My fascination with financial markets has recently peaked to a level I last experienced in the late 1990s dot-com craze, with many concerning parallels.
The 2008 global financial crisis resulted in central banks printing money (or quantitative easing) and reducing interest rates to zero without fear of any long-term consequences — provided asset classes kept producing positive returns...
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