Friday File Bonus: What Should Markel Really be Worth?
It’s a perfect time to update my thinking and valuation rationale for Markel, in part because they just announced that they’re changing their name to more clearly call attention to their increasingly...
View ArticleDe-tease: Fool’s “All In Buy Alert: One Stock for the Death of Cable and...
Sound familiar? It is, kind of — the Motley Fool has been running teaser ads for “Cord Cutting” and the “Death of Cable TV” for years now (I covered a handful of them back in 2018, for example), and...
View ArticleFriday File: Another Bet on Electrical Infrastructure
These are unpredictable times for the economy, as we deal with persistent inflation and higher interest rates and what seems to be unfolding as an office real estate crisis and head into the debt...
View ArticleJovine’s “#1 Hot Microcap for May”— $3/share, 1,000% gains?
Lots of readers are asking about “Target 1,000%” this week — that’s an ad from Dylan Jovine’s Behind the Markets folks, pitching subscriptions to their Breakthrough Wealth upgrade newsletter...
View ArticleWill SAF be the “Most Profitable Takeover Target” for Big Oil?
Here’s the lead-in to Keith Kohl’s latest teaser pitch for his Topline Trader newsletter ($1,999/yr, 90-day refund period): “Big Oil’s Most Profitable Takeover Target “Patent-Protected Technology Makes...
View ArticleWhat’s Gilani’s “#1 Startup to Target in 2023?”
This story was first published on January 3, and the basic crux of the pitch has not changed with the latest salvo from Shah Gilani, he’s still pitching the same private deals, and the deals are...
View ArticleAlex Green “Goes All-In” on Microcap — Says This Is His “#1 Stock for 2023”
This article was originally published on December 7, 2022, when this ad started circulating — Alex Green’s “#1 Microcap” is again being touted now, so we’re re-sharing the solution here. The ad has not...
View ArticleAlex Green’s $4 “Single Stock Retirement Play” trading under a “Secret Name”
This article was originally published on July 16, 2018, but questions continue to pile in and more ads out this week indicate that it’s still being pitched as a “one stock retirement plan” … so we’re...
View ArticleCan you collect from “Amazon’s Secret Royalty Program?”
This ad harkens back to some old pitches we saw in past years from different publishers, all about how there’s secret money flowing to those who just know how to get that “royalty” or that “income...
View ArticleFriday File: WTF, NVIDIA?
NVIDIA (NVDA) is now the most extreme story I’ve seen among large company stocks in at least 20 years, with the possible exception of Tesla (TSLA). I’m going to dig into this for a long time today, so...
View ArticleSolution: Koyfman’s Graphene Battery Tease —“This Sub-$5 Stock Is Destined to...
This article was originally published on February 2, 2022, when we first saw Alex Koyfman’s teaser about this “black powder” and a graphene battery company. I’ve provided a small update in the Quick...
View ArticleDe-tease: Ian King’s “The Fourth Convergence” stock to ride “America’s Next...
This is an update of an article that was first published on March 8, 2023, when the ad we’re talking about first appeared (the ad has not been udpated, but seems to still be in heavy rotation). Ian...
View ArticleAnswer: Lichtenfeld’s Three “Once in a Generation” Commodities Supercycle Stocks
Marc Lichtenfeld is out with a new “Commodities Supercycle Summit” presentation that he’s using to drum up new subscribers for his Technical Pattern Profits service ($1,450/yr, no refunds… has the...
View ArticleAnswers: “Tesla’s Partner: Discover This Tiny $1 Stock to Profit From the...
Yesterday I dug into Marc Lichtenfeld’s teaser pitch about his predicted “Commodity Supercycle” and revealed what he’s hinting at as the three “once in a generation” supercycle stocks… so today, it’s...
View ArticleFriday File: U-Haul, Teqnion, a $100K Lock Box addition… and a Couple new...
This week, we’ll start out with the most boring news. U-Haul (UHAL) reported its results this week, and we saw the slowdown that probably most people anticipated… but it was a little worse than I...
View ArticleWhat’s the “$5 Stock That Could Make Apple The Next EV Giant?”
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 ArticleAnswers: Picks from “Elon Musk’s ‘Project Omega'” Tease
Everyone is fully aboard the Artificial Intelligence bandwagon these days, and every newsletter is trying to tantalize us with the idea that they’ve got the next great picks for AI… the one that’s...
View ArticleDe-Tease: “Hidden Metaverse Stock” from Ross Givens — what’s the “#1 Tech...
This is an ad that has circulated off and on for about a year now. It’s making the rounds again because the Apple Vision Pro AR headset announcement this week has inspired more interest in the...
View ArticleTobin Smith’s “The A.I. Masterkey – the Best Stock to Own for the A.I....
Tobin Smith is quite a blast from the past for me, he was a pretty established newsletter pundit, with a few letters under the ChangeWave name, back when we were launching Stock Gumshoe (we started...
View ArticleLuke Lango’s “The #1 AI Stock to Buy RIGHT NOW”
Here’s the intro to Luke Lango’s ad for his entry level Innovation Investor newsletter ($49/yr): “Silicon Valley Insider confesses… “We’ve Created A Monster “It will eat jobs… wreck businesses… and...
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