by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 30, 2021 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
John Charalambakis, Mohamed Ramzi Roshdi, & Nicolas Abdelhak Thucydides taught us that the past shapes the future, but the latter has a tendency to depart from the former with a vengeance! In this commentary, we offer an initial assessment of next year’s outlook...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 9, 2021 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Over the course of the last few days, a good chunk of the economic analysis has been focusing on the breakeven inflation rate, a.k.a. the investors’ sentiment and inflationary expectations for the next five years. The reason behind such concerns is the fact that the...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 26, 2021 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In the distance, Faust saw something like a flickering orange light. “There must be a fire, out there” he thought, and suddenly Mephistopheles appeared, by stating the obvious: “Yes, of course there is, and it consumes the house of Baucis and Philemon, you know that...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 19, 2021 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
By: Nicolas Abdelhak, Mohamed Ramzi, John Charalambakis “The only thing that is constant is change” – Heraclitus What is that common theme in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and in Goethe’s Faust? In our interpretation, the underlying theme that the audience of Don...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 12, 2021 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
By 1556 AD, King Charles V had abdicated the Spanish throne to his son Philip II. The Habsburg dynasty was well into its way of dominating European (and not only) affairs for the next three and a half centuries. Twenty years later, King Philip II had adopted a motto...