The “ceasefire” did nothing.

I did a calculation based on the prices of gold. 1 DEM (German Mark) = 7.182 EUR. People have it in the back of their minds that 1 EUR = 2 DEM, but that was then, and this is now. One EUR from 2000 would buy more than 14 EUR today.

This is the gold price chart:

I’ve only seen this shape in extreme hyperinflation of the Weimar republic kind. Dollar looks the same. That’s the stuff that usually precedes wars and dissolution of countries. That’s what’s actually going on.

On a brighter note, it’s butterfly season: