ANALYSIS: It was a volatile year on the ASX but, in the end, it was a triumph for the bulls. Can the rally continue or is the market cruising for a major correction?
WATCH: NBR senior journalist Lachlan Colquhoun speaks with Simon Shepherd.
History is full of examples of people partying hard before disaster struck.
Hitler’s bunker was the scene of drunken excess in the days before the Red Army closed in, and – in more recent times – the finance industry was famous for its frivolities as the 1980s closed in on the 1987