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Annual Review — Emerging Markets Ideas
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Annual Review — Commodities Stocks and Related Picks
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“A Silver Company You Need to Own NOW” (Dudley Pierce Baker)
I don’t believe I’ve ever written about Dudley Baker and his Precious Metals Warrants subscription service, but several folks sent in his latest pitch for subscribers, and it has exactly the kind of teaser promise that we love to unravel, so I thought I’d have a look for you. Baker has been a warrants/options/futures trader [...]
“Canada’s Game-Changing Mine” (Alternative Energy Speculator tease)
If you have a pulse and an email address, odds are pretty good that you’ve seen the ad from Angel Investing for their “game-changing mine” discovery in Canada as they tease and tease and tease to get new subscribers for Alternative Energy Speculator … and frankly, the pulse is optional. I wrote about this pick [...]
Re-building a Position
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Nick Vardy’s “Never-Wrong Indicator” Predicts Dow 15,000 by October
Nicholas Vardy has a splashy new ad out predicting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average will hit 15,014 by October of this year — which would be about a 17% gain from today’s price (the DOW is at 12,880 or so right now). And naturally, he’s got the best way for you to profit from [...]
Doug Casey’s “Fortunes in the New World”
There’s been a big push on in recent days for subscriptions to some of Doug Casey’s newsletters, with the ad that I’ve been most recently asked about being for a “combo deal” that gets you subscriptions to Casey International Speculator and their flagship Casey Report (for a “discount” price, naturally, though it renews at a [...]
Annual Revisit: Income Ideas (Part two)
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“‘Privatized TIPS’ … absolutely dominate inflation … leave oil, gold and everything else in the dust”
This ad is not exactly brand new, but folks have been sending in queries about it for a few weeks, and pretty steadily, so I thought I’d try to get some answers out for you. The pitch is from Ian Wyatt, who’s trying to sell his Top Stock Insights newsletter by throwing in a “special [...]
Top Stocks and “Buffett No Brainers” For 2012 (Paul Tracy)
There was a lot of interest in the “Top Ten Forever Stocks” that Paul Tracy was pitching last year, partly because people love the idea of a “buy and hold forever” pick that will perform for them just like their grandmother’s 100 shares of IBM from 1962 that bought her a nice condo in Florida [...]
“Magic Drug” Oil Recovery Technique Brings “$31.5 Billion Bonanza?”
Today it’s time to come back to Chris Mayer, who’s teasing a small oil stock with a “magic drug” and that owns a massive $31.5 billion “oil bonanza” right here in the US of A. Sounds intriguing, right? Several of my readers thought so and passed it along, so let’s see if we can sleuthify [...]
“The Secret ‘Mutual Fund’ that NEVER GOES DOWN”
Steve Sjuggerud is teasing us with something genuinely compelling as he urges us to subscribe to his True Wealth newsletter: investments that NEVER go down. Really? Yep, his pitch is that he has three kinds of investments that, if taken together, can be considered to be a “mutual fund” that never goes down. They’re not [...]
New Pre-Facebook Buy
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Annual Revisit: Income Ideas (part one)
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“Coming Soon: the Paper-Thin iPad … how you can profit now”
It seems a little petty now, with these miraculous little iPad doohickeys, to complain that they’re too heavy, or too thick — seriously? They’re thousands of times more powerful than the Mac that got me through college just fine. Though I will be attending my 20th reunion this summer, and I couldn’t watch TV or [...]
Winners!
I’ve been slow to catch up with letting you know the winners of our recent holiday contest, and several folks have been asking … so I’m very sorry to have been so pokey. But today, I’m pleased to announce the three winners of the Stock Gumshoe contest, each of whom will receive a 2010 Proof [...]
“‘The Big One’ … The Single Greatest Way to Play the Next Agricultural Boom”
As I promised yesterday, there’s a second “special report” being teased by Michael Lombardi as an enticement to new subscribers to his Investing with Michael newsletter … … the first one was that “New Swiss Bank” teaser that told us we could get 5% yields, growth and safety on par with the Swiss banks (or [...]
What is Lombardi’s “New Swiss Bank Account” teaser all about?
The latest pitch from Michael Lombardi is for one of those “limited to our best customers” newsletters, something he calls Investing with Michael, which seems to mostly be a safety-focused large cap stock picking service. If that’s true then a thousand bucks a year is a bit steep, but certainly not unheard of — and [...]
January Idea of the Month — Buying Rational Growth?
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