by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 12, 2014 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Albert Camus wrote in his book The Myth of Sisyphus that “There is a metaphysical honor in enduring the world’s absurdity.” Without a doubt we live in a surreal marketplace which has managed without a monetary anchor to create a major crisis every few years,...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 23, 2014 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
The backbone of fiction, poetry, and drama of current generations is a mirror image of the philosophical struggles of the previous generations. The writings of Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, and so many others in ancient Greece were reflections of the golden age of...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 15, 2014 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
This Thursday (September 18th), the people of Scotland are called to choose between going alone as an independent state or staying under the umbrella of Britain and the United Kingdom. The pro-independence camp (that advocates a yes vote in the referendum) claims that...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 10, 2014 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
We are approaching the time when the ECB will pull the trigger and will start buying paper “assets” (i.e. someone else’s liabilities) in the ultimate hope of stimulating a paralytic EU economy that is devastated by regulations, high taxes, unsustainable debt and...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 4, 2014 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In the last few days we’ve observed geopolitical events taking place from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and from Africa to Asia, shaking the markets and molding expectations. The Islamic State in the Middle East endangers not only regional stability but also...