I usually don’t comment about “naked” promotional stock spam, the kind of stuff sent out by DoublingStocks or the breathless emails screaming about a particular penny stock that’s about to go off to the races. But so many people have commented on Purple Beverage that I thought I might share a few thoughts. Purple Beverage […]
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“Oil Vacuum: Key to Unlocking 800 Billion Barrels?”
Many of you have emailed me about this one, and a few have ventured solutions in email or in the forums or comments on previous articles (most of you are right, of course). This is a teaser from Agora’s Energy and Scarcity Investor edited by Byron King, which I don’t think I’ve looked at before […]
68 Comments Read MoreMotley Fool’s “Peak Oil Profits: 3 Overlooked Energy Stocks Ready to Run”
This teaser came in recently for the Motley Fool’s Income Investor newsletter which, you will be unsurprised to hear, is focused on dividend investing — though they often focus just as much on dividend growth as on current yields, so not all of their picks have super-high yields. They would love you to take a […]
21 Comments Read MoreBakken Gusher: Montana Millionaires?
There have been two major newsletter publishers pushing hard for oil companies that are working in the Bakken field in Wyoming/North Dakota/Canada, with some speculating that the recoverable oil will exceed that remianing in Saudi Arabia’s largest oil field. Whether or not that’s true, I don’t know. There are certainly a wide range of estimates […]
34 Comments Read More“By This Time Next Year … a Huge Winner” Tobin Smith’s ChangeWave
This one was sent in by a reader earlier today, so I thought I’d quickly get out a note about … this will be shorter than your average Gumshoe writeup, but hopefully still packed with pithy comments and one interesting stock idea. This is from Toby Smith for his $79 ChangeWave service, and it’s for […]
25 Comments Read More“Drive-Thru Retirement Project: Monthly Dividends” Solved
Whatever they’re paying the copywriters at Stansberry & Associates, it’s not enough. This stuff is pure gold! Drive-Thru Retirement … now that’s a good idea. I’ll take the Super Size Value Combo, please! The latest ad from S&A is for a new service they’re providing, a monthly dividend tracking system of some kind, which essentially […]
44 Comments Read More“The Forever NanoBattery: Makes old batteries obsolete and investors wealthy”
This one has come up in questions from readers quite a few times over the past few weeks that it’s been circulating, and the shares have already moved up a little bit with the company trying to get some press coverage tomorrow as they demonstrate their technology. So now seemed like a good time to […]
61 Comments Read More“The World’s Best Business Model: Selling Water to a Thirsty World” Roger Conrad
This one comes in from Roger Conrad in an ad for his Vital Resource Investor, and it touts two water stocks that are available on one of their “special reports” — in this case, the report is called, “The World’s Best Business Model: Selling Water to a Thirsty World.” The general idea is probably one […]
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