No, this one’s not about you and your Uncle Bill. And it’s not about the little Gumshoes and their struggle with Algebra. It’s a headline from Frank Curzio, who earlier in the week sent out a hint-y email to at least a few folks that said, “How to capitalize on America’s most ‘stupid’ family.” It’s […]
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“America’s Most ‘Stupid’ Family”
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“1+1=4” and “The Universal Cancer Cure”— What’s Stansberry’s Dave Lashmet talking about in his latest ads?
Dave Lashmet has been a biotech/medical analyst and sometimes a newsletter editor at Stansberry for a long time, and the latest iteration of his high-end newsletter is now called Stansberry Venture Technology (currently “on sale” for $2,500, no refunds)… and it’s now being promoted with a “cure for cancer” spiel, so we obviously all want […]
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What’s being teased by Casey as “NASA GOLD: 3 Penny Gold Stocks Set to Soar 1,000%?”
The newsletter ad I’m looking at today is from Dave Forest for his Casey International Speculator (currently $1,995, no refunds though you can transfer the “credit” to another newsletter in the first 90 days), which seems to mostly be focused on junior gold miners these days… and that is indeed what’s being pitched today, three […]
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Friday File: REIT Beat and More
A pretty quiet week as I try not to overreact to market gyrations, so we’ll be briefer than usual this Friday… but there are a few interesting things to talk about…. Crown Castle (CCI) reported a “beat and raise” quarter this week, if just barely. They raised their dividend roughly as expected this week, bumping […]
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Sleuthifying Cabot’s “U.S.-China rivalry will soon send this secret $1 stock soaring” Pitch
This article was originally published on January 29, 2019, when we first saw these ads from Cabot. The ad is still running, with little to no changes or updates, and the article below has not been updated. When everyone’s worried about a trade war, look for the stocks that benefit from superpower rivalries… that’s a […]
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Penny Stock Letter, The
Entry-level newsletter that’s described as being connected to Tim Sykes, a longtime penny stock trading character, but is being edited by Tim Bohen… promises monthly issues that will each feature a new “penny stock.”
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“The #1 Penny Stock of 2020” teased by Paradigm…“It holds the $8.18 Trillion Cure to Man’s Biggest Problem”
Hard to believe that the major publishers didn’t already have something called The Penny Stock Letter, but this is the first time I’ve seen the title — it’s an entry-level newsletter from Paradigm Press, one of the many publishers in the Baltimore Agoraplex, and they’re promoting it with a big teaser campaign now that hints […]
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Investing Whisperer
Small-cap stock picking service from Keith Schaefer in 2019 — he has run an energy focused newsletter for a decade or so (Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin), but this one is an “all sector” product. Aims to recommend 6-12 stocks a year, often really tiny companies, with a portfolio of 5-15 stocks at any one […]
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What’s Schaefer’s “The Next Uber: The Backdoor Way to Profit from the Rideshare Revolution?”
Today I’ve got a new service to look at — it’s from Keith Schaefer, whose Oil and Gas Investments Bulletin we’ve covered a few times over the past decade or so… but this time he’s getting away from energy stocks with a service he calls Investing Whisperer (currently $999/yr for “charter members”). He has also […]
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“Day Zero”— What’s Jeff Siegel talking about when he says, “November 13th, 2019 will be the most profitable day in the history of mankind.”
This article was originally published on March 21, 2019 when the “deadline” touted was March 25. We’ve lightly updated our piece below, but much of it (like the ad) is unchanged from March. The latest ad for Green Chip Stocks is a doozy — reminiscent of the many “the world is about to change” ads […]
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Will Yastine’s teased “Hypernet” bring riches as it makes the Internet obsolete?
We so often see ads about how we’re on the verge of the “greatest technological disruption of all time,” with fortunes to be made that recall the gilded-age empires of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and that’s probably my favorite kind of financial pornography: Daydreaming about the charitable foundations we’ll found, and the universities […]
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Friday File: Time to Buy the Data Center Growth Story Again?
This week brought yet another push-pull to the markets as investors attempt to figure out whether Lucy is going to pull the football away from Charlie Brown again in the China trade talks, but the narrative that struck me as most interesting on the week was the line that was drawn in the economy by […]
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Solving Mampilly’s “Tech Industry Set to Surge 76,000% (And the One Stock You Must Buy Today to Cash In)”
This article was originally published on Halloween, 2018, but we’re getting a ton of new questions about it so they must be running the ad heavily again. The ad has NOT been updated in any meaningful way, but some significant things have changed for this stock over the past year (though the stock price is […]
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“Trump to Finish what Reagan Started? [As early as October 30th]”— What’s being teased by James Rickards now?
This week I’m seeing a new wave of questions about this Jim Rickards ad from Agora, and the ad itself has been (clumsily) updated a few times since we covered it back in November of 2017 (the last version with the “by March 19, 2019” deadline even suggested that Yellen was still President of the […]
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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Canada
Small-cap stock picking service that recommends Canadian and US small-cap stocks (two “stock tips” per month).
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“The Amazon of the North”— what’s the latest Small-Cap Canadian Stock Teased by the Motley Fool?
Back to the Motley Fool we go… this week it’s the Motley Fool Canada that caught my attention, hinting at a recommendation they made a few months ago but still like now for their Hidden Gems Canada service. Here’s the lead-in for the ad, which I received just this morning… we start with the “fear […]
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What’s the “Single-Stock Retirement Plan?” Crowdability teases that “Starting Jan. 7th, This Tiny $3 Stock Could Ignite a $20 Trillion Bull Market…”
This ad has been running for a week or so, since Crowdability hosted their “special presentation” to make the original pitch on October 23, and readers have been peppering me with questions… which makes sense, the idea of a “single stock retirement plan” is very compelling (Oxford Club has used it to pitch a different […]
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Friday File: Sales for Profit and Loss, plus a couple add-on buys post-earnings
Happy Friday! I’ve got another reading assignment for you today… the researcher behind the Dunning-Kruger effect posted an interesting article called “We Are All Confident Idiots” a couple years ago that just came to my attention (I think someone posted it on Twitter, but forgot to jot down the original source). Here’s a little excerpt, […]
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Investigating Mampilly’s “Untapped Ocean of Energy Found Under All 50 States” pitch
Geothermal is back! Paul Mampilly is circulating his “Ocean of Energy Under all 50 States” pitch once more, so it’s time to take another look. His ad is almost exactly the same as it was when we first covered it in March, 2017, but I’m sure the story must have changed a bit along the […]
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What’s McCall’s “The Royal Gold of Marijuana?” Ad says that “Few chances like this will ever come along in your investing lifetime…”
What have we learned about teaser ads over the past decade or so? A lot, I hope, but two lessons stand out: First, dates in teaser ads are often made up and don’t really represent meaningful “catalyst” events, they’re just a way to make you feel rushed and get you to pull out your credit […]
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