How to Think Clearly

"Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." –Mark Twain

If you want to fully understand and appreciate the work of Mike Stathis, from his market forecasts and securities analysis to his political and economic analyses, you will need to learn how to think clearly if you already lack this vital skill.

For many, this will be a cleansing process that could take quite a long time to complete depending on each individual.

The best way to begin clearing your mind is to move forward with this series of steps:

1. GET RID OF YOUR TV SET, AND ONLY USE STREAMING SERVICES SPARINGLY.

2. REFUSE TO USE YOUR PHONE TO TEXT.

3. DO NOT USE A "SMART (DUMB) PHONE" (or at least do not use your phone to browse the Internet unless absolutely necessary).

4. STAY AWAY FROM SOCIAL MEDIA (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Snap, Twitter, Tik Tok unless it is to spread links to this site). 

5. STAY OFF JEWTUBE.

6. AVOID ALL MEDIA (as much as possible).

The cleansing process will take time but you can hasten the process by being proactive in exercising your mind.

You should also be aware of a very common behavior exhibited by humans who have been exposed to the various aspects of modern society. This behavior occurs when an individual overestimates his abilities and knowledge, while underestimating his weaknesses and lack of understanding. This behavior has been coined the "Dunning-Kruger Effect" after two sociologists who described it in a research publication. See here.

Many people today think they are virtual experts on every topic they place importance on. The reason for this illusory behavior is because these individuals typically allow themselves to become brainwashed by various media outlets and bogus online sources. The more information these individuals obtain on these topics, the more qualified they feel they are to share their views with others without realizing the media is not a valid source with which to use for understanding something. The media always has bias and can never be relied on to represent the full truth. Furthermore, online sources are even more dangerous for misinformation, especially due to the fact that search algorithms have been designed to create confirmation bias. 

A perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect can be seen with many individuals who listen to talk radio shows. These shows are often politically biased and consist of individuals who resemble used car salesmen more than intellectuals. These talking heads brainwash their audience with cherry-picked facts, misstatements, and lies regarding relevant issues such as healthcare, immigration, Social Security, Medicaid, economics, science, and so forth. They also select guests to interview based on the agendas they wish to fulfill with their advertisers rather than interviewing unbiased experts who might share different viewpoints than the host.

Once the audience has been indoctrinated by these propagandists, they feel qualified to discuss these topics on the same level as a real authority, without realizing that they obtained their understanding from individuals who are employed as professional liars and manipulators by the media. 

Another good example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect can be seen upon examination of political pundits, stock market and economic analysts on TV.  They talk a good game because they are professional speakers. But once you examine their track record, it is clear that these individuals are largely wrong. But they have developed confidence in speaking about these topics due to an inflated sense of expertise in topics for which they continuously demonstrate their incompetence.

One of the most insightful analogies created to explain how things are often not what you see was Plato's Allegory of the Cave, from Book 7 of the Republic.

We highly recommend that you study this masterpiece in great detail so that you are better able to use logic and reason.  From there, we recommend other classics from Greek philosophers. After all, ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Socrates created critical thinking.   

If you can learn how to think like a philosopher, ideally one of the great ancient Greek philosophers, it is highly unlikely that you will ever be fooled by con artists like those who make ridiculous and unfounded claims in order to pump gold and silver, the typical get-rich-quick, or multi-level marketing (MLM) crowd.





STOP Being Taken

If you want to do well as an investor, you must first understand how various forces are seeking to deceive you. 

Most people understand that Wall Street is looking to take their money.

But do they really understand the means by which Wall Street achieves these objectives? 

Once you understand the various tricks and scams practiced by Wall Street you will be better able to avoid being taken. 

Perhaps an even greater threat to investors is the financial media.

The single most important thing investors must do if they aim to become successful is to stay clear of all media.

That includes social media and other online platforms with investment content such as YouTube and Facebook, which are one million times worse than the financial media.

The various resources found within this website address these two issues and much more. 

Remember, you can have access to the best investment research in the world. But without adequate judgment, you will not do well as an investor.

You must also understand how the Wall Street and financial media parasites operate in order to do well as an investor. 

It is important to understand how the Jewish mafia operates so that you can beat them at their own game.

The Jewish mafia runs both Wall Street and the media. This cabal also runs many other industries.

We devote a great deal of effort exposing the Jewish mafia in order to position investors with a higher success rate in achieving their investment goals.

Always remember the following quotes as they apply to the various charlatans positioned by the media as experts and business leaders.   

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” - King James Bible - Matthew 7:15

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." –Mark Twain

It's also very important to remember this FACT.  All Viewpoints Are Not Created Equal.

Just because something is published in print, online, or aired in broadcast media does not make it accurate. 

More often than not, the larger the audience, the more likely the content is either inaccurate or slanted. 

The next time you read something about economics or investments, you should ask the following question in order to determine the credibility of the source.

Is the source biased in any way?  

That is, does the source have any agendas which would provide some kind of benefit accounting for conclusions that were made? 

Most individuals who operate websites or blogs sell ads or merchandise of some kind. In particular, websites that sell precious metals are not credible sources of information because the views published on these sites are biased and cannot be relied upon.

The following question is one of the first things you should ask before trusting anyone who is positioned as an expert. 

Is the person truly credible?  

Most people associate credibility with name-recognition. But more often than not, name-recognition serves as a predictor of bias if not lack of credibility because the more a name is recognized, the more the individual has been plastered in the media. 

Most individuals who have been provided with media exposure are either naive or clueless. The media positions these types of individuals as “credible experts” in order to please its financial sponsors; those who buy advertisements. 

In the case of the financial genre, instead of name-recognition or media celebrity status, you must determine whether your source has relevant experience on Wall Street as opposed to being self-taught. But this is just a basic hurdle that in itself by no means ensures the source is competent or credible.

It's much more important to carefully examine the track record of your source in depth, looking for accuracy and specific forecasts rather than open-ended statements. You must also look for timing since a broken clock is always right once a day.  Finally, make sure they do not cherry-pick their best calls. Always examine their entire track record. 

Don't ever believe the claims made by the source or the host interviewing the source regarding their track record. 

Always verify their track record yourself. 

The above question requires only slight modification for use in determining the credibility of sources that discuss other topics, such as politics, healthcare, etc.

We have compiled the most extensive publication exposing hundreds of con men pertaining to the financial publishing and securities industry, although we also cover numerous con men in the media and other front groups since they are all associated in some way with each other.

There is perhaps no one else in the world capable of shedding the full light on these con men other than Mike Stathis.

Mike has been a professional in the financial industry for nearly three decades. 

Alhough he publishes numerous articles and videos addressing the dark side of the industry, the core collection can be found in our ENCYCLOPEDIA of Bozos, Hacks, Snake Oil Salesmen and Faux Heroes

Also, the Image Library contains nearly 8,000 images, most of which are annotated.


At AVA Investment Analytics, we don't pump gold, silver, or equities because we are not promoters or marketers.

We actually expose precious metals pumpers, while revealing their motives, means, and methods.

We do not sell advertisements.

We actually go to great lengths to expose the ad-based content scam that's so pervasive in the world today. 

We do not receive any compensation from our content, other than from our investment research, which is not located on this website. 

We provide individual investors, financial advisers, analysts and fund managers with world-class research and unique insight.







Media Lies

If you listen to the media, most likely at minimum it's going to cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your life time.

The deceit, lies, and useless guidance from the financial media is certainly a large contributor of these losses.

But a good deal of lost wealth comes in the form of excessive consumerism which the media encourages and even imposes upon its audience.

You aren’t going to know that you’re being brainwashed, or that you have lost $1 million or $2 million over your life time due to the media.

But I can guarantee you that with rare exception this will become the reality for those who are naïve enough to waste time on media.

It gets worse.

By listening to the media you are likely to also suffer ill health effects through excessive consumption of prescription drugs, and/or as a result of watching ridiculous medical shows, all of which are supportive of the medical-industrial complex.

And if you seek out the so-called "alternative media" as a means by which to escape the toxic nature of the "mainstream" media, you might make the mistake of relying on con men like Kevin Trudeau, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, and many others.

This could be a deadly decision. As bad as the so-called "mainstream" media is, the so-called "alternative media" is even worse.

There are countless con artists spread throughout the media who operate in the same manner. They pretend to be on your side as they "expose" the "evil" government and corporations.

Their aim is to scare you into buying their alternatives.  This addresses the nutritional supplements industry which has become a huge scam.  

 

Why Does the Media Air Liars and Con Men?

The goal of the media is NOT to serve its audience because the audience does NOT pay its bills.

The goal of the media is to please its sponsors, or the companies that spend huge dollars buying advertisements.

And in order for companies to justify these expenses, they need the media to represent their cause.

The media does this by airing idiots and con artists who mislead and confuse the audience.

By engaging in "journalistic fraud," the media steers its audience into the arms of its advertisers because the audience is now misled and confused.

The financial media sets up the audience so that they become needy after having lost large amounts of money listening to their "experts." Desperate for professional help, the audience contacts Wall Street brokerage firms, mutual funds, insurance companies, and precious metals dealers that are aired on financial networks. This is why these firms pay big money for adverting slots in the financial media.

We see the same thing on a more obvious note in the so-called "alternative media," which is really a remanufactured version of the "mainstream media." Do not be fooled. There is no such thing as the "alternative media."  It really all the same. 

In order to be considered "media" you must have content that has widespread channels of distribution. Thus, all "media" is widely distributed.

And the same powers that control the distribution of the so-called "mainstream media" also control distribution of the so-called "alternative media."

The claim that there is an "alternative media" is merely a sales pitch designed to capture the audience that has since given up on the "mainstream media."  

The tactic is a very common one used by con men.

The same tactic is used by Washington to convince naive voters that there are meaningful differences between the nation's two political parties.

In reality, both parties are essentially the same when it comes to issues that matter most (e.g. trade policy and healthcare) because all U.S. politicians are controlled by corporate America. Anyone who tells you anything different simply isn't thinking straight.

On this site, we expose the lies and the liars in the media.

We discuss and reveal the motives and track record of the media’s hand-selected charlatans with a focus on the financial media.  




 

Why Stathis Was Banned

To date, we know of no one who has established a more accurate track record in the investment markets since 2006 than Mike Stathis.  

Yet, the financial media wants nothing to do with Stathis.  

This has been the case from day one when he was black-balled by the publishing industry after having written his landmark 2006 book, America's Financial Apocalypse

From that point on, he was black-balled throughout all so-called mainstream media and then even the so-called alternative media. 

With very rare exception, you aren't even going to hear him on the radio or anywhere else being interviewed.  

Ask yourself why. 

You aren't going to see him mentioned on any websites either, unless its by people whom he has exposed.  

You aren't likely to ever read or hear of his remarkable investment research track record anywhere, unless you read about it on this website.

You should be wondering why this might be.

Some of you already know the answer.

The media banned Mike Stathis because the trick used by the media is to promote cons and clowns so that the audience will be steered into the hands of the media's financial sponsors - Wall Street, gold dealers, etc. 

Because the media is run by the Jewish mafia and because most Jews practice a severe form of tribalism, the media will only promote Jews and gentiles who represent Jewish businesses.  

And as for radio shows and websites that either don't know about Stathis or don't care to hear what he has to say, the fact is that they are so ignorant that they assume those who are plastered throughout media are credible.

And because they haven't heard Stathis anywhere in the media, even if they come across him, they automatically assume he's a nobody in the investment world simply because he has no media exposure.  And they are too lazy to go through his work because they realize they are too stupid to understand the accuracy and relevance of his research. 

Top investment professionals who know about Mike Stathis' track record have a much different view of him. But they cannot say so in public because Stathis is now considered a "controversial" figure due to his stance on the Jewish mafia. 

Most people are in it for themselves. Thus, they only care about pitching what’s deemed as the “hot” topic because this sells ads in terms of more site visits or reads.

This is why you come across so many websites based on doom and conspiratorial horse shit run by con artists.

We have donated countless hours and huge sums of money towards the pursuit of exposing the con men, lies, and fraud.

We have been banned by virtually every media platform in the U.S and every website prior to writing about the Jewish mafia.

Mike Stathis was banned by all media early on because he exposed the realities of the United States.

The Jewish mafia has declared war on us because we have exposed the realities of the U.S. government, Wall Street, corporate America, free trade, U.S. healthcare, and much more.

Stathis has also been banned by alternative media because he exposed the truth about gold and silver. 

We have even been banned from use of email marketing providers as a way to cripple our abilities to expand our reach. 

You can talk about the Italian Mafia, and Jewish Hollywood can make 100s of movies about it.

BUT YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT THE JEWISH MAFIA.

Because Mr. Stathis exposed so much in his 2006 book America's Financial Apocalypse, he was banned.

He was banned for writing about the following topics in detail: political correctness, illegal immigration, affirmative action, as well as the economic realities behind America's disastrous healthcare system, the destructive impact of free trade, and many other topics. He also exposed Wall Street fraud and the mortgage derivatives scam that would end of catalyzing the worst global crisis in history. 

It's critical to note that the widespread ban on Mr. Stathis began well before he mentioned the Jewish mafia or even Jewish control of any kind.

It was in fact his ban that led him to realize precisely what was going on.

We only began discussing the role of the criminality of the Jewish mafia by late-2009, three years AFTER we had been black-listed by the media.

Therefore, no one can say that our criticism of the Jewish mafia led to Mike being black-listed (not that it would even be acceptable).  

If you dare to expose Jewish control or anything under Jewish control, you will be black-balled by all media so the masses will never hear the truth.

Just remember this. Mike does not have to do what he is doing. 

Instead, he could do what everyone else does and focus on making money. 

He has already sacrificed a huge fortune to speak the truth hoping to help people steer clear of fraudsters and to educate people as to the realities in order to prevent the complete enslavement of world citizenry. 

  

Rules to Remember

Rule #1: Those With Significant Exposure Are NOT on Your Side.  

No one who has significant exposure should ever be trusted. Such individuals should be assumed to be gatekeepers until proven otherwise.  I have never found an exception to this rule.

Understand that those responsible for permitting or even facilitating exposure have given exposure to specific individuals for a very good reason. And that reason does not serve your best interests. 

In short, I have significant empirical evidence to conclude that everyone who has a significant amount of exposure has been bought off (in some way) by those seeking to distort reality and control the masses. This is not a difficult concept to grasp. It's propaganda 101.   

Rule #2: Con Artists Like to Form Syndicates.

Before the Internet was created, con artists were largely on their own. Once the Internet was released to the civilian population, con artists realized that digital connectivity could amplify their reach, and thus the effectiveness of their mind control tactics. This meant digital connectivity could amplify the money con artists extract from their victims by forming alliances with other con artists.

Teaming up with con artists leads to a significantly greater volume of content and distraction, such that victims of these con artists are more likely to remain trapped within the web of deceit, as well as being more convinced that their favorite con artist is legit. 

Whenever you wish to know whether someone can be trusted, always remember this golden rule..."a man is judged by the company he keeps." This is a very important rule to remember because con men almost always belong to the same network.  You will see the same con artists interviewing each other,referencing each other, (e.g. a hat tip) on the same blog rolls, attending the same conferences, mentioning their con artist peers, and so forth.

Rule #3: There's NO Free Lunch.  

Whenever something is marketed as being "free" you can bet the item or service is either useless or else the ultimate price you'll pay will be much greater than if you had paid money for it in the beginning. 

You should always seek to establish a monetary relationship with all vendors because this establishes a financial link between you the customer and the vendor. Therefore, the vendor will tend to serve and protect your best interests because you pay his bills. 

Those who use the goods and services from vendors who offer their products for free will treated not as customers, but as products, because these vendors will exploit users who are obtaining  their products for free in order to generate income.   

Use of free emails, free social media, free content is all complete garbage designed to obtain your data and sell it to digital marketing firms.

From there you will be brainwashed with cleverly designed ads. You will be monitored and your identity wil eventually be stolen. 

Fraudsters often pitch the "free" line in order to lure greedy people who think they can get something for free. 

Perhaps now you understand why the system of globalized trade was named "free trade." 

As you might appreciate, free trade has been a complete disaster and scam designed to enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor. 

There are too many examples of goods and services positioned as being free, when in reality, the customers get screwed.  

Rule #4: Beware of Manipulation Using Word Games. 

When manipulators want to get the masses to side with their propaganda and ditch more legitimate alternatives they often select psychologically relevant labels to indicate positive or negative impressions.

For instance, the financial parasites running America's medical-industrial complex have designated the term "socialized medicine" to replace the original, more accurate term, "universal healthcare." This play on words has been done to sway the masses from so much as even investigating universal healthcare, because the criminals want to keep defrauding people with their so-called "market-based" healthcare scam, which has accounted for the number one cause of personal bankruptcies in the USA for many years.  

When Wall Street wanted to convince the American people to go along with NAFTA, they used the term "free trade" to describe the current system of trade which has devastated the U.S. labor force.

In reality, free trade is unfair trade and only benefits the wealthy and large corporations.

There are many examples on this play on words such as the "sharing economy" and so on.  

Rule #5: Whenever Someone Promotes Something that Offers to Empower You, It's Usually a Scam.

This applies to the life coaches, self-help nonsense, libertarian pitches, FIRE movement, and so on.

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

Unlike what the corporate fascists claim, we DO need government.

And no, you can NOT become financially independent and retire early unless you sell this con game to suckers.  

Rule #6: "Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." –Mark Twain

Following this rule is forcing the small and dewindling group of intelligent people left in the world to cease interacting with people. 

You might need to get accustomed to being alone if you're intelligent and would rather not waste your time arguing with someone who is so ignorant, that they have no chance to realize what's really going in this world. 

It would seem that Dunning-Kruger has engulfed much of the population, especially in the West.     

Start Here

"Bond King" Jeff Gundlach's Doubleline Capital Has Terrible Returns

Similar to the previous "bond king" Bill Gross, the performance of the media's new "bond king" Jeff Gundlach is not what you've been led to believe by the financial media. 

However, Gundlach's performance is much worse than that of Bill Gross. 

Incidentally, if you're thinking Bill Gross had "amazing" performance as the media claims, that implies two things. 

First, you trust the media (a poor decision).

Second, you haven't examined the details for yourself (another poor decision). 

Bill Gross' performance is a topic I may go into another time.

Always remember this.

Never trust the financial media or anyone associated with it or promoted by it. The media lies on a daily basis in order to achieve its dishonest objectives. 

In addition to having been overhyped, another thing Gross and Gundlach have in common is that they're both Jewish.    

What a shocker! 

Why else do you think they have been overhyped by the media? 

Let's see...media is controlled by Jews.

And nearly all of the media's "experts" are Jews.

What a coincidence! 

Considering the fact that less than 2 percent of the US population is Jewish, it seems more than strange that nearly all of the "experts" on everything seem to be Jewish. 

Are you starting to see a pattern here? 

I've discussed this issue in the past.

Quite simply, the longstanding behavior of pathological Jewish tribalism results in mass discrimination against Gentiles in all fields which Jews have seized control over.

And it results in what I have previously referred to as "Jewish privilege." Today, I'm going to use another term that explains this phenomenon. I call it "tribal nepotism."

It's important to keep in mind that the media is promoting Gundlach as the new "bond king" without ever discussing the performance of his funds, not to mention his broken clock, fear-mongering predictions, which never materialize.

But even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Gundlach hasn't been right in a long time.  

This is the typical media scam.

It's complete fraud. 

At least Gross delivered decent returns even after deducting the ridiculously high fees charged by his PIMCO Total Return Fund.

The high fees was the problem I had with Gross, not his performance. But once you deduct all fees from gross returns, the performance wasn't so good. 

Incidentally, the fund has since lowered its fees significantly compared to the period when Gross was managing the fund. 

The bottom line is Gundlach's performance is pretty terrible.

Even if he didn't charge any fees, his performance would still be terrible. 

You can examine the performance of his funds for yourself.

Many of his bond funds have produced catastrophic losses, so it's disgusting that no one in the media has ever mentioned it. Meanwhile, the media promotes him as if he's some kind of investment superman.

I consider as typical media fraud. 

By early 2022, it was common knowledge that the Fed was going to raise short-term interest rates considerably over the course of the year. 

Given that Gundlach is the "bond king," he should have known this was coming in advance. Moreover, he should have expected rates to be raised more than the Fed first estimated because the Fed's initial estimates were quite low (around 2.5%). 

Moreover, by early 2021 experienced investors knew the Fed would be starting quantatitive tightening (QT) sometime within the next several months. 

QT was certain to cause agency-MBS to collapse in price. 

And that's precisely what's happened since 2022. 

I actually warned research subscribers of Dividend Gems of this very issue in 2021 and repeated these warnings throughout 2022 and 2023. 

What was Gundlach doing throughout this period? 

He was making the rounds in the media, pretending to be some kind of investment genius. 

As far as I have been able to determine, not once did Gundlach warn investors that quantatative tightening and higher interest rates was going to decimate bonds, and especially agency-MBS, for which many of his funds had invested. 

Meanwhile, the media continued to promote Gundlach as the "bond king." 

As you can imagine, many investors were lured to invest in Gundlach's bond funds thinking it would be a safe place to be. 

But as the stock market collapsed in 2022, so did bonds. 

What about Gundlach's role in all of this?

Although I do not know if Gundlach has done anything that's illegal, as far as I have seen he failed to warn investors that bonds would get clobbered as rates went up. And agency-MBS would get especially whacked due to QT.

So from this alone, it's easy to see that he's not someone to be trusted for anything related to the capital markets because his sole agenda is to sell his bond funds.

Furthermore, I consider Gundlach to be a con artist because he continuously uses his media exposure to promote all sorts of doom scenarios, while making fear-mongering predictions which never materialize.

And he pulls this routine in order to scare investors into his bond funds, for which he charges hefty fees. 

It's the same song and dance used by many of the other "experts" from the media, notably Peter Schiff.  

If the media is going to air any fund manager, it needs to show their full track record. 

But of course if this happened, no one would pay attention to the clowns the media promotes as "experts" because their track records suck.

This is a fact we have been confirming for nearly two decades.   

Now, as bad as Gundlach's performance has been, things get much worse if you happen to be an investor in his funds.

Quite simply, your investment returns are going to be significantly worse than the fund performance data published in Doubleline's marketing materials.  

How can this be?

Because the performance data has been manipulated. 

The scary thing is that this manipulation is not illegal and is actually common practice in the fund management industry.

This gives you an idea how corrupt the SEC is.

The SEC has done nothing to end this practice of allowing fund companies to publish manipulated and hence unrealistic fund performance data. 

Even after decades of fraud and deceitful marketing tactics, the fund industry is still not truly regulated.  

Take a look at the performance data from one of Gundlach's funds (below).  

If you think this fund has delivered bad performance (and you'd be right) consider that the performance assumes all dividends were reinvested, but does not include any expenses for taxes.

Moreover, no other fees or expenses were deducted from this performance data. 

What this means is that the performance data has been manipulated.

Specifically, the performance data has been artificially inflated by fees, expenses and taxes that should have been subtracted.  

Keep in mind that the deduction of fees and other expenses must be compounded to determine the full impact on the inflation of performance data.

Notice how the above "disclaimer" uses the smallest font, is lightly colored and is far away from the data table, which as you can see has been printed using a much larger font.

This is no coincidence.

Use of these tactics increase the chance investors will not read the "disclaimer."

In addition, most investors will not truly understand the impact of the disclaimer.

This is the kind of misleading garbage the fund industry is permitted to carry out because the industry is NOT TRULY REGULATED.

Once again, the SEC has failed investors and continues to allow funds to mislead them. Therefore, you should realize who the SEC really serves. 

How is performance data credible if reasonable fees and expenses haven't been deducted?  

And by the way, what reasonable investor reinvests dividends from a fixed income fund?

That makes absolutely no sense if you have a basic understanding of investments. 

If you're reinvesting dividends from fixed income investments, you're lost in the woods and you really need some assistance. 

If that describes you, consider enrolling in our Investment Boot Camp Series, which covers this topic, along with hundreds of other topics and even includes advanced material you won't find anywhere else in the world because this material was created by Mike Stathis, one of the world's leading investment analysts.  

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Doug Casey: Investment Legend or Huge Liar and Career Con Man?

The number of lies presented in the following BS propaganda videos (below) are endless. But it's precisely what you'd expect from the kind of horse shit being pumped out of copywriting boiler rooms....

Robert Kiyosaki is One of the Biggest Frauds in the World

Check the image library for dozens of additional annotated images which illustrate what a liar, idiot and fraud Kiyosaki is.  Click the empty box below and wait for the video to......

Peter Schiff Gets Robert Kiyosaki to Pitch His Gold Fund

Who would you go to if you had no conscious or morals and wanted to pitch a terrible product to people? You'd probably want to find another charlatan who has a large following of uneducated and naive...

Bonehead Financial Planner and Friend of Robert Kiyosaki Recommends Peter Schiff's Useless Gold Fund

Listen to these idiots in the video below. Then check the results.   This proves once again that it's absolutely critical to arm yourself with a real investment expe......

Idiot and Con Man Robert Kiyosaki Shows Why He is a Contrarian Indicator

This proves once again that it's absolutely critical to arm yourself with a real investment expert because there's so much garbage out there.   Imagine how much mone......

Con Man Robert Kiyosaki Claims You Can Survive the Market Crash if You Buy His Board Game

Robert Kiyosaki continues to push the limits of stupidity.  Kiyosaki's latest pitch shows how confident he is that his cult members are brainless idiots.  His message is basically that "I...

Lying Con Man Doug Casey Claims He Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis

Perhaps you remember my prediction that as the years pass we will hear about more people who claimed they predicted the 2008 financial crisis. This is certain to happen because con artists know that t...

Con Men Unite: Stefan James Teams Up With Robert Kiyosaki

In case you don't know who Stefan James is, here's an intro. Note there YouTube is filled with con artists like him.  I've also exposed Kiyosaki on numerous occassions. Just use the search......

MarketWatch Fraudsters Promote Career Con Man, Investment Idiot, Conspiracy Loon and Silver Pumper Robert Kiyosaki

                NO YOU DID NOT PREDICT THE MARKET CRASH!! YOU FUCKING LIAR!!!!! ROBERT KIYOSAKI, I'M MIKE STATHIS.......

Doug Casey and the Business Model of Doomsday Charlatans

The following audio was originally created in 2014 yet remains just as valuable today.     ...

Jewish Media Fraud of the Day - Mention Jewish Copywriting Clowns as if They Matter

I see the kind of media fraud shown in the image below multiple times each day, so I thought I'd give everyone a brief tutorial on how the scam works. The scam is really too obvious, but you're not...

Mike Reads the Latest Copywriting Scam and Exposes Peter Schiff

The following audio was first created and published in 2016.  It seems that Peter Schiff has formed business relationships with his tribesmen at copywriting boiler room Agora Financial (via Wall...

Consumer Finance Con and Purveyor of Terrible Advice Robert Kiyosaki Claims He "Called the Financial Crisis"

Question of the Month: Is there a bigger con man in America today than Robert Kiyosaki? That's a good question because he certainly has a great deal of competition.   Even before beginnin...

Jim Rickards Wants to Sell You Easy Ways to Get Rich for Only $10,000

Is there a bigger financial charlatan in the world today than Jim Rickards? That's a very good question that deserves some serious thought. There's certainly no slam dunk answer to this question....

Charlatan Robert Kiyosaki Uses the TEDx Scam to Promote More Conspiracies and Spread Bad Advice

I've previous exposed the TED Talks and TEDx scam used by a variety of con artists and clowns as a way to market themselves to what many preceive to be a credible platform (link below). Aside from t...

More Proof Copywriting Charlatan Doug Casey Is a Contrarian Indicator

As a part of my goal to expose the army of scum bags from the very scammy financial copywriting industry, I've written quite a few articles and created an even larger number of videos pointing to the...

Failed Fund Manager Whitney Tilson Enters Scammy Copywriting Industry

The following piece reinforces what I have been stating countless times over the past several years. Anyone who wastes time watching or reading anything CNBC, Bloomberg, the Wall Street journal, Bar...

Harry Dent's Safe Asset Slaughter is Another Internet Marketing Scam Packed With Lies and Disinformation

Over the decades, Harry Dent has positioned attempted to position himself as a legitimate "economist." But he is nothing more than a typical broken clock. Sure Dent flip-flops, back tracks and even...

Agora Financial Founder James Davidson Warns of Hyperinflation, U.S. Stock Market and USD Collapse in 2016

We published this video a year ago but wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to see it. In this video James Dale Davidson (founder of the huge boiler room Agora Financial) comes out of hiding in......

James Davidson, Founder of Copyrighting Boiler Room Agora Financial

The annotated images (all found in the Image Library) give you an idea about Davidson and his clan. The video below presents the bigger pricture. Interested readers should also check the articles list...

Doug Casey Has Been Pitching the Exact Same Lines for 40 Years. And His Track Record is Really MISERABLE!

As you watch this interview from 1980, I want you to notice how Casey is questioned by the audience. Members of the audience question Doug Casey's credibility as well as his motives.

Another Boiler Room Operation from Agora Financial: Banyan Hill Publishing

The audio in the following video stops towards the end as a result of technical issues. ...

Mike Maloney's New Pitch to Siphon Money from His Low IQ Sheep

The annotated images below tell you all you need to know. These guys will keep lying and scamming until the day they die.  ...

EXPOSED: Doug Casey and the Fear-Mongering Syndicate (100 pp e-book)

This presentation required several years of research and effort. It consists of more than 100 pages and contains some of our most insightful analyses and conclusions regarding the fear-mongering, go...

Agora Financial Clown Steve Sjuggerud Pitches His "Greatest Wealth Transfer" Opportunity

We have yet another liar and con man from Agora.  Are you surprised?  Remember, everything these guys claim is false.  They are pathological liars. They would even lie about the......

Agora Financial Copywriting Clown Dan Ferris' Best Stock Pick Ever Video Pitch. I'll Give You the Name of the Stock for Free

If you want to see how con artists operate, watch the video I've posted below.  Warning: these videos tend to last an hour or longer. But if you have the time to kill you can learn how con arti...

Fraud Detection Expert Exposes Harry Dent and His Tactics

Mike Stathis holds the leading investment forecasting track record in the world since 2006.       Membership Resources   Mike Stathis has amassed one of the m...

Email and Video Marketing Scams by Agora Financial (Part 1)

Every sentence read (off of a script) by the charlatan in the video below screams "SCAM." And if you failed to immediately recognize this pitch as a scam, you're in deep doo doo because that means y...

Pseudo-intellectual BS Artist Chris Martenson Teams Up With Huckster Robert Kiyosaki

Although I've added a few images of these scum bags here, you can find a larger number of annotated images of these and many other charlatans in the image library.  Make sure to check the image...

An Important Message from Charlatan Harry Dent

Click here to watch Dent's latest bull shit if you want to see how fear-mongering con artists operate.  They use hocus pocus and claim it's legit.  Dent is a complete joke.   H...

Robert Kiyosaki, Career Charlatan, A Pictorial (Part 1)

The full version of this article (including the video) is available only to active Members and Clients.  I'm not going to go into the notion that Kiyosaki never even wrote any of his completel...

Mike Stathis Exposes Jim Rickards and His Gold Pumping Shit Book

I've previously exposed Jim Rickards (see related articles at the end). According to Rickards and the scam artists who put together his internet infomercials at Agora Financial (which also publishes t...

Air Head Nomi Prins Joins Fear-Mongering Profiteer Jim Rickards on the Doom & Gloom Gravy Train

In the video below (first recorded in 2013) Jewess Nomi Prins demonstrates how clueless she is regarding the landscape of the global economy and capital markets. Since this interview was published,...

EXPOSED: Agora Financial's Copyediting Doomsday Syndicate

Continued from EXPOSED: More Doomsday Charlatans (Agora Financial Pt 1)   Have you ever wondered why so many people lose money in the stock market? Although investors are ultimately respons...

Peter Schiff Teams Up With ANOTHER Agora Financial Charlatan!

Do you remember when Peter Schiff was telling millions of sheep that the US will encounter hyperinflation so they needed to exchange their dollars for "safe currencies" like the euro? We all sa...

EXPOSED: Copyediting Kingpin Behind Fear-Monger BULL SHIT Scams

In this video, you are going to see how all of the fear-mongering, broken clock, doomsday, gold-pumping con men are linked. As well, one of the original kingpins will be exposed. We have also adde...

Another Charlatan from "Faux Hero Syndicate" Joins Porter Stansberry's Boiler Room

This article and video discuss the addition of yet another charlatan to the boiler room copyediting firm known as Agora Financial. -------------------------------------------------------------------...

Mike Stathis Exposes Financial Copyediting and Money Show Scams

(see related audio and video below)       Copyediting scams like the one above featuring Jim Rickards (published by Porter Stansberry and Agora Financial) are the types of nonsens...

Mike Exposes Porter Stansberry's Latest Scam

Several years ago I exposed Porter Stansberry when he teamed up with fellow con man Alex Jones to create the fear-mongering nonsense video "The End of America." Porter was telling you to buy gol...

Can You Tell the Difference Between Kiyosaki, Trudeau and Schiff?

Listen to this short audio and decide for yourself. As far as I'm concerned, they are basically the same.

Ron Paul: Paid Whore for Scam Artist Porter Stansberry

I’ve already exposed Ron Paul as an agent of controlled opposition working for the Koch brothers. I’ve also previously exposed him as a proponent of the military-industrial complex. That...

EXPOSED: Jim Rickards (Part 1)

For the past two or three years now, a new charlatan has risen up from the ranks of the trash bin. Oh and he just happens to be Jewish. Coincidence?  You decide.  This egghead has been get...

Harry Dent, Wall Street Investment Bible and Brazilian Real Estate

In the 50 minute audio below, Mike first discusses how Harry Dent, Peter Schiff and others in that realm claim to be analysts, economists and strategists, when the facts show they are professional mar...

Moron of the Month: Harry Dent (Take 2)

The second take is always better than the first, but you decide!

Why Would the Media Ask a Thailand Resident about the US Economy?

Why is a guy who lives in a village of Thailand being interviewed about the US economy and capital markets? ...

EXPOSED: More Doomsday Charlatans (Agora Financial Pt 1)

In the video below, we take a closer look at the doomsday douche bag, Chris Martenson, along with the doomsday publication called Money Map, which is a production of Agora Financial. Agora Financial...

EXPOSED: Doug Casey (Part 1)

In my opinion Doug Casey is a great contrarian indicator and a huge charlatan. And anyone who does not realize this is simply a damn fool. Furthermore, keep in mind that the apple never falls far fr...

CNBC Pinhead Asks Thailand Resident if the Nasdaq is in a Bubble

Ask yourself if you would want to hear what some guy living in a village in Thailand has to say about the Nasdaq. For the most comprehensive list and details regarding investment con men, gold pumpe......

Is Peter Schiff Any Different than Porter Stansberry or the NIA?

Today, we learn of even more clowns looking to duplicate Porter Stansberry’s fear-mongering tactics to lure unsophisticated people into his...

Comments on Fannie Mae, Bitcoin, Doug Casey, Jeff Berwick and Real Estate Scams

Here, Mike releases a 30-minute piece where he ties in many learning points.

Average Joe Tells How He Got Ripped off by Mike Maloney

In the video below, a young man tells his story of how he lost more than 50% in silver after buying into Mike Maloney’s bullshit.

VIDEO: Casey Research: A Prime Example of Idiots in the Financial Publishing Business

You aren't going to want to miss this video. I was directed to the Casey Research website after following the trail of one of the doomsday videos that have been plastered by countless hucksters t...

He's Back! Harry Dent the Clown Making More Ridiculous Predictions

UPDATED info on Harry "Doomsday" Dent and his SHITTY track record (20014 - 2015): EXPOSED: More Doomsday Charlatans (Agora Financial Pt 1) Harry Dent, Wall Street Investment Bible an...

Mutual Fund Disasters: David Tice and His Prudent Bear Fund

Want to save tens of thousands of dollars? In this article, I tie in numerous aspects of erroneous and deceptive marketing by the mutual fund industry, executed primarily through the business arrang...

Peter Schiff Exposes Porter Stansberry's False Claims to Make You Think He is Different

In the past, I have discussed that Porter Stansberry made numerous false claims in his snake oil video, The End of America. The video is so full of crap that I cannot watch it to remi...

Porter Stansberry the Clown, Preying on Sheep

Published on July 16, 2011. Updated on July 18, 2011.   I have not yet had the time to address the latest clown out there, Porter Stansberry with his BS video being pumped on conspirac...

Mutual Fund Disasters: Harry Dent the Fund Manager

Seizing upon his media “celebrity,” (which essentially means you have sheep lining up for your perceived expertise, created solely by being seen on television) Dent formed an ETF in 2009 c...

A Look at Harry Dent's Track Record

Update on Dent (April 25, 2015): Check out this new video on Dent, showing his terrible track record Broken Clock Moron Of The Month: Harry Dent   Update on Dent May 3, 2015: M...

Harry Dent. Economist, Futurist & Contrarian Indicator

UPDATED info on Harry "Doomsday" Dent and his SHITTY track record (20014 - 2015): EXPOSED: More Doomsday Charlatans (Agora Financial Pt 1) Harry Dent, Wall Street Investment Bible an...

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