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Good-bye old and stodgy, hello colorful and fabulous. American Express Financial Advisors and Credit Suisse First Boston are undertaking extreme makeovers that would make the “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” gang squeal and lisp with pride. In an effort to remake themselves to the general public after a series of scandals including, but not […]
The events surrounding hurricane Katrina has once again brought the pundits and race baiters out from underneath their rocks. I have discussed all the lies and other adjunct nonsense that has surrounded this media orgy on the radio show over the past month and have had enough. One of the producers of my radio show […]
Getting investors to face the music is not always an easy thing to do. Trying to get investors to smarten up and sell losing positions can often become an exercise in futility for the gang at Markowski Investments. I hope some of the following information will wake some of our readers up who are either […]
Most journalists have been trained in the ancient art of never allowing the facts to get in the way of a good story. Their Jedi-Knight mind tricks are used strategically to keep up that great conspiracy to keep the public poor and stupid. We are preached to by the mighty teleprompter readers, their puppeteers and […]
Bumping my head on my desk and waking up in a puddle of my own saliva was a common occurrence during my college mathematics class. Maybe it was the unintelligible accent of the graduate student teaching the class or possibly the fact that I was dumb enough to schedule the class at 8:00 AM knowing […]
In order to see healthy investment returns it is necessary to take on some risk. However by not managing risk through various tools such as asset allocation, covered calls, and stop-losses you will sooner or later get steam-rolled financially. Whereas compounding interest can sow windfalls over time, there is a brutal side to math that […]
Usually nothing surprises me when in comes to investment fraud, however, I actually had to do a double-take while reading a piece in this past months Investment News. The magazine reported that Waddell & Reed Financial is now looking to its 2,600 advisers to sell more proprietary (in house) mutual funds. This is according to […]
Lawyers, regulators and politicians rejoice! You are getting paid. Time for some “big pimpin” up in NYC! Class-action attorneys and politicians have been partying down like P-ditty! This past month Citigroup has agreed to pay $2 billion to settle a class action suit over its role in hawking off Enron stock and bonds. J.P. Morgan […]
We have blasted the Supreme Court this past month on the radio over the Soviet-like decision in the case of Kelo v. New London. The decision now authorizes state and local governments to use eminent domain to seize private land for private use. For example: Joe Bigshot wants to build a strip mall where you […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been the theoretical guardian of the financial markets for decades. One of the jobs that SEC undertakes is the collection of financial records for publicly traded companies. For the first time ever the SEC disclosed its own financial records and ironically they read like a penny stock. The Government […]
The Wall Street Journal reported that the brokerage division at Citizens Financial Group agreed to pay a $3 million fine to Massachusetts securities regulators to settle allegations that the company engaged in “unethical and dishonest conduct” in its sales of variable annuities to elderly customers on Cape Cod. We feel that “unethical and dishonest” is […]
The evil empire strikes again! Citigroup/Smith Barney once again out does themselves with their immoral creativity and ingenuity. Their ability to steal and defraud without conscience is chilling. Citigroup/Smith Barney has been ordered to pony up $208 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges that two of its subsidiaries profited on transfer-agency discounts […]