by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 24, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Why Villa Diodati? Two famous manuscripts were drafted there: The Modern Promethus (a.k.a. Frankenstein) by Mary Shelley, and The Vampyre by Lord Byron and Polidori. After all, the villa is not far from Geneva, the intellectual birthplace of the most famous...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 10, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
How do you convert a significant disadvantage into a major advantage, especially in the battlefield? How do you find the road to the Gorgons in order to kill the Medusa and bring liberation to the land and the persons you love? And what could the artist Giorgio de...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 27, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting for Mr. Godot as the curtain falls in one of the greatest plays written by Samuel Beckett. Who is really Mr. Godot and why doesn’t he ever appear in the play? And why is the slave owner blinded and the same boy keeps coming to...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 13, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
The Great Wall of Steroids (a.k.a. China), in their propaganda war to subjugate other countries into their own illiberal image (see our posting of April 14th), wants us to believe that they are growing and that their economic indicators are now higher they have ever...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 6, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
It has become common belief and even market strategy the dogma “don’t fight the Fed”. Once the Fed decided to follow an expansionary accommodative policy (at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis), the market has been on an upswing that defies fundamentals and,...