August 17th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
This one has drummed up a fair amount of interest from the mighty horde of Gumshoe readers, I’ve been seeing it for a couple weeks now and it appears to still be actively pushed as I type.
So … you might like to know the names of these three cloud computing giants, no? Read on then, fair readers.
The Motley Fool is a company I have some fondness for, but they do drive me to drink with the absurd length of their typical email ads — even someone like me, with a pathological fondness for email hype, can sometimes be pushed past the breaking point. Thankfully, I don’t mind being driven to drink on occasion — much better than driving oneself.
So dig in we shall. Read the rest of this entry »
March 10th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
Newsletters are notorious for re-using the same ad copy for years and years and years, and the Motley Fool is no different — when they get a marketing pitch that really works, they keep trotting it out again, and again, and again. I’ve mentioned this before, particularly with their “Next Berkshire Hathaway” pick that gets sent to me every couple months, and has been for several years.
And now, it’s happening again — with a stock that has demonstrably Read the rest of this entry »
March 2nd, 2008 by StockGumshoe
This one has caused quite a stir among the vast and mighty Gumshoe readership, if my steady deluge of email is any indication. Everybody loves growth stocks, especially when nothing else seems to be growing, and everyone thinks alternative energy will be the next billionaire-maker — the Fool compares the current situation in alternative energy to the California gold rush, the Model T assembly line, and the Internet … good stuff, indeed (though those big financial earthquakes tend to create Read the rest of this entry »
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