Porter Stansberry

Frank Porter Stansberry is an American financial publisher and author. Stansberry founded Stansberry Research, a private publishing company based in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1999. He was the author of the monthly newsletter Stansberry's Investment Advisory, which covers investments and investment theory in commodities, real estate, and the stock market. Stansberry was also the creator of the 2011 online video The End of America, in which he predicted the imminent collapse of the United States. In 2002, the SEC brought a case for securities fraud, and a federal judge fined him $1.5 million in 2007.