Market Turmoil, Plato’s Cave, and Lord Acton: Searching for the “Madonna of the Future”
Henry James described the story of an artist who devoted his entire life to a single painting as “The Madonna of the Future.” Yet, at his death, they found the easel in his studio with just a blank canvas. The market trajectory under current circumstances could be the...Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone Part XIV
While we do not live in a world and a marketplace where the illusion that everything is fine and dandy dominates, an epidemic of denial as to the causes is prevalent and is sweeping the world and the markets. A wrong diagnosis will inevitably lead to the wrong...Capitulating to Market Deconstruction: The March to an Unreasonable Imperfection
Plato and Hegel saw constant changes and sometimes revolutions as the seeds that forced societies to rise to the historical occasion of their times. Moreover, both of them considered evolutionary changes the ingredient that could inspire a march of Reason to...Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone Part XIII
Whether we talk about Herodotus, Thucydides, Montesquieu, or Gibbon, the fundamental element is that history illuminates human conditions. If we take it a step further, we discover that history is not the unpeeling of the past but the breathing in of the living...Sign Up for Our Publications
