Wednesday evening, I was reading an editorial praising Chairman’s Powell performance following the Fed’s decision to raise rates by another 75 bps. “One for the hawks, one for the doves,” […]

John E. Charalambakis Jonathan Swift’s marvelous work of Gulliver’s Travels is full of subliminal messages regarding geopolitics, statecraft, rationality/irrationality, and intrigues where trivial issues promoted by fanatical incompetent idiotic characters become the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]