All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident” —Arthur Schopenhauer                           

In the early 20^th century, Russian scientist Alexander Maximow proposed a groundbreaking scientific theory.

For decades, this theory would be laughed at by the medical community. For years, it would be aggressively opposed by politicians and religious activists, sometimes even in violent protests.

Today, the same theory is building fortunes…

In 1908, Maximow became the first to coin the term “stem cell,” theorizing that all blood cells came from a common parent cell found in bone marrow. In 1924, he discovered those very cells…

But his success was short-lived.

Maximow died just four years later — before any other scientists were willing to accept his findings as truth. Like Pythagoras’s claim that the Earth is round or Galileo’s finding that the Sun is the center of the solar system, it would take years before others were willing to fully embrace this knowledge.

A Short-Lived Dogma

It wasn’t until 1963 that a man by the name of James Edgar Till was able to validate Maximow’s work by identifying self-regenerating bone marrow cells in animal models. Following this research, a slew of stem cell studies hit the academic scene, sparking the beginning of the end of stem cell ridicule.

But just like Maximow’s 1924 discovery, Till’s victory was short-lived. A wave of aggressive opposition, the height of which hit in the early 2000s, would obscure the benefits of stem cell research for decades to come.

A gross misunderstanding of stem cells allowed politicians and religious activists to misdirect the public for their own personal gain. This 2005 cartoon from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sums up the history quite nicely:

As you’re likely already aware, the opposition to stem cell research has since drastically faded. Bush-era restrictions were lifted in 2009, and just last month, the European Commission rejected pleas to block stem cell research funding.

Today, we’re at Schopenhauer’s third stage of truth: where the benefits of stem cell treatments are becoming self-evident. Research claims are no longer ridiculed by academics, and political quarrels have been reduced to a whimper.

This is what happens when study after study continues to show the benefits of any new science.

The Regenerative Generation

Late last month, dentist and researcher Praveen Arany of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released yet another study showing the futuristic applications of stem cell therapy.

Arany and his team drilled holes into the teeth of rats, only to regrow parts of the tooth through stem cell activation. Unlike most stem cell therapies that require doctors to harvest cells beforehand, these researchers were able to activate cells already present in rats’ teeth using energy from a laser.

The study took place at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and raises the possibility that conventional dental procedures may completely be avoided in the future. Specifically, root canals and standard fillings may become a thing of the past thanks to this advance in regenerative medicine.

Of course, teeth are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to stem cell applications.

In February, for example, Mitsutoshi Yamada of the New York Stem Cell Foundation successfully turned cells from a woman with type 1 diabetes into insulin-producing cells normally lost to the disease.

The findings are a major breakthrough because current methods of cell transplantation usually result in rejection from the immune system. But when stem cells from a patient’s own body are used, the immune system is far less likely to attack the intruding cells.

Further, just last week, researchers from Johns Hopkins University announced they have successfully grown a human retina — perhaps the single most complicated biological structure — using a type of stem cell taken from nothing more than a piece of skin.

Advancements like these are near-miracles for those suffering from age-related disease. As we get older, our regenerative capabilities slow, but stem cells have the potential to completely reverse many aging processes we previously thought were inevitable.

Hearing loss and macular degeneration (age-related blindness), for instance, are two areas that receive a heavy amount of focus from the stem cell community. Scientists have recently restored hearing to deaf rodents using stem cells, and several human clinical studies are currently underway for the treatment of vision loss.

For every release of positive data and every step into the next clinical stage, the companies running these kinds of studies experience a new rally in share price.

Just take Osiris Therapeutics’ (NASDAQ: OSIR) Prochymal, for example — a treatment for an obscure condition known as graft-versus-host disease.

Sparked by marketing approval in Canadian and New Zealand markets, this stem cell treatment rallied nearly 400% within less than two years.

With movement like that on international approvals, you can only imagine how the market would react to a positive PDUFA decision from the FDA. Likewise, we can expect an even bigger rally from stem cell therapies targeting less obscure markets.

It’s for this reason that we’ve recently added this stem cell company to our portfolio. Its stem cell pipeline is targeting progressive heart disease in the U.S. — one of the largest medical markets in the world.

Turning progress to profits,

Jason Stutman

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Energy and Capital’s tech expert, Jason Stutman has worked as an educator in mathematics, technology, and science… Before joining the Energy and Capitalteam, Jason served on multiple technology development committees, writing and earning grants in educational and behavioral technologies. Jason offers readers keen insights on prominent tech trends while exposing otherwise unnoticed opportunities.

The pullback I’ve been warning you about in the U.S. equity markets is finally at hand. But once this pullback in the broad stock indices is over — the Dow Jones Industrials will lead the way higher yet again, and catapult to 31,000 over the next three years.

And one sector I’ll tell you about in a minute, will do even better — tripling, quadrupling and even quintupling in value — with select individual stocks in that sector spinning off gains of 2,000 percent, 3,000 percent and even more.

What? Are you out of your mind, Larry?

No, I’m not out of my mind. Quite to the contrary, I believe I am the one analyst who really understands the forces that are building to send the Dow rocketing higher. And especially the sector I’m about to tell you about.

Moreover, if you think I’ve lost my mind, consider this: My best forecasts have always been accompanied by the same shrill voices of others telling me I’m nuts.

The mining sector has been beaten up so badly over the past three years that even a normal rebound in the sector could enrich savvy investors by easily doubling, tripling and quadrupling in value.

 When I foretold of the 1987 stock market crash months ahead of time, they told me I was crazy.

 At the depths of the 1987 crash when I said that the stock market would see new highs merely two years later, they wanted me committed for life. Yet that’s precisely what the stock market did.

 When I forecast in early 1989 that a war would break out somewhere in the world in August 1990, they thought I was crazy. But on Aug. 2, right on time, Iraq invaded Kuwait.

 When I forecast the 1999–2000 top in the Nasdaq and the Dow … and the peak in the markets in 2007 … I was still virtually alone, with most analysts and investors thinking of nothing but blue sky for the markets and property prices.

 And on March 19, 2009, I even defied my colleagues predicting that the stock market bottom had already been reached at Dow 6,495, and that the market’s next big move would be a rocket ride to first, 11,000 … then 14,000 and then, even higher.

 Then there’s the big bottom in gold and silver I nailed in 1999 and their peaks three years ago, just 12 days from their highs in September 2011.

And many other wild calls I’ve made, including the rise in Asian equity markets and emerging economies in 2004 … the slide in the value of the U.S. dollar since the turn of the century … and my now infamous call to dump every mining stock that was publicly traded at the sector’s peak in October 2011.

These are ALL DOCUMENTED forecasts that, yes, I am very proud of. They have protected and grown the wealth of tens of thousands of investors.

And if I didn’t know better, I’d throw my hat in the ring right now with all those pundits out there who say the economy is not strong enough, so the Dow must crash.

BUT, I do KNOW better. The fact of the matter is that the Dow is going to reach 31,000 over the next three years …

NOT IN SPITE OF gargantuan federal debts …

NOT IN SPITE OF political dysfunction in Washington …

NOT IN SPITE OF the mess in Europe …

NOT IN SPITE OF the rising geopolitical conflicts all over the globe …

But BECAUSE OF THEM.

I know better because for the better part of nearly 36 years now, I’ve traveled the world and studied every major market and economic system on the planet. I have charted how they interact and influence each other. And I’m an avid student of the history of economic systems and markets.

And the fact of the matter is this: If you understand “the way capital flows like a loose cannon on the deck of a ship in the middle of a torrent … ”

As Herbert Hoover put it in his memoirs …

Then you will understand the powerful undercurrents in the world today — and you will be well-positioned to make a fortune over the next few years as most U.S. stocks catapult higher.

Once the current pullback in equities comes to an end, here is what you need to know to back up the truck to prepare for Dow 31,000:

First, collapsing governments in Europe and the U.S. will be just about the best thing that could happen for the U.S. stock market.

I know what you’re thinking: That’s a pretty bold, almost unbelievable statement. Larry has definitely lost his marbles.

But mark my words: As Western governments and their Western-style, largely socialist, huge entitlement programs go bust, the private sector will become the recipient of a tsunami of cash otherwise eaten up by the public sector, and that will send stocks into an explosive move higher.

And as Western governments teeter and the banking system crashes again — and it will — stocks will be deemed to be a safer place to put your money than just about anything else.

After all, just look at the Cyprus confiscation of bank depositor money last year. Banks will not be bailed out in the next crisis, and depositors everywhere will be bailed in.

Why keep your money in a bank then, when there’s no safety to be found and instead, large amounts of your capital will be deemed to be bank creditor funds?!

Second, rising interest rates will also be one of the major reasons the Dow and other broad market indices explode higher. To the contrary of many of the best minds on — and off — Wall Street, rising interest rates are no reason at all to be worried about the stock market, and in fact, are the opposite: Explosive fuel that will drive stocks much, much higher.

How so? There are three chief reasons.

1. Rising interest rates are a sign that there is rising demand for money and credit. That’s a positive.

2. Rising interest rates are also a sign that bond values are going to be heading down, and quite dramatically. As investors leave the bond markets, they will have to put their money to work in other asset classes.

3. Unlike when interest rates rise solely due to a healthy growing economy, this time around rates will rise because of a crisis in confidence in government.

Sounds bad, right? After all, if governments are collapsing and rates are rising as a result, stocks must crash too, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. Reason: There will be a GIANT shift of capital AWAY from the public sector, and BACK INTO the PRIVATE SECTOR.

Want proof of all the above? Just look at the 1932 to 1937 time period and what most analysts are NOT telling you about the Great Depression.

Back then, U.S. and European economies were plummeting in a depression. Unemployment continued to soar. And interest rates began to climb for the very same reasons they are starting to rise today, despite central bank intentions to keep them low: Primarily because 17 nations in Europe were going bankrupt, defaulting on their sovereign bonds.

And though the U.S. was the world’s creditor then, its bond markets also came under suspicion. Banks were folding left and right in Europe and the U.S.

Tens of billions of dollars fled the sovereign bond markets — and the banking system — and went directly into U.S. stock markets.

Despite the worsening global economy, the Dow Jones Industrials soared three hundred and eighty-two percent from a low of 40.56 in July 1932 to a high of 195.59 in March 1937.

All in the middle of the worst depression in our nation’s history!

And all of my indictors and studies tell me that the Dow’s 2009 crash low of 6,495 is tantamount to the 1929 crash low in the Dow.

And that a similar 382 percent gain from that low would put the Dow Industrials just north of 31,000!

Thing is, from current levels, that’s just over a double in the Dow Industrials. Nice, and something every smart investor should take advantage of once any pullback is over.

But there’s a heck of a lot more money
to be made in the mining sector!

Why? It’s simple:

A. Although there may be one more test of the lows, gold and other precious metals, like silver, platinum and palladium are bottoming and headed substantially higher too over the next few years …

With gold likely to fetch well over $5,000 an ounce a few years from now and silver better than $125 an ounce. That alone will push mining shares through the roof.

And …

B. The mining sector has been beaten up so badly over the past three years — with many miners losing as much as 90 percent or so of their market cap — that even a normal rebound in the sector could enrich savvy investors by easily doubling, tripling and quadrupling in value.

And as I said at the outset, select individual miners will likely spin off gains of 2,000 percent, 3,000 percent and even more.

Best wishes, and stay tuned,

You’re not-so-crazy but definitely unconventional analyst,

Larry

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“If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.” 
                                                                                                                              – Jack Bogle

After rallying 11 times in 13 days, the S&P 500 has now pulled back for three days in a row. Despite Wall Street’s give and take, the truly interesting aspects of this market have been the low volatility and very low trading volume. Consider this: Thursday was the market’s worst day in four weeks, and even that was a measly 0.74% loss. It’s been more than two months since the S&P 500 dropped more than 1% in a single day. Overall, this has been a very placid spring.

 

….read more HERE

Briefly: In our opinion speculative long positions are still favored (with stop-loss at 1,910, S&P 500 index).

Our intraday outlook is neutral, and our short-term outlook remains bullish:

Intraday (next 24 hours) outlook: neutral
Short-term (next 1-2 weeks) outlook: bullish
Medium-term (next 1-3 months) outlook: neutral
Long-term outlook (next year): bullish

The U.S. stock market indexes lost between 0.1% and 0.6% on Wednesday, retracing some of their recent move up, as investors took some profits off the table. The S&P 500 index bounced off the nearest resistance level at around 1,950-1,955, marked by Monday’s all-time high of 1,955.55. The nearest important level of support is at 1,940, and the next support is at 1,915-1,925, marked by recent consolidation. For now, it looks like a relatively shallow correction within an uptrend. There have been no confirmed negative signals so far, as we can see on the daily chart:

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Expectations before the opening of today’s session are slightly positive, with index futures currently up 0.1%. The main European stock market indexes have been mixed between 0.0% and +0.2% so far. The S&P 500 futures contract (CFD) remains slightly below its record highs, as it continues to fluctuate below the resistance of 1,950-1,955. The nearest important level of support is at around 1,940, marked by recent local lows. For now, it looks like a consolidation following recent advance, as the 15-minute chart shows:

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The technology Nasdaq 100 futures contract (CFD) is close to its long-term high, as it extends fluctuations along the level of 3,800. The support level is at around 3,780. There have been no confirmed negative signals so far:

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Concluding, the broad stock market is in a rather flat correction following recent rally. We expect some more upside. Therefore, we continue to maintain our already profitable long position, with stop-loss at 1,910 (S&P 500 index).

Thank you.

Today a legendary trader and investor spoke with King World News about the comments made yesterday by Mark Mobius about China as well as a scary chart.  Victor Sperandeo has been in the business 45 years, and has worked with famous individuals such as Leon Cooperman and George Soros.  Another legend, hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, said, “Victor Sperandeo is gifted with one of the finest minds I know.  No wonder he’s compiled such an amazing record of success as a money manager.” 

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Incredibly, Sperandeo was interviewed in Barrons in September of 1987, where, with astonishing accuracy, he predicted that the stock market would crash.  The market crash took place one month later and it just added to his legendary reputation.  Below are the warnings issued by Sperandeo regarding the end game and gold.

….continue reading HERE