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Energy

Why it is clear who will win the next football world cup. Maybe the entire German economic miracle was built on cheap Russian gas. Maybe...

Christian Armbruester

Jul 18, 20222 min read

America First

Why the trend is still your friend. US equities have been outperforming the European markets for the better part of four decades....

Christian Armbruester

May 9, 20222 min read

672 Days Later

Why everything is worse, but better than it seems. If someone had told me in March 2020, that two years later the pandemic was still in...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 24, 20222 min read

Seven Fearless Predictions

Why 2022 will be different than we expect. It’s good to look back in time and learn from the past. As long as one does not get too...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 4, 20222 min read

Borders

Why there is no solution for an amicable dissolution. Never mind how we got here. From the very beginning, we all knew it would come down...

Christian Armbruester

Oct 4, 20212 min read

Zombies

Why the end of times may be closer than we think. If there is one redeeming quality to this pandemic, it is truly non-discriminatory....

Christian Armbruester

Aug 2, 20212 min read

Holding Pattern

Why the world better get busy living soon. The markets are in a weird place and have been for a very long time. Lest we forget that the...

Christian Armbruester

Feb 8, 20212 min read

294 Days Later

Why managing our passwords is the only thing that matters. As we start the new year in yet another lockdown, I wonder what we would have...

Christian Armbruester

Jan 11, 20212 min read

Rien Ne Va Plus

Why Brexit will be different than what everyone thinks. Human behaviour has been a mystery long before Jim Morrison told us that people...

Christian Armbruester

Nov 30, 20202 min read

Bitcoin, Revisited

Why we should all own a bit of cryptos. Not so long ago it could take up to a week to transfer money from one bank to another. It was...

Christian Armbruester

Nov 9, 20202 min read

Event Risk

How should we be positioned for the US election, Brexit and COVID-19? I like events, and the bigger they are the better. The reason is...

Christian Armbruester

Oct 26, 20202 min read

Gen Z

Why the young will not inherit the earth. We all know the world is paying a heavy price for the damage caused by COVID-19, and there was...

Christian Armbruester

Sep 7, 20202 min read

The Morbid View

Why the Coronavirus may be immensely conducive to higher equity prices. Remember the great financial crisis of 2008? Global equities were...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 24, 20202 min read

Empire

Could Brexit spell the end of the United Kingdom? At its peak, the British Empire ruled over a quarter of the Earth’s population. What...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 17, 20202 min read

The New Normal

Why we can always choose what to remember. I finally had my first business lunch in a restaurant the other week. It was a lovely day, we...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 10, 20202 min read

Free Money

Why central banks are doing what they must, and we should all be happy. The Federal Reserve gets a lot of criticism from seemingly...

Christian Armbruester

Aug 3, 20202 min read

Live or Let Die

Why it is time for the Euro to decide if it is for real or a failed political experiment. It is rare that a chart of such symmetry and...

Christian Armbruester

Jul 27, 20202 min read

America, America

Why nothing will ever change in the greatest country on earth. I first moved to America in 1979, when I was 10 years old. We were the...

Christian Armbruester

Jul 6, 20202 min read

Brexit, Trump, and Diet Soda

Why everything has changed, yet remains the same. With the economic turmoil, the political tensions, the uncertainty and all that is...

Christian Armbruester

Jun 22, 20202 min read

Football, Cappuccinos and Riots

Why the rage of the global protests is within all of us. It was a beautiful sunny morning and like every Saturday, I took my son to play...

Christian Armbruester

Jun 8, 20203 min read