After the Crash – How to Protect Your Wealth Now

Should you buy stocks right now? Short answer: Not yet.

On Monday morning, we published the April edition of the Geopolitical Wealth Insider and clearly told our subscribers: Don’t buy stocks.

Two days later, the crash hit.

Coincidence? Not at all. Our key indicators had been flashing red for weeks now. And then there’s that intuitive sense you develop after spending over 30 years in the market managing multi billion funds. The speed of the decline? Classic. Almost textbook for systemic dislocations.

Welcome to the Age of Chaos.

We are entering a phase where decades of imbalances are coming to a head. Debt, demographics, geopolitics, and technology are converging into a single volatile storm. If you think this is just another cyclical bear market — think again.

1. The World Is Shifting — Fast

2025 is barely underway, yet we’re already witnessing events that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago:

• Germany has abandoned its long-standing fiscal discipline and is now planning to spend €1 trillion with the blessing of once famous Bundesbank.
• German industry is unraveling at record speed.
• Global investors are rotating out of U.S. equities and into German stocks — despite growing geopolitical and structural risks.
• A single tariff announcement from Trump triggered a global selloff. Bank stocks are plunging again as if another financial crisis is already underway.

This isn’t just volatility. This is a generational regime shift.

2. Two Invisible Forces Are Driving This Crisis

No one could have predicted the exact form of today’s chaos. But we can understand it — if we recognize the long-term processes that brought us here.

Two structural forces are at work:

a) Demographics

For decades, we've known that Western birthrates are far too low to sustain pension systems. But it wasn’t until the first wave of Baby Boomers started retiring that the consequences became undeniable. Now we’re watching these systems buckle under demographic pressure that was always visible — just ignored.

b) Debt

In 2025 and 2026, an unprecedented wave of refinancing will hit both public and private debt markets. Interest rates are back, and with them, a simple but critical question: Who will buy all this debt?

Especially now that non-NATO countries have learned that Western financial assets can be turned into geopolitical weapons. Confidence is collapsing.But other Western countries are drowning in their own debt? There is no simple solution.

This is not a forecast. This is a delayed consequence. The seed was planted decades ago. Now the math is finally catching up.

3. “Isn’t All This Already Priced In?”

It’s a fair question. After all, markets have already corrected sharply.

But as our Chief Market Strategist, Cedric Spahr, told subscribers on Friday: It’s too early to call a bottom. Technicals suggest we won’t see a sustainable recovery until late April or early May at the earliest.

Even then, we need to be careful. Chaos, by definition, is not predictable. New shocks are guaranteed. Without a strategy and mental framework, most investors will be blindsided.

4. History Doesn’t Repeat — But It Rhymes

After the crashes of 1929, Japan in the '90s, or the dotcom bubble in 2000, markets bounced.

Those who mistook these short-lived rallies for the end of the crisis paid a high price. Many bought into “the recovery” — only to be forced to sell at lower lows. The result was the classic investor error: Buy high. Sell low.

During the Great Depression, U.S. markets lost over 90% of their value. But the real damage came from the fake hope in between.

5. What You Need Now Is Not Hope or Courage — But a Plan

In chaotic markets, being "brave" is not a strategy. What you really need is:

• Clarity about your risk exposure
• A robust risk management system
• The ability to act tactically, not emotionally

This is not about market timing. It’s about survival.

6. The Mother of All Bubbles Is Unwinding

The bubble that’s now popping was decades in the making:

• Zero interest rates
• Central bank manipulation
• Massive overvaluation in tech
• An entire generation conditioned to believe in "buy the dip"

What we’re witnessing is not just a correction — it’s the slow, cascading collapse of a system that only survived thanks to artificial support.

The pain won’t be over in a few weeks. This is just the beginning.

7. Your Strategic Playbook for What Comes Next

Here’s what you should be doing now:

✅ Build liquidity Cash gives you optionality — and freedom — when others are forced to sell.

✅ Diversify intelligently Think beyond traditional assets: think in terms fo real assets like gold, commodities and geopolitical hedges.

✅ Understand policy risks Geopolitics and risks of war are no longer a footnote. It is the foundation of today’s market logic.

✅ Develop mental resilience In volatile markets, your biggest enemy is not the market — it’s your own reaction to it.

Bottom Line: Clarity Is Your New Edge

In times like these, most people lose their mental, financial, and strategic bearings. That’s why clarity — about the system, about history, about your own positioning — becomes the ultimate edge.

I invite you to subscribe to the Geopolitical Wealth Insider. Not because we promise to predict every twist. But because we see the bigger picture — before others do.

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Stay smart, don´t follow the herd. Make money by being contrarian.

Have a nice weekend.

Dietmar Peetz