Category: Personal Ramblings

  • Daily economics – some bearish views

    I haven’t been posting a lot on my blog lately, because I didn’t really know what to write about. This may change as I’m planning to post some more about economic related news, not the typical mainstream stories but the more juicy bits and fascinating contrarian views. One of the interviews I enjoyed reading today…

  • Froglets swimming and jumping around

    About seven weeks ago frogs laid eggs in our pond, the last time I wrote about them they were still in their tadpole stage and by now most of them have developed legs. Some develop much quicker than others though, there are some tadpoles in our pond that don’t have legs yet, while at least…

  • German company to roll out gold ATMs

    A German company named TG-Gold-Super-Markt.de plans to set up 500 gold-dispensing ATMs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Each of these machines will dispense 1g, 5g and 10g gold bars made by Belgian precious metal recycling company Umicore as well as the popular South African 1 oz Krugerrand gold coin. “In absolute numbers, the demand for…

  • Update on the tadpoles

    It’s been over two weeks since I last wrote about my tadpoles, since then they’ve grown quite a bit and I have put most of them back in the pond. I thought about 30 tadpoles would hatch from the frogspawn I collected about a month ago, but it turned out to be at least double…

  • Tiny tadpoles starting to swim

    My tadpoles are growing up extremely fast. Thursday there were just in their egg stage, but today most of them are already swimming around a bit. The ones I’m raising inside are developing much faster than the ones in the pond, it seems that the warmer and more stable room temperature is doing them a…