We recently added a significant amount of material to our Encyclopedia of Bozos, Hacks, Snake Oil Salesmen and Faux Heroes. This is a publication that will be expanded indefinitely.
As we continue to add more content to this critical publication, we will also be supplementing this material with images, links and videos.
This publication is expected to eventually total several hundred pages. It is expected to remain a publication that is expanded indefinitely as we learn new information about these charlatans and as new ones emerge onto the scene.
Some of these snake oil salesmen are worse than others. Some are focused on reeling in fish from the investment world, while others are more concerned with other disinformation. However, the common elements they possess are the lust for money and the lack of a conscious.
Although access to this content is restricted to paid Members and subscribers to our investment publications, we have selected a few of these videos for unrestricted access.
Due to the comprehensive nature and exhaustive due diligence used to compile this information, we view this encyclopedia as our single most important publication because we believe it will save readers from huge losses by exposing the reality of these clowns.
How can we make this claim? Once upon a time, we too were just as naïve as you. No one is born knowing everything.
We have spent several years studying these charlatans, learning their tricks and documenting their claims. And we try to point out their methods so that readers will become educated on these tactics, helping them to spot other charlatans for themselves.
For most, it is only through attaining a superior understanding of the investment process that one is able to detect these charlatans, but only if they are also skilled in deviant psychology; not the kind that comes from a book, but that which can only be learned based on real world experience.
Since most people will never achieve this level of expertise, it is vital that they are guided through the huge market of snake oil salesmen so that they do not spend years and years wasting huge sums of money all while missing real opportunities.
Ask yourself how many years it has taken you in the past and how much money you blew either subscription fees or through listening to useless recommendations before you realized the need to avoid one or more clowns.
In our Encyclopedia of Bozos, Hacks, Snake Oil Salesmen and Faux Heroes, we lay out the most comprehensive treatment of these clowns in existence. Thus, having access to this content is priceless.
Think Tanks
In addition to other content recently added, we added two additional categories tour encyclopedia. The first is a list of think tanks and other organizations that are not to be trusted due to their hidden agendas.
Currently, this list contains approximately fifty organizations that are not to be trusted.
They are used by political pundits as a source of credible analysis. Sometimes the data and analysis is accurate, but in many cases it is not.
Readers may have heard of some of these organizations, but they probably have not heard of most. Although most of these organizations claim to be nonpartisan, this is by no means the case. We will continue to expand this list in the future.
Below we have posted a few of the more common hack organizations you may have heard of. They are among the most obvious hack organizations.
Cato Institute
Heritage Foundation
George Mason University
Mercatus Center
Americans for Prosperity
Competitive Enterprise Institute
If you were not already aware that the following organizations publish a great deal of slanted and inaccurate material, consider yourself a sheep. It’s okay to be a sheep. It’s not okay to remain one.
Gold Hacks
Although we already have detailed information on our comprehensive list of gold hacks, we recently added a comprehensive list of their gold forecasts from 2011 (none of which came remotely close) as well as for 2012 (none of which are likely to materialize).
As with everything else in this publication, this list is subject to continued expansion.
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