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“America’s Hidden Resource: Poised to hand you generous profits”

By StockGumshoe ⋅ July 20, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

This teaser ad comes in for a newsletter I’ve written about many, many times over the past couple years, the Motley Fool Stock Advisor.
And this is a good ‘ol patriotic “stand up and cheer” ad — all about how the Chinese can’t beat us when we’ve got some of the most critical technology [...]

“The Motley Fool’s Next 10-Bagger”

By StockGumshoe ⋅ June 4, 2009 ⋅ 23 comments

Few terms get as much of a rise out of investors as “10 bagger”, the term popularized by Peter Lynch that refers to a stock that increases 10 times in value — and perhaps for good reason, since these kinds of hyper growth stories, even if they take a decade or more to unfold, are [...]

Motley Fool’s “One American Brand” Could Double Within a Few Years

By StockGumshoe ⋅ May 5, 2009 ⋅ 27 comments

“ONE AMERICAN BRAND POISED TO POWER INTO THE GLOBAL MAINSTREAM!
“Every decade or so, a brand is born in America that goes up like a moon shot and becomes a recognizable symbol all over the world… Brands like Levis… Coca-Cola… Harley-Davidson… Heinz… McDonalds… GE… Budweiser… Disney… Gillette… Pepsi… The Gap… IBM… Wal-Mart… Apple… Nike… Microsoft… Intel… [...]

The One Stock to Buy for the Next Ten Years

By StockGumshoe ⋅ December 9, 2008 ⋅ 38 comments

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

By StockGumshoe ⋅ November 19, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

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 [...]

Still Super? Fool’s “American Super Brand” Endures

By StockGumshoe ⋅ March 10, 2008 ⋅ 8 comments

Newsletters are notorious for re-using the same ad copy for years and years and years, and the Motley Fool is no different — when they get a marketing pitch that really works, they keep trotting it out again, and again, and again. I’ve mentioned this before, particularly with their “Next Berkshire Hathaway” pick that [...]

Motley Fool’s “Peter Lynch-Style Super Investment”

By StockGumshoe ⋅ January 29, 2008 ⋅ 9 comments

Ah, another one from the Motley Fool! Like mother’s milk, it nourishes the Gumshoe so to pore through a ponderous Fool tome in search of clues to great stocks.
Today, we’re blessed with a teaser letter for the Hidden Gems newsletter, with the letter coming from Bill Mann, who runs that newsletter in partnership with [...]

Motley Fool’s "Brand Inside a Brand: The Next Intel"

By StockGumshoe ⋅ October 31, 2007 ⋅ 26 comments

OK, so I’m starting to think that Fyodor Dostoyevsky has been reincarnated as a Motley Fool copywriter — the amount of text they throw into their teaser emails, many of them ten pages long or longer, is a bit ridiculous … I’d say they lead the industry in that category.
But more to the point, they [...]

"Five Rule Makers: The Fool’s Power Stocks"

By StockGumshoe ⋅ August 29, 2007 ⋅ One comment

This one’s a little bit different, since the Motley Fool is selling not a subscription necessarily, but a special report called “The NEW Rule Makers: 5 Power Stocks You’ll Never Want to Sell.”
Rule Makers is an old term from the Motley Fool lexicon, they’re the ideal evolution from the “Rule Breakers” that Dave Gardner looks [...]

"Like Dell in 1990 … Now is the Time to Get in"

By StockGumshoe ⋅ August 16, 2007 ⋅ 4 comments

I’m finding that sleuthing out stock picks is a healthy way to indulge in my stock market addiction on days like this, when I would otherwise be throwing money at what look to me like serious bargains, only to watch them fall a further 10 or 20% in the minutes following my purchase.
So [...]

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