by The BlackSummit Team | Oct 20, 2020 | Commentaries
Over 200 years after the fall of Genghis Khan his empire was in tatters, split up among warring factions divided by tribalism and nominally ruled by outsiders in China and the Middle East. The title of “Khan” was still sought after for the status and privilege it...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 13, 2020 | Commentaries
The Great Wall of Steroids (a.k.a. China), in their propaganda war to subjugate other countries into their own illiberal image (see our posting of April 14th), wants us to believe that they are growing and that their economic indicators are now higher they have ever...
by John E. Charalambakis | Oct 6, 2020 | Commentaries
It has become common belief and even market strategy the dogma “don’t fight the Fed”. Once the Fed decided to follow an expansionary accommodative policy (at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis), the market has been on an upswing that defies fundamentals and,...
by Joel Charalambakis | Sep 29, 2020 | Commentaries
There are a number of variables, factors, and principles that overlap between both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics: interest rates, wages, investment, taxation, among many others. Millions of students around the world will explore these ideas and drivers as they...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 22, 2020 | Commentaries
More than twenty years ago I read a book by Tom Sine titled “Mustard Seed versus McWorld”. I had met the author a couple of years earlier when we both served on a panel together, but what made me get that book was its intriguing title and the foreword by Ravi...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 15, 2020 | Commentaries
We are of the opinion that the output gap in the US by the end of the year will range between 2.5-3.5%. However, for the European Union (EU), we expect the output gap to be higher than that. Such an assessment implies elevated unemployment rates for both the U3 and...