“Say These 5 ‘Magic’ Words To Your Local Bank Teller— And You Could Walk Away With A Handful Of Silver”

We’re rerunning this piece because it continues to be one of the most asked-for explanations on the Stock Gumshoe website. What follows below was originally published in mid-2012, it has been updated for the change in silver values but otherwise remains unchanged. Dr. David Eifrig over at Stansberry’s Retirement Millionaire newsletter has been teasing us [...]

What’s Cabot’s May “Stock of the Month” in the Cloud Computing Sector?

Like several other newsletter families, Cabot runs a relatively low-cost service that culls picks from all of their newsletters and picks a monthly favorite — the service is called the Cabot Stock of the Month Report, and they typically tease it with their “double your money guarantee.” (That guarantee is not terribly different from the [...]

“New Zealand’s Bakken!” Sniffing around Christian DeHaemer’s Oil Teaser

The Bakken formation in North Dakota has made plenty of millionaires, not just among the ranchers who owned those cold and dusty acres in the decades before shale oil production became feasible, but for those who invested early in the companies that made the best discoveries or gobbled up the best acreage. And the Bakken [...]

Explaining “How to Collect Your Government-Backed Real Estate Tax Rebate Checks”

Ian Wyatt is no stranger to the misleading teaser ad — I say this not to pick on him specifically (there are dozens of others with similar-seeming ads), but because his pitches seem to catch the attention of gumshoe readers with their misleading references to “rebate checks” and “savings accounts.” And this new pitch about [...]

Value Investing Congress — Day Two

The Congress has concluded, with a couple dozen sessions over two days exposing your friendly neighborhood Gumshoe to probably 50+ interesting investment ideas. I’ve shared notes on almost all of those sessions over the past two days, and I’ve now got lots of ideas bouncing around my head that I’m setting aside for deeper analysis [...]