Publications
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: October 12, 2022 |
Excerpt of Nomi Prins’s new book Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever
We are pleased to present an excerpt from Nomi Prins’s new book Permanent Distortion: How Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever. The book tells the untold story of the ever-growing divide between […]
By: Rachel Poole | On: October 6, 2022 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
We have decided to experiment with the idea of merging our Geopolitical Challenges and The Day After & the Era of Transformation publications, instead of rotating them every other week. We hope you will […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 5, 2022 |
Dancing in the Gates of Fear: Market Mayhem, Catastrophilia, and Xenophon’s Anabasis
Dancing? Catastrophilia? How else would you characterize the following graphs? In the first, we have the wild swings of the markets in the last three months (in a nevertheless bell-shaped […]
By: Rachel Poole | On: October 1, 2022 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities continue to drop Global equities continued their fall, closing out a down week, month, and quarter. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones declined 2.92% and 2.91% respectively, […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: September 29, 2022 |
Geopolitics & the Day After
We have decided to experiment with the idea of merging our Geopolitical Challenges and The Day After & the Era of Transformation publications, instead of rotating them every other week. We hope you will […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 27, 2022 |
Market Turmoil, Plato’s Cave, and Lord Acton: Searching for the “Madonna of the Future”
Henry James described the story of an artist who devoted his entire life to a single painting as “The Madonna of the Future.” Yet, at his death, they found the […]
By: Rachel Poole | On: September 22, 2022 |
CROSSROADS
At the Intersection of Geopolitics and Geoeconomics Here is a summary of important events that unfolded over the last month, and which may affect economic, financial, and geopolitical issues in […]
By: The BlackSummit Team | On: September 20, 2022 |
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: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 19, 2022 |
Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone Part XIV
While we do not live in a world and a marketplace where the illusion that everything is fine and dandy dominates, an epidemic of denial as to the causes is […]
By: Rachel Poole | On: September 17, 2022 |
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities drop on inflation concerns Global equities were down on the week as inflation figures came in higher than expected. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones declined 4.77% […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 11, 2022 |
Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone: Part XV
John E. Charalambakis Could we see another 15%+ market downturn? Absolutely. Could the bond market illiquidity issues get worse? Yes, they could. Could the Ukrainian war expand and undermine European […]