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Wells Fargo and Merrill Lynch just settled charges for overcharging retail investors on small dollar transactions. I’ve been saying this for years: on Wall Street, getting caught just means paying a parking ticket.
Every week I see people who look wealthy on the outside but are drowning in debt on the inside. The question I keep asking is simple: what does your honor cost?
Billions of dollars in suspicious oil and S&P 500 contracts were placed minutes before a major presidential policy reversal. When regulators moved to investigate, someone ordered them to stop.
Fidelity just dropped a bombshell on independent investment advisors: meet the $100 million minimum or get dropped from their platform. This is bad news for everyday investors who depend on smaller, high-quality advisors to manage their money.
I’ve spent 30 years watching investors lose money chasing shiny objects, and the pattern never changes. From dot-com delivery schemes to a $15 billion smart ring that couldn’t find buyers, the lesson is always the same.
I’ve been saying it for decades: the best investments we ever made at Markowski Investments were often the ones we walked away from. When someone can’t explain to you in plain English how their strategy works, that’s not a knowledge gap on your part. That’s a red flag.
The U.S. Senate just voted down the Stop Insider Trading Act, and the reason why tells you everything you need to know about how Washington really works. Both parties wanted this bill to fail, and they made sure it did.
Every time the market gets choppy, the so-called experts on CNBC change their ‘base case’ and act like that’s analysis. I’ve been calling this out for decades, and nothing has changed.