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...
by John E. Charalambakis | Sep 9, 2020 | Commentaries
The most recent Fed’s decision to turn policy on its head and pursue higher inflation targets for the sake of stimulating the economy, reminds us of a grand strategy without tactics, which simply is no strategy. The reason for this is the fact that the Fed has no...
by The BlackSummit Team | Aug 25, 2020 | Commentaries
“All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there.”...