There’s something a little eerie about watching equity markets on Wall Street or in Frankfurt and London wend their way to new records or multi-year highs against a backdrop of smoldering conflict in Ukraine, a real risk of Greece leaving the euro and angst about consumer price deflation worldwide. Others decry the asset inflation as a pernicious side-effect of central bank money printing that merely exacerbates the gulf between the ‘super-rich’ and the rest of the population.