“America’s Most ‘Stupid’ Family”
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...
View Article“1+1=4” and “The Universal Cancer Cure”— What’s Stansberry’s Dave Lashmet...
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...
View ArticleWhat’s being teased by Casey as “NASA GOLD: 3 Penny Gold Stocks Set to Soar...
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...
View ArticleFriday 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...
View ArticleSleuthifying Cabot’s “U.S.-China rivalry will soon send this secret $1 stock...
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...
View ArticlePenny 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...
View Article“The #1 Penny Stock of 2020” teased by Paradigm…“It holds the $8.18 Trillion...
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...
View ArticleInvesting 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....
View ArticleWhat’s Schaefer’s “The Next Uber: The Backdoor Way to Profit from the...
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...
View Article“Day Zero”— What’s Jeff Siegel talking about when he says, “November 13th,...
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...
View ArticleWill 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....
View ArticleFriday 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...
View ArticleSolving Mampilly’s “Tech Industry Set to Surge 76,000% (And the One Stock You...
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...
View Article“Trump to Finish what Reagan Started? [As early as October 30th]”— What’s...
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...
View ArticleMotley Fool Hidden Gems Canada
Small-cap stock picking service that recommends Canadian and US small-cap stocks (two “stock tips” per month).
View Article“The Amazon of the North”— what’s the latest Small-Cap Canadian Stock Teased...
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...
View ArticleWhat’s the “Single-Stock Retirement Plan?” Crowdability teases that “Starting...
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...
View ArticleFriday 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...
View ArticleInvestigating Mampilly’s “Untapped Ocean of Energy Found Under All 50 States”...
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...
View ArticleWhat’s McCall’s “The Royal Gold of Marijuana?” Ad says that “Few chances like...
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”...
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