Financial Planning

January 8, 2025

Watchdog on Wall Street Celebrates 25 Years of Uncompromising Financial Vigilance

Original Post: https://www.citybiz.co/article/645162/watchdog-on-wall-street-celebrates-25-years-of-uncompromising-financial-vigilance/ Nation’s Longest-Running Financial Program Marks Quarter-Century of Unwavering Commitment to Truth and Consumer Advocacy Watchdog on Wall Street, the nation’s preeminent financial radio show and podcast, commemorates its 25th anniversary this month. Hosted by financial expert Chris Markowski, this landmark program has been at the vanguard of financial literacy and consumer advocacy since its […]

July 24, 2024

Poor Choices And Bad Stewards

July 2024 Two stories in the Wall Street Journal today caught my attention and really shook me up. They illustrate the critical importance of financial responsibility and the consequences of poor money management. Long-time listeners know I don’t sugarcoat things. Today’s column will be no different. The Cost of Inaction The first story that blew […]

June 12, 2024

Yeehaw! Inside the New Texas Stock Exchange

Yeehaw! The Texas Stock Exchange is coming! About $120 million has been raised from investment firms and individuals, and plans are underway to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). But there might be some challenges there, which I’ll get into later. The goal is to facilitate trades by 2025 and host its first […]

June 20, 2023

Bear Hunt

We at Markowski Investments have been trying to drive one fact home for decades: whether it be a proverbial bull market or bear it will never change our core principals nor the objectives for our clients. In other words, we really could care less about conventional wisdom of the day that the chattering classes are force-feeding […]

June 20, 2023

Navigating Economic Turbulence

There is no denying it, economic headlines look pretty muddled these days. A few examples…U.S. corporations are filing for bankruptcy at an unprecedented rate, unlike anything we have seen since 2010. Over 50,000 U.S. stores could potentially shut their doors by 2027, and on top of that, millions of fast-food workers are at risk of […]

October 1, 2018

HEDGE FUND UNIVERSITY

An eye-opening financial report recently released concerning private colleges stated that 25% of all private colleges spent more than they earned in 2017 despite the overall increase in tuition revenue. (They must be taking a cue from Uncle Sam.) Where in the name of beer bongs, tapestries and safe spaces is all that money going? […]

July 21, 2017

How to Politics-Proof Your Retirement Plan

Chris Markowski, founder of Markowski Financial Investments in Tampa, Florida, and host of the radio program “The Watchdog on Wall Street,” says he is regularly called upon to weigh in on TV and radio shows about changes in the market. “It’s almost like they want you to come on and scare everyone,” he says. Taking […]

May 3, 2017

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

The Employee Benefit Research Institute has released its twenty-seventh annual Retirement Confidence Survey. The findings from this survey coupled with some other disturbing headlines in regards to the perilous condition of our nation’s pension system have laid credence to all the anecdotal evidence that I have been yelling and screaming about on the show for […]

January 31, 2017

OBSOLETE

There has been quite a bit of attention as of late in business publications and websites such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and CNBC in regards to our retirement funding crisis. This crisis is being framed in the context of the failure of the various different vehicles people utilize to build up their proverbial […]

August 26, 2016

RETIREMENT REALITY

I have not seen many pie-in–the-sky retirement commercials as of late. There used to be a bevy of advertisements that seemed as if they were pumped out by an advertising team comprised of Don Draper and Robin Leach. They aided the big firms in painting the mental picture and selling the dream of…“Champagne wishes and […]