A few days ago I found myself seated next to a German gentleman on a Lufthansa flight from Brussels to Frankfurt-am-Main. He was a successful middle-aged businessman who had struck it big in properties investments in Belgium, Germany and Spain. He proudly told me about his new luxury boat and the jo
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