Between outrageous, never-ending taxes, inflation, and a declining dollar, there's never been a more important time to protect your retirement.

In turbulent times, investors turn to precious metals to protect their assets against any coming storms.

However, you're about to learn a secret…

The profits you make owning metals can be grown tax-free (or tax deferred) in your I.R.A. Better yet, you can legally implement it offshore.

Your I.R.A. Custodian probably told you it was impossible…

But he (or she) was wrong.

In the last 6 years, President Obama has proposed 442 different tax increases. That doesn't even include Obamacare, which, with its forced mandates and fines, really is another tax.

You are reading this today because you have made a conscious decision to be informed about what is going on in the world around you.

You are one of a very select few people around the world who has made this decision.

Yes, it would be easier go through life with blinders on. You would not have to worry then about the forces around you working against you and the health and wealth and safety of your family.

If you are reading this today then you are probably also aware of what has been happening in the precious metal markets.

Given the fiscal crises many states — federal as well as provincial — are facing, it is only a matter of time before more politicians turn their pecuniary focus on private savings (since there is no such thing as public savings these days). The Eurozone finance minister Jerome Dijsselbloem said that the Cyprus deal will serve as a template or model for future bank restructurings. Argentina and Hungary have already moved to nationalize private pensions, and there have been rumblings about a mixing of private and public pension funds in the United States.

Consider the following tale.

You are on a romantic cruise in the Caribbean with your wife of 40 years.  For the past year you had been saving up your money to be able to present her with a very special anniversary gift.

Half way through the Cruise, on the night of your anniversary, the cruise ship anchored off the Island of Martinique, at the dinner table, the time is right for you to hand her this exquisite gift.

Slightly nervous yourself, you reach into your pocket to present your wife with this perfect, up until now, secret gift, and you notice another couple, about the same age as you and your wife involved in a similar ritual but this gentleman is already handing the gift to his wife when...

Many Hemispheres readers are already heavily invested in gold and silver.  They are looking for diversification but would like to stay in hard assets and even more specifically, metals.    Fortunately, there is a new, valuable asset class that you can physically own in your own name, (trust or LLC) touch and see, take delivery of, or store off-shore in allocated, segregated fashion, reselling directly into the industrial market when you liquidate or when the stockpile is sold in its entirety at full mature value.

These are the rare and strategic metals that are now used in 80% of all products today.

“The secret ingredient of almost everything!”