By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 15, 2020 |
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 […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 9, 2020 |
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 […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: August 11, 2020 |
During the month of July, economic momentum lost ground, as portrayed by the Consumer Sentiment Index shown below. Data related to employment, spending, and mobility also reflected the slow down. […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: August 4, 2020 |
Sometimes I feel that I have no answers, and as a teacher my role is to question my students’ answers. When unrestricted growth and concentrated power is amassed at the […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 28, 2020 |
In his sixth section of “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, the famous Nobel laureate Irish poet (and pillar of literature) William Butler Yeats writes: “We had fed the heart […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 21, 2020 |
Homer taught us the contrasting qualities of leaders. Achilles was a man of action. Odysseus was a man of words. Both envisioned strategy from different perspectives. One represented strength. The […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 7, 2020 |
When we look at US jobs data, we get a clear picture that more than 7 out of the 22 million jobs lost during the Covid-19 crisis have been recovered. […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: June 30, 2020 |
There is little doubt that stock market indicators (besides the rally itself until recently) pointed to a recovery that is better than the one expected by the majority of analysts, […]
By: John E. Charalambakis | On: June 23, 2020 |
“President Putin is the leader of a great country who is influential around the world. He is my best, most intimate friend”, Xi Jinping, 2018 Hello darkness, I am still […]
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 […]