by John E. Charalambakis | Mar 11, 2025 | Commentaries
The Byzantine Emperor Leo III (who inaugurated the Isaurian dynasty of emperors in the Byzantine Empire) was a true reformer. Around 725 AD, he sensed that the empire was endangered from within by lawlessness (the infamous twenty prior years of anarchy), corruption,...
by John E. Charalambakis | Feb 24, 2025 | Commentaries
Last Friday, the significant drop in consumer sentiment fueled turmoil and led the market into a downward spiral that ended the day with a 1.7% decline, wiping out almost all gains since the election on November 5th, as shown below. As our commentary two...
by John E. Charalambakis | Feb 11, 2025 | Commentaries
In the commentary we published two weeks ago, we described Mr. Market as an entity that from time-to-time suffers from a manic-depressive syndrome. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that the stock market sentiment was approaching manic level by late January, as shown...
by The BlackSummit Team | Feb 4, 2025 | Commentaries
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 as a way to think out loud in public rather than formal proclamations or projections. Eight...
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...