This book brought me a lot of teeth cringing and I couldn't wait to finish it, yet I did finish it which tells of the other side of it. On the downside I found there was a lot of typical german media foolishness, with all the social state thinking, worship for regulations and micromanagement of the economy by the state. On the upside though and the reason I kept on going is that the book counterbalances with other surprisingy wise sections, seeing a lot of even the more subtle problems in todays banking and monetary systems, and giving sound savings advice.
Too bad that after identifying a lot of confiscatory taxes and stealing tricks of the monetary system the things it proposes are more state intervention, more taxation for more central planing in education and even state involvement in natality. It's funny ironic how in one sentence he can condemn the low natality rates in Germany and then in the next promote more of exactly the reasons I suspect behind them, taking freedom and wealth from the people, if needed even with local currencies with not just real but even nominal negative interest rates and more government projects (which of course taxpayers have to support). Similarly ironic I find how it talks about produtivity problems and then supports typical Energiewende projects although they've proven to be unproductive & wasteful so many times. It's this kind of stuff that got me to stop being interested in german press and media on economic subjects, and the reason why although I think the book says a lot of very smart stuff on a lot of deep subjects, I can't recommend it overall. One thing I think he's right about though, as the title says and he explains, I too doubt some of the deeper problems today will be fixed preemtively, but more probably only after the coming shakeups.The democratic political system not only does not reward but actually punishes politicians who instead of selling more dreams fix real problems despite the pain of creating change before a crysis does.