Of course, my 2009 readers were skeptical. Post-meltdown, they needed proof, not just assurance from me.

So I showed them how they could get an immediate $4,000 in cash as a “down payment” on the higher income they’d be receiving all year long.

Some of them got paid even more…

One person, Walt Brown, made $13,000 the first month!

He was so excited, he emailed to tell me about it:

But here’s the key point:

My readers sailed past the lies Wall Street was peddling. They didn’t fall for fantasy “growth” stocks. Nor did they settle for gains of 1% to 2% a year.

My “Wall Street Lie Detector” led them straight to buckets of cash.

And the payoff was big and immediate.

Unlike other battered investors, they didn’t have to sit on the sidelines… or wait and hope for their stocks to go up.

They could get paid – upfront – and look forward to a very large income all year long.

From reading their letters, I know my readers were surprised at how easy it was to avoid Wall Street’s traps and make real money with very little risk.

I still get letters like this:

And yet, the biggest surprise was still to come…

You see, Wall Street peddles the lie that “growth” stocks outperform dividend stocks. It’s their biggest lie.

They want you to believe the fairytale that “this one stock” will turn paupers into millionaires overnight.

They point to Gates and Jobs and early investors in famously successful companies as proof that “the next big thing” could make you very rich, too.

They claim that companies that pay cash are performance “slow pokes” – okay if you’re retired and “need income,” but without the juice to make you wealthy.

But in fact, the opposite is true. My “Wall Street Lie Detector” proves it…

If my first readers in 2009 had put $10,000 into each of my “magnificent seven” cash-payers and done nothing else for two years, they could’ve collected $18,799 in cash and grown their total capital 41%. Just by doing nothing.

Not bad.

• But if they’d reinvested their cash, their total capital could’ve grown 91%… ALMOST DOUBLING THEIR WEALTH IN TWO YEARS.

By sticking to serious cash-payers instead of chasing “the next big thing,” I put my first readers in a position to double their total wealth in two years.

Zeroing in on cash lets you avoid the lies AND gives you the chance to be very, very wealthy.

Research confirms it…

Ned Davis Research showed that from 1972 to 2008, cash-paying companies outperformed so-called “growth” companies by more than four times.

Just take a look at the chart…

Between 2000 and 2003, cash payers outperformed “growth” stocks by 65 percentage points!

Researchers Zou, Ping and Ruland showed that “companies with high dividend payouts typically experience a higher level of future earnings growth” than low-dividend payers.

In short, if you’re looking for growth – and riches – go for the cash.

Yes, it is this easy. But you have to know how to identify the right cash-payers.

Right now, the average yield for a dividend stock in the S&P 500 is just 2.78%.

So picking just any dividend stock – even one that seems to be paying a high dividend – won’t necessarily make you wealthy.

For one thing, you have to steer clear of the phonies: Self-liquidating companies (e.g., some miners) that are returning capital as “dividends,” or companies whose high yield is merely a product of a declining stock price because… well… the company is failing.

That’s why my “Wall Street Lie Detector” and decades of experience identifying serious cash payers are critical.

My Permanent Wealth Investor research service gives you both…