Drillers and Pumpers
We’re sharing another “Thoughts from Myron” piece this week as well, so I’ll keep my Friday comments a little briefer than usual. You can catch that latest piece from Myron here, hopefully you’ll find...
View ArticleSandstorm Buys Into an Old Cadillac
Sandstorm Metals and Energy and Sandstorm Gold have made a small offering to Canadian Zinc (CZN in Canada, CZICF on the pink sheets) in exchange for a 1.2% NSR royalty on their Prairie Creek Mine. This...
View Article“Secret 770 Account” (or “The President’s Account”) Explained
“Imagine an account that… “Lets you retire 100% tax-free “Is NOT reportable to the IRS “Pays you an average of 5% per year “Has paid out, on average, for 121 straight years “And which, unlike...
View Article“Warren Buffett’s New Toy” Teased by Motley Fool
The Motley Foolies are running an ad this week that teases us about a stock Warren Buffett has been buying — his “new toy” is something in the oil services business, and they’re calling it a “no...
View ArticleAdd-on to my 2018 Bet
Just a quick note to update you on my personal portfolio — today I increased my holdings in the Boston Private Financial 2018 TARP warrants (BPFHW) by about 50% and my holdings in the PNC 2018 Tarp...
View ArticleWhich Other Retailers are Headed for Bankruptcy?
OK, OK — we’ve had a few folks who seem to have noticed that I promised to follow up on my original Harry Dent piece, and then didn’t follow through. That first piece came out last week, when I...
View ArticleAre Americans Really Now Collecting From a “Reverse Income Tax Fund?”
A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of snooping around in Ian Wyatt’s teaser for a “Real Estate Tax Rebate,” so when I saw this latest Oxford Club pitch for a “Reverse Income Tax Fund” that you could...
View ArticleWarrants, Sprott, Markel and some Personal Trades — a Friday File Hodgepodge
I have a few thoughts to share with my favorite Irregulars today for our Friday File (we also shared a new article from Doc Gumshoe earlier today if you’re interested). Today we’re looking at a few...
View ArticleA Wee Nibble More
Well, I don’t think there’s anything I can tell you about Apple (AAPL) that you can’t read anywhere else … except for the fact that I just increased my AAPL position by about 15%. Apple and Berkshire...
View ArticleSneaky Move from CEO of our Watchlist Company?
Nonagenarian Dole CEO David Murdock wants to take his company private. That company, Dole Food (DOLE), has been on our watchlist for six months or so, and was also suggested as a value play by one of...
View ArticleBryan Perry’s “#1 recommendation pays over 20%”
Bryan Perry runs the Cash Machine newsletter, looking for high-yielding investments — and recently a lot of those investments have been MLPs or similar equity investments in the oil and gas business....
View ArticleWhat’s Dan Ferris’“Next World Dominator?”
Over the last few days I’ve been getting a lot of questions from Gumshoe readers about the latest “World Dominator” pick from Dan Ferris over at Stansberry’s Extreme Value newsletter — they’ve...
View ArticleA New Africa Position in My Portfolio
Today I opened a small position in a stock I’ve been sniffing around for many months — and in actuality, though it trades like a stock it’s really more of a closed-end fund. It’s called the Africa...
View ArticleBasenese’s “Secret” San Diego NFC Security Stock
OK, OK, the questions on this one are getting a bit overwhelming — and I’m afraid that if I don’t cover this one soon the villagers will soon be gathering their fiery torches and marching on Castle...
View ArticleJune Idea of the Month: Drugs and Money
I always have a few ideas floating around in my head and rising to fight for prominence when I’m working up to our monthly “Idea of the Month” piece for you, and this month is no different. When it...
View ArticleAnswering a Thai Question
I got this question from a reader a few days ago: “You have promoted TTF in the past. Is the current restructuring a good thing or not? Sounds logical to me, but the market apparently does not think...
View Article“The ‘Box 8 Dividend’: How to Collect up to 36 ‘Supersized’ Income Checks...
I think the folks at Agora Financial staged a bit of an upgrade for their Lifetime Income Report last year when they brought on Neil George to manage it — not that he’s infallible, of course, or that...
View Article“Dr. Allen’s … RNA Interference Revolution: Your Ticket to Centuries of...
“Just one company stands to make the lion’s share from this radical life extension phenomenon… “It’s locked down nearly every patent behind this technology. “The founder of this company, a Nobel...
View ArticleFriday File: What’s up with Sandstorm Gold?
This week there were a couple things that cropped up on the site as articles for the Irregulars — I made one purchase, adding Ligand Pharmaceuticals to my personal portfolio, I answered a more detailed...
View ArticleHalfway Through the Year … How are the Teasers Doing?
Now that we’re putting June to bed, I thought I’d take just a minute to check on the stocks we’ve revealed over the first half of 2013 and see what’s happening. As you probably know, we track the...
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