With this entry I would like to advertise for investment in a piece of nature, as a shareholder of the Grüne Band. You can acquire a piece of what used to be the border strip between East and West Germany. Buying a share helps to...

As I was trying to close an account with the currently largest German private bank today, I noticed this bicycle outside the main entrance to the Wiesbaden branch. I just couldn’t resist taking a photo. As a shareholder in the...

The Nikon Service Point in Salz is offering a workshop on the 2.12.05 on the subject of Colour Management. You can find details here and the registration form here. The workshop costs € 299.

I have decided to take part in the ”Sardine Run“ in Port St. John in South Africa again. The Sardine Run is an unpredictable phenomenon which can take place between the middle and end of June. Scientists suspect that it happens...

Jobs or no jobs. If China continues to boom, natural resources will become increasingly scarce and prices will rise accordingly. That is an economic problem to start with, but it is much worse what is actually done with the raw...

- Is completely irrelevant if you change some of your capital into the most important foreign currencies and don’t change it back. This can be done with call money accounts, money market funds (to be avoided), retirement funds...

I noticed this too with in Africa, they spent most of their time lying around in the shade and sleeping or dozing. The waterbucks and similar were awake, ate grass and were always nervous.

When I see the amounts of meat people...

How am I to understand this entry? Were Enron, Refco, Tyco and Worldcom not enough, to understand that we will never hear the whole truth? After all, otherwise there wouldn’t be any winners and losers :-)

via Handelsblatt...

On my travels I am regularly confronted with the question: how do I pay as little as possible for my excess baggage?

Economy Class is not to be recommended with a total of around 60 kg luggage, as one is officially only allowed...

US President George W. Bush has named Ben S. Bernanke as the successor to Alan Greenspan. We will find out whether the decision was a good one or not in the next few years. In any case, it remains a fact that Alan Greenspan...