The people of Gumshoedom have spoken, and they have said, “what is this Chaffee Royalty thing?”

This is one of the more heavily emailed promotions in recent weeks, an ad for Chris Mayer’s more expensive newsletter, Mayer’s Special Situations that touts a few mining royalty companies that you should own …

… companies that he’d be happy to tell you all about, if you’ll just take out a subscription to his newsletter at the “sale” price of $750.

Mayer may be spot on target, and he might be brilliant … but we don’t have to subscribe to his newsletter just to find out what this Chaffee Royalty company is (or companies … he mentions a couple). Not while the Gumshoe is on the case! Read the rest of this entry »