The Guru Files

The people behind the ideas. Career arcs, biggest calls, and decades of thinking.

JUL 23, 2026

Jim Rickards: The Complete Profile

The lawyer who sat in the room when the system almost broke, then spent two decades warning about the next break

JUL 22, 2026

Jeff Brown: The Complete Profile

The Purdue engineer who called Nvidia at $30, Bitcoin at $240, and Tesla when Wall Street said bankrupt — and the twenty years in Tokyo that made it possible

JUL 20, 2026

Doug Casey: The Speculator and the Collapse

The 1979 bestseller, the Bre-X sale before the fraud, and the publisher shutdown that stranded lifetime subscribers

JUL 20, 2026

Larry Benedict: The Market Wizard Who Grinded

A CBOE clerk who lost money for years, ran a $900 million hedge fund for two decades without a down year, and now teaches retail traders how to trade options

JUL 20, 2026

Marc Chaikin: Bloomberg Indicators, Unaudited Picks

Drexel, Instinet, and 50 years building technical indicators embedded in every major trading terminal. The quant whose Power Gauge now sells retail stock picks on CNBC

JUL 20, 2026

Marc Lichtenfeld: 10-11-12, Unaudited Picks

A struggling actor who walked into a trading firm offering a free week. Now the Oxford Club's dividend voice and the only financial analyst to ring-announce championship boxing

JUL 19, 2026

Louis Navellier: The Quant Behind MPT Review

A college indexing project that accidentally outperformed the S&P 500. 45 years later, five newsletters and a $30 million SEC settlement. The Hulbert #1 survivor

JUL 18, 2026

Mark Skousen: The Economist Behind the Trades

45 years writing one newsletter, then he crossed the street. The intelligence analyst turned Oxford Club macro voice who made the government adopt his economic statistic

JUL 14, 2026

James Altucher: AI Expert Profile & Career

The tech investor, venture capitalist, and author behind Deep Blue 2.0. A career built on seeing the next paradigm before the market prices it

JUL 13, 2026

George Gilder: The Prophet of the Free Economy

The supply-side economist who predicted wafer-scale computing before the chip industry believed him. Six books, one method, and the thesis driving 2026

JUL 13, 2026

Jeff Brown: The Engineer Who Called Nvidia

Purdue aerospace engineering, two decades inside Qualcomm and Juniper, and the 2016 call that saw an AI company where Wall Street saw a gaming chip maker

JUL 13, 2026

Porter Stansberry: The Independent Analyst

A borrowed laptop, $36,000 of someone else's money, and a kitchen-table newsletter that predicted the 2008 crash before the analysts with offices did