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The Irreversibility of a Faux Reality: Illusions, Spectacles, and Geopolitical Challenges to Portfolios’ Alpha and Beta, Part II

by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 9, 2024 | Commentaries

In our previous commentary, we discussed reality as the trajectory of three parallel lines (markets, geopolitics, and Karl Barth’s writings on creation) that eventually intersect. Since then, the market reality met the geopolitical reality in at least two cases: the...

Fundamentals of Commodities and Their Trajectories

by The BlackSummit Team | Apr 5, 2024 | Commentaries

Below is a summary of last month’s commentaries from BlackSummit’s sister company, Fundamental Analytics. The following describes the highlights of those commentaries, which showcase the factors affecting the energy, agricultural, and other commodities that...

The Irreversibility of the Unknown Reality: The Markets, Karl Barth, and Nuclear Statecraft, Part I

by John E. Charalambakis | Mar 12, 2024 | Commentaries

In this series, we will seek to discuss Reality as the trajectory of three parallel lines that eventually intersect: Market dynamics, geopolitics, and Karl Barth’s writings on creation. In his recent book The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate...

When Statues Come to Dinner Parties: Don Giovanni’s Reflections on Japan and China

by John E. Charalambakis | Feb 27, 2024 | Commentaries

In the final act of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni, the statue of Commendatore – whom Don Giovanni had killed – appears at the dinner. After all, Don Giovanni in his hubristic attitude and spirit had ordered his servant (Leporello) to invite the statue of...

Jean Bodin, Valuations, and the Invisible Foundations of the Market

by John E. Charalambakis | Feb 13, 2024 | Commentaries

As the old saying goes, good days tend to reward cheap assets, especially when things start on a wave of mysticism and end up as politics. Furthermore, when we look at the fundamentals of equities in the US, a signal of overvaluation jumps out that may be calling for...

The Debt, the Fed, and that Sycophant Iago

by John E. Charalambakis | Jan 30, 2024 | Commentaries

Self-deception and evil are the two main characteristics of Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. Like Otello (in Verdi’s opera) who defended Cyprus against the Ottomans (a pre-incarnation to Lawrence of Arabia) Othello nowadays – allegorically speaking –...
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