By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 5, 2011 |
We have written briefly before (July 2010 commentary) on the dangers of the municipal bond market. In this commentary we make the claim that the housing sector leaves a mark of hysteresis […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 3, 2011 |
Yesterday we ran performance reports for our portfolios1. Our composite return across all portfolios was 18.11%. For comparison, our aggressive portfolio’s aggregate return was 35.95%. Annualized, these figures would exceed […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 30, 2010 |
Tα σημεία των καιρών υποδεικνύουν ότι οδηγούμεθα σε μία ιστορική περίοδο αλλαγών. Οι διαγραφόμενες αλλαγές αγγίζουν τον οικονομικό, πολιτικό, κοινωνικό, αλλά και διανοητικό χώρο. Ζει άραγε ο άνθρωπος μόνο με […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 22, 2010 |
On Logos, Retooling Growth, and Contagion Fears: Conventional and Non-Conventional Thoughts on the Occasion of the Days at the Dawn of 2011 A few months ago on this part of […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 20, 2010 |
The late Kenneth Lay of Enron renamed his company from Enteron to Enron and moved the headquarters to Houston, Texas, ready to become the global trading conglomerate of energy, with […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 13, 2010 |
One of the great joys of my job is to meet old and new friends who teach and/or remind me of marvelous concepts and ideas. One such incident happened about […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 29, 2010 |
Fact 1: In the early 1990s, if it were not for Europeans and the US, Germany would have had a pretty rough and bumpy ride towards its reunification. The direct […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 10, 2010 |
First of all, a special note of thanks to a good friend (IKM) who recently reminded me of the concept of Seisachtheia. Thus, a historical reference is needed first (please […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 8, 2010 |
They did it again. They rolled the dice again in favor of $600 billion in purchases, and when we count the repurchases of other paper-instruments (e.g. mortgages and MBS), the […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 2, 2010 |
Just a few days ago the auction for TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protection Securities) produced for the first time ever negative yields. When we take into account that TIPS’ correlation with […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 17, 2011 |
On Hotspots and their Place in the Emerging and Frontier World: Part I, the Cases of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
We’ve mentioned on several occasions in previous newsletters and commentaries our positive growth outlook for numerous emerging economies in the near future and the growing interconnectedness among them. This isn’t […]