by John E. Charalambakis | Jan 19, 2021 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Last Thursday (January 14th), the team of the President-Elect proposed a new stimulus package close to $2 trillion. Within a few minutes, the markets reversed gains and ended the day down. The bond markets also sold off and the yields – while they were dropping in the...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jan 5, 2021 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
“I am not what I am”, Iago proclaimed in Shakespeare’s Othello, and I am also thinking of similar lines proclaimed by Arthur Dimmesdale in Scarlet Letter, Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, or Anna Karenina in Tolstoy’s...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 29, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
The end-of-the-year special flight has been a highlight for me for the last eight years since it’s not only a learning and entertaining experience, but also has served as an inspiration for the forthcoming year. Obviously, the question had been if, due to Covid-19,...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 15, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Is our desire to assess and “predict” the future a reflection of what is known for thousands of years now as being “partakers of the divine nature”? I started my weekend reading on that subject by reviewing writings by Gregory of Nyssa, John Wesley, and Karl...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 2, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Can we truly live and invest heroically? Can we truly stare into the abyss of pain, despair, and disaster and somehow draw strength from those encounters? Could we contemplate on the fragility and uncertainty of our lives and portfolios and summon the will to...