by Joel Charalambakis | Jan 28, 2025 | Commentaries
All of us who directly or indirectly (through a pension plan) are involvedin investing have a partner called Mr. Market. Mr. Market is the allegory that Benjamin Graham created to explain the investment world’s moods. Mr. Tamerlane is the phenomenon who became a...
by Joel Charalambakis | Jan 7, 2025 | Commentaries
A year before the dawn of the new millennium – during the internet fever – Warren Buffett said at an investors conference that “the inescapable fact is that the value of an asset, whatever its character, cannot over the long term grow faster than its...
by Joel Charalambakis | Dec 28, 2024 | Commentaries
The invitation for this end-of-year trip came in early December in a unique envelope. It was sent by Isabella Baumfree, a.k.a. Sojourner Truth. While not revealing the other co-passengers, it described the subject: The pursuit of narcissistic power and the potential...
by Joel 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,...
by Joel 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...