Motley Fool Stock Advisor is chasing "Forty Dollar Frank" again... what's the story?

Here’s my soothsaying bit for this week, which you should feel free to ignore — like everyone else who’s predicting the future, I’m probably going to be wrong. I don’t think, even now, that we’re pricing in even the bad news that is already almost certain this year… or if we are, we’re pricing in […]

The Friday File comes early this week...

Mizrahi says "This 'Next Berkshire Hathaway' Company Has Grown at a Rate of 21.1% Per Year — And it Could Help Make You a Fortune"

What's the Crow's Nest pick?

Do "Micropayments" Add up? Sniffing out Steve Sjuggerud's "ValuableProperties.com" teasers for True Wealth

Compiled list, in order of affection, of our past "Idea of the Month" picks with updated opinions

Finishing up our "buy, sell or hold" survey of past "Idea of the month" stocks.

Before I get into the point of today’s Friday File, I want to welcome the newcomers to the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars, and to especially thank those who joined up during our charity membership drive just before Christmas — we managed to raise a total of just over $2,600 for our two charities, and I was […]

Well, it’s the beginning of a new year and time for introspection — so I thought I’d revisit some of the older ideas I’ve profiled for the Idea of the Month, and list all of the Ideas in my order of preference today. So first, the list — if I were buying today from the […]

Last week I promised that I would be writing a special note of some kind just for the Stock Gumshoe Irregulars each Friday — I’ll be calling this feature the Friday File, and it will include whatever I think might be interesting to share with you each week, whether it’s a new stock teaser unraveling […]

This past year of writing for the Gumshoe faithful has been a wonderful one for me, but not so much for the returns of the stocks that I singled out for extra attention here for the loyal Stock Gumshoe Irregulars.  As I’ve noted before, starting this additional little service for my contributors has served mostly, […]

Well, it wasn’t but a week and a half ago that I urged you to take a look at Loews — but with the fall in all financial and oil-related stocks, I need to sell my own shares of this conglomerate.  I closed out my Loews position today, though I still have some exposure to […]

October 10 Update:  I sold Loews, and can’t urge anyone to buy or hold it here. Did anyone say “no take backs?”  I sold my Loews shares today, less than two weeks after writing the following analysis.  They remain cheap relative to their “competitors” like Berkshire and Markel, but those two and so many others […]

OK, so this is starting to sound like a broken record — but I bought another cash-rich, insurance-based conglomerate that has a history of making good investment decisions.  I picked up shares late this afternoon of Loews Corp. at a hair over $40.  Loews runs its own Loews hotel chain, owns most of CNA Insurance, […]

Apparently the sexy appeal of hedge funds has not worn off yet for individual investors, because the folks at Stansberry Research keep teasing their deep value picks by comparing them to hedge funds. Last time around it was the “secret penny hedge fund” that turned out to be Winthrop Realty Trust. This time around, the […]

You probably won’t find this shocking, but the Gumshoe is, at heart, a lazy man. So I’m skipping 3 and 4 while I work on them a little more, since they’re gumming up my brain cells, and moving on to the other “easy” teaser from the “secret societies” ad from Stansberry and Associates. This one […]