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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: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 13, 2023 |
Weekly Market Update
The BlackSummit Team | May 13, 2023 Global equities fall Global equities fell on the week. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones closed down 0.29% and 1.11%, respectively, while the Nasdaq gained […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 11, 2023 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
Geopolitical and financial risks continue to mount, threatening to create new crises out of the crises that the world has endured in recent years. The risk of complete US-China decoupling […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 9, 2023 |
The Wooden Nickel
The Wooden Nickel is a collection of roughly a handful of recent topics that have caught our attention. Here you’ll find current, open-ended thoughts. We wish to use this piece […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: May 6, 2023 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities tumble Global equities were down on the week as banking concerns and fear over a US default mounted. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones closed […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: May 4, 2023 |
Revisiting the Libation of Bearers: Aeschylus, the Serpent, and Hotel California (Canceling the Noise, Not by Bread Alone: Part XXIII)
Upon return from Troy, Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra. Orestes and his sister, Electra, are resolute on killing their mother and her lover, both of whom are thirsty […]
By: Tyler Thompson | On: May 2, 2023 |
Cheap, Clean, and Risk-Free: Europe’s Strategic Energy Decoupling
Three weeks ago, we wrote about the factors propelling the energy transition. For this week’s commentary, we will detail the energy challenges facing Europe in particular. Despite being the world’s second-smallest continent, […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: April 29, 2023 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities slightly positive Global equities made small gains on the week. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones closed up 0.87% and 0.86%, respectively, while the Nasdaq […]
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 […]