Publications
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: June 8, 2023 |
Geopolitics and the Day After
Geopolitical tensions continue to reshape the global economy, with the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine continuing to impact the eurozone’s financial stability, and China and its allies pushing forward […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: June 6, 2023 |
Fighting the Last War
The original iPhone, announced in January of 2007 and released in June of that year, was greeted with plenty of skepticism. Smartphones weren’t entirely brand new, even ones with touch […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: June 3, 2023 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities make gains Global equities made gains this week as Republicans and Democrats came to an agreement to raise the US debt ceiling, staving off default. […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: June 1, 2023 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
This week, we begin by discussing the inflated price of financial assets, which may be cause for concern as the era of “cheap money” comes to an end in the […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 30, 2023 |
Lenses for Latin America
This week, we will be continuing our series on emerging economies with some thoughts on Latin America. In examining Latin America’s prospects this week, we present below four lenses through […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 25, 2023 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
This week we examine how markets are holding up despite debt ceiling uncertainty and recessionary fears. We then look ahead to China’s prospects in cooperating with established global institutions as […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: May 22, 2023 |
The Debt Limit Debacle, the Surrender of Reason, the Pre-Socratics, and Puccini’s Tosca: Canceling the Noise, Not by Bread Alone, Part XXIV
Could Puccini’s opera Tosca (based on Sardou’s dramatic play La Tosca) be the prolegomenon of the debt limit debacle? There are plenty of twists in both the play and the […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 20, 2023 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities make gains Global equities made gains this week, despite the US debt ceiling issue remaining unresolved. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones closed up 1.65% […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 18, 2023 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
May 18, 2023 The US debt ceiling standoff continues to make headlines, perhaps bringing more fear than is actually warranted, as we explore in this week’s first entry. In other […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 16, 2023 |
CROSSROADS
Here is a summary of important events that unfolded over the last month, and which may affect economic, financial, and geopolitical issues in the months ahead: North America Following the […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: June 7, 2023 |
Polyarchy at a Time of Geopolitical Cycles: Canceling the Noise, Part XXV (finale)
With the debt ceiling debacle behind us we are closing this series, as we are of the opinion that a new cycle for the American and the global economy is […]