Wild fiscal imbalance… record government spending… rampant federal encroachment into the private market… The government script is that the free market has failed. And what is their response? More federal government…
It’s a neat trick. But it doesn’t wash here at Notes. We’ve been doing our homework. And the reality is long… long… way away from the official story. As underground investor Alex Green put it recently over at Investment U, if the free market was responsible for the collapse:

• Who took short-term rates to the cellar, creating a massive incentive for consumers and investors to borrow?
• Who gave real estate investors a $500,000 tax exemption on their profits from flipping houses every two years?
• Who passed laws criminalizing banks’ failure to lend to subprime borrowers?
• Who set up quasi-government institutions Fannie and Freddie … to warehouse those bad mortgages, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab?

You got it… The same people who are now howling about how the ‘free market’ (such a thing hasn’t existed for quite some time) got us into this mess.

Alex says Team Obama’s spending plans and its hostile takeover of what’s left of the free market mean the middle-class can expect their taxes to “go higher… a lot higher.”

Alex, for those of you who don’t know him, is the chairman of InvestmentU.com and the investment director of The Oxford Club, an index-beating network of private investors and entrepreneurs.

He says the best way to combat higher taxes is to invest in tax-free, municipal bond funds. Here are three solid reasons why you should consider tax-free munis:

1. Ten-year municipal bonds, while down from the historic premium they reached a few months ago, are yielding as much as 10-year Treasuries. Treasuries are taxable. Munis are not.
2. Most municipal bonds are safe. Yes, a few areas – particularly in California and Alabama – are troubled. But the historical default rate on municipal bonds is just 0.3%.
3. Taxes will soon be going higher. A lot higher.

Alex recommends two ways to cash in on tax-free munis. These could be critically important in coming years. As Alex says, “The wild fiscal imbalance is already crystal clear. Washington politicians will soon demand that you sacrifice even more of your paycheck so that they won’t have to sacrifice the near erotic charge – and high incumbency rate – they get from spending it.”

1. Buy them through Vanguard if you are a mutual fund investor. (The average fund company charges expenses six times higher than Vanguard’s.)
2. If you are a closed-end investor, try a tax-free fund like Nuveen Insured Municipal Opportunity Fund (NYSE: NIO) trading at a 10% discount to its net asset value and yielding over 6% paid monthly.
3. Or, to avoid annual expenses and have the certainty of a final value on a particular date, buy individual tax-free bonds.

Alex has uncovered the perfect way to make money in today’s market. It involves ignoring all talking heads on CNBC for the next 45 days.

Just confirm your interest and full address here, and The Oxford Club will FedEx you a $1,500 check. This money is yours to keep. You’ll never have to pay it back.

Alex’s track record so far is outstanding. By following his recommendations from March 9 to March 17, 2009 – one week – you could have tripled your money. And from January 20 to May 5, 2009, you could have turned just $5,000 into $62,968.