Mad Money Machine

by Paul Douglas Boyer

Americans for Dimes Only

I wrote the following email to Americans for Common Cents (info@pennies.org) today: Americans for Common Cents, I disagree with your stance to keep the penny, for the following reasons: 1) They are costing us taxpayers too much money to produce. 2) We will not suffer "rounding-up" if we instead simply drop a decimal place in […]

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Sun, February 24 2008 » Announcements » 2 Comments

Live Free or Diehards II

Murry Coleman writes at Index Universe about the new Diehards forum run independently that is overtaking the old forum run under Morningstar’s site. He says Morningstar blew it by "not listening to its customers and has thus lost a lot of luster with index investors." He says of Morningstar: But in this age of MySpace […]

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Tue, January 29 2008 » Announcements » Comments Off on Live Free or Diehards II

Paul Names His Guru

On show 96, I mentioned how Guru Peter Schiff’s book could have been written by presidential candidate Ron Paul. How prophetic! Today, Ron Paul has appointed Peter Schiff to be his economic advisor! January 25, 2008 4:44 pm EST ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Newly appointed Ron Paul economic advisor, Peter Schiff, issued the following statement about […]

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Fri, January 25 2008 » Announcements » Comments Off on Paul Names His Guru

The Ballad of Jim Cramer

Someone wrote a song for Jim Cramer’s Mad Money. Interesting that his picture never appears in this video. Hey guys, I have the rights to a picture of him if you want one to include one in your video. hat tip to CrossingWallStreet.com

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Thu, January 17 2008 » Announcements » Comments Off on The Ballad of Jim Cramer

VSE Game 2008 and 2009

I’ve set up another Virtual Stock Exchange game at MarketWatch.com under the id MadMoneyMachine.com2 Even though I don’t like their system, since it is free, I created it anyway. Have fun. It runs through 2009 this time instead of just one year. And you get $1,000,000 in play money instead of just $100,000. And you […]

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Mon, January 7 2008 » Announcements » Comments Off on VSE Game 2008 and 2009

2 down, 8 to go

Ron Paul got 10% in Iowa. That was better than expected. Eight predictions for 2008 left to fulfill.

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Fri, January 4 2008 » Announcements » Comments Off on 2 down, 8 to go

New for 2008: Play the MMM Lazy Portfolio Smackdown Game!

Win valuable prizes and fame by playing the Mad Money Machine Lazy Portfolio Smackdown Game in 2008: Email me your Lazy Portfolio before 2 January 2008 to enter! In 2006 we had a portfolio smackdown between a portfolio of Cramer’s recommended stocks that I selected vs. a basket of ETFs I bought and held. The […]

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Mon, December 17 2007 » Announcements » 6 Comments

When worlds collide

The two men I follow most closely, Jim Cramer and Ron Paul, together. (Hey, you got chocolate on my peanut butter!) Absolutely amazing… Jim Cramer, if you are sincere about wishing Ron Paul the best of luck, will you please help? Would you throw your endorsement behind him and use the power of your pulpit […]

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Sat, December 15 2007 » Announcements » 1 Comment

Economics of the Debate

I had the unfortunate bad luck of watching the CNN/YouTube debate of the Republican presidential candidates last night. I thought it was a shockingly horribly run affair by CNN. I will hope to not waste my time watching these again. The Internet is a much better place to learn about the candidates. Nonetheless, I took […]

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Thu, November 29 2007 » Announcements » Comments Off on Economics of the Debate

How have my “Ten Best Cramer Picks” done?

If you’ve been reading closely, you’d notice that a couple of September’s ago I listed the “Ten Best Cramer Stocks to Buy Now” as a kind of a joke. You see, what I did then was choose ten Cramer picks that had already gone down the most from when he recommended them the previous March. […]

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Wed, November 28 2007 » Announcements » Comments Off on How have my “Ten Best Cramer Picks” done?

MMM Compact Calendar 2008

I’ve already had a request for the 2008 version of the Compact Calendar you can print from Excel. If you don’t want to see December 2007 on the calendar, you can select rows 5 thru 9 and delete them. Let me be the first to say “Happy New Year.” Enjoy!

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Tue, November 27 2007 » Announcements » Comments Off on MMM Compact Calendar 2008