Notes from Underground – Most read articles for the week ending Mar 1

And yet again, Nigel Somerville is the most read non-Tom article, at number 1 or number 1 including Bearcasts for The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Hits Yet Another Record High: Bulls Eye $3,000.

The most-read ShareProphets articles this week were:

1. The View From The Montana Log-Cabin As Gold Hits Yet Another Record High: Bulls Eye $3,000
   Gold closed the week at $2,935 – another new record weekly high, and well up on last week’s $2,882. It seems only a matter of time before $3,000 is taken out. But our favourite technical analyst, Jordan Roy-Byrne of TheDailyGold.com, is worried that a correction may be on the way.
   
   
2. The Spanish economy is booming thanks to migration says Peter Tatchell, The Guardian ( and others): a fact check
   Heroic free speech campaigner peter Tatchell is not great when it comes to economics. Bu in citing an article in the Guardian, he is not alone in stating that the Spanish economy is booming and that it shows where we in the UK are going wrong. Tatch says a big reason Spain is booming is that it welcomes migrants whereas we, already admitting a million a year, are not letting in enough.
   
   
3. Petrofac – it gets worse and worse for those who knew better than the ShareProphets "gang"
   Once again it is ouzo on cornflakes time for a number of us on this website as Petrofac has provided an update on its restructuring and the news for those cretinous enough to ignore our advance and who remain on the shareholder list is ever more grim.
   
   
4. Staffline – argues PeoplePlus business sale to “accelerate value creation for Staffline shareholders going forward”, but does its track-record support that?…
   Staffline Group (STAF) has announced its “Disposal of PeoplePlus” in an announcement headlined “Strategic disposal creates a pure-play recruitment platform with market leading reach across the UK and Ireland. Cash proceeds to fund Share Buy Backs and working capital for growth”. So what of a share price currently up to 27.4p in response but still down from above 40p reached last year?
   
   
5. UPDATED: Skinbiotherapeutics, waiting for the TRI which has now arrived, my cynicism unjustified
   On 24 February Skinbiotherapeutics (SBTX) announced that David Brierwood had exercised 3.289474 million warrants at c11p. Clueless CEO Stuart Ashman stated:
   
   
6. BREAKING: Corcel’s new investors and their Russian links, surely this stinks?
   During the past 24 hours it has been announced that two gents called Nurzhan Subhanberdin and Askar Alshinbayev have each taken stakes of c8% in sub scale oil and gas minnow Corcel (CRCL). This is not necessarily a disaster for the share price which is up 16% today, I have no view. But are investors aware of who these two fine upstanding individuals are?
   
   
7. How to turn $10 million into way less than $2 million without asking Comrade Swanny, Friday is the day to shout timber!
   No this is not another comment of Comrade Swanny making a small fortune by investing a big one on crap like Conroy Gold, Tern and Chill Brands. My reference here is Critical Metals (Nasdaq:CRML) and the credibility of technically insolvent Technology Minerals (TM1).
   
   
8. SkinBioTherapeutics says it is “pleased” with a bit more dilution! Outlook potential suggests still a Buy
   SkinBioTherapeutics (SBTX) has announced the issuance of 3,289,474 new shares for the exercise of warrants by David Brierwood, with CEO Stuart Ashman “pleased to continue to have the support of David Brierwood who assisted with the financing for the acquisition of Bio-Tech Solutions last year”. How ‘pleasing’ though is this really with shares in SkinBioTherapeutics currently slightly lower towards 20p in response?
   
   
9. Red Rock’s cheque from the DRC still stuck in the post so another stinking funding, for just £25,000
   There is now a raging civil war in the DRC. I am not sure if cannibalism is on the menu but there was in previous civil wars. Andrew Bell of Red Rock Resources (RRR) says that he has visited the country three times recently which is jolly brave of him as, at his size, he’d feed a platoon of rebel soldiers for at least a week. Bell insists, most recently on 19 February, that his company is on track to get the $7 million arbitration award, promised as imminent for a terribly long time. The war is merely a “distraction”. Whatever you say boss..
   
   
10. BUY Easyjet
    The share price of EasyJet (EZJ) tends to be quite volatile and buying towards the bottom of the typical trading range gives a good chance of a decent return, especially as we move into the part of the year when business should start to pick up.

The most-listened-to Bearcasts articles this week were:

1. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 1: on my death or otherwise, new ventures and old, capitalism real and bastardized, Colin Bird, Bezant and Ajax Resources
   As you know I saw the Shipmans last week. Conclusion, I am clearly a weaker bet than my two health Nazi sisters as a result of historic excess but I have cleaned up my act and I might last a good while. I feel as if I have a new spring in my step and the Mrs and I are making plans. It will probably be the last Sharestock this year but never say never and I am planning 2 new non financial ventures which leads me to discuss what capitalism should be and then turn to Bird's Bezant (BZT) and Ajax Resources (AJAX) run by the son of the sock king and why public markets bastardise capitalism so nobody other than some City folks really gain. You can book Sharestock seats HERE, whatever happens it will be a ball on 6 September!.
   
   
2. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Noel is a nasty person and do you trust Dave Lenigas and a year end change at his bitcoin spoof after Pennpetro?
   I cover nasty Noel who thinks my family deserve anything they get as a result of my work, Vinanz (BTC), Ocado (OCDO), Probiotix (PBX) and Optibiotix (OPTI)
   
   
3. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: Gold up by $100 while Amaroq down by 15%, what gives?
   In today's bearcast I look at Julie Meyer MBE and ask why she still has an MBE, at Amaroq (AMRQ), Wood Group (WG.), Totally (TLY), EnergyPathways (EPP), at Sealand Capital Galaxy (SCGL) and at Argo Blockchain (ARB).
   
   
4. Tom Winnifrith bearcast: where in the UK worries most about hair loss?
   I start on the subject of obscure press releases one gets as a journalist an give you a full answer to that question. Then it is Corcel (CRCL) and the Russian stink, Aston Martin Lagonda (AML) and a nutso valuation and Celadon (CEL) and the red flags within today's RNS that has seen the shares (wrongly) soar.
   
   
5. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 1: The granny swearing at the young man and 2 classic RNS spoofs today
   I start with taking my kids to see York City and the raw aggression of its supporters then the bulk of the podcast, twi total bits of spoofing today, case studies in this genre of deception: Technology Minerals (TM1) and Sealand Capital Galaxy Limited (SCGL)
   
   
6. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: the Mrs finds Malcolm alive, disagreeing with Steve and will AI replace me?
   I discuss Malcolm who is coming to Sharestock and who the Mrs has unearthed, BP (BP.), Technology Minerals (TM1) and the reputation of Harry Chatli, Vinanz (BTC) and Morgan Advanced Materials (MGAM)
   
   
7. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 2: Sosandar shareholders really need to get a comforting drink to hand
   I explain why my startups will create more wealth for the UK than most AIM stocks. Then it is Sosandar (SOS), Crism Therapeutics (CRSM) - what was Amur Minerals -, Roquefort (ROQ) and Futura Medical (FUM).
   
   
8. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast No 1: Denial, everyone is in denialThose in denial include Innovate UK re Versarien (VRS), the advisors and management of Electric Guitar (ELEG), AIM and the LSE and I reference CMO (CMO) here, the BBC and the Government re jobs and Neets. Warning there is a bit of bad language in this podcast.
   
   
9. Tom Winnifrith Bearcast: are all AIM CEOs liars?A reader insists that they are. I think not and discuss but name a couple who, by act or omission, are. Today is St David's Day and also the women's basketball varsity match where sporty daughter 2 is in the starting line up, a matter I cover after last year's soccer heartbreak.