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Watchdog on Wall Street with Chris Markowski

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Welcome to The Watchdog on Wall Street Podcast. Author, investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski exposes the lies and myths of the big brokerage firms, the mainstream press, and the government. Chris explains the news coming out of the complex worlds of finance, economics and politics and the impact it will have on everyday Americans. For more information, visit radioamerica.com/watchdog-on-wall-street/

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The Media's Influence on Finance 06.12.2025 39:38

Chris Markowski delves into the complexities of financial truths, the media's influence on public perception, and the realities of government spending and corporate influence. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the real economic landscape rather than the narratives pushed by mainstream media. Markowski critiques the H-1B visa program and discusses the agricultural industry's reliance o...

Navigating Political and Economic Realities 06.12.2025 39:39

Chris Markowski discusses the current political and economic landscape, emphasizing the pervasive influence of media and the concept of 'rage baiting' that keeps audiences engaged through anger. He reflects on the increasing corruption and decay in American society, the erosion of trust in institutions, and the importance of local accountability. The conversation also touches on consumer behavior...

Trump Rolls Back EV Mandates: Ending Stupid Rules and Letting the Market Decide 06.12.2025 6:57

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 President Trump fulfills a campaign promise by reversing Biden-era electric vehicle mandates, freeing automa...

The Unforgivable Pardon When Justice Gets Traded Away 06.12.2025 7:57

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 This episode unleashes a blistering reaction to one of the most disturbing pardons in recent memory—an act t...

The Layoff Wave Hits: 1.1 million Job Cuts and an Economy on the Brink 05.12.2025 3:39

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 Job-cut announcements have surged past 1.1 million—more than any year since the pandemic—and U.S. manufactur...

When Assimilation Fails: What the Minnesota Welfare Scandal Reveals About U.S. Immigration Policy 05.12.2025 10:27

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 This episode dives into Barton Swaim’s provocative column on the massive Minnesota welfare-fraud case and wh...

Obamacare’s Phantom Enrollees: Congress Wants to Extend a Broken System 05.12.2025 5:58

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 blistering breakdown of how Congress—Republicans and Democrats alike—is rushing to extend COVID-era Obamac...

Left to the Sharks: When Regulators Ignore the Scams They Know About 05.12.2025 6:54

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 scene straight out of Jaws : the sharks are circling, investors are in the water, and the people who are...

We Need a ‘Derek Zoolander’ School: Colleges Teaching Kids to Fail Math 05.12.2025 7:00

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 If you thought “kids who can’t read good” was a joke, welcome to reality: top universities are admitting fre...

The TRUTH About the H-1B Visa And Why We Should END IT NOW! 05.12.2025 6:31

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 Here’s a wild idea: instead of invading Venezuela or launching another regime-change adventure, how about we...

Five Months Off? Minnesota’s Paid Leave Law Pushes Policy Into Fantasyland 05.12.2025 5:02

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 Minnesota’s new paid family and medical leave program allows up to 20 weeks of paid time off—an unpreceden...

How Do You Blow $100 Million? The Odell Beckham Jr. Money Meltdown 04.12.2025 6:20

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 Super Bowl champion lands a $100 million NFL contract—yet claims it “didn’t amount to nothing.” Odell Beck...

Venezuela Reality Check! 04.12.2025 15:21

The Minnesota Meltdown: Fraud, Refugees, Retaliation—and a System Built to Be Exploited 04.12.2025 19:04

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 massive web of welfare fraud, ignored warnings, silenced whistleblowers, and political leaders who refused...

Here's Why Small Businesses Are Filing Bankruptcy in RECORD Numbers 04.12.2025 5:17

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 federal program that was supposed to help small businesses dig out from debt is now signaling a full-blo...

All The Reasons Sean Duffy Might Be the Best Secretary of Transportation EVER 03.12.2025 2:26

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 I can’t believe I’m doing a podcast about a Transportation Secretary — but here we are. Because credit where...

Operation Chaos Returns: Nashville, Money, and Misreading the Country 03.12.2025 5:12

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 The Nashville special election highlights a recurring problem: outsiders buying influence, parties misreadin...

Stuck in the Algorithm: Why Your Feed Is Lying to You 03.12.2025 11:00

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 If your social media feed only shows one side—left or right—you’re not informed, you’re being used. In this...

Drug Boats, Dead Ends & the Real Agenda 03.12.2025 14:34

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 Politicians cheer, pundits rage, and viral memes celebrate dead “thugs.” But reality is far uglier: cartel m...

Fauci’s COVID Cover-Up: The Lies, the Paper Trail, and the Immunity Nobody Wants to Talk About 03.12.2025 4:09

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 Fauci is back in the headlines — and so is the mountain of COVID deception we were all force-fed for years....

War Your Way to Wealth: How Taxpayers Fund the Corrupt and Connected 03.12.2025 2:24

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 From Afghanistan’s “missing” trillions to the latest wave of resignations inside Zelensky’s inner circle, th...

The DC Attack They Want You to Forget 02.12.2025 10:00

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 National Guardsman is dead, and the official story keeps shifting. What began as reports of an Afghan nati...

America Is Being RAGE-BAITED to Death and Here's How 02.12.2025 8:23

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 “Rage-baiting” — pushing people’s buttons just to get them worked up — has become the fuel of American polit...

The Money Pipeline: Ukraine, Russia, and Why Washington Never Says No to War 02.12.2025 8:34

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 Billions flow through defense contractors, D.C. think tanks, and foreign oligarchs—while U.S. taxpayers foot...

Record Tariffs, Record Deficits: The Fantasy of Eliminating Income Taxes 02.12.2025 7:01

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 Tariffs bringing in “hundreds of billions” sounds impressive—until you compare it to trillion-dollar interes...