What have Mephistopheles and the financial markets got in common? A lot, according to Lothar Märkl, a private banker at Bank Hofmann in Zurich. A recent advertisement for the bank in the Financial Times touts Märkl as a “profound authority on Goethe’s Faust” with a “particular flair for philosophical topics”.
No kidding. In fact he has written his own version: Der Finanzfaust, a serious work – not a spoof, his colleague George Blum insists – closely based on Goethe’s masterpiece.
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