What’s in the “Smart Money Portfolio?”
I didn’t quite finish looking into the Charles Mizrahi pitch for his 8-Figure Fortunes newsletter ($1,495/yr) yesterday, so I thought we’d get into that for a moment as a little bonus (don’t worry, the...
View ArticleFriday File: Buffett goes East, Bassy Impresses, and what’s that “Fedcoin”...
Warren Buffett made another CNBC splash with an interview with Becky Quick this week, mostly talking about buying more shares of the big Japanese trading houses/industrial conglomerates (Mitsubishi,...
View ArticleReveal: Four Stock Picks teased by Whitney Tilson for “$87 Trillion Market”...
It’s pretty clear that every investment newsletter publisher is on the horn to all its writers and pundits, screaming “Say something about AI!!” That’s the hot trend, the next big thing… or as a friend...
View Article50,000 Year-Old “Alien Mineral” Could Hold the Key to Unlocking a $7 Trillion...
I love the mysterious references to “alien minerals” and “secret compounds” that we sometimes see in teaser ads, and the latest pitch from Trend Trader Daily jumps right out with that in the headline:...
View ArticleReveal: “The EV Supercluster” and Eric Fry’s “Revenge of the Heartland”...
This article was originally published on March 30, but we continue to get questions and are re-posting it here to supply some answers — the stocks teased are all down quite sharply since we first...
View ArticleFriday File: Insurance Co. Highs and Lows
A set of mostly solid earnings reports from “big tech” helped the market feel a little more comfortable this week, though the continuing struggles of First Republic (FRC) and challenges at similar...
View ArticleReveal: Tilson’s “#1 Whisper Trade for 2023” (plus four other “Whisper” buys)
Here’s the lead-in to Whitney Tilson’s latest “presentation”: “Whitney Tilson reveals the exciting true story behind: ‘Whisper Trades’ “The fastest, most reliable way for the average investor to make...
View ArticleDamn You, Porter Stansberry
Porter, you’re chapping my ass. OK, that’s a little more crass than I wanted to be… sorry about that. This is a family website. What’s going on? What could be bothering your friendly neighborhood...
View ArticleReveal: What’s the “$3 AI Wonder Stock” teased by Ross Givens?
I’ve got to run catch a plane to Omaha for the Berkshire meeting, but I thought I’d get a quick teaser solution out to you before heading out the door… here’s the intro to an ad that folks have been...
View ArticleBerkshire Hathaway’s 50th Omaha Meeting
My goal is to be a rational long-term investor, and to find companies that I can hold for long periods of time, with the likelihood that they will grow and become more valuable, compounding in value...
View ArticleDe-tease: Porter’s “Secret Energy Grid” (Obama’s Screw-up… and Reagan’s...
Porter Stansberry knows at least one thing with absolute certainty: Using high-profile politicians in your teaser ads gets attention, and attention is the goal of every marketer. This time it’s Barack...
View ArticleFriday File: Moving up in Quality
I made some relatively small portfolio moves that I think will boost the quality of my holdings over the long term, on the margins, but we’ve also got a bunch of quarterly reports to consider… so let’s...
View ArticleDe-tease: Fool’s “All In Buy Alert: One Stock for the Death of Cable and...
Sound familiar? It is, kind of — the Motley Fool has been running teaser ads for “Cord Cutting” and the “Death of Cable TV” for years now (I covered a handful of them back in 2018, for example), and...
View ArticleAlex Green’s $4 “Single Stock Retirement Play” trading under a “Secret Name”
This article was originally published on July 16, 2018, but questions continue to pile in and more ads out this week indicate that it’s still being pitched as a “one stock retirement plan” … so we’re...
View ArticleFriday File: WTF, NVIDIA?
NVIDIA (NVDA) is now the most extreme story I’ve seen among large company stocks in at least 20 years, with the possible exception of Tesla (TSLA). I’m going to dig into this for a long time today, so...
View ArticleDe-tease: Ian King’s “The Fourth Convergence” stock to ride “America’s Next...
This is an update of an article that was first published on March 8, 2023, when the ad we’re talking about first appeared (the ad has not been udpated, but seems to still be in heavy rotation). Ian...
View ArticleFriday File: U-Haul, Teqnion, a $100K Lock Box addition… and a Couple new...
This week, we’ll start out with the most boring news. U-Haul (UHAL) reported its results this week, and we saw the slowdown that probably most people anticipated… but it was a little worse than I...
View ArticleWhat’s the “$5 Stock That Could Make Apple The Next EV Giant?”
This article was originally published in June of 2022, when the “secret” stock teased was around $3. The shares have fallen to about $1.70 now, but the ad is still in heavy rotation and there continue...
View ArticleAnswers: Picks from “Elon Musk’s ‘Project Omega'” Tease
Everyone is fully aboard the Artificial Intelligence bandwagon these days, and every newsletter is trying to tantalize us with the idea that they’ve got the next great picks for AI… the one that’s...
View ArticleDe-Tease: “Hidden Metaverse Stock” from Ross Givens — what’s the “#1 Tech...
This is an ad that has circulated off and on for about a year now. It’s making the rounds again because the Apple Vision Pro AR headset announcement this week has inspired more interest in the...
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