Rising out of your ashes in the banking collapse of 2008, alternative banking practices are actually available. And have been for quite a while. Well, I guess the banking community wants another chance to help us manage our money. Thanks to the Federal Reserve, it's as if they are getting that chance for some time to come. The same is true of unconventional interventions in corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities. Not surprisingly, the concept of central bank independence obviously help to specific financial institutions - and this time, the whole society are under unprecedented economic pressures - soon become politically toxic. E CB staff predicted that the inflation rate would reach 1.4 PC by 2018, rising to 1.7 PC 2020 GDP growth of 2.3 PC next year - 0.5 percentage point upgrade - but will slow to 1.6 PC in 2020, it said. What happens next? Opportunities in 2018