Waiting for a crash: why Putin will wreck our prosperity (such as it is)

Last year I became a fund manager. Not a grand one, I admit. My elevation to the world of high finance was a side effect of becoming self-employed.

I now manage my own pension, which is not a task I am qualified for. But as the cozened customers of many a financial institution have learned the hard way throughout the history of capitalism, self-styled fi…