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WATCHDOGS BELIEVE IT OR NOT
An interesting dilemma I face being the host of the Watchdog on Wall Street Radio Show is the seemingly implausible nature of many of the stories I report. I receive countless e-mails and phone calls from astonished listeners regarding stories we cover on the show or here in the Markowski Monthly. The big investment firms […]
WHITE COLLAR JUSTICE
Law enforcement and the time honored pursuit of bad guys has been successfully practiced under the bottom/up principal. It’s a simple concept, law enforcement agencies try to get lower level criminals to tattle on their superiors in order to bring down the entire crime syndicate. That practice has worked extraordinarily well in snuffing out the […]
A MESSAGE FROM HOWARD DEAN
Dear Comrades, I am writing this letter to not only rally the faithful, but to educate the masses on how we can bring home victory in the mid-term elections in ‘06, and of course the granddaddy of them all in ‘08. I think the principle reason for our losses has to do with our collective […]
OIL NONSENSE
Anchor Elizabeth Vargas: “Terry some were surprised to hear President Bush say we’re in the midst of an energy crisis.” Terry Moran: “He did Elizabeth. Just as President Bush used what he called the sputtering economy, what some people called talking down the economy as a way to sell his tax cut, he is now […]
CALL THE GUINNESS PEOPLE
Every single time I see a politician or Attorney General holding some ridiculous “pat myself on the back” press conference I get nauseous. Case in point, Alan Hevesi, New York State Comptroller telling all who would listen that the $2 billion WorldCom settlement he had just negotiated with J.P. Morgan Chase “represented a substantial recovery […]
COVERED CALL JUICE
“How did you know that tech stocks were going to collapse?” That is a question I have peppered with countless times over the past five years. I have answered it politely in many different ways always doing my best to use humor and metaphor to soften the blow. Now that we have just passed the […]
SOCIAL INSECURITY
“It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them […]
MUCH ADO ABOUT SNAKE OIL
The 1980’s was a golden age of comedy as far as I am concerned. Movies such as Better Off Dead, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Sixteen Candles, and A Fish Called Wanda are a few of my favorites. If one particular 1980’s comedy film encapsulates some of the things I do in my career it […]
TRUMPED!
This past month New Jersey Judge Judith Wizmur refused the request of shareholders to file a competing bankruptcy plan for Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. which eliminates the key obstacle to court confirmation of the casino company’s Chapter 11 reorganization. The denied motion would have stripped Trump Hotels of the exclusive right to propose […]