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From Homer and the Tragedians to Virgil and the Market Outlook (2025 and beyond)

by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 3, 2024 | Commentaries

In the first part of our assessment for 2025, our emphasis was ontroubling spots that could generate turmoil in the markets (such as oligopolistic and oligarchic structures that cancel market forces, inflationary built-in structures, unrestrained/unfounded optimism,...

Mystery Over Troubled Waters: Contemplating the Market Outlook Within Oligarchic Trajectories in 2025 (and beyond)

by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 26, 2024 | Commentaries

The US government recently won its case of alleged monopolization against Google. Probably the government’s argument can be better understood as a case of a monopoly within an oligopoly (given that only 3-4 search engines dominate web searches). Should we expect the...

US Elections and a Market Allegory through the Eyes of Homer and Palestrina

by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 4, 2024 | Commentaries

I was about to fill out my ballot at an early voting station last Friday when Homer nudged me: “Do you recall the island of Ismarus?” “Of course, I do”, I replied. It was after leaving Troy. “Didn’t the troops sack the city in Ismarus and take the spoils for...

The Triangles of Failure, the Promise of a Bust: Contemplations of Salviati, Sagredo, and Simplicio

by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 22, 2024 | Commentaries

In 1632, Galileo got permission from the Florentine censors (of the infamous Inquisition era) to publish his findings under the pretense of a hypothesis. The form of the book was a three-way dialogue among Salviati (a disguised Galileo), Sagredo (an open-minded...

The Peripatetic Journey Along and Across the Modern Rubicon: Alea Iacta Est & Market Empiricism

by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 1, 2024 | Commentaries

Vienna in the 1920s became the center of logical empiricism, which crowned rational knowledge and scientific discoveries as the primary sources of discovering truths and advancing progress. Just in the last four weeks, the market has experimented with new highs in...
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