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When my brothers and I built Markowski Investments, we made a deliberate choice: be the best, not the biggest. That decision runs counter to everything Wall Street has sold the American public for the past 25 years.
Last Friday’s market selloff separated two very different types of people: patient investors and overconfident traders. If you were checking your phone every five minutes wondering what to do, I have some hard truths for you.
I have been warning people about Ponzi schemes and investment scams for nearly thirty years, and the hardest truth I have learned is this: most people don’t want to hear it. They want to believe, and that is exactly what the con artists count on.
College athletes are cashing NIL checks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars while still in high school, and the financial advice they’re getting is either nonexistent or dangerously bad. I’ve seen this story play out before, and it never ends well.
May’s jobs report came in stronger than expected with 172,000 new jobs and positive revisions to prior months. But when you dig past the headline number, the composition of that growth tells a very different story.
Everyone wants to know why oil hasn’t spiked to $150 or $170 a barrel despite all the geopolitical noise in the Middle East. The answer goes back to a lesson Wall Street learned the hard way during the First Gulf War.
I’ve been telling people for years that being a bad investor isn’t always your fault. Your brain is literally working against you every time you make a financial decision.
Everyone is buzzing about SpaceX going public and the wave of IPOs hitting the market. Before you get swept up in the excitement, let me walk you through what I saw firsthand working in investment banking and what the actual historical numbers say about IPO performance.