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“Quadruple-play Gold Stock for 2010″

I haven’t written about Martin Weiss and one of his picks in a little while, and Weiss Research is now promoting a special conference call and “inner circle” investment group that will identify his team’s best picks for 2010. Including, as apparently one of his favorites, a gold stock. Here’s the intro to the ad: [...]

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Inverse ETF Riches for 2008-2009

This is just a quick note to let you know about part of what Martin Weiss is trying to sell you as part of a subscription to his Safe Money Report (now there’s a loaded name for a newsletter, eh?). He’s offering all kinds of stuff that’s designed to appeal to people who are terrified [...]

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“Bonds finally ready to crack” Safe Money Report

A reader recently sent me a note about a teaser recommendation from Martin Weiss and the Money and Markets folks regarding bets against long term bonds. This wasn’t really a complicated teaser, so this will just be a short note … Here’s the quote from the sales letter, which was trying to get you to [...]

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Posted by david robinson on Feb 8, 2012 @ 5:41 pm

very important to me—-

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Posted by Ken Berns on Jan 6, 2011 @ 3:25 pm

I have been with the Safe Money Report for over 10 years. I have found Martin and his writers to be very interesting and fairly accurate when it comes to picking stocks, but what I like best are the areas of investment that I would have never discovered on my own. Their predictions on major events tend to be real early but surprisingly accurate. Not all picks work out and I don’t trade every recommendation either, I use the service more for direction and timing. I have found SMR and their other publications to be a big help in managing my portfolio.

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Posted by Hanrod on Dec 18, 2010 @ 6:23 pm

I subscribed to Safe Money and Real Wealth for a few years, several years ago; and though I let my subscriptions lapse I still regularly read the e-mailed version of M&M, which I think useful.

I read with interest, but did not act on, the Weiss recommendations over the years; instead chasing CD rates, etc. and so I lost nary a dime during the “great recession” and market crash of the last few years. Of course, I missed the earlier “boom years”, and the more recent partial “recovery” too.

Saving, not “investing”, has kept me at least solvent; and today continuous active “trading and hoping” (i.e. speculating on the future actions of expert, professional, traders and on the trends of popular emotions) is all that is left of the old concept of sober “investing”; except in your own property, business or education.

Reading not only Weiss, but also much mainstream business, market and investment news over most of my 73 years, has been a real education, and a sobering one. I have watched both businesses and the financial markets become increasingly more deceptive, fraudulent, corrupt and volitile, over the past thirty years particularly. This was facilitated (and thus in the resulting increased competition, mandatated) by a deregulating government that has acted in the narrow interests of the lobbying and campaign funding corporate organizations that buy, and now effectively own, that government; and against citizen interests.

I am currently considering the $600. “one-time” packaged service, and at least re-subscribing to SM and possibly RW; and particularly to the newer Nilus Mattive Dividend Superstars and Dad’s Income Portfolio letters. Of course, I may do as little in acting on these as I have done in the past, however, unless I come to feel better about some coming new honesty, stability — and re-regulation. [I do want to get hard copies in mail as well as e-copies, however, and am not sure that they now continue to provide that, anymore.]

The Weiss Ratings services are, I think, exemplary; and an important alternative to the “pay to play” ratings of Moodys, S&P, etc.; a fact that does not get nearly enough popular investment news publicity. However, I have to think that the Weiss people often know no more about future market performance than we do; and when they venture into historical “trend charting” as a predictor, it becomes humorous.

Too, I have to give Weiss, generally, a poor grade for consistency, as I think that the varied recommendations of his various newsletters are often quite inconsistent between them; and that the Weiss organization should be consistent throughout in its recommendations to its clients.

Still, we can’t blame Martin for agressive “sales” efforts (providing he is not deceiving); this is only a necessary part of business. We can blame him for not prominently posting the historical results of all recommendations, in order not to be deceptive; but maybe he will change that in future, remembering that “past performance is not indicative of future results”.

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[My response to an invitation from one of my “financial gurus”, Martin Weiss, Phd, of the Weiss Group (publishers of Safe Money and other financial publications) to contribute our own subscriber “financial / investment” thoughts to his website; in honor of his birthday, 2008.]

THE INVESTOR, (ANALYZED AND) ARRESTED

Some years ago when I was young,
My life a song, as yet unsung,
Important though I thought wealth was,
I did not know its path, its cause;
I undervalued wealth, at best.

I knew, at heart, to save a part
Of all I earned, as mine; but art
And life and love were most in mind;
And though I saved, another kind
Of cost — life’s own, was time, at risk.

But stocks and options, puts and calls,
Slow, breathless, climbs, then frightful falls
Made me decline their profits, thrills;
I thought much more of Treasury bills,
Or bank CDs, a safer buy.

My savings grew, but then I knew
Of all I’d not done, ne’er would do;
The cost to me, deposits lent,
Deflated funds I should have spent;
Time valued cash far less than I.

As Weiss reminds us, you and me,
Investments not a guarantee
But speculation — former are
No better than the guarantor;
The rest is but deception, lies.

The brokers are the wealthy ones,
No mutual in mutual funds;
Though in the last analysis
All life and love, all time, has risk;
The Weiss’es tell it as it is –

So, Happy Birthday, Martin Weiss!

HANROD

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Posted by Pscottparker1 on Dec 14, 2010 @ 1:07 am

I have subscribed to one or more of the Weiss et al products for around 7 years. I have to primarily agree with the negative commentary. Weiss is pretty much a permabear. Claus Vogt, one of the better if not the best, Weiss analyst, is not and has helped me regain some of the money that I lost following Weiss and Edelson. Their timing is HORRIBLE. In fact, if you were to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they recommended WHEN they recommended such, you probably would have a rather nice portfolio. Overall, I would recommend NOT buying their products but rather reading their eletters for perspective and occasionally doing the exact opposite of what they guide you to do. You will be much happier than if you follow their recommendations, which while they may be wrong in the looooooong term, are typically way off base in the short-term.

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Posted by Al on Dec 8, 2010 @ 7:25 am

When you subscribe to Safe Money Report you get a modest amount of worthwhile information. You also receive an endless number of emails urging you to subscribe to their very pricey “premium” services. Save your money!

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