Stephen’s note: Today we’re doing something a little different. Instead of our usual weekly essay, RiskHedge CIO Chris Wood is stepping up to explain a foundational key to disruption investing. It relates to an important idea most folks are roughly familiar with but not 1 in 100 truly understand.

In 1996 the founder of bookstore Borders had a unique idea.

What if, instead of having to shop at the grocery store...

You could pick out food online and have it delivered to your house?

He founded online grocer Webvan, which promised to drop your groceries on your front porch…

Are you invested in self-driving cars yet?

If not, I hope you’ll read this issue carefully.

Because I’m going to show you a unique opportunity to own a crucial piece of this blossoming megatrend...

And it isn’t some risky stock with unproven technology.

It’s a dominant, profitable company that owns…

There’s a good chance you pay through the nose to keep your money safe

One of the most important things money can buy is safety.

Would you rather pay $600,000 for a home in a safe neighborhood…

Or $250,000 for an identical home in a more dangerous area?

Even though…

Brett Velicovich had one job:

Hunt down the most dangerous terrorists in the world.                                       

At the age of twenty-five, he regularly decided whether men lived or died.

In the span of four months, his team killed 14 of the FBI’s 20 most wanted terrorists.

But Brett and his team weren’t…

In 1957 America was at war.

Its enemy, the Soviet Union, had just achieved something scary…

The Soviets had successfully fired the first ever ballistic missile... capable of hitting targets from 4,000 miles away.

They didn’t use it to fire a nuclear weapon…

But instead to launch the first ever…

Have you heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

At 29 years old, she’s the youngest Congressperson in history.

She’s a founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America… and she makes Obama look like a right winger.

“AOC,” as she’s often called, is quite a sensation among young left-leaning folks. 2.4 million…

Have you seen the hit movie The Big Short?

It tells the true story of a few clever investing pros who made a killing during the financial crisis.

They figured out early on that the US housing market was a house of cards… and placed bets to profit from its…

I’d like you to meet the most disruptive force on earth.

With one pen stroke it can ruin a business, crash a stock, and wipe out shareholders.

Last April it shocked the world when it banned Chinese phone maker ZTE (ZTCOY) from doing business in America.

ZTE stock plunged 55%…

Last summer on a Friday in late June, 33,000 Americans lost their jobs.

That was the day Toys “R” Us shut its doors for good.

The company had been selling toys since 1948…

It once ran a 110,000 square-foot store in NYC’s Times Square, one of the most valuable pieces…