Commentaries

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 29, 2020 |

Geoeconomic and Geopolitical Options in the Day After: A Conversation with Eugene Delacroix, Charlemagne, and Paul Moritz Warburg

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 15, 2020 |

Assessing the Prospects of 2021: Part I

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: December 2, 2020 |

Portfolio Anchoring & Capital Allocation at the Dawn of Power Shifts

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 24, 2020 |

Discussing the Trajectory of the Dollar at Villa Diodati

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: November 10, 2020 |

The Corvus, the Hyperborean Land, and de Chirico: Post-Election Assessment, the Investment Landscape, and Post-Pandemic Expectations

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 27, 2020 |

Waiting for Godot at the Foothill of History: The Market and the Wilderness of Mirrors

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 13, 2020 |

TIGER and False Prophets: Economic Recovery (diachronic vs. synchronic in Herodotus’s tradition) at the Dawn of 2021

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 6, 2020 |

Fertilizers in the Market’s Vineyard: From Delos to Athens and the Skepticism of Montaigne

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 22, 2020 |

Mustard Seed Developments: Could Epictetus’s Discourses Teach us Anything About Rising Uncertainty?

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 […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 15, 2020 |

A Preliminary Assessment of Q4

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 […]