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“Ten Minute Work Week: The Greatest Business in America” Ferris Extreme Value

September 12th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

Now this one sounds exciting, eh? I don’t want to say that the mighty, mighty Gumshoe is a lazy man, but I must admit that the idea of a work week that lasts only ten minutes has some appeal … what the heck are they talking about?

It’ll take me longer than ten minutes, but come along for the ride — we’ll figure it out.

The ad is for Extreme Value, the newsletter edited by Dan Ferris, part of the Stansberry & Associates family, and the letter comes from George Rayburn, the publisher thereof. They’d like $800 a year to share this newsletter with you (I haven’t actually seen the newsletter, but I have written about it several times — he finds some nice “deep value” companies, though some of them stay “cheap and undervalued” for a loooong time, or get cheaper — the curse most value investors must bear).

And I’m not sure that I can dig through the clues to reveal every single thing in this ad, since a few of the clues are too weak to confirm, but I can tell you what the “ten minute work week” is, and what hte “greatest business in America” is … just come along for the ride, won’t you?
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“World’s Greatest Mutual Fund Re-opens — Could re-close any minute”

June 18th, 2008   by StockGumshoe

This teaser email came in a week or so ago, from another Stansberry service, Extreme Value by Dan Ferris.

Here’s how they whet our appetite:

“In 17 days… The 19,900% Mutual Fund Could Close for Good…

“MSNBC says… “Get in line early for this fund.”

“It’s been called the “Holy Grail” of mutual funds…”

Nice, huh? If you’re like most people, even most individual stock owners, you still hold some mutual funds — and I do, too. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dan Ferris’ “Ultimate Hedge Fund”

January 23rd, 2008   by StockGumshoe

Apparently the sexy appeal of hedge funds has not worn off yet for individual investors, because the folks at Stansberry Research keep teasing their deep value picks by comparing them to hedge funds.

Last time around it was the “secret penny hedge fund” that turned out to be Winthrop Realty Trust.

This time around, the teaser is again for the same publication (one of their more successful and expensive newsletters, Extreme Value, edited by Dan Ferris). But it’s a different Read the rest of this entry »

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