{"id":13509,"date":"2017-12-28T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13509"},"modified":"2017-12-28T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:08:20","slug":"creeping-disappointment-ctd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/28\/creeping-disappointment-ctd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Creeping Disappointment, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back to disappointment<\/a>, I fear, in the integrity of The Motley Fool<\/strong><\/em>. In a new email received sometime in the last 24 hours, they’re promoting their 2018 Investor Summit<\/strong><\/em>. Here’s the section that bothers me, right at the start, in fact:<\/p>\n

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With just a few days left in 2017, I’m writing you with some exciting news…<\/p>\n

While this past year has been one of the most profitable investing years in The Motley Fool’s history, I believe \u2014 with the right strategy \u2014 2018 could be even bigger<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I realize that’s a bold statement, but the numbers don’t lie…<\/p>\n

I’m sure you’re quite familiar with some of the gains we’ve seen in Stock Advisor<\/em> through stocks like NVIDIA<\/strong> (up 85% YTD) and PayPal<\/strong> (up 88% YTD).<\/p>\n

IPG Phontonics<\/strong> (up 116% YTD)<\/p>\n

Take-Two Interactive<\/strong> (up 123% YTD)<\/p>\n

Align Technology<\/strong> (up 145% YTD)<\/p>\n

Universal Display<\/strong> (up 214% YTD)<\/p>\n

And the list goes on…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note the reference to their Stock Advisor<\/em> service.<\/p>\n

We, my wife and I, happen to own some of that last stock mentioned, Universal Display<\/strong><\/em>. And you know what?<\/p>\n

TMF<\/strong><\/em>‘s Stock Advisor<\/em> service does NOT recommend it. Never has, if their online records are accurate. In fact, if I ask for a quote, it tells me that none of the services to which I have access on TMF<\/strong><\/em> recommends that stock.<\/p>\n

I consider this quite misleading, as they’re taking credit where none is due. Could it be an honest error? I suppose so. I’ve made odder honest errors – although I don’t think I’ve distributed them so widely.<\/p>\n

But it’s disappointing. Do I have to proctor every mail I receive for their truthfulness? Nyah. I can just delete them without reading.<\/p>\n

I’ll see if there’s some way to request a retraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back to disappointment, I fear, in the integrity of The Motley Fool. In a new email received sometime in the last 24 hours, they’re promoting their 2018 Investor Summit. Here’s the section that bothers me, right at the start, in fact: With just a few days left in 2017, I’m \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13510,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13509\/revisions\/13510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}