by John E. Charalambakis | Jan 5, 2021 | Commentaries
“I am not what I am”, Iago proclaimed in Shakespeare’s Othello, and I am also thinking of similar lines proclaimed by Arthur Dimmesdale in Scarlet Letter, Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, or Anna Karenina in Tolstoy’s...
by John E. Charalambakis | Dec 29, 2020 | Commentaries
The end-of-the-year special flight has been a highlight for me for the last eight years since it’s not only a learning and entertaining experience, but also has served as an inspiration for the forthcoming year. Obviously, the question had been if, due to Covid-19,...
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...