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LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured  

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   After receiving an aggressive, jaw-dropping buyout offer, Chris says the answer was never in doubt. The multiples were obscene, the pitch arrogant, and the intent clear: private equity wants the firm—not for its values, but for its clients. He warns that this is happening across the advisory industry, with firms being bought at ridiculous prices only to be flipped back onto clients through higher fees, worse service, and financial engineering. Advisors cash out. Clients pay the price. For him, the line is firm. No sale. No shortcuts. No selling out the people who trusted him for decades. He calls on other advisors to remember their responsibility—and not trade their integrity for a payday.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   He breaks down why headline wins—like the U.S. producing more steel than Japan—don’t tell the full story. Tariffs may protect domestic producers, but they also drive up input costs across the economy. When foreign steel and aluminum get more expensive, U.S. producers raise prices too—because they can. The result? American manufacturers face soaring input costs, with aluminum prices in the U.S. nearly double those in Europe or Japan. That disadvantage gets passed straight into finished goods, making U.S. products less competitive globally. Meanwhile, tariffs have quietly become a goldmine for lobbyists. With hundreds of selective exemptions and a massive surge in tariff-related lobbying revenue, big corporations can buy workarounds—while small businesses eat the costs. It’s a reminder that in Washington, the business of government is always booming.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   Chris argues the European financial crisis was never about saving Greece, Ireland, or Italy—it was about saving banks. According to documents now resurfacing in the Epstein files, smaller EU nations were pushed into predatory loans they could never sustain, then forced to shoulder the cost when those loans failed. The so-called bailouts didn’t rescue citizens. They transferred taxpayer money from struggling countries straight to German and French banks to make them whole. It’s exactly what he warned about at the time—and exactly what played out. With elite figures now appearing in the paper trail, he says this may only be the tip of the iceberg, raising uncomfortable questions about who really engineered Europe’s collapse—and who benefited from it.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   Commodity traders are learning a brutal lesson as highly leveraged metals and commodity funds implode. After piling into four-times-levered products chasing fast gains, many are now wiped out and looking for someone to blame. Chris argues this wasn’t bad luck—it was greed. Leverage magnifies emotion, not intelligence, and Wall Street is more than happy to sell financial shortcuts to anyone willing to buy them. The result is predictable: quick highs on the way up, violent crashes on the way down. This isn’t a market mystery or manipulation story. It’s a reminder that real wealth takes time, discipline, and work—and that get-rich-quick trades almost always end the same way.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   Chris spent the weekend going through documents he wishes he hadn’t seen. Some may be questionable—but where there’s smoke, there’s fire. What’s most disturbing isn’t just what’s in them, but the total media silence surrounding their release. No coverage. No follow-up. Just distractions. Like Voldemort, it’s the name no one wants to say. Like Men in Black, the assumption seems to be that the public “can’t handle the truth.” He refuses to walk through the details—it’s not for the faint of heart. But the lack of curiosity, accountability, and seriousness should trouble anyone still paying attention. God help us if this is how it all gets buried.

Chris Markowski dismantles the great immigration lie and explains how divide-and-conquer politics—especially at the state level—distort economic truth. From why trade sanity matters more than slogans to how bankruptcies can actually strengthen an economy, this hour connects economic fundamentals to political theater. Chris also takes aim at the cultural circus surrounding Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and the nonstop distractions pulling attention away from real financial issues—plus a few classic Markowski rants you didn’t see coming.  immigration economics, trade policy, bankruptcies, political economy, economic growth, market cycles

Is modern financial planning ignoring reality in the name of “longevity”? Chris takes on the growing obsession with never-ending retirement projections while Washington embraces runaway spending and pork-barrel politics. From Republican capitulation to the rise of what Chris calls “Boomer Communism,” this hour digs into why charity has become an industry, political parties are losing relevance, and why blind fact-checking misses the bigger economic picture. Brutally honest, unapologetic, and necessary. financial planning, government spending, pork barrel politics, retirement planning, political parties, entitlement economy

Is capitalism really broken—or just misunderstood? Chris Markowski breaks down what capitalism done right actually looks like, using real-world lessons from successful business leaders who reject Wall Street short-termism. From growing fears about the death of the dollar to why the Greater Fool Theory is alive and well in today’s markets, Chris explains how Wall Street keeps winning while everyday investors get played. If you care about free markets, sound economics, and protecting your wealth, this hour is required listening. capitalism, Wall Street, dollar collapse, investing risk, free markets, inflation, economic reality

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   You don’t always see them—but when you do, you know there are more hiding. That’s the problem with private credit and private equity right now. A sudden 20% write-down from a major BlackRock fund raises serious questions about valuations, transparency, and who’s really bearing the risk. Not every deal is bad—but too many are being sold to everyday investors without honest disclosure. When portfolios are marked down overnight, it’s a warning sign. Know who you’re doing business with, ask hard questions, and be careful out there.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   Do other financial advisors hate us? Some do—and for one simple reason: we pull back the curtain. We expose the tricks, the bad products, and the broken incentives baked into the industry. Good advisors respect it. Some even leave the big firms and join us. Others are stuck in contracts, chasing signing bonuses, and selling whatever their firm tells them to sell. We show people how the system really works—and that makes the wrong people very uncomfortable.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   SNAP enrollment just dropped by 1.75 million, thanks to stricter work rules, fraud audits, and removing ineligible recipients. That’s real progress—even with 42 million still on food assistance. But on the flip side, the administration is calling $12 billion in payments to farmers a “bridge,” not a bailout. Call it what it is: taxpayer-funded relief with no payback. From broken farm economics to bloated regulations and the case for more local food systems, here’s why welfare reform is moving forward—while farm policy remains stuck in the past.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   Producer prices came in hotter than expected—PPI up 0.5% month over month and 3% year over year, driven by rising service costs. Inflation has cooled, but it’s far from beaten, despite the political spin. With the Fed holding rates, Jay Powell nearing the exit, and Kevin Warsh waiting in the wings, the next moves on inflation and monetary policy matter more than ever. Tariffs, shortages, and inflation aren’t the same thing—and only one is truly in the Fed’s control.

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i  WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured   A new Fed chair is on deck—and this one isn’t cut from the usual academic cloth. Kevin Warsh has worked in the private sector, walked away from the Fed in protest, and openly blasted quantitative easing long before it was fashionable. He’s taken aim at Bernanke, Powell, and the myth of “transitory” inflation, arguing the Fed’s job isn’t to prop up markets or inflate asset prices. So what does a Warsh-led Federal Reserve actually mean? A return to discipline—or another pick that looks great on paper but fails on the field? From inflation, money printing, and politicization at the Fed to why owning assets matters when cash is a losing game, this is a deep dive into why this nomination matters—and why it could finally shake up a broken system.

Chris Markowski dismantles the great immigration lie and explains how divide-and-conquer politics—especially at the state level—distort economic truth. From why trade sanity matters more than slogans to how bankruptcies can actually strengthen an economy, this hour connects economic fundamentals to political theater. Chris also takes aim at the cultural circus surrounding Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and the nonstop distractions pulling attention away from real financial issues—plus a few classic Markowski rants you didn’t see coming. immigration economics, trade policy, bankruptcies, political economy, economic growth, market cycles