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Chris Mayer

Chris Mayer is managing editor of the Capital and Crisis and Mayer’s Special Situations newsletters. He also is a contributor to the Daily Reckoning. Graduating magna cum laude with a degree in finance and an MBA from the University of Maryland, he began his business career as a corporate banker. Mayer left the banking industry after ten years and signed on with Agora Financial. His book, Invest Like a Dealmaker, Secrets of a Former Banking Insider, documents his ability to analyze macro issues and micro investment opportunities to produce an exceptional long-term track record of winning ideas. Mayer’s commentary has been featured by MarketWatch, Russia Today TV, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Huffington Post.

  1. Bone in the Throat • May 15, 2013

    There are more commercial mortgages coming due this year than in any other year on record. I must’ve made tens of millions of dollars of property loans in my banking career, so I’m diving in on this one stock. Plus, two sells…

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  2. Earnings in on Five Stocks… Shares Come Alive • May 6, 2013

    Let’s just take a quick look at earnings reports that rolled in last week… Spinoffs still performing well. And focus on book value per share rising!

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  3. Thriving in Chaos • April 10, 2013

    I’ve never recommended anything so illiquid. (I risk raising your ire by doing so.) Time to rock the limit order… Plus, we go behind the scenes at our recent insurance company recommendation.

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  4. The Top 8 CPR Plans in the USA • April 8, 2013

    All six CPR Plans offer secure shots toward profits like 245%, 381% even 440%. These aren’t speculative buys in the mining sector, they’ve been around since the 1800s, but the last chance to get the big payoffs in them is now — thanks to

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  5. Bullish on Turkey • March 15, 2013

    They are irreplaceable assets in strategic locations. It’s taken years to assemble them. We’ll take a detailed look at these assets in light of new information acquired during my trip to Turkey. I can’t believe how overlooked the upside is on

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  6. A Bumper Crop of Profits Without Planting A Single Row • February 27, 2013

    A 30% increase in world population by 2050 could mean a 70% increase in food production. One company has two important solutions that benefit from value-added activities in agriculture and food production.

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  7. Under-The-Radar Profits Lurking In the Skies • February 27, 2013

    Want to get in on the growth in air traffic? Don’t buy an airline stock! This business pays you 5% annually and doesn’t haggle with unions. If you hold this stock for only one year and it trades just to book value, your total return will be an

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  8. Age of Storms • February 7, 2013

    Insurance companies have taken a beating insuring property that lay in the path of the great storms. Yet nine different insiders plunked down over $5 million of their own money on a little Florida-based insurer. The answer looks to be profitable.

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  9. It’s a Wonderful Life • December 21, 2012

    In 2011, we started the thrift conversion portfolio with five names in it. To date, we are up 26%, 39%, 70%, 25% and 16%. By contrast, the S&P 500 is up only 12% since. Let’s add three more! Plus, Mongolia update and a few sells.

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  10. The Power of “Equity Shrink” • November 26, 2012

    This $41 stock could be worth as much as $92 per share! Spinoff fun with 13-Ds. Meet Phil Goldstein, top dog at Bulldog Investors. If you’d dropped $100,000 in his fund at the beginning, you’d have about $1 million today.

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