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There is a myriad of reasons why we are seeing weakness in the financial markets. We have been covering the inflation issue extensively over the past several years. We have also talked about the ridiculous easy money policies that were driven by excessive government spending. For all intents and purposes, the trillions of dollars in handouts and give-a-ways through various …
When we first started Markowski Investments, the first program we initiated was our Account Repair Program. I am showing my old age here, but this was back in the prime days of the pump and dump boiler rooms and many investors that fell victim were most certainly in need of some serious account repair. I went back and took a …
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it most certainly rhymes. We have experienced seemingly countless market panics/selloffs/bear markets throughout our firm’s history. Each and every event had the mainstream narrative proclaiming the end of the world was going to be soon upon us. Important lesson: Never bet on the end of the world, it will only happen once. Unfortunately, over the …
In one of my all-time favorite movies, Jaws, everyone’s favorite Narragansett beer drinking Captain Quint offers a warning to Hooper about his fancy equipment. Quint: What are you, some kind of half-assed astronaut? (While examining the shark cage.) Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What d’ya …
I Cannot Thank You Enough. I hardly ever post anything on my personal Facebook page, aside from some yearly family photos or an occasional Proud Dad moment accomplishment from the kids. However, I have always loved logging on to see what the people that I have shared time with, and have impacted me throughout my life are doing. It makes …
There is a scene in the film Jurassic Park that I often sub-reference on the radio show. Dr. Ian Malcolm after seeing that scientists have brought dinosaurs back to life, rather than praise them for their genius he offers up this prophetic take… “Don’t you see the danger inherent in what you’re doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome …
Business news is getting to be quite tedious. One the more important points we have tried to get across to our listeners and clients over the past few decades is that conventional wisdom is poison. Maybe I am showing my age, but it has seemingly gotten much more tedious as well. The daily parade of “wizards of smart” trying to …
Judge Smails: Ty what did you shoot today? Ty: Oh Judge, I don’t keep score. Judge Smails: Then how do you measure yourself with other golfers? Ty: By height. From the 1980 film Caddyshack Are you one of the countless people that have a difficult time understanding what the so-called wizards of smart in main-stream-media when they state how low …
Rather than do what I usually do during my Fraud Files columns, where as I grab a stack of stories from around the country and report on various instances of malfeasance. Instead, I decided that this time I am going to do more of what one might call a think piece. Every day, I print out investment fraud and scam …
A reoccurring occurrence on the television show the Simpsons is, Homer finding ways to figuratively torture his strait-laced neighbor Ned Flanders. For example: Homer will help himself to any of Ned’s tools from his garage without asking permission and subsequently never return them. Ned being the pious church-going forgiving guy bottles up his frustration and turns the other cheek. Ned…we …