Hire 2-3 Boiler room salesmen. Former stock brokers, who have losttheir license, are best. Your cyber-hypsters can each register as scoresof phony stock investors at each Internet Stock Chat Board (SCB), likeRaging Bull or Silicon Investor. There are over 200 SCBs. You'll need tospend about $60,000-$100,000 on your computer hardware and software.However, you've created over 1,000 investors to hype stocks.
The cyber-hypsters can control any stock board. They appear to be10-20 or more enthusiastic stock investors. They claim to be long in thatstock. They tell the Board that the share price will go to the moon.Critics of the stock are called "Bashers." They are insulted, ridiculed andtheir issues are ignored. The cyber-hypsters post support messages to theseattacks, using other names. It appears that every investor at the Boardstrongly favors the stock. The critics soon shut up and move on. If thecritics comments, against the stock had merit, the cyber-hypsters complainto the Board Sponsor and have the critics posted comments removed.
Now the goal is to gather pigeons to the Pump & Dump (P&D) Board.This can be done with spam. It can be done with free online investmentletters. It can be done as an adjunct to a traditional boiler room stockpromotion. It can be done with a direct mailing. What the promoters want isto put the pigeon into an environment where they are told to buy, buy andbuy more of whatever worthless stock is being pumped.
Getting pigeons to the Board can be done by pooches. The Canadianword "pooch" refers to a pigeon who will help the hyster by bringing otherpigeons to the slaughter. The pooch supplies friends, family, and businessassociates as buyers of the stock. A "pigeon" is anyone who puts their hardearned money into a stock scam.
It can be done by moving the pigeons from one Board to anotherBoard. There are cyber-hypsters who post on all Boards spam that encouragesthe pigeons to subscribe to a free newsletter, visit their website or visitanother Board.
If the cyber-hypsters are working two P&Ds, they can magnify theireffectiveness. Let's say, the second P&D is about to be pumped (promotedupward). The cyber-hypster will post a notice at the first Board sayingthat P&D #2 is a great buy. They just bought say 10,000 shares of it. FewP&D #1 pigeons will buy the P&D#2 stock. However, whatever P&D#2 stockbuying results helps the P&D#2 stock promotion. The real benefit is thatthe cyber-hypster can report that his P&D#2 stock soared and he made money.This gives him added credibility at the P&D#1 website.
The pattern is 1-3 pumps with a rearguard action to keep the sharefrom collapsing. Most of these P&D groups have several of these stocks instates of development. For example Teflon Tony and the Cyberboys atFantasyLand are doing a rearguard action on TMMI while planning to pumpNAPH. They have a half dozen more deals in various stages of developmentor decomposition. They are lining up more deals.
It's my belief that the Net will be the primary method of movingshare prices within the next 15 years. Today, the effectiveness ofcyber-hype is overrated as are many things involved with the Internet.However, when you can SELL stock on the Net, the cyber-hypsters havedeveloped the system to sell it to the pigeons.
I think there is a better way to go public and create a strongshare price. I think you can walk away with a fortune as an insider. Ithink everyone can win. It's one reason that I publish EFS. However, I'mcurrently battling the "Dark Side of the Force." Thus, the focus in thisissue on sizzle rather than steak./]
Five Myths About Inflation
A classic definition of inflation is any increase in the money supply. Understanding inflation is vital to anyone seeking investment profits or attempting to build a successful company. As with most basic issues of the global economy, inflation is surrounded by myths and misinformation.
Recession Planning
The clouds of a 2006 Recession are starting to form on America's horizon.Politicians know that Recessions or Depressions are bad for their reelectionchanges. Bad economic times tend to create unemployment among the nice folksholding office at the time of economic stress. You can expect the Governmentto do everything possible to delay a Recession until after the November 2006election. However, the American economy is currently caught in an upwardmoving inflation and a Recession would still the fires of a runawaycurrency. The Real Estate Bubble may be about to burst. And, America'sfinancial institutions appear to be in increasing trouble over failedderivative bets.
African Aid
Africa, like everywhere else in the world, has its fair share of honest, intelligent; hardworking people who want to see their families have a better standard of living. Unfortunately, most of these people are living below the poverty line. The reasons that Africa, with all of its natural resources, is an economic basket case are complex. They start with the 16th Century Africans' failure to adopt an effective immigration policy. The result was the European immigrants divided up the continent without regard to historic tribal boundaries. The modern result has been tribal wars waged with modern weapons from the Sudan to Rwanda.
