June 30th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
We’ve run across Yiannis Mostrous and his Silk Road Investor a few times before — and one of the companies he’s teasing us about today I’ve even written about before. But there’s some new stuff here, so perhaps it’s worth a look.
Silk Road Investor is one of many newsletters that focus on Asia writ large — from Russia to Australia and everything in between or nearby, apparently.
The big point of his teaser ad this time is that Russia is slashing tax rates for oil companies — although Russia is producing a huge amount of the world’s oil, much of their production is in decline, so perhaps they’re hoping to spur some more investment. This tax cut will, according to Yiannis, save this oil company about $1.30 a barrel at first.
And he says they have 16 billion barrels of reserves, so that would certainly end up amounting to a fair chunk of change, over time. Read the rest of this entry »
April 20th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
OK, I don’t think I’ve ever had to resort to three or four different articles to cover a single teaser ad (at least, not since Stansberry’s “Secret Societies” teaser last Fall), so I hope this third writeup will be the charm for us all, and we’ll not speak again of Andrew Mickey’s Putin-icious masterpiece.
The first two writeups on this are here, by the way: the LNG play and the Nickel miner.
The third one hits the sweet spot for everyone’s favorite investing theme these days: fertilizer Read the rest of this entry »
January 7th, 2008 by StockGumshoe
This one comes in from Agora, selling us Christopher Hancock’s Free Market Investor. Hancock is fairly new on the scene, but I have been intrigued by the one other idea of his that I sleuthed out several months ago (back then he was selling the “Secret Pension Payout Plan.”)
You’ll also see this teased as a way to save your retirement by watching the most expensive, secret investment clubs.
His service is all about unearthing foreign investments, which is, of course, every advisor’s sweet spot right now. US investors Read the rest of this entry »
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