Ask Doc

I can always tell when I've written something controversial...

Last week, I told readers it's time to get a flu shot. My inbox was flooded with e-mails like this one:

I asked, and you answered...

Earlier this week, I asked you for your best fall-prevention tips.

Imagine owning a stock that paid you so much in dividends – it could fall to ZERO and you'd still double your money.

It may not seem possible or likely.

I usually go undercover...

The first thing I do when I get handed a name tag at dozens of conferences all over the world each year is flip it around. I don't want people to notice me! (Although the beard sometimes gives me away.)

A few weeks ago, my senior analyst Matt Weinschenk and I went to Chicago for the 63rd Annual Financial Analysts Seminar.

The view from Michigan Avenue.

This past Tuesday, Stansberry Research founder Porter Stansberry gave people an incredible opportunity.

You see, we have over 17 different research services focused on everything from China and gold stocks... to the options market... to corporate bonds and everything in between.

If you've "checked out" this summer, I don't blame you.

I hope you've spent the summer like I have, traveling and spending time with friends and family.

I love getting e-mails like this...

For those of us who don't particularly like the taste or hassle of coffee, I should point out that there are supplements containing green coffee bean extract, decaf. I know Doc has a major aversion to anything in the pill form, so he'll probably ignore this! – M.H.

"Trust, but verify."

That's a phrase former President Ronald Reagan made famous during the Cold War. And it's one I regularly use with my team of researchers and analysts.

"Right now, it's better to have a defensive mindset than an offensive one."

That's what I told you last week when I detailed the risk of rising debt defaults.