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Here’s Why Investors Should Ignore Elon Musk’s Latest AI Warning

By , Associate Editor, Money Morning -

elon musk

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk just issued a dire warning about the future of AI.

But the business magnate is missing a pretty big piece of the picture...

This Visionary CEO Will Give You a Piece of the Tech World’s Biggest Private Equity Fund

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

Visionary CEO

The very first "rule" in my Tech Wealth Blueprint holds that "great companies have great operations." As we've seen, great operations require great leaders.

Now, they don't necessarily have "rock star" CEOs with name recognition like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, but they do have competent and experienced leaders with the unique vision and wherewithal to outlast global, political, and economic upheaval on the way to making their product or service "indispensable" for billions of consumers.

The kinds of leaders who can reshape the world.

That's the kind of leader - and the kind of company, of course - I'm going to fill you in on today.

You might not be familiar with him; he's not as recognizable as Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg...

...but I'll put him (and his 300-year plan) up against those Silicon Valley greats any day of the week.

The Single Best Way to Invest in E-Sports in 2017

By , Money Morning -

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E-sports is becoming one of the biggest gaming trends out there.

And there's one stock poised to offer investors big returns from the trend.

Here's how you can invest in e-sports in 2017...

This Small $4.5 Billion Defense Niche Is Set for a 20% Shot in the Arm

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

Defense

We've talked about some truly revolutionary tech developments rocking the entire defense sector right now, like laser weapons, advanced drones, fifth-generation bombers and fighter aircraft, battlefield AI, and global awareness.

It all sounds very sci-fi, but it's happening now (and making us some serious money).

I want to talk about something a little less flashy but perhaps even more important to keeping our armed forces effective when boots are on the ground.

It's not headline-grabbing, and you certainly couldn't call it "state of the art." In fact, at less than $5 billion, it's a relatively small, overlooked niche in one of the world's most lucrative, high-profile sectors.

That's just one of the reasons why I love it right now. The upside is huge, market-crushing, and it's all likely headed to this European company with a U.S. presence...

Here's What a $1,000 Investment in Amazon's 1997 Debut Is Worth Today

By , Associate Editor, Money Morning -

Amazon

Since its 1997 IPO, Amazon.com Inc. has returned more than 51,000% to investors.

AMZN stock is now trading 49 times higher than it did 20 years ago.

For early investors, it's grown an initial $1,000 investment into this insane amount...

To Make Big Money in Tech, You Have to Study the "Other Side" of Silicon Valley

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

Before I began working for you folks, I served as a senior advisor to a dozen tech startups and sat on the board of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm (VC).

And when it comes to finding profit-producing tech investments before mainstream stock analysts do, that gives me a leg up on Wall Street.

In fact, it gives me a "secret" method.

Besides following the stock market and keeping my ear to the ground here in Silicon Valley, I spend hours each week intensely studying VC funding.

Continue Reading...

These Shares Are Why the Nasdaq Will Clobber the Rest in 2017

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

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As I predicted in my 2017 outlook a few weeks ago, tech is off to a screaming start to the year. The tech-centric Nasdaq is up close to 3.2% versus the S&P 500's 1.45%.

Here's the key: As the years go by, Silicon Valley will be providing more and more of the technology that's becoming critical to our society's existence, like broadband and mobile communications, wearable tech, sensors, virtual and augmented reality, and medtech.

But here's the thing. Virtually none of that can exist without the fundamental component I'm going to tell you about right now. It's absolutely indispensable to innovation, miniaturization, mobilization, and utilization.

This little part enables the global spread and adoption of technology - and you bet it enables massive tech profits, too.

So the play I have in mind has lots of upside wired in...

This “Digital Hostage Crisis” Play Is All Upside

By , Executive Editor, Money Morning • @privatebrief -

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It was just two days before the Thanksgiving holiday when 40-year-old Alina Simone, a Brooklyn, N.Y., musician and writer, received a frantic phone call.

It was her mother, and she was being "held hostage." Digitally speaking...

With panic in her voice, Simone's mother read the stark message displayed on her computer screen.

"Your files are encrypted," the message stated. "To get the key to decrypt files you have to pay $500. If you fail to pay within a week, the price will go up to $1,000. After that, your decryption key will be destroyed and any chance of accessing your files - all of your data - will be lost forever."

The message was signed "Sincerely, CryptoWall."

More than 5,000 files - irreplaceable family photos, critical work documents, life-sustaining bank statements, and other sensitive information - were now in the hands of cyberthieves.

Hysterical, and uncertain what to do, the Simones capitulated and paid their captors nearly $600.

Welcome to the new digital horror known as ransomware - a cyberthreat so colossal that security specialists are now classifying it as an "epidemic."

That's not hype.

It's a fact.

And I can prove it.

Better yet, I can show you how you can turn the tables, protect yourself, and then cash in big on this new threat - immediately

But before I show you how to do that, let's take a closer look at how ransomware has grown to epic proportions...

Tuesday's Defense Mandate Is a Huge "Before the Crowd" Profit Opportunity

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

defense

The biggest election upset in modern American history was one that virtually every polling organization got dead wrong.

But I'm not a political analyst. My job is to put the very best investments in tech squarely in front of you. 

The way I view it, we're likely to see U.S. and global markets reel through at least some instability for the next week or so as Tuesday night's result sinks in. Wall Street hates uncertainty, and that's precisely what we seem to have now.

I believe that instability is masking a huge new opportunity, one that might not have existed before Tuesday.

Let me show you what I mean...

How to Profit from the Next Generation of Defense Tech

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

We've been talking about the defense "supercycle" of spending - set to last for at least a decade - that's only just beginning to ramp up. But there's one segment in this broad category that's already seeing huge amounts of increased spending.

Now, time was, this sector was more science fiction than actual, deployable technology. But an increase in computing speeds and a renewed focus on deploying "smart" technology means that this industry is actually in a supercycle inside a supercycle.

In fact, online research firm MarketsandMarkets projects that the $420 million market in 2014 will explode in the next five years to $5 billion - that's a CAGR of nearly 54% for the next five years.

Another study by techemergence.com anticipates an $8.3 trillion market by 2035 in the U.S. alone.

From $420 million to $8.3 trillion in just 20 years... Much of that windfall will come from one whale of a customer: the United States government.

I'm going to show you how to tap this growth dynamo quickly and easily, so you can get positioned for maximum upside as this trend takes off...

A Pure Play for the "World War 3.0" Cyber Arms Race

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

cyber arms race

President Obama and his generals have consistently put cybersecurity at or near the top of U.S. strategic defense priorities.

Ever since, the military and government have had their work cut out for them, fighting relentless, daily waves of computer attacks, in many cases against vital national interests.

The private sector is in the trenches, too, as state actors and individuals press attacks to get trade secrets or customer identity data.

Now, recent high-profile cyberattacks against the Democratic National Committee, most likely by Vladimir Putin's intelligence services, have pushed the issue into "six o'clock news" territory.

But the problem goes so much deeper than the media is reporting. This country is embroiled in nothing less than a full-scale global cyberwar right now. There may not be any casualties (yet), but everything is up for grabs and the stakes are very high.

For instance, the cost of fighting this war is set to eclipse $1 trillion between 2017 and 2021, making the battlefield one of the largest new markets on earth.

I'm going to show you how you can profit from our efforts to win, but first let me peel back the curtain on a huge conflict that's largely hidden from public view...

This Market Could Grow 33% a Year for the Next Decade

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

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The Internet of Things could be worth as much as $3 trillion once it hits its fullest potential.

What's more, it's sparked an exciting new sub-segment, "wearapeutics," which could be worth nearly $100 billion in its own right.

Here's the smartest move to play all of it...

How to Profit on This $2 Trillion Tech Trend

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

tech

We're in the midst of a very profitable moment for dealmaking, especially in the technology sector. The three hottest M&A transactions of the past three months were worth $33.8 billion - a fraction of the $2 trillion in deals announced this year.

Companies like Microsoft and Verizon are going out and buying firms like Yahoo!, Fleetmatics, and LinkedIn because they offer the irresistible promise of massive growth without the long, drawn-out process (and even higher price tag) of R&D, where there are no guarantees of success.

So you can see why deals are appealing to these huge, cash-flush companies.

But these deals are a great thing for investors, too. Deals can be some of the biggest profit catalysts on the market, in many cases doubling investors' money as the ink dries.

Then again, there are some unique challenges for investors looking to play these profitable special events: Pinpointing when those deals will happen - and who will be doing the buying - is a must.

You don't need to be able to tell the future, though - I'm going to tell you how you can make an "end run" around that particular challenge.

All you have to do is sit back and bank the profits...

High Tech Is About to Make My Favorite Strategic Metal Very Expensive

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

strategic metal

Rare earth and strategic metals are one of the hottest segments of 2016. The VanEck Vectors Rare Earth Strategic Metals ETF is up more than 15% year to date, in a year when the broad markets have struggled mightily to put, much less keep, 4% gains on the board.

The market here is so hot, in fact, that my absolute favorite strategic metal is being overlooked in favor of "flashier" counterparts. Don't get me wrong, it's seen some nice gains, too, of more than 23%, but I think there's lots more upside ahead that most investors aren't seeing... yet.

That's likely because the demand picture seems like it couldn't be better... But I'm going to show you that demand is about to get impossibly tight. 

Investors who wake up to the changing nature of this metal stand to make even more money on top of what has already been a double-digit run-up.

But you'll have to grab these shares quickly...

A Ground-Floor Opportunity in the Next Decade’s Most Disruptive Technology

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

ground floor opportunity

Every tech investor looks forward to the classic "ground-floor opportunity," the chance to invest in a young company, inches from going public, developing a new, compelling technology that has every chance of wide adoption.

A company like that can bring gains that just keep getting bigger and bigger for years. Take Netflix, for instance, the undisputed king of streaming video. If you'd bought shares of the company back in 2002 when streaming was on the drawing boards and the firm was a DVD-only mail rental business, you would have seen gains as high as 11,388%, not accounting for splits.

Today I want to tell you about another ground-floor opportunity waiting in the wings. I've been following it closely, and I've been in close touch with one of the chief architects of this exciting new technology.

I couldn't be more fired up about the profit potential here.

Let me be clear, you can't invest in it right now, but soon you'll be able to grab shares at a real bargain. I'm going to let you know right away when that happens.

But in the meantime, here's why I'm so excited about "Deep Learning"...

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