When the tectonic lines of the global economy begin to shift, when old certainties falter and power axes are redrawn, Markus C. Zschaber does not speak of market fluctuations. He speaks of the forces beneath them. He does not view financial markets as gaming tables, but as seismic landscapes where political and economic movements reveal themselves early.
For more than three decades, Zschaber has stood at the heart of these dynamics. As founder and owner of the V.M.Z. Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft in Cologne and long-time head of the Institute for Capital Market Analysis, he has navigated the waves of global finance with the precision of someone who also reads the fractures beneath. His gaze extends far beyond Europe: the growing role of China and the BRICS nations is, to him, no footnote but a decisive lever in the emergence of a new multipolar financial order that is challenging the West’s accustomed self-assurance.
Within this transformation, Zschaber poses a fundamental question anew: How can wealth be structured not merely to yield returns, but to preserve freedom? Which assets remain reliable in a multipolar world where states themselves are becoming sources of uncertainty?
He describes an age in which cheap trust is coming to an end. Decades of artificial money creation have eroded economic morality and simulated prosperity. The return of rising interest rates turns responsibility into an economic category — and reality into a corrective. For Zschaber, capital markets are not a neutral stage but a mirror of the cultural and moral condition of the West. In their movements, one can read how resilient societies truly are once the façades of monetary policy begin to crumble.
His thinking does not follow the noise of daily volatility; it follows structural lines, the deeper currents of economic freedom. In political and economic circles — in Berlin as well as in Brussels — his voice is known: measured, precise, unswayed by sentiment.
Markus C. Zschaber embodies a clear-eyed economic realism in a time that has too long surrendered to comforting illusions. Those who listen to him do not receive predictions; they witness a survey of the forces that will shape our economic future.
The widely noted interview between Markus Langemann and Markus C. Zschaber, marked by clear words and inconvenient facts, received broad recognition and made Berlin sit up and take notice.
