by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 17, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In the summer months of 1944 World War II had taken a clear trajectory. The deadliest war period in human history was approaching its end. At that time the US was establishing not just its geopolitical power but also its geoeconomic power through the dominance of the...
by John E. Charalambakis | Aug 10, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
If we took a five-minute helicopter view of the global economic landscape, what would we have observe? Starting from the country of the rising sun, we could say that Japan has been struggling for 25 years now to find its pace, and still may have a lot of work to do in...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 29, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
It is an undisputed fact that the over-collateralization of assets (including toxic ones prior to 2008) and the securitization explosion that took place between 2000-2007, created the seeds of the financial crisis via credit-overextension. The response to that was an...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 22, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
The tale of the last two-three weeks seems to have given room to a market upswing that is softening due to some rising concerns. Chinese government’s stock market intervention subsided –for now – the local market turmoil but has opened another wound whose story...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 6, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Most of us at some point were exposed to a great teacher. Joel Fingerman was that teacher for me. Joel taught me in one of his quantitative classes (Business & Economic Forecasting) that the only certain thing about a forecast is that it will be wrong in one way...
by John E. Charalambakis | Jul 4, 2015 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Let me state it from the beginning: This Greek referendum is absurd simply because the government has failed its people, and also because the troika’s boneheaded mentality did not allow her to cut a deal with the previous government last fall (if the latter had taken...