There is a myriad of reasons why we are seeing weakness in the financial markets. We have been covering the inflation issue extensively over the past several years. We have also talked about the ridiculous easy money policies that were driven by excessive government spending. For all intents and purposes, the trillions of dollars in […]
Investment Banking and Big Brokerage. Throughout my decades long career, I have witnessed an industry get progressively worse for individual investors. Whereas Wall Street used to be a place where one would go to borrow money or raise capital to build a business. The industry has become a utensil for maximizing the number of encounters […]
When we first started Markowski Investments, the first program we initiated was our Account Repair Program. I am showing my old age here, but this was back in the prime days of the pump and dump boiler rooms and many investors that fell victim were most certainly in need of some serious account repair. I […]
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it most certainly rhymes. We have experienced seemingly countless market panics/selloffs/bear markets throughout our firm’s history. Each and every event had the mainstream narrative proclaiming the end of the world was going to be soon upon us. Important lesson: Never bet on the end of the world, it will only […]
In one of my all-time favorite movies, Jaws, everyone’s favorite Narragansett beer drinking Captain Quint offers a warning to Hooper about his fancy equipment. Quint: What are you, some kind of half-assed astronaut? (While examining the shark cage.) Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or […]
In one of my all-time favorite movies, Jaws, everyone’s favorite Narragansett beer drinking Captain Quint offers a warning to Hooper about his fancy equipment. Quint: What are you, some kind of half-assed astronaut? (While examining the shark cage.) Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or […]
A reoccurring occurrence on the television show the Simpsons is, Homer finding ways to figuratively torture his strait-laced neighbor Ned Flanders. For example: Homer will help himself to any of Ned’s tools from his garage without asking permission and subsequently never return them. Ned being the pious church-going forgiving guy bottles up his frustration and […]
The chattering classes are having a grand-old-time discussing the who, what, when and where of the looming stock market and economic collapse. I really detest how they love to break things down in terms of animals, Bull! Bear! What if I told you it doesn’t matter? The biggest mistake that investors make (this includes a […]
We love being paid to own! It is great to see that global dividends reached a first-quarter record of $263.3 billion. That is a 7.8% rise all in the face of concerns of slowing economic growth. The Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index said that U.S. dividends totaled a record $122.5 billion during the period, up […]