By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 8, 2013 |
It’s a pity that the market participants’ focus is on the childish political theater in Washington D.C. which is nothing but a symptom of a greater problem. Nations like families […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 1, 2013 |
The headlines of this past weekend edition of the European edition of the Wall Street Journal read: “Debt Targets for Greece Questioned”. In the article Klaus Regling, the managing director […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 24, 2013 |
It seems that the Latin phrase Crescit Eundo (it grows as it goes) fits well into the Fed’s modus operandi. In its latest attempt to justify the non-tapering, the Fed […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 18, 2013 |
Our Federal Reserve Bank, the ECB, and other central banks of developed nations face a paradox: the same institution that is supposed to hold the ultimate reserves of the commercial […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 8, 2013 |
One of my favorite songwriters (Rich Mullins) – who died prematurely sixteen years ago – wrote the song “On the road to Damascus”. Let’s recall some of those lyrics: On […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: August 31, 2013 |
In 1904 Sir Halford Mackinder published his famous paper The Geographical Pivot of History. The paper served as the cornerstone for the study of geopolitics in the 20th century. Sir […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: August 24, 2013 |
We live in an era of financial repression where savings are penalized due to low interest rates. The latter is the outcome of the financial crisis. This in turn was […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: August 18, 2013 |
Understanding market trends is more than merely intellectual gymnastics on financial and economic themes. Every market era emphasizes different aspects of its inheritance depending on its own problems. Our challenge […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: August 10, 2013 |
The developed world’s crisis of 2008 was the result of credit over-extension fed by international imbalances and a finance sector that was issuing instruments whose collateral base was questionable. Developing […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 15, 2013 |
Dancing to the Sounds of an Acrimonious Manipulative Symphony: A Prelude in Out-Maneuvering the Devil?
In Shakespeare’s play titled “Othello” we discover an acrimonious manipulative protagonist in the person of Iago who envisions the downfall of Othello. Iago’s plans are not just convoluted. They are […]