America’s Rise to Industrial Dominance Will Be Slow – but Profitable

We’re already gaining from this core investment theme… [The Freeport Navigator logo]( [The Freeport Navigator logo]( September 21, 2024 [More Articles]( | [Free Reports]( | [Premium Services]( Saturday RoundUp [America’s Rise to Industrial Dominance Will Be Slow – but Profitable]( Hello, Fellow Navigator. The first high-speed rail service, meaning speeds above 300 kilometers per hour (186 mph), was introduced in 1964 in Japan. Since then, 14 other countries have joined the club… with China boasting top current speeds of over 501 km/h (311 mph) and prototypes that travel over 1,000 km/h. That’s faster than a commercial flight. Most of the countries on the high-speed rail list are the usual suspects you’d expect: France, Spain, South Korea, etc. But even upstarts like Indonesia and Morocco have joined the club. One country is notably absent: The United States. The fastest train in America is Amtrak’s Acela, which has a top speed of a whopping 150 mph over a single 49.9-mile stretch of track in Central New Jersey. Most of us are stuck at highway speeds of 70 mph (if traffic is halfway reasonable) or dealing with the beatdown of getting to the airport two hours early only to have the flight delayed anyway. America may be the world’s leading economy… just don’t expect to get anywhere fast. That’s a problem because time is money, air travel is expensive, and the existence of cheap and efficient transportation gives our competitors an advantage over us. Well, I have progress to report… sort of. Brightline is building a high-speed rail line to connect Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2 hours and 10 minutes, or about half the time it takes to drive. The project is being hailed as a test case for U.S. high-speed rail. There’s just one problem. There is no American manufacturer currently able to build trains fast enough to make use of the infrastructure. Sigh… One of our core investment themes at The Freeport Society is the rebuilding of America’s industrial empire. We’re in an age of deglobalization, as the American and Chinese economies decouple. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and replacing China’s massive industrial base with our own isn’t something we should expect to be quick. This is a trend with a runway measured in decades. But it’s one that we’re already profiting from. The paid-up members at The Freeport Investor find that four of their investments in this space are already up over 30% – and I expect a lot more where that came from. If you’re interested in joining in on these gains, as well as tapping into our wins across our other core investment themes, [simply click here to learn more about becoming a member of The Freeport Investor.]( Now, let’s dive into what we covered this week at The Freeport Navigator… [China Is Dead. Your Portfolio Doesn’t Have to Be.]( September 16, 2024 China just announced it would be raising its retirement age amid population decline and a life expectancy of 78 years. But this unsustainable shift creates some fantastic opportunities for us, and it ties into two of our core investment themes here at The Freeport Society. [Click here to continue reading](. SPONSORED [Do NOT Buy Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, or ANY Major Tech Stock…]( 31 billionaires (including: Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and more) are quietly unloading shares of their OWN stocks at RECORD pace… But why? Wall Street legend Eric Fry says it’s because, soon: [“America’s most popular stocks like Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Tesla, and thousands more… are set to come plummeting back to Earth.”]( Erasing YEARS of investor profits… Sparking a $17 trillion PANIC on Wall Street… [Click here to get the details of what is being called: The 2024 Tech Panic.]( [The New Space Race Is One of the Next Investment Frontiers]( September 18, 2024 Today, there’s a new space race, one that includes returning to the moon after a five-decade hiatus. But this time, the government isn’t rounding up captured German scientists to make it happen. Instead, we’re going back to the moon on the backs of private industry. [Continue reading John Pangere’s piece about the investment opportunities this brings](. [The Fed Caved to Wall Street. Now What Do We Do?]( September 19, 2024 Wednesday’s rate cut gave Wall Street exactly what they wanted. And with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell risking reigniting inflation, the question is: What do we do now? In Thursday’s Freeport Navigator, Charles lays out our next move. [Continue reading here.]( SPONSORED [Have You Heard of the 5-Day Options Trading Challenge?]( If you’ve never traded options before… And you don’t know the difference between a call and a put… The 5-Day Options Trading Challenge was created with YOU in mind. A multimillionaire options trader and former Chicago Exchange market-maker will reveal his simple three-step options system to give you the tools and confidence you need to learn how to target gains like: 126%... 245%... even 463% or more… often in 30 days or less. [Get the full details here, before the Challenge begins September 23.]( Looking Ahead It’s far too early to know how the Federal Reserve’s rate cut will flow through to the housing market, though we’ll get a decent look at the health of the industry next week. New and pending home sales data as well as the Case-Shiller Home Price Index are all on deck. I’m more interested in what gold and Bitcoin are telling us. Gold has been hitting new highs after the 0.5% rate cut was announced, and Bitcoin has been showing signs of life as well. This only makes sense. All else equal, currencies tend to rise when interest rates are high or rising. They tend to fall when rates are low or falling. Today, the dollar is expensive relative to most world currencies because, comparatively speaking, our rates were high. But now that rates are moving the opposite direction, we should expect dollar weakness. This is good news for dollar hedges like gold and Bitcoin… so if you don’t already own some, you might want to get on that! I’ve got some more ideas on that over at [The Freeport Investor](. Find out how to join us by [going here](. 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