to make room for that, I will no longer be offering free consulting in the form of blog comment responses

Here’s the skinny >>>

I’m making some changes to how I focus my energy and how I am able to help you with your wealth preservation and wealth building, both inside a Self-Directed IRA LLC or Solo 401(k) and outside of retirement funds.

Here’s what these changes will do for you:

• If you are aimed down a path that is likely to succeed, we may get a chance to work together more intimately
• If you are aimed down a path that is likely to destroy your wealth and frustrate you, you won’t get my help

Let me explain…

The #1 biggest factor making an impact your wealth right now is inflation.

Some people are trying to “beat” inflation by taking bigger risks to hopefully get bigger returns that will be bigger than inflation.

For 95% of my readers, that won’t work. It won’t work because bigger risks increase the gains and the losses, and over the long term most people will have worse performance as a result of taking bigger risks.

Around 5% of my readers have maybe figured out how to get bigger returns by spending more energy on some sort of system or process that yields larger returns. Moving forward, I don’t think that will continue working either.

Why won’t aggressive investment strategies work in the future?

Well… they will work and they won’t work. They will work in terms of turning your dollars into more dollars. They won’t work in terms or actual value adjusted for inflation.

This is because there is no limit to the amount of money the Federal Reserve has, can, and will print.

You can go after a 15% return.

The Fed can create 50% inflation.

You can go after a 50% return.

The Fed can create 500% inflation.

The Fed can create 5000000000000000000000% inflation.

There’s no limit. And they have to print lots of money because it’s the only way the government can keep spending more money than it has. The government will keep spending until it collapses. And the Fed will keep printing money for the government until that happens.

This means that each month, more and more money will be stolen from you through inflation. Whatever savings and income you have, it will buy less and less.

That’s not stores and merchants screwing you over by ripping you off. It’s the monetary system ripping you off because you remain vulnerable and exposed.

My New Service

If you are interested in how you can become fully protected from dollar inflation, hyperinflation, or even currency collapse… I’m offering a free strategy session for a limited time.

This is really my dream come true to be able to get back to working with my clients one-on-one and helping them on a very personal, attentive basis.

So, it’s my opinion that the only way you could be headed for success is if you recognize inflation as the most powerful wealth factor impacting you, and if you know you must fix this before taking on any other wealth building objectives.

If you’re on the path to success, you can request a free strategy session.

The Path To Failure (& new blog comment policy)

I believe that right now, the surest path to failure is to focus attention and energy on anything other than inflation protection. So I won’t help you do that.

Effective immediately, I will stop offering free consulting in the form of blog comment responses. This means that if you are looking for help with…

• Structuring complex (potentially prohibited) transactions
• Trying to figure out UBIT implications
• Trying to structure a real estate deal

…then I won’t be able to help you because I will be spending all of my attention and energy on helping people with the more important objective of inflation protection.

You could structure the most clever real estate deal in an IRA LLC and then lose all of your wealth in our continued (possibly accelerating) economic and currency collapse.

I won’t help you do that.

Or you could become fully protected from inflation and be in position to survive and thrive in any economic circumstances.

Some might say the health care bill is a distraction from what’s next. Peeling back the layers of the politicians’ never-ending string of nationalizations reveals that they may just be ramping up.

Believe it or not, the self-trustee Solo 401k may hold the key to empowering freedom-loving Americans to finally defeat government takeover of private industries.

Enjoy the video, as it contains a valuable game plan.

Watch the Video Now

We have seen some unbelievable things over the past few years… especially the past few months. The only thing certain is that there is a lot of uncertainty ahead. If you haven’t already done so, right now I strongly suggest you watch the 30 minute condensed version of the film I.O.U.S.A. This film features David Walker, the former U.S. Comptroller General… aka the chief accountant of the government. He tried to fix the government’s financial problems, but Dick Cheney and others told him he needed to stop because they didn’t need solving. So he stepped down from his position and decided to prove to the world just how bad of shape our government really is in.

Today some people, including congressmen, are promoting some very extreme ideas. Some of these ideas involve the government “nationalizing” (or “confiscating” for those of us who speak directly) the assets of the people. Some plans even call for confiscation of retirement account assets specifically. In one scheme called the “Guaranteed Retirement Account” all retirement assets would be liquidated and handed over the Social Security Administration for investment management in a program that would provide a guaranteed return of 3% per year. This kind of silliness doesn’t need to be gratified by anything more than a brief response:

1. We’ve already seen how well the Social Security Administration manages money. It simply doesn’t. There is no money. There is no account. It just hands its income straight over to the general spending account of the government, and (not surprisingly) it gets spent!
2. Liquidating $16 trillion is impossible. It would crash the securities market entirely, and $16 trillion would not be withdrawn. If you started liquidating people’s retirement accounts alphabetically by name, those with names that start with letters n through z would receive little to nothing because of the price free fall created by the first half of the mass sell off.
3. The real world cost of living increases do not jive with published CPI figures, and there is often a discrepancy of much more than a few percent. A 3% return on investment would likely be a steady loss of principal when accurately indexing for inflation.

While we may not see that particular scheme enacted into law, it can’t be ignored that this type of solution is being considered. This government theft approach isn’t unheard of. In fact, Argentina just did it! Don’t forget that our government “confiscated” personal gold holdings in 1933… at least sort of. It was really more of a “government request” than a confiscation. An executive order was announced that requested that citizens show up to a Federal Reserve Branch within a month to sell their gold for $20 per ounce. The notable fact here is that not all the gold was turned in. According to author John Rubino, only 22% of the gold in circulation was actually turned in. Shortly thereafter, the gold price was set to $35 per ounce, thus devaluing the dollar by 41%.

It is not beyond possibility for our government to aim to take our wealth to pay for its financial problems. The difference between the gold confiscation of the 1930s and the threat of retirement account confiscation today is this: In the 1930s it was effectively voluntary to surrender your gold, while today over 99.9% of retirement assets are in the hands of custodians who are regulated by the federal government. While the 1933 confiscation was only 22% effective, a confiscation today would be 99.9% effective because of our unfounded trust in the financial services industry.

If a wealth “nationalization” plan were pursued, the outlook is grim for the overall population, but you can protect your wealth by simply taking direct possession of it. With an IRA LLC or a self-directed, self-trustee Solo 401k plan, you can legally hold your retirement account assets yourself directly. If an order were placed for you to surrender your retirement account assets, you could simply distribute them to yourself before the order deadline. In such a case you might have to give up 40% or more of your assets to taxation, but that is much better than losing 100%.

Again, I don’t like to come off as spreading “gloom and doom”, but unbelievable economic events are occurring left and right. The acts of the Fed (in concert with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) may have already devastated your first pillar of wealth – home equity. Don’t let further acts of foolishness destroy your retirement account.

Spend your time looking at the lighter side of things – investments that perform well; investments that you can understand and have predictable results. Just make sure that you are protected from losing your assets due to lack of optimal structuring. Whether you use a Self Directed IRA or Solo 401k to invest in a variety of alternative assets, make sure you set yourself up for direct possession of your assets.

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