by The BlackSummit Team | Dec 1, 2022 | Geopolitics & the Day After, Uncategorized
As we enter December, we are looking ahead to see what the world’s current crises have to offer us in 2023. The Chinese people are beginning to protest after two years of Covid lockdowns, which could have major implications for the political and economic...
by John E. Charalambakis | Nov 29, 2022 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
Over the course of 25+ years, we came to believe that inflation was dead, there was no alternative to stocks, interest rates will stay low forever, tech companies’ stocks will shield our portfolios from downturns, and that the big daddy, a.k.a. the Fed, will take care...
by Tyler Thompson | Nov 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
I will admit, I have probably devoted too much of my free time in the past three weeks to following the slow-moving train wreck of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. For those of you with better taste in your news consumption, fear not – this commentary is not about...
by Rachel Poole | Nov 19, 2022 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global Equities Stumble Global equities were slightly down on the week. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones declined 0.69% and 0.01% respectively, while the Nasdaq dropped 1.57%. The yield on the US 10-year Treasury was barely up on the week, closing at...
by The BlackSummit Team | Nov 17, 2022 | Geopolitics & the Day After, Uncategorized
November 17, 2022 The world is facing a myriad of interconnected challenges, or “megathreats”, that threaten to topple global stability. Geopolitical conflict is exposing and exacerbating the weaknesses in both domestic and global economies, which as a...
by Rachel Poole | Nov 16, 2022 | Crossroads, Uncategorized
At the Intersection of Geopolitics and Geoeconomics November 16, 2022 | Volume 5, Issue 11 | Rachel Poole Mustor North America US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Bali for their first in-person meeting of Biden’s presidency. During the...