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We have been working diligently over the past two years doing everything and anything to expose the many unscrupulous sales practices regarding annuities. The areas that we have articulated deal primarily with suitability concerns, exorbitant fees and misuse. Unfortunately, we now can add churning and burning to our list. Lynn Cowan from the Wall Street […]
It is quite entertaining and enlightening to observe the conduct of unscrupulous corporate bigwigs, moronic courts, and shady investment firms. It is eerily reminiscent of watching a Discovery Channel episode on hyenas, vultures or some other scavenger. For example, this past month we have been exposed to another nausea-inducing situation between Morgan Stanley and French […]
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village. An investment banker tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took him to catch them. “Not very long,” answered the fisherman. “But then, why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?” asked the banker. The fisherman explained […]
The business media along with securities regulators and self-proclaimed Saint Eliot Spitzer would like all of us to believe that they have captured and convicted one of the most notorious Wall Street crooks in history, Mr. Frank Quattrone. My sentiments can be summed up in the Jack Nicholson quote, “Sell crazy somewhere else…we are all […]
The motivation and sheer stupidity of Hans Blix was always crystal clear to us here at the “Markowski Monthly.” This past month “Mr. Magoo” gave a classic interview on highly respected news network MTV. “I lived through the whole Cold War and the risk then, the mutually assured destruction, the “M.A.D.,” as it was called, […]
Henry Blodget, a Merrill Lynch analyst we warned you about years ago here in this newsletter and whose exploits over the years we have meticulously chronicled was reprimanded as a part of the global settlement between regulators and firms. Henry Blodget will pay $4 million in penalties and be barred from the securities industry. The […]
The much anticipated global settlement between investment firms and regulators was finally unveiled this past month. As we stated here in the Markowski Monthly and on the radio show the big losers once again are individual investors. As the negotiations progressed over the course of a year it became more and more apparent that this […]
The big brokerage firms are laughing at you. Our avid readers are already aware that we are very upset about the “slap on the wrist” penalties levied against the big investment firms. These “white-shoe con-artists” have fleeced Americans for billions upon billions of dollars while their penalty was nothing more than the equivalent of a […]
One of the “white shoe “ brokerage firms that has managed to keep itself out of the spotlight and above the fray over the past few years is Morgan Stanley. The Markowski Monthly has been the only publication that has chronicled the devious works of this storied institution. We highlighted in both the May 1999 […]
Merrill Lynch threw a temper tantrum this past month by ordering all their offices worldwide to turn off CNBC. I have articulated on many occasions how and why the CNBC’s and other business publications censor criticisms of their big advertisers. This past month Merrill Lynch switched over to Bloomberg Television because of what one of […]
There were thousands of e-mails that were integral to helping prove the regulators case. The Wall Street Journal this past month has put together a litany of documents that further prove the malfeasance of the major investment houses. These documents are proof that analysts misled the investing public by basing stock recommendations on the firm’s […]
In our never-ending hunt for Wall Street crooks we continue to face-off against the mutual fund industry. From deceptive advertising to ridiculous fees and expenses the fund industry is a large component of what is wrong on Wall Street. Most investors are in the dark when it comes to fees and expenses. All data points […]