Watchdog on Wall Street with Chris Markowski

The latest inflation numbers. Train derailment and Mayor Pete. Ford battery plant and China. Lael Brainard goes to the White House. Crypto regulation fallout. Chips Act and stock buybacks. Never ending war drums. Turbines falling down, Don Quixote?? I am a Valentine’s Day Scrooge!

They are not coming for your Social Security; they are coming for your 401K’s and IRA’s. Super Bowl advertisements. What is happening in the job market? EV subsidies are utter nonsense. Russia/Ukraine information black hole. Squirrels are racist.

State of the Union dog and pony show. Unemployment fell to 3.4%, the lowest in 53 years. Great news for employers, bad news for “Quiet Quitters.” Foghorn Leghorn to the rescue. State of the investor. Green dreams and Underwear Gnomes. Balloon gate.

Deficit lies and rising interest costs. All that stolen Covid money isn’t coming back. Balloon bull excrement.Tech failures that should come as no surprise. How many Crypto advertisements will air during the super Bowl? New York vs. Florida. Donkeys in New York want to ban tackle football for kids.

Disney numbers. Barry Diller on the movie business. How do you make money in streaming? Google AI blunder. If you can’t innovate, regulate. The bankruptcy business. Acting like a petulant child is never a good idea. Hospital metrics. Is the U.S. in the sabotage business?

SOTU...A collection of either bad or dead on arrival ideas. Powell and his futile fight against wage inflation. Foghorn Leghorn to the rescue. Zoom fires 1,300 people, and it still works. Pot lessons. Spies like us. Green reality check.

The slow creep to socialized medicine and what it will feel like in the United States. Look to the UK. So, NORAD can track Santa on Christmas Eve, but it can’t track spy balloons? Russia/Ukraine reality. Boeing layoffs. Vision Fund=Teldar Paper.

Balloon down. How will China respond? Major offensive in Ukraine on the way. Farming and national security risk. Will China send a second round of inflation? Medicaid enrollment goes through the roof. Global minimum tax stupidity. Amazon and grocery shopping. Fake meat and why we do not run a short hedge fund. Chevron is investing…in Algeria. Green dreams and Underwear Gnomes.

Unemployment fell to 3.4%, the lowest in 53 years. Great news for employers, bad news for “Quiet Quitters.” The latest on earnings. Are Americans becoming better investors? The college cost debate rolls on. More on the Fair Tax. Republicans wasting our time and tax dollars. Up, up and away in our Chinese spy balloon. Cue the Kinks on the U.K. They are going to try to cancel Mr. Rogers.

Can ChatGPT beat the market? Bloomberg asked ChatGPT to make a market-beating ETF. Here is what happened…sound familiar? Don’t doubt me. Econ data and the Fed. Delayed retirement. Social Insecurity. The China conundrum. Communism and innovation…oil and water.