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Political Systems, Anacyclosis, and Market Cycles: Polybius at the Trading Pit

by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 26, 2025 | Commentaries

There is little doubt that momentum, liquidity, and earnings have been driving the equity market higher. Market breadth (advancing stocks relative to declining ones) has been coming back following significant drops, leading the indexes to higher highs and higher lows,...

Risk Appetite, Shocks, and Portfolios: When Solon Met Croesus

by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 12, 2025 | Commentaries

Embracing risk could be a liberating force from fear. It’s risk embracing that has elevated equity markets to very high levels (some would argue about overvaluation levels) and has also rewarded tech companies with record profit margins and consequently with record...

The Narratives of Market Froth and Resilience: A Period of Interregnum?

by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 29, 2025 | Commentaries

When we look at different market sectors (even if we were novice market participants), it cannot escape us that the tech-related sector (which includes communication-related stocks) has supercharged above and beyond the dot-com era valuations, while defensive...

Sofocles at the Trading Pit: Stablecoins and Market Oxidation, Part III

by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 15, 2025 | Commentaries

I looked to my left, and Aeschylus was pointing to the following graph while asking what the implications would be as Japanese rates are rising. Could the upswing in the Japanese interest rates imply a market dislocation as traders sell US assets to buy Japanese bonds...

Iran and the Day After: Peace, Covert Martyrdom Scenarios, and Potential Market Outcomes

by John E. Charalambakis | Jun 23, 2025 | Commentaries

It seems that now America owns Israel’s war. Will it also own the grounds for peace for a two-state solution that will satisfy the Arab nations? And could this endeavor represent a strategic misfiring by the US, taking its focus away from the long-term strategic pivot...
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