{"id":5614,"date":"2026-04-19T10:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=5614"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:54:19","slug":"expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; did nothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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.<\/p>\n<p>This is the gold price chart:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21-1024x580.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21-1536x870.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21-2048x1159.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-11.49.21-500x283.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve only seen this shape in extreme hyperinflation of the Weimar republic kind. Dollar looks the same. That&#8217;s the stuff that usually precedes wars and dissolution of countries. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s actually going on.<\/p>\n<p>On a brighter note, it&#8217;s butterfly season:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC05073-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; 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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/expected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}