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In October 1989, the communist regime in East Germany replaced its leadership after demonstrations and riots weren’t handled and squashed by Erich Honecker, the long-time leader of East Germany, which caused the system to appear weak and out of control.

I’ve been here before, only I didn’t know it. When I born in the summer of 1984, the world had already escaped nuclear holocaust on a number of occasions, but the biggest close calls happened in the early 1980s, with one of them so close to a Soviet-American thermonuclear war that the Soviet officer who de-escalated the event is dubbed “the man that saved the world” – Stanislav Petrov.

Investors are bullish. The Federal Reserve has persuaded them that even though interest rates have totally killed housing and other interest-rate-sensitive industries as a whole, the U.S. economy is booming thanks to massive reindustrialization in post-China/U.S. trade-led globalization.

Daniel Gold was born and raised in Tel Aviv. His parents were Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel from Hungary.

I want you to close your eyes and imagine (don’t really close them because you won’t be able to read what comes next) people with a very rich heritage.