You Won’t Believe What Wall Street Is Up To

You Won’t Believe What Wall Street Is Up To

July 20, 2026 · 8 min

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The episode discusses Wall Street's risky practices of packaging private assets into investment-grade products, reminiscent of the strategies that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

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 Wall Street is once again packaging risky private assets into supposedly safe, investment-grade products for insurers and pension funds. It’s the same financial engineering playbook that helped trigger the 2008 crisis—profits are privatized while taxpayers absorb the fallout. These toxic products will eventually unravel, and disciplined investors must focus on quality assets instead of chasing Wall Street’s latest “gain-of-function” creation.

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