11/14/2022 Who has the power for debt forgiveness? Let’s play a little game today. A “who said it?” game. “People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an […]
11/7/2022 Elections have consequences, choose wisely I used to have these gamebooks when I was a kid that I absolutely adored. They were very fun. “Choose your own adventure” was what they were called. It is a sci-fi adventure story and it was great. Essentially, you played a role and read along, reaching a moment […]
10/31/2022 Economic Grow Means Pie Growth Let’s start this week by discussing “The Deadly ‘De-Growth’ Craze” by Andy Kessler in the Wall Street Journal, in which he explains the importance of growth. According to the degrowth theory, the economic “pizza pie” must stay stagnant, and everybody gets their fair share of the pie. My argument, […]
10/24/2022 Retirement funds suffer from inflation This week, we started off taking a look at 2022 Federal Tax Collection. Almost 5-Trillion dollars? When will it be enough? And not to mention, inflation is biting when it comes to people’s retirement savings. More than half of working US adults feel that they are behind on retirement […]
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 […]
