by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 28, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In his sixth section of “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, the famous Nobel laureate Irish poet (and pillar of literature) William Butler Yeats writes: “We had fed the heart on fantasies, the heart’s grown brutal from the fare. More substance in our enmities than in...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 21, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Homer taught us the contrasting qualities of leaders. Achilles was a man of action. Odysseus was a man of words. Both envisioned strategy from different perspectives. One represented strength. The other cunning. Later Machiavelli named those perspectives as force and...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 7, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
When we look at US jobs data, we get a clear picture that more than 7 out of the 22 million jobs lost during the Covid-19 crisis have been recovered. That fact by itself is a powerful factor in explaining the market’s recovery. However, the surge of infections...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jun 30, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
There is little doubt that stock market indicators (besides the rally itself until recently) pointed to a recovery that is better than the one expected by the majority of analysts, economists, and market watchers. The equity markets recovered most of the losses that...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jun 23, 2020 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
“President Putin is the leader of a great country who is influential around the world. He is my best, most intimate friend”, Xi Jinping, 2018 Hello darkness, I am still looking for useful idiots. The petrostate is at my disposal, so feudalism has been redefined. I no...