[buffett]

Warning: the following opinion is based on about 10 minutes of research. I had never heard of this guy until your post, but as Shakespeare said, "the empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

* Bottom line: I'm very skeptical of this guy.

* If he is really capable of doing 19% cagr (as his $10k->$593k chart implies), then he should be managing a 1&20 hedge fund and not selling $500 newsletters.

* But that's the knock on all the people like him, so how about this angle...if he's really capable of calling the market's "signals," he could be earning a lot more money by working in the forecasting group at a big i-bank. According to this guy's website, he's been way more correct than Abby Joseph Cohen ever dreamed of being.

* His bio is a shade (or two) too promotional for my taste.

* Pretty basic typos always turn me off: "investments that have enjoyed a consistant rise" and "If cancel, you may with my compliments, keep all Reports received to that date."

* And this one was a real head-scratcher for me: "We anticipate the very high probability, that during the next year, Jim's investment recommendations should appreciate by an additional 50%, not including the possible use, again, of options that brought Jim's clients huge profits in 1987, 1991, 1994 and 1998. We cannot and do not recommend the use of options."