Guru Watch

How is Recent Media Darling & Money Manager Cathie Wood Doing Now?

Jan 20, 2022

Investors poured billions into her Ark Invest funds in first year of pandemic

The Social Media Cesspool of Stock Tips and Stock Promoters

Nov 22, 2021

Understanding the dangers of online stock hucksters

Update: The Worth of Jim Cramer's Advice

Nov 11, 2021

Former hedge fund manager and Goldman Sachs' employee Jim Cramer has a TV and Internet following for his stock picks. How good are his stock picks and advice?

The Beardstown Ladies' Book Investment Fraud

Oct 30, 2020

How a bunch of older ladies duped the media and public (and more authors today do the same thing)...

CNBC's Jim Cramer Gives the Wrong Advice on Choosing Between 401(k) and IRA

Aug 28, 2019

On air investing pundit's stock picks aren't so hot either

Get Rich in Real Estate: So Say Their Infomercials and Websites

Jul 24, 2019

This promoter has moved on but his story and lessons are noteworthy

Update: Ron Paul, (Former) Presidential Candidate and Congressman, and His Investments

Aug 21, 2017

What his investment choices say about his views of the U.S. and his economic and investing intelligence

My "Colossal Slothfulness and Lack of Intellectual Capacity"

Jul 10, 2017

An enlightening email exchange with CNBC pundit Jim Cramer

Jim Cramer's Worst Stock Market Call Ever

Jul 10, 2017

CNBC's Jim Cramer has made horrible stock picks and market calls during the 2008-09 financial crisis but this call from 2000 is his worst ever...

Roubini and Cramer Smackdown!

Jul 10, 2017

You gotta love Nouriel Roubini and Jim Cramer attacking each other...this is one time, when they both might actually be right!

Update: Robert Prechter Predicts Dow 1000 and Depression

Jan 13, 2017

Forecaster who Reuters calls a "top investor," "heavyweight" and "insider" now calling for even more severe downturn...but what is his track record?

Update: Analyzing the Economic Commentary and Financial Predictions of David Stockman

Jan 13, 2017

Ronald Reagan’s former budget director continues making waves in the press

Update: Trump University Scam? Trump University High-Priced Real Estate Seminars Lawsuits Settled.

Nov 18, 2016

Donald Trump embroiled in numerous lawsuits over costly seminar promises

Update: Paul Krugman: We're Now in a Depression

Nov 9, 2016

What to make of this New York Time's columnist's current and past predictions

Wade Cook Ran Hyped Stock Market Seminar Company

Mar 3, 2016

Cook Paid Financial Price and Served Seven Years in Federal Prison

Update: Suze Orman's Financial Advice and Career

Apr 22, 2014

Is Suze Orman qualified to be giving you financial advice and how good is her advice?

Update: MSNBC's Ed Schultz: Who Is Getting the Tax Breaks - The Affluent and Big Business?

Dec 18, 2013

Divergent views on why federal tax revenue is lagging and what should be done to address it

Update: Nouriel Roubini: High Oil Prices Threaten Economy with Another Recession

Oct 7, 2013

Bill O'Reilly agrees with Roubini on other fallout from high oil prices...are these pundits right?

Update: Dr. Phil Declared a Financial 9-1-1 in Late 2008

Oct 7, 2013

America's most widely watched television psychologist offered some dire financial warnings and advice

Dave Ramsey's "Endorsed Local Providers (ELPs)"

Apr 2, 2013

He's on radio and television dispensing financial advice...and directing unsuspecting listeners to investment brokers providing him kickbacks

A Review of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Stock Portfolio Performance

Jan 24, 2013

An analysis of this non-profit’s market beating return claims and "shadow stocks"

Update: Another Jim Cramer Handpicked Guru Falls Flat (and Is Now Sentenced to Jail)

Mar 12, 2012

Jim Cramer's problematic track record is now well known but others he's anointed to give sage stock-picking advice on his web site appear to be financially illiterate too... (FREE)

Update: Alessio Rastani: "Leading Trader" Claims You Can Make Money in Down Market Now

Feb 3, 2012

Who is Alessio Rastani and why did the BBC put him on the air? (FREE)

Byron Wien Predicts: 10 Probable Investment and Economic Surprises of 2012

Jan 6, 2012

CNBC says 8 out of his 10 predictions last year "worked out" but how has he really done in recent years?

Goldline - Endorsed by Glenn Beck - Hit With Massive Criminal Complaint

Nov 17, 2011

How and why they pitched gold coins to prospective customers after luring them in with ads for gold bullion (FREE)

Nouriel Roubini: Economist Who Continues to Claim He Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis

Oct 17, 2011

A look at the financial health of his economic forecasting firm...which, oh by the way, is for sale (FREE)

Is Bill O'Reilly an Economic Pinhead or Patriot?

Jun 19, 2011

He "bloviates" on many issues and is weighing in on the economy and your investments

Bill Gunderson Review: Beware Performance Claims and News Mentions of Money Managers

May 19, 2011

An inside look at the dubious claims of one money manager creating news for himself... (FREE)

Update: Nouriel Roubini Was Wrong, Again, and Again and Again...

May 19, 2011

An update on the myriad predictions of the economics professor who enjoyed more than his 15 minutes of fame for supposedly predicting the 2008 financial crisis... (FREE)

Political Commentator Dick Morris Questions Accuracy of Government Economic Statistics

Mar 29, 2011

Is the government underestimating the rate of unemployment and inflation?

Major Business Magazine Praises Nouriel Roubini for His Predictions!

Feb 14, 2011

Fails to hold him accountable for numerous poor predictions and offers no proof he predicted ‘08 financial crisis

Conservative Pundit Ann Coulter: Calls Mark Skousen "Smartest Financial Advisor"

Oct 21, 2010

Says He Predicted Recent Financial Collapse, NASDAQ 1990s Bull Run and 2000 Collapse and More (FREE)

MarketWatch Praises Howard Ruff's Recent Record

Sep 1, 2010

What's his real long-term track record on the market and economic calls he's made since the 1970s?