A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Companies that sold pet food online, web portals geared toward left-handed vegetarian cross-dressers, and just about any company that held the criteria of having a dot com attached to it and was led by some “visionary” 22 year-old with a goat-tee and black turtleneck had […]
Most journalists have been trained in the ancient art of never allowing the facts to get in the way of a good story. Their Jedi-Knight mind tricks are used strategically to keep up that great conspiracy to keep the public poor and stupid. We are preached to by the mighty teleprompter readers, their puppeteers and […]
Getting investors to face the music is not always an easy thing to do. Trying to get investors to smarten up and sell losing positions can often become an exercise in futility for the gang at Markowski Investments. I hope some of the following information will wake some of our readers up who are either […]
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 […]
We keep hearing how obese Americans are. However, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts just stated that the low-carb diet trend has hurt sales. Because Krispy is coming up short in its expectations, a wonderful law firm in Pennsylvania is suing them because they should have known better. The complaint names members of Krispy Kreme’s senior management as […]
One of the most talked about topics by political hacks and the network news stations as of late has been outsourcing. One only needs to flip across a few channels to find some talking head outraged at the current state of jobs in the United States. We, here at the Markowski Monthly, prefer to deal […]
It is quite entertaining and enlightening to observe the conduct of unscrupulous corporate bigwigs, moronic courts, and shady investment firms. It is eerily reminiscent of watching a Discovery Channel episode on hyenas, vultures or some other scavenger. For example, this past month we have been exposed to another nausea-inducing situation between Morgan Stanley and French […]
Be very wary of investment firms who tout their research as being the best. Institutional Investor Magazine turns out an all-star list every year that many firms use in their marketing pieces to lure new clients. In a recent study by Investars, the truth comes out about these so-called star analysts. In this study 110,000 […]
A popular question on all the business shows at this time of year is “which direction will the market head in 2003?” J.P. Morgan Chase had a unique answer to this question. Carlos Asilis, a strategist at the firm’s brokerage unit, predicts the S&P will drop 12% to 800. Stuart Schweitzer, a strategist at J.P.’s […]
I received a spirited response to a piece I wrote back in September regarding the technology glut. What I found truly amazing is the sheer number of true blue believers in the cult of technology stocks. Sorry cult members. My job is to exorcise the demons and hand out another dose of reality to choke […]