by The BlackSummit Team | Dec 22, 2020 | Commentaries
“We have made very little progress in life by trying to outguess these macroeconomic factors. We basically have abdicated. We’re just swimming all the time, and we let the tide take care of itself…. The trouble with making all these economic pronouncements...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 15, 2020 | Commentaries
Is our desire to assess and “predict” the future a reflection of what is known for thousands of years now as being “partakers of the divine nature”? I started my weekend reading on that subject by reviewing writings by Gregory of Nyssa, John Wesley, and Karl...
by The BlackSummit Team | Dec 8, 2020 | Commentaries
“Corporations get the shareholders they deserve.”...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 2, 2020 | Commentaries
Can we truly live and invest heroically? Can we truly stare into the abyss of pain, despair, and disaster and somehow draw strength from those encounters? Could we contemplate on the fragility and uncertainty of our lives and portfolios and summon the will to...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 24, 2020 | Commentaries
Why Villa Diodati? Two famous manuscripts were drafted there: The Modern Promethus (a.k.a. Frankenstein) by Mary Shelley, and The Vampyre by Lord Byron and Polidori. After all, the villa is not far from Geneva, the intellectual birthplace of the most famous...
by The BlackSummit Team | Nov 17, 2020 | Commentaries
“An investor who does not do research is like a poker player who does not look at the cards.” – Peter Lynch McCaw Cellular Communications was founded in the mid-1960s as a cable television provider who started pivoting to cellular technology in the...