Commentaries

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 11, 2022 |

Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone: Part XV

John E. Charalambakis Could we see another 15%+ market downturn? Absolutely. Could the bond market illiquidity issues get worse? Yes, they could. Could the Ukrainian war expand and undermine European […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: October 5, 2022 |

Dancing in the Gates of Fear: Market Mayhem, Catastrophilia, and Xenophon’s Anabasis

Dancing? Catastrophilia? How else would you characterize the following graphs? In the first, we have the wild swings of the markets in the last three months (in a nevertheless bell-shaped […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 27, 2022 |

Market Turmoil, Plato’s Cave, and Lord Acton: Searching for the “Madonna of the Future”

Henry James described the story of an artist who devoted his entire life to a single painting as “The Madonna of the Future.” Yet, at his death, they found the […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: September 19, 2022 |

Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone Part XIV

While we do not live in a world and a marketplace where the illusion that everything is fine and dandy dominates, an epidemic of denial as to the causes is […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: August 30, 2022 |

Capitulating to Market Deconstruction: The March to an Unreasonable Imperfection

Plato and Hegel saw constant changes and sometimes revolutions as the seeds that forced societies to rise to the historical occasion of their times. Moreover, both of them considered evolutionary […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 14, 2022 |

Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone Part XIII

Whether we talk about Herodotus, Thucydides, Montesquieu, or Gibbon, the fundamental element is that history illuminates human conditions. If we take it a step further, we discover that history is not the unpeeling of the past […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: July 1, 2022 |

Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone Part XII

The mark of a true statesman (really, of any leader) is magnanimity combined with moderation, justice, courage, foresight, prudence, a genuine concern for the public good, and temperance. Which of these features should be […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: June 21, 2022 |

Uncertainty in the Garden of Nemesis: Markets, Archimedes’ Circles, and Hegelian Opera

The year was 212 BCE. Archimedes was contemplating, and as he turned over his shoulder, he saw a legionnaire Roman ready to end his life. “Do not disturb my circles,” he shouted. […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: June 14, 2022 |

Canceling the Noise; Not by Bread Alone Part XI

First a quick reminder about statistical errors: Type I error implies the rejection of a hypothesis that is true. Example: Nowadays, Google is a cheap stock. If the hypothesis is […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: June 7, 2022 |

When the Streams and Rivers of History Meet the Ocean of Changes: Market Reflections

With little doubt, we are at a historical inflection point from a geopolitical and geoeconomic perspective. The influence of Russia is shrinking (especially in the energy sector), Erdogan in Turkey […]