by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 19, 2011 | Commentaries
The markets nowadays are in purgatory. What is the task of professional market watchers and fund managers? In a nutshell we would say it is to unmask portfolio holding’s self- alienation in their secular form, once they have been unmasked in their sacred form....
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 12, 2011 | Commentaries
A friend describes in a book he wrote about twenty five years ago, how when they were kids he and one of his friends went into a five-and-dime store and switched all the price tags! As we can understand pandemonium followed when things that were supposed to sell for...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 2, 2011 | Commentaries
China has been in the news again recently, and hence we would like to offer an update on our previous writings on the subject. However, before we do so, allow us first a few brief comments on gold and precious metals. We started selling a significant position of our...
by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 29, 2011 | Commentaries
When the EU started feeling the heat in its periphery, and fearing damages to its core, it established the EFSF (European Financial Stability Fund). We have expressed elsewhere some of our concerns regarding its establishment. In this commentary – which will be...
by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 22, 2011 | Commentaries
Markets could implode from within creating black holes where everything goes in and nothing comes out, destroying in the process paper wealth but also real economies. The essence of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) is that explosions could take place when a star collapses and...