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Topic Archives: municipal bonds

  • What’s “America’s #1 Tax-Free Stock” (answering the Tim Melvin tease)

    What's Tim Melvin pitching as "Three Massive Income Opportunities Hidden In One Stock?" Ad for Underground Income newsletter calls this, "the absolute best pick I’ve seen in my career…"

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  • What’s Fitz-Gerald’s “Big Tobacco Must Pay” Teaser all about?

    Can you really "claim a portion of the historic $206 billion tobacco settlement?"

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  • “The ‘Box 8 Dividend’: How to Collect up to 36 ‘Supersized’ Income Checks This Year…” (Neil George)

    Sniffing out the 10%+ yields teased by Lifetime Income Report

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  • “Legally Skirt the Tax Man … IRS 8b Payouts Will Outlast Obama?”

    Identifying some teased picks from Bill Spetrino's Dividend Machine

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  • “Safe Harbor Savings Accounts” — How to Sit Back and Become a Millionaire

    Does this ring a little bell for you? It might, if you’re a careful reader of every Gumshoe article (and why wouldn’t you be, really?). This ad is almost exacly the same as one that I wrote about back in October — an investment that is super safe, on the bargain rack, and, perhaps most […]

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  • “Safe Harbor Investment Covenants”

    Today’s ad that will receive the Gumshoe treatment is for Steve Christ (no relation, I assume) and his Wealth Advisory newsletter … and yes, like so many others these days, it is focused on words like “safety” and “guaranteed.” Exactly the tonic that the panicked investor demands. Now, this particular newsletter will only run you […]

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  • “Virtual Florida Retirement — Tax-Free Income!”

    “And collect up to $3,000 a month in TAX FREE income starting as early as Feb. 13, 2008.” That’s how a recent email teaser ad from Stansberry and Associates for Steve Sjuggerud’s True Wealth newsletter opens — and this kind of investment is always very appealing for folks when stocks are in crisis mode, as […]

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  • Well, I thought it might be worth the $49 price tag so I signed up today. The first thing that happened was at least 5...

  • It's easy to get lost in the weeds of "tax free". If any readers of this blog haven't yet figured out how to avoid fe...

  • I have enjoyed the Income Letter for several years and appreciate your sound investing advice. One area that I would...

  • I think I found the answer, in Wikipedia: Build America Bonds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bui...

  • $ No ticker It all depends on your risk tolerance and tax situation. In my taxable account, I try to keep a balanced po...

  • Travis, thanks for confirming what I was gathering from watching the video. Fitz-Gerald does drop a couple of little 'hi...

  • So, yes, you can (sort of) “stake your claim” to the “Master Settlement Agreement,” and you probably can generat...

  • $EXK....The company seems like a solid mid-tier silver miner. There are no major questions for me other than reserves an...

  • I am sure you won't be surprised if I agree with some of what you say and disagree with some. One of the parts I disagre...

  • Just to be clear, "770" refers to IRS code number 7703 (possibly 7702) which states that the gains in the cash value of ...

  • I think it was about buying municipal bonds. They suggested NUV . You don't have to pay income tax on the dividends....

  • The 8b part has nothing to do with tobacco (or nothing direct, at least), that's just an oblique tease for investin...

  • Hi - I googled the IRS 8b Payout, and what it is, is municipal bonds. The item referring to cancelling this is nothing ...

  • You've got to be kidding me? "Safe Harbor Investment Covanents" are really just "Municipal Bonds"??? This Steve Christ...

  • Thank you for your work,,,,I also received that teaser, and wondered what Florida could possibly offer us, beside an ele...

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