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Ray Blanco
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Agora Financial
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Intro-level technology monthly newsletter, often recommends larger tech companies.
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r.CoxYour comments about Academia in the April 2012 issue are write on. I speak from some exp[erience as everal years ago i was invited as a businessmanto chair and fix the management Dept ay a masjor west Coast University.
The rot in large parts of our educational system , in my opinion goes back 60+ years when a teachers professional organizatio (with professional ethics) decied to become a union (with union ethics).It’s now the National Education Assoiciation We w have three generations of students who have largely been educated by teachers, particularly in the arts and social sciencesand the ethical principles that it’s not the client (student) who should come first, it’s me (the teacherand my income)) that should com first.,Witness teachers in Wisconsin abandoning their classes to hit the picket lines and invade the state capitol.
I hope that you will join the few of us who have recocognized the size and nature of our countries problem. Rot has set in as we can see every day in looking at the actions eminatting from the White Hose. As a wpublished writer you have a voice that can help expose the magnitude of our educational propblem. It may be too late but “It’s better late than never”
Great reads and highly educational. Unfortunately, no profit per-say. Super long time horizon. Less than 50% wins. Ouch!
I paid $79 for an online text I cannot locate. Three Virtual Reality stock were claimed to be in the book ordered/paid for. Where is the visible proof of said claim?
regards,
Mike Satcher
How to buy stocks. I new to this and want
To learn more about investing and who do i call.
Thanksooglikeme60@gmail.com
Yesterday, I paid $49 dollar for Silver Card to invest $50 dollar pot stock
Before Jan. 1st, 2017, but I don’t know where I locate and contact to buy
Stock ?
Interesting, I subscribed because they said to buy the stock before February 1st.
I was one second away from pressing the order button but decided to look at a few reviews on TPC. Glad I did, my fear was not being able to find the section where you make the investment and did I really have to invest b4 Feb 1st. Thanks Bui and Ted. think i’ll hold off and go speak to a hands on investor. One I can put my hands on, if need be… Lol…
on 4/1/2017 I ordered the outstanding investment offer for 3 pot stocks to buy.
what I got was a long letter that was written before the nov. election .
this morning I got an offer to send them more money. does everyone get this treatment?
Bill – I’m sorry that happened. You can really do this on your own. There is a list – 243 pot stocks – for FREE. I have the link – email me & I’ll send it to you. Plus you can google “Pot Stocks” and find some – but the list I found is pretty good.
Lynda l am in Australia and while trying to order Tecnology Profits Confidential which I was told had the four best medical pot stocks and some other really good technology stocks in it but half way through the application I was told that I couldn’t by it in Australia. Would you be able to send the list to me . Be good to have a starting point with this.
Thank you
Baden
Hey Lynda, would love to have that link ( … scottallancarpenter@yahoo.com).
FYI … have spent the last two weeks SCOURING the internet for every pot stock can find … and have compiled a spreadsheet with a list of over 250 name ( … from US / Canada / Australia). If would like a copy just let me know / send email to.
Thanx, Scott
Hi Scott, is it possible to email me a copy of the list of pot stock you referred to in your post to Lynda please? I have never bought a stock in my life but am interested in pot stock investing and any input, guidance would be hugely appreciated.
Regards,
Sandy
Hello scott please email me your list for pot stocks , to padro.d2011@gmail.com thankyou for your hard work doug
Scott,
Could I talk you into emailing me a copy of your research?
Namaste’
Scot
I would love a copy of your analysis if you are willing to share.
Scott I would like a copy if you have it and are willing to share
Hi Lynda, would you please be so kind as to email ME the link for the list of 243 pot stocks, you mentioned to Bill on your post January 1, 2018.
Thank you,
Sandy
Lynda, If you could point me to where to find that list of 243 pot stocks, I would appreciate it.
Lynda,
I would love to have a copy of the pot stocks!
Namaste’
Scot
Join the discussion Lynda, please email me the list of 243 pot stocks to trimty@cox.net. Thanks in advance.
Lynda, Can you please email me the list. Thanks, j.
Lynda I would love to have a copy of your list please.
Hi Lynda,
I was about to join for Ray Blanco advise but after seeing all complaints I am not subscribing, can you send me your list of 243 pot stocks?
Hi Lynda,
would appreciate getting the link. Thanks. Maria
maria.rosenthal11@gmail.com
Please send me your list
Even Motley Fool practices the “delayed reward” gambit after you’ve paid over $100 for their less obscure recommendations–companies like Disney, Amazon and Apple and Facebook (duh!?)
You get no stock picks or names of companies to invest in. Just long winded emails and videos with nothing but hot air.
Does anybody have a good recommendation for a teaser newsletter or are all of them as bad as I’ve experienced?
I just listened to the whole approximately 40-minute video/sales pitch. It said better invest by October 1, 2017. It seems they just recycle the same info with different dates. Thank all who said they don’t tell you any companies or way to invest. I’ll save myself some money and hassle.
I fell for a similar pitch – a list of pot stocks that you had to purchase by a certain date. I own all five for a few months now – well past their deadline. Not much has happened to any of them. 4 are down, 1 is up modestly.
Hey DV Madison – you wrote that in late November. How are your stocks doing now, and what stocks do you have? Thanks!
lynda,
I feel like a complete fool-
I am recently disabled and just found two $3000.00 charges to my creditdcsard for Penny Pot
profits and another $3,000.00 to Shah Gilani, both without my iknowledge-I am contacting the State AG,
but would be ki8nd and send me the pot lists and information you find to be credible ?
I am Steve at bastenterprise@gmail.com
Thank you in advance for your kindness !
steve
Trying to cancel and there is no contact info
Its hard to find – but there is a form on the website you fill out – you can’t email them direct. And be persistent. i had to email them 3 times to get a response.
Watch credit card statements closely. Call about unwanted charges. Citicorp bank quickly nullified the charge.
They tease relentlessly with recommendations that you will *REGRET* if you don’t do something by some specific date. Date comes and goes, nothing happens. I purchased 5 stocks on one of these recommendations – about to explode immediately!!!!! A few months down the road – 4 our of 5 are losers. The one winner – just barely. Once you subscribe, the teases from their other newsletters become relentless, and sometimes outright offensive (one of them suggested that the people of Puerto Rico were not even human beings). But their customer service is the worst. I had to log on and email them 3 times before they finally cancelled my auto-renew – and they did not issue a refund for my unused portion of the newsletter, even though I asked. I’m not interested in giving them any more of my business.
Hey DV Madison. Just wondering if you can skype me justinstone6. Interested in your comments here. Thanks.
This seems to be as close to fraud as you can be. Initial subscription for recommended stocks NEVER materialized. Only promotion to increase subscription to next higher level Emails/phone calls are unanswered. Nothing but monetary promotion.
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Some outfit this is
I am not going to buy this from the reviews and the fact that this video is old, recycled garbage. Agora Financial has the very same article on their website. This dude is stealing articles from other investment companies and advertising it as his own. Put this crook in jail
Some of these comments are disturbing.
Agora, the company behind Money Map Press and Agora Financial (as well as Early to Rise, plenty of other financial and health newsletter companies, and AWAI, a copywriting training company), has very shady ethics. One of their upper circle was even sued by the US government before, for fraud I believe.
The thing to realize about these companies (not to mention Bottom Line Inc. & Motley Fool, among others) is that they are built on direct response advertising … a form of advertising whose goal is to elicit a response from the reader immediately. Because this type of persuasive advertising can generate serious, serious cash, it also attracts a number of “sociopaths,” as one copywriter put it.
Agora makes extraordinarily detailed profiles of their customers, including demographics, desires, fears, primal needs, hobbies, habits, you name it. They use this type of information (along with other copywriting tactics, like ‘specificity’, which is why you see so many ultra-specific ROI numbers pop up over and over and over in ads) to sell hard. And it works.
I know because I study this type of copywriting. After all, direct response marketing is what’s used online, but fraud and lies … well, that’s a different, immoral story.
Agora apparently knows how to walk a fine line without going past the bounds of the law.
It seems some of your readers have unfortunately experienced this firsthand.
I’m a little surprised to hear that about Bottom Line. My father subscribed to their newsletter.
He was a voracious reader when it came to the topic of money and investing (Forbes, Money, Kiplinger, Bogle,Schwab, etc.)
Bottom Line had columnists with good credentials and experience. I’d take a peek at the issues and things my father had high lighted in them.
I always thought it was good information often
echoed in other publications. I don’t recall anything that seemed like inflated hype.
I do agree with you about Motley Fool though.
It’s so hard to know who to listen to sometimes.
Mainstream pubs like Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal have talked about the “looming banking crisis” due to investment in CLOs.
I don’t hear anything about what the public should be doing about it, how to prepare.
Interested in your thoughts on that.
None of them delivers on the promised one stock that will make millions. Instead they bait you–and bait some more, using a real-life “expert” like Jeff Brown, with claims he’s the wizard who not only recommended but sparked the surge in semiconductor companies like Nvidia and NXP Industries. Look up his credentials on the internet before you bite or waste time and money. Even respected services like Motley Fool–which give you free recommendations from their staff and members before promising “better” recommendations if you subscribe–begin to dangle more expensive offers for “select” members–like having access to the portfolio of the more successful brother for a thousand (instead of one hundred) dollars.
My recommendation: heed the free advice in the financial news (yes, even Cramer) and from your broker, and take advantage of the invisible fees (not simply low-to-no trade commissions) in “house” funds (mutual and ETF’s) like those offered by big- league broker Schwab (since the beginning of Obama’s 2 terms I’m up 300% in SCHG alone). When I started investing in the early ’90s, even discount brokers were charging $55 per trade. And before you could take advantage of a company’s DRIP plan, you had to have their stock certificate in your possession (i.e. you had to pony up the money for your first trade in the company). But now with free trades from Schwab, Ameritrade, etc., it’s cost-effective to buy tiny amounts and to micro-manage your portfolio, selecting the individual purchases that show a loss and selling only those.
CAVEAT: Don’t expect the free trading to last! It’s reeling in more customers even as it’s eroding the bottom line of profits for participating companies. Meanwhile, the big fish that maintain retirement accounts–TIAA-CREF, Chase, etc.–have not joined the “give-away” party–evidence that the free-trading is a limited-time opportunity.
Astute observations. Thank God for you all and for this website. I just joined today. Already you’ve saved me a lot of time and trouble and expense. I’m indebted to you.
Received the ad about Apple-fi in my email box via Robert Kyosaki’s free newsletter. I guess I won’t be cluttering up my inbox with his literature.
What I’ve been reading in more mainstream media about banks closing and going bankrupt
because of their investment s in CLOs has me worried.
It’s so hard to know who to listen to and what to do about it.
Thanks so much for being a go- to source.
Hi, I’m new. Here and to the wonderful..ly complicated world of the stock market.
Let me start by saying that I don’t think I’m a slow man. Embarrassingly, I read and believed the claims in the b.s. report. The only reason I would even try something involving such a monumental amount of risk and uncertainty is because I am a struggling father of four . College is approaching. First cars . Daughters weddings. I have two boys and two girls. I can’t eat. I’m losing weight. I’m losing sleep so I look like a bag of smashed a**holes. I need to do something about the trajectory of my kids and my family’s lives.
I believe you have saved me from making a foolhardy mistake that could have sent ripples through the life’s blood of this family. If there’s anything I can ever do for you, please, don’t hesitate.
Ever grateful, Phillip Roy Wilson
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