Last Thursday (January 14th), the team of the President-Elect proposed a new stimulus package close to $2 trillion. Within a few minutes, the markets reversed gains and ended the day […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why Villa Diodati? Two famous manuscripts were drafted there: The Modern Promethus (a.k.a. Frankenstein) by Mary Shelley, and The Vampyre by Lord Byron and Polidori.  After all, the villa is […]

How do you convert a significant disadvantage into a major advantage, especially in the battlefield? How do you find the road to the Gorgons in order to kill the Medusa […]

Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting for Mr. Godot as the curtain falls in one of the greatest plays written by Samuel Beckett. Who is really Mr. Godot and why […]

The Great Wall of Steroids (a.k.a. China), in their propaganda war to subjugate other countries into their own illiberal image (see our posting of April 14th), wants us to believe […]

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 […]