Understanding Duration Risk & why it’s relevant Here we are again, facing another banking crisis. Despite the thousands of pages of regulations we have from Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank, they didn’t prevent it. The truth is, you can’t really legislate or regulate stupidity. We have bankers who can’t even grasp simple concepts that first-year business school […]
Why I’m celebrating Higher Rates! The Fed is going to keep rates higher. What rate are they going to raise it to? Honestly, I don’t give a rat’s ass. Just don’t. I’m going to be honest with you, I’m kind of happy about these higher rates. Blasphemy? No, no, no. I’ve been around for a […]
The Secret to Investing: Don’t buy Stocks, buy GREAT companies I get it, people. Many investors are having a difficult time. Especially those who haven’t had decades under their belt dealing with sell offs in corrections and embracing the suck, to put it simply. You wake up one day thinking, “Hey, geez, inflation is under […]
EV Subsidies are Non-Sense! One of the big ads was for the Super Bowl. It was a mish mosh. Will Ferrell took a bunch of Netflix shows and inserted electric vehicles into a clever ad, which I didn’t mind. My issue with electric vehicles is not the vehicles themselves. Do you want to own an […]
Investors are smartening up! They are not selling out! At Markowski Investments, I’m in the job of Investor education. Again, trying to cut through all the narratives, all the BS, despite the garbage being thrown at people and getting them to do stupid things. So when I see a story like this, it makes me […]
chatGPT can PREDICT the stock market!?!?!?!?!? Guess what? It appears that I will be able to keep my job. Oh my goodness! They inquired about Chat GPT’s ability to beat the market. That’s correct. It didn’t take long at all. Oh my God, could Chat GPT be the next “Magic Money Box” that instantly makes […]
SBF says he DIDN’T STEAL FUNDS SBF, or Sam Bankman-Fried, issued a big tweet, a big position paper, and basically channeled his inner Nixon stating: “I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away”. So all of those people who worked for him and turned themselves in that are facing jail time. They’re […]
Biden FINALLY Goes to the Texas border There has been much discussion about Joe Biden’s failure to visit the southern border. So he’s on his way now, and have you seen what he’s proposed? Do you believe it will solve the problem? Do you believe it will help with the flow of drugs across our […]
1/3/2023 Why everything worthwhile requires work, time, and effort. The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article about these rookie traders calling it quits. All of these people who got into trading. All the meme stocks and crypto and everything else that was going on during the pandemic, and how they are now all busted, […]
12/27/2022 Why the cold weather is bad for the power grid Oh yes, the old Christmas song, “Baby, it’s cold outside,” and what was it? Why was this the case, and why, once again, could our power grid barely handle it? People were told to turn down the thermostat, avoid using large appliances, and prepare […]