The Shadows and our Prisoners’ Reality: Plato’s Cave and Energy Prices
John Charalambakis & Joel Fingerman The world experienced a creative ascent in the mid to late 15th century that culminated in the first half of the 16th century. If Renaissance marked the birth of the modern world, then Marsilio Ficino and his translation of...When Leo Caprivi Replaced Otto von Bismarck: Bellicose Transitions, Pivots, and the Markets
The world got almost everything wrong about Xi Jinping prior to 2012 and even a few years after Xi took over China’s leadership. By 2017, it was clear that the Chinese dream of subjugating the rest of the world to its illiberal image would turn ugly in its domestic...Digital Currencies, T.S. Eliot, and the Land of Endless Money: Part II
In our August 10th commentary we touched on the parallels between T.S. Eliot’s poem Waste Land and the rehypothecation of assets/bonds (a dangerous endeavor that could undermine financial stability). Furthermore, the subliminal statecraft messages derived from T.S....T.S. Eliot in the Land of Endless Money, Rehypothecation, and Crises: Part I
We all have heard the parallels between the Covid-19 crisis and war. Close to eighteen months after we started being concerned about the possibility of the pandemic, Cicero’s words that “endless money forms the sinews of war” come to mind. War and wasteland go...Sign Up for Our Publications
