“The Greatest Transfer of Wealth in the History of Mankind”

Today our teaser is for the Fool’s Hidden Gems service, which according to Hulbert has been their worst-performing service over the last three years with an annual loss of about 20% (Hulbert doesn’t track Global Gains, which has been decimated with the crash of the BRIC countries) — perhaps not surprising, since they focus on [...]

“Obama’s 100-Day Profit Plan” Motley Fool

“Now, with an estimated $850 billion projected to flood the market, here are the sectors you need to watch and 3 companies you need to know about right away. Why? Because they could make you very, very rich in 2009…” That’s how the latest (loooong) ad for the Motley Fool Stock Advisor newsletter begins

The One Stock to Buy for the Next Ten Years

The Motley Fool is sending out an ad that claims to have chosen “The Only Stock to Own 2009-2019.”
Now there’s a promise, no? The assumption of almost all pundits and pontificators, myself included, is that this awful market might represent a remarkable buying opportunity — at least, an opportunity for those who make the [...]

“Recession-Proof Business Poised for 100% Gains” Motley Fool

The good folks at Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor newsletter have another teaser for us … they think they’ve got a “virtually recession-proof” stock for you to buy … in their words:
“On Sale Now… a Virtually Recession-Proof Business Poised for 100% Gains…
“An investment story like this doesn’t come along very often…
“It’s a business that is sailing [...]

“The New Silk Road” Motley Fool

The folks at the Fool have issued another novel, this time in service of their Stock Advisor newsletter.
In a loooong sales letter, they’re offering up an investment idea that they call “The New Silk Road” that will, one hopes, bring riches to US investors in the same way that the original silk road [...]

“Power Plays — Cash in on the Wind-Energy Revolution” Motley Fool

Ah, another book-length teaser from the Motley Fool … just the thing to dig in my Gumshoe teeth after a few days of odd posts about the Gumshoe contest and Social Security payouts. Back to stocks!
Today our teaser is for the Fool’s Hidden Gems service, which according to Hulbert has been their worst-performing service [...]

“Motley Fool’s #1 Inevitable Mega-Trend Investment”

The last time I looked in detail at some picks from the Motley Fool Income Investor, it was for their top “Peak Oil Picks,” all of which were at least interesting companies even if they’re all down by 10% or so following the decline in oil prices. (The latest version of that writeup is [...]

“Better Than Buffett: The Blue Chip Trading at Blue Light Prices” Philip Durell

“Bite the bullet now and buy this 100-year-old company cheap if you can” … that’s how Philip Durell introduces us to a favorite investment that’s owned by Warren Buffett and has been clobbered this year (for good reason, some would argue).
This is in an ad for his Inside Value newsletter at the Motley [...]

“Billion Dollar China SSE to Own RIGHT NOW” Bill Mann

This is part of an ad that we’ve looked at before in slightly different form — the other “Billion Dollar SSE” we looked at was General Steel Holdings back in July.

What the folks at the Motley Fool’s Global Gains newsletter mean when they call something a “SSE” is a “state sponsored entrepreneur” or [...]

“3 Kings of Cloud Computing” Motley Fool

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? [...]