by John E. Charalambakis | Jun 23, 2020 | Commentaries
“President Putin is the leader of a great country who is influential around the world. He is my best, most intimate friend”, Xi Jinping, 2018 Hello darkness, I am still looking for useful idiots. The petrostate is at my disposal, so feudalism has been redefined. I no...
by Joel Charalambakis | Jun 16, 2020 | Commentaries
We’ve demonstrated that companies that generate high ROIC are time and again the most valuable businesses and stocks to own. In addition, the persistent presence of excess returns points to a moat, a unique business model, inimitable set of characteristics or assets,...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jun 9, 2020 | Commentaries
Let’s us make no mistake: we are thrilled when the news pleasantly surprises us, contrary to expectations. Rather than the increase in the unemployment rate, more jobs were created in the month of May than the jobs that were lost, (more than 60% of the various...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jun 2, 2020 | Commentaries
It was June 20th ,1920 and the eight-year old boy by the name of Abraham Zimmerman experienced the lynching and hanging of three black men in Duluth, Minnesota. Postcards of the hanging were sold as souvenirs. Forty-five years later in 1965, Bob Dylan (Abraham’s son)...
by John E. Charalambakis | May 26, 2020 | Commentaries
In 1935 the famous Dutch historian Johan Huizinga published a book with the title In the Shadows of Tomorrow. By then bleak clouds had gathered over Europe. The forces that led to WWII were already at play since Versailles in 1919. A peculiar international payment...
by Joel Charalambakis | May 19, 2020 | Commentaries
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No.1” – Warren Buffet “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci The Price-to-Earnings Ratio is probably the most common shorthand methodology used by commentators and...