2008 without the stimulus packages, bailouts, QE or rate cuts

Have you ever wondered what the 2008 crisis would have looked like if there hadn’t been bailouts, stimulus packages, quantitative easing or rate cuts? Because,…

Your two financial weapons of mass accumulation

Conventional wisdom and common sense have a suspicious habit of changing radically every now and then. Particularly in the financial world. Government bonds used to…

A cold shower for the Germans… literally

For those of you who don’t know, I’m German. About as German as I am English and Australian, anyway. And this means I dig through…