Friday File Part Two: In Other News
Ah, lovely. Another stupid debt ceiling fight. The dumbest and most transparently foolish thing Congress does when we have divided government. I also think the perennial government shutdown crises are...
View ArticleFool pitches “OUR $523,111 BET”
This one’s going to sound a little familiar, but we’ll give it a quick once-over for the folks who haven’t been with Stock Gumshoe for long. The Motley Fool is pitching their flagship Stock Advisor...
View ArticleDe-Tease: Tilson’s “EoD Will Mint Millionaires” pitch
Time to dig into a new teaser ad from Whitney Tilson that we started to see circulating a couple days ago… it’s an ad for Empire Stock Investor, which is the “entry level” paid letter at MarketWise’s...
View ArticleNew “iPhone Killer” Launching January 25 (Today!?) — What’s being teased by...
Louis Basenese has reportedly given up his newsletters and returned to Wall Street, he told his subscribers back in September that he was leaving to head up what sounds like a new investment bank for...
View ArticlePersonal Finance teases, “Are You Owed An Extra $1,788 A Month in ‘Benefits’?”
We haven’t looked at a “free money!” teaser in a while, so when readers asked about this one I figured I should check it out — it’s another one that’s all about “loopholes” and “bonus cash” and...
View ArticleFriday File: More High Yield Speculation
We were pretty fortunate to catch the preferred shares of DigitalBridge (DBRG) at a good price about a month ago, and I’ve continued to poke around in the world of high-yield bonds and preferred...
View ArticleWhat’s the “#1 Gold Play for 2023?”
Gold has had a pretty good run over the past couple months, which is fairly typical — gold tends to do very well in the months after a market crash or panic, as people instinctively seek something...
View ArticleDe-Teasing “The Amazing Discovery Behind This Hill Could Be Worth $100 Billion”
Questions continue to roll in in about Stephen Leeb’s mining ad, which seems to pop up whenever gold is rising a bit — the ad is for The Complete Investor, his entry-level newsletter over at Investing...
View ArticleLango’s “Apple just hired a Lambo exec” tease — What’s the “5 Stock That...
This article was originally published in June of 2022, when the “secret” stock teased was around $3. The shares have fallen to about $1.70 now, but the ad is still in heavy rotation and there continue...
View ArticleWealthpin Pro
Generalist entry-level stock picking newsletter, launched in 2022, aims to recommend a new “Wall Street-caliber investment opportunity” each month.
View ArticleIs the “Peeing Car” Putting Elon Musk Under Pressure?
I’ve been seeing this new ad for a month or so… it’s from Alex Reid, who is selling a new service called Wealthpin Pro ($49/yr), and the tasty bait he dangles is a special report called Ride the Future...
View ArticleFriday File: Big Tech Reports… Any Change to Our Thinking?
This was always penciled in as the big week for this quarterly earnings season — earnings from so many of the mega-cap technology stocks that are the most widely-held companies in the world and have...
View ArticleWhat’s the “Big Secret” about “Treasuries on Steroids?”
Looks like Porter Stansberry is getting some traction with his new publishing company… he’s at least catching the attention of Gumshoe readers, according to my inbox, since folks are asking about his...
View ArticleDe-teasing JR Butts Satellite stock pitch: “One Obscure Footnote is Your Key...
The first version of this article was published on February 21, 2020. We’re still getting questions about it, the ad is still running and is only lightly updated, and we’ve updated the article to check...
View ArticleFool’s “Who Invested $410 Million in This Tiny Company?”
This is the intro to an ad that intrigued some Gumshoe readers yesterday: “Imagine if you could have bought stock in Microsoft before computers took off. Or invested in Apple back in the 90s before the...
View ArticleFriday File: Brookfield Stays Discounted, U-Haul Delivers some Weakness
It’s like we all WANT to get bitten again… any small stock that seems like it has something to do with Artificial Intelligence has been booming lately, as the release of ChatGPT has everyone swooning....
View ArticleDe-tease: Manward’s “The King of E-Fracking: Ending the Climate War and...
“The Single Best Opportunity for 2023 “It hasn’t been publicly traded for even a year… “But this innovative newcomer is already making a name for itself in the energy sector.” That’s the intro to a new...
View ArticleDe-Tease: Porter’s “Boston Blackout of 2023” Story
I wrote to you about Porter Stansberry’s “Boston Blackout” teaser pitch several times over the past six months or so, and the core natural gas investments he’s teasing haven’t changed since then…...
View Article“Ronald Reagan’s Revenge” to give “little-known asset” a 33,233% boost?
Here’s the lead-in to Michael Robinson’s teaser pitch for Digital Fortunes ($149/yr), one of the newsletters he took over from Lou Basenese last year… “You might remember President Ronald Reagan as the...
View ArticleFriday File: Hits and Misses on the Earnings Front
This week we got a wild mix of news from our Real Money Portfolio companies, with one of our most “boring” stocks announcing some pretty exceptional results… and the “exciting stocks” much more of a...
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