by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 26, 2022 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Baffling Landscape One: By the time Grosseteste died in 1253, Oxford had become the Aristotelian stronghold. Two Franciscans who followed him pushed knowledge to new intellectual heights that not even Thomas Aquinas could have imagined. The first was Roger Bacon who...
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 25, 2022 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
There are four issues that we would like to address in the current edition of this special series that we started on February 14th. Where should we park cash to offset the market’s downturn and the inflationary pressures?Could bonds be the answer? How about TIPS...
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 18, 2022 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In the current edition of this commentary, we would like to focus on three evolving headwinds that sustain our skepticism about economic and market trajectories, namely: Trade flows, developing countries’ potential defaults, and Russia’s intentional moves to...
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 8, 2022 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
It’s time to look under the hood again and cancel the noise while trying to figure out what is happening. There are three issues we will be addressing in this commentary: Inflationary pressures, recessionary risks, and market trajectory. Let us start with the latter....
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 5, 2022 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Nowadays, it seems that coronavirus concerns have almost been forgotten. Covid-19 is out, war and energy concerns are in. Market turmoil is marked not by the number of infections but rather by geopolitics. We get the impression that we are in a game where a clash of...
by John E. Charalambakis | Mar 22, 2022 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In the autumn of 324 BCE and just a few months before his death, Alexander the Great organized a magnificent banquet in the Babylonian city of Opis, by the banks of the Tiger River. There were more than nine thousand guests from several nations at that banquet. All...