These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. Most investors know Muddy Waters and Carson Block, who build his short-selling investment portfolio by pulling away the veil that covered up the many China frauds several years ago, […]

A Hodgepodge of thoughts and updates for the Friday File

Oxford Club teases us with a way to "get your share of the biggest IPO in history"

Digging into the latest Rule Breakers tease for "cloud computing" favorites

It’s been a little while since we dug into an Oxford Club promo, so this latest one that uses the eventual Facebook IPO as a hook caught my attention … in exchange for signing up for a membership in this particular club, they say you’ll “learn everything about making money from the ‘Facebook Effect.’” No, […]

The Motley Fool folks have been using the “3 Kings of Cloud Computing” special report to pitch David Gardner’s Rule Breakers newsletter for a couple years now, and have occasionally even given away all three of those stock picks for free as part of their “give us your email” list building exercises — but I […]