by The BlackSummit Team | Nov 8, 2022 | Wooden Nickel
The BlackSummit Team The Wooden Nickel is a collection of roughly a handful of recent topics that have caught our attention. Here, you’ll find current, open-ended thoughts. We wish to use this piece as a way to think out loud in public rather than make...
by Rachel Poole | Nov 5, 2022 | Weekly Market Update
Rachel Poole Mustor | November 5, 2022 Global Market News Global equities suffer lossesGlobal equities were down on the week as market turmoil continues. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones declined 3.35% and 1.40% respectively, while the Nasdaq dropped 5.65%. The yield on...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 4, 2022 | Commentaries
Wednesday evening, I was reading an editorial praising Chairman’s Powell performance following the Fed’s decision to raise rates by another 75 bps. “One for the hawks, one for the doves,” it said. Marvelous I pronounced! Having one foot in one boat and the other in...
by The BlackSummit Team | Nov 3, 2022 | Geopolitics & the Day After
This week, we are covering a wide range of topics including markets, great power conflict, digital currencies, and Iran’s protests. First, we look at the wide range of answers from professional investors to the question “where are markets headed?”....
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 1, 2022 | Commentaries
John E. Charalambakis Jonathan Swift’s marvelous work of Gulliver’s Travels is full of subliminal messages regarding geopolitics, statecraft, rationality/irrationality, and intrigues where trivial issues promoted by fanatical incompetent idiotic characters become the...