by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 28, 2011 | Commentaries
Since our last commentary on the events in the Middle East, turmoil in the region has not slowed down. Libya has captured most of the world’s attention due to the intervention of the United States (in overt and covert manners) with the assistance of NATO forces in an...
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 21, 2011 | Commentaries
In the ancient Greek play “Plutus” (Wealth) by Aristophanes, the unwise master named Chremylos pretends to be a righteous man who deserves wealth and prosperity at a time when his household suffers from poverty. In a classic pre-dialectic materialistic point of view...
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 15, 2011 | Commentaries
Without a doubt in the last three-four months we live an oxymoron: In the midst of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the Euro has been strengthening and the US dollar has been weakening, as the following graph shows. We will let primarily graphs to talk in this...
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 8, 2011 | Commentaries
We live in peculiar, maybe schizophrenic days. The drama that started unfolding in August 2007 pertained to Act I – known as the bursting of credit bubbles – that carry with them significant negative effects for equity and debt markets and in their own way...
by John E. Charalambakis | Mar 25, 2011 | Commentaries
At the time of this drafting the news centers on different fronts: Prime Minister Socrates in Portugal announced his resignation over a lost confidence vote in the parliament that was about the fourth austerity package of measures within a year! Portugal soon may be...
by John E. Charalambakis | Mar 17, 2011 | Commentaries
The global equities market and its bullishness has experienced a shock. By some historical standards such as the P/E ratio and the forward-looking earnings multiple, the markets (at least some sectors) are overvalued, and thus the Japanese catastrophe becomes an...