In his sixth section of “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, the famous Nobel laureate Irish poet (and pillar of literature) William Butler Yeats writes: “We had fed the heart […]

Homer taught us the contrasting qualities of leaders. Achilles was a man of action. Odysseus was a man of words. Both envisioned strategy from different perspectives. One represented strength. The […]

When we look at US jobs data, we get a clear picture that more than 7 out of the 22 million jobs lost during the Covid-19 crisis have been recovered. […]

There is little doubt that stock market indicators (besides the rally itself until recently) pointed to a recovery that is better than the one expected by the majority of analysts, […]

“President Putin is the leader of a great country who is influential around the world. He is my best, most intimate friend”, Xi Jinping, 2018 Hello darkness, I am still […]

Let’s us make no mistake: we are thrilled when the news pleasantly surprises us, contrary to expectations. Rather than the increase in the unemployment rate, more jobs were created in […]

It was June 20th ,1920 and the eight-year old boy by the name of Abraham Zimmerman experienced the lynching and hanging of three black men in Duluth, Minnesota. Postcards of […]

In 1935 the famous Dutch historian Johan Huizinga published a book with the title In the Shadows of Tomorrow. By then bleak clouds had gathered over Europe. The forces that […]

“Not all the Germans believe in God, but all the Germans believe in the Bundesbank”, (Jacques Delors, the famous former head of the European Commission) The Euro lost minimal ground […]

In the second book of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics we are confronted with a list of virtues and vices. In that table we read about andreia (courage), sophrosune (temperance), eleutheriotes (liberality), […]