The markets are debt-obsessed once again, I’m afraid — not corporate debt, as they were in 2008 and 2009 when any company with leveraged was thrown out the window, but gummint debt. I don’t know whether this will be a real “reckoning” for the US government, when we really take stock of our obligations and […]
5 Comments Read MoreCatching up on old Picks, and answering some questions.
“Asian Profit Play #1: $3 Stock Headed to $9”
Sometimes the world just gives you a bad case of the “blahs.” The politicians are disappointingly putting their own political prospects above national interests, unemployment is terrible, friends are out of work, our houses are worth less than we thought, the world is in decline and we should be moving to a rural farm, burying […]
17 Comments Read MoreOpening Teva Position
Those of you who’ve been reading my stuff for a while probably know that I admire Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA) and the global generic drugs business and unparalleled drug manufacturing capabilities — and today, after a quarterly report that was mixed but still more or less hit analyst estimates and proved that their increasingly diversified business […]
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I opened up a small initial position in a recently IPO’d blank check/SPAC stock today — this is a roughly $90 million investment fund that’s been raised by a group of Connecticut investment bankers to buy something that relates to Mongolia. The risks are obvious: you’re paying someone to go to a country where there […]
4 Comments Read MoreStopped out of half of Xerox position
Just a quick note to update you that I’ve now been stopped out of half of my position in Xerox (XRX) — I continue to think that the stock is undervalued, but, since I don’t know the company as well as some, I have maintained a stop loss order for part of my holdings “in […]
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Here’s the pitch that a bunch of readers sent me this week: “On June 28, 2011, a tiny Sunnyvale, CA based technology company, quietly made an incredible announcement. “In short, they’ve developed a new static random-access memory (“SRAM” for short) chip that drastically boosts online processing speeds. “Simply put, these chips are the fastest on […]
5 Comments Read More“A Big Yield Hunter’s Dream Pick” (Roger Conrad)
Here’s the promise from Roger Conrad, in a teaser ad for his Big-Yield Hunting newsletter: “11% Yield… AND a 27% Profit Gain, Too! “It’s a Big Yield Hunter’s Dream Pick. Bad news baked into the price… a sustainable high yield… and a big price surge right around the corner!” And I gotta tell you, that […]
8 Comments Read MoreWhat’s Jeff Opdyke’s “Cybornetic Web Revolution” Stock?
Friday File — Inflation? Buy “Trophies”
“Alzheimer’s ‘Miracle Cure’ Discovered — Your Key to an Untapped $189 Billion Market”
This is all hush-hush, you understand — I’m taking terrible risks by just writing to you today. And my intrepid readers, members of the resistance, have also pushed the limits in sharing this news. The ad makes this very clear — it came with the subject line, “WARNING! Do Not Share, Do Not Forward” But […]
38 Comments Read More“The ‘Holy Grail’ of Agriculture Investing”
Captain Cook’s “Oil Jackpot”: How to Become the Next Alaskan Oil Millionaire.
“The New Alaskan ‘Oil Gush’ Is Underway… “Forget the greedy oil tycoons of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran… Forget the oil giants Exxon, BP and Chevron… “This Tiny Exploration Company could deliver you a quick and early retirement…” That’s the intro from Chris Mayer in our newest tease — he’s trying to recruit new subscribers […]
9 Comments Read More“The Great Treasure of the Bismarck Sea”
Nothing quite stirs the soul like the promise of undersea adventure and finding sunken pirate treasure — just ask Clive Cussler, who has so excited millions of readers with his stories of undersea adventure and treasure hunting that he doesn’t even have to write his own books anymore. And that fact hasn’t escaped the investment […]
43 Comments Read MoreJuly Idea of the Month: Buying Future Coal, Oil, Gas and Copper
It seems like I’m starting to get into a bit of a rut — many of the stocks I’ve profiled for you recently have been somehow involved in the commodities space, whether little oil stocks, or oil services, or what have you. And despite my fondness for a number of other stocks right now, including […]
14 Comments Read More“The Best Energy Stock You Can Buy” (Kent Moors) — plus a bonus (second best?) pick.
“The New Face of Touchscreens… under-the-radar American company”
“The Chipotle of China” — The Motley Fool’s “Chinese Consumer Revolution” Pick
Time once again, dear children, for a tale from the Middle Kingdom. Once upon a time, there was a nation so vast and populous that investors got dollar signs in their eyes just gazing upon the smoggy mega-cities that grew like weeds in that distant land. And lo, it was told that it was just […]
12 Comments Read More“Special Report: Cancer Killer Ready to Breakout” (Kramer)
Today’s little tease comes to us from Hilary Kramer, who I briefly wrote about way back before the Gumshoe Vacation (that was the “Apple Killer,” which inspired a bit of discussion). This time she’s telling us that she’s got a “Cancer Killer” that’s ready to break out — and yes, killing cancer certainly sounds more […]
28 Comments Read More“The Bakken Oil Play You’ve Never Heard of…”
Keith Schaefer is teasing potential subscribers to his Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin, a relatively new newsletter, about a shale oil play that he calls the “stealth trade of the year.” Sounds exciting, right? I thought it was interesting, and after doing some initial research earlier in the week one of the companies I found […]
8 Comments Read MoreBuying Some Speculative Africa Oil
I’ve been interested in picking up little, speculative oil exploration companies lately — small investments with potential huge upside over many years if their large land holdings and/or large potential reserves amount to anything close to the “best case scenario.” One of those is the company that I wrote about in the Friday File a […]
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