Dear Friend,

My name’s Mike Ward.

I’m the publisher of The Money Map Report, one of the fastest-growing financial publishing companies in the country.

I’ve put this exposé together for a very important reason…

To reveal a grand delusion that’s been foisted on the American public.

One that could literally force 99% of Americans into minimum-wage jobs instead of the leisurely retirements they’ve planned for.

It may be hard to believe you could be bagging groceries, flipping burgers, or working at Wal-Mart during your golden years…

Even if you’ve already saved a million dollars or more.

But it’s not an exaggeration.

Over the next few minutes, I’m going to show you exactly how today’s million-dollar retirement account will likely be worth less than $100,000 just a short time from now…

$99,513, to be exact.

It’s not because of further market crashes, either.

In fact, the most disturbing – and dangerous – thing about what I’m going to reveal to you today is the fact that it actually makes the markets appear to go up.

That’s what’s going to cause problems for many Americans, even millionaires.

They’ll think they’re banking solid returns – and getting closer to a wealthy retirement…

But they’ll actually be losing money. Just like I’ll prove they have been throughout Wall Street’s so-called “recovery.”

How is that possible, when many Americans are now breathing a little easier because their retirement assets are approaching where they were in 2007?

That’s the “delusion” part.

Even if you don’t know it.

You may think that because the Dow’s up 74% off the bottom, you’ve made back some of what you lost in The Crash.

But as you’ll see, if you’re like most people, you’ve really lost an enormous amount of money.

The problem is that this “recovery” seems so real…

And Americans want it to be true so badly…

That hardly anyone even knows it’s actually costing them their retirements.

Many Americans – even the millionaires among us – will be blindsided by this delusion too late to do anything about it.

Instead of retiring rich, they’ll be forced to take jobs flipping burgers or bagging groceries to make ends meet.

I wish this weren’t the truth. But it is.

And I’m going to prove it to you in several different ways. Let’s start with a very easy-to-understand way right now…

Take a look at this chart. It’s from the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis.

As you can see, the U.S. monetary base has been expanded from around $850 billion or so in early 2009 (at the beginning of the “recovery”)…

To just over $2.7 trillion in 2011.

That’s an increase of more than 217% in just 2½ years.

Here’s what that means, in real-money terms: Every dollar that’s in your wallet, your bank account, your IRA, and everything else you’re holding right now…

Is actually worth less than one third as much as it was in March of “09 by the purest measure of inflation – the amount of money in circulation.

Let me put this in perspective for you: To simply keep pace with this real-money inflation of the number of dollars since the bottom of The Crash…

The Dow would have to be sitting at 36,243 right now!

Again, that’s for your domestic investments to simply stay where they were at the bottom – without actually making you a dime’s worth of real money.

Yet today, the Dow is barely one third of that number. Looking at it this way…

It’s easy to see how the 74% gains investors could’ve recouped in the markets since the beginning of the “recovery” are actually enormous losses.

What makes it even worse is that these devastating losses are totally off the radar of all but the most tuned-in of investors.

Why is that, you’re wondering?

Because that’s the way the government wants it…

You see, a weakening dollar makes U.S. exports more desirable abroad, boosts home prices in nominal terms, and reduces the magnitude of our foreign debt obligations.

It also artificially balloons the stock market in nominal terms. Just like it has for the duration of this “recovery,” as I’ve already shown you.

Let me just be crystal clear here: Our so-called “recovery” is ALL A BIG ILLUSION – one the President and Congress are desperate to keep you believing.

So desperate, in fact, that they’re willing to sacrifice the U.S. economy – and cook the books while they’re doing it…

Just to keep you calm and spending dollars that increasingly resemble toilet paper.

That’s why the government’s official “inflation rate” shows an increase of just a few percentage points over the last two years…

Even though The Fed has more than tripled the number of dollars in circulation.

In typical government form, they’re not calling this sudden infusion of $1.85 trillion “inflation.”

They call it things like “reinvestment,” “stimulus,” and “Quantitative Easing.”

But all of these things have radically increased America’s money supply. Which makes every dollar in circulation worth much less in relative, real-money terms.

In fact, based purely on the increased numbers of dollars in circulation, the relative, real-money value of $1 million in March of “09 is less than $316,000 today.

And as you’ll see, that number’s about to get much worse…

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