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Berlinliving.ag - serious? Looking for experiences

Hi! I just came across this advertisement that promises 8% interest for a term of 5 years and I was wondering whether people here have experience with this provider and how serious it is considered. submitted by /u/Chortexiphan [link] [comments]

‘Sky breaks’: in some China regions, lying flat can avoid bad luck; use ‘mending pancakes’

While many Chinese people joke that they “work like a dog” because they are anxious about dropping out of the rat race, there is a tradition in some areas that people can legitimately “lie flat” once a year to ward off bad luck. The day is called tian chuan, or the day when the sky breaks. It usually falls on the 20th day of the first lunar month, and marks the day when the sky that Nuwa mended breaks once in a year. Nuwa is a mythological figure, a mother goddess who is said to have moulded the

Nato narrowly beats Russia-style enemy in cyber attack simulation

On a recent day, the fictional country of Perantsa was plunged into darkness by a cyber attack on its energy grid from an authoritarian neighbour that had long laid claim to its territory. Nato included the scenario as part of a simulation testing the preparedness of allied countries when faced with the disinformation campaigns Ukraine experiences on a daily basis since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. The attack from the hostile state named Karti was simulated in Bydgoszcz, Poland, home to

Beijing sends largest patrol ship east of Taiwan after Japan-Philippine boundary talks

Beijing has sent a flotilla that includes mainland China’s largest patrol vessel to waters east of Taiwan in response to Japanese-Philippine maritime boundary negotiations. The Ministry of Transport ships are expected to conduct joint patrols with a coastguard formation dispatched to the same waters last Monday. The Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily published a commentary on Sunday that accused Japan and the Philippines, which already have long-running territorial disputes with Beijing,.

Slumping rupiah makes Indonesia irresistible for Malaysian tourists, shoppers

Indonesia has always been a favourite travel destination for Malaysians and visitor numbers are expected to increase with the neighbouring country’s currency hitting a record low. Melaka Tourism Association president Madelina Quah said the low rupiah presents an advantage for Malaysians travelling and shopping in Indonesia. “This will translate to cheaper holidays, shopping for weddings and buying of raw materials for imports against exports’ competitiveness,” she said. “Younger Malaysians...

Turkey is effectively introducing a 20-year non-dom model

Hello, my username makes no secret: I work as a CPA in Turkey. I wanted to share a recent change in the law here that has repositioned the country in a fairly tax-related manner, but has so far received little attention abroad. Turkey recently introduced a non-dom regulation that is strongly reminiscent of the models from Portugal (NHR) or Italy. Anyone who has not been tax resident in Turkey in the last three years can claim certain foreign passive income for one

Road tripping in Bhutan: Big fun in a tiny kingdom

Federal Reserve's independence, credibility face new scrutiny in Warsh era

Oil Market Flying Blind as Dark Tanker Traffic Surges in Hormuz

Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed by 90% to 95% compared to pre-war levels, analysts concur. Some oil cargoes continue to trickle through the critical chokepoint, but under increasingly opaque operating conditions, complicating the tracking of oil and gas flows and obscuring the visibility of how much energy supply actually reaches buyers these days. Traffic appears to have ramped up in recent weeks, according to an analysis of shipping data by Reuters energy columnist Ro

Japan to label Philippines 'top priority' for oil reserve support

How to deal with small amounts of money

I would like to invest but I only have small amounts (1-2k euros a month) that I can put it. I have been wondering what is a good approach in my case - put it all in a broad ETF of stocks as it has generally returned 8% long term adjusted for inflation or pick stocks. The former will grow always, unless capitalism fails, but generally slowly. The latter is riskier but it could outperform. The question is does it make sense to put the money in one diversified place or try to squeeze that outperfo

Why Solar Power Is Booming Under Trump

Despite the Trump administration’s pivot away from renewable energies, solar continues to dominate new energy additions in the United States. Newly released data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) shows that at the close of last year, solar energy additions were the single largest form of new energy capacity installations for the 28th straight month, starting in September of 2023. In fact, in spite of a broad rollback of Biden-era clean energy incentives since Trump resumed off

How to get rid of your father's maintenance obligation in the event of a serious breach of parental duties

Hello dear Carbonajünger, Short explanation of my situation: I am 23 years old, grew up in Germany, am a German citizen and am studying medicine in Austria. So it is very likely that (with inflation) I will have a gross income of >100,000€/year in 10 years. In addition, there is already discussion about completely removing or lowering this limit so that pensions can be increased again. Now my father was an absolute disaster, had everything

Financed car turns out to be a repair trap - what next? (Ford Focus MK4, 156,000 km)

Hello, I need your advice. In 2025 I financed a Ford Focus MK4 1.5 EcoBlue automatic (EZ 12/2020, 136,000 km) from a dealer for 12,000 euros plus interest. Unfortunately, this purchase later turned out to be a mistake. After an accident in which a tension belt from a vehicle in front damaged my car, the expert found that the previous damage had clearly been repaired. At the time of purchase and in the purchase contract there was only mention of a small repainting

AI Boom or Political Play? Trump Channels Defense Funds Into Dying Coal Plants

The Trump administration is set to channel nearly $700 million in federal funds into the U.S. coal industry Thursday, invoking a Korean War-era statute to prop up existing power plants, finance new construction, and push open a California export terminal that has been blocked for nearly two decades. The centerpiece is $425 million distributed under the Defense Production Act to 13 existing coal plants across West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma

Patrick Boyle on the New Zealand housing Bubble and Burst

[edit: patrick boyle is currently a professor at a university in the UK. He used to be a trader, his youtube channel is quite entertaining] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROG2uXPChY Patrick Boyle uses New Zealand’s housing bust as the warning example here. At the peak, an Auckland “dunger” sold for NZ$1.81m, and average Auckland homes were around 35x median income. Since then, prices have dropped hard, recent buyers are stuck in negative equity, and a bunch of construction firms have gone unde

The blowout jobs report is bad news for stocks — but it shouldn’t force the Fed’s hand on interest rates

Rate hikes now will choke off the critical investments needed to lower prices.

How my parents introduced us to finances with a piece of paper in the kitchen cupboard

Inspired by today's post by u/Cute-Voice-4710 [here] on the topic of children's savings accounts, I wanted to briefly share how my parents introduced us to the topic of finance and saving. We basically had two building blocks. The first was quite classic: My parents always saved for us children, back then in fixed-term deposits. Money from relatives for occasions such as communion and confirmation also flowed into these savings accounts. It was there and was created for us. The much more important building

The key to the upcoming Fed meeting? How Warsh reacts to all the hints of a rate hike.

The new Fed chair might make swift changes to how the central bank communicates.

France to test its own AI-powered battlefield command in June NATO exercise

The French Army has developed its own large-language model for staff officers, called Berthier, named after Napoleon’s chief of staff.

Taxi driver, 69, arrested after woman killed in Tsim Sha Tsui collision

Hong Kong police have arrested a 69-year-old taxi driver after he allegedly knocked down and killed a 34-year-old woman in a shopping district in the early hours of Saturday. The incident happened at around 2.12am near Park Lane Shopper’s Boulevard in Tsim Sha Tsui. The taxi driver was travelling along Nathan Road towards Mong Kok when he struck the 34-year-old woman as she was crossing Granville Road. The woman sustained serious injuries and was rushed unconscious to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in

Putin says no reason to meet Ukraine’s Zelensky, calls his letter ‘rude’

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he currently saw no reason to meet Volodymyr Zelensky after the Ukrainian president published an open letter proposing they hold face-to-face talks to agree an end to a war now in its fifth year. In his letter, which was sent to other countries, including the US, Zelensky said most Russians ‌had grown tired of Ukrainian missile and drone attacks, high inflation and fuel shortages, and were ready for peace. He also suggested that continuing the war.

Indonesian police in the market for hi-tech Chinese equipment

Indonesia is considering buying hi-tech policing equipment from China, setting out a shopping list for technology ranging from drones to tactical armoured vehicles at a police equipment trade show in Beijing. The Indonesian National Police is particularly interested in counterterrorism equipment, including intelligence technology, tactical weapons, bomb disposal gear and special purpose vehicles, according to a list of requirements released at a forum held at the expo on Thursday. Most of this..

Japan's Toray to build plastics facility in India, tapping into auto demand

Trump urges new spy chief Pulte to gut US intelligence community

US President Donald Trump said Friday he wants his incoming acting spy chief to start firing employees, deepening the controversy over the appointment of a man with no previous intelligence experience. Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was named by the Republican president on Tuesday as acting Director of National Intelligence. “If he cut, I wouldn’t mind that,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding that the number of employees in Pulte’s...

Hot jobs report puts Fed cuts further out of reach as Chair Warsh faces policy tests

Another big jobs report in May has swept aside the possibility of interest rate cuts anytime soon.

Safeguarding federally funded innovation: Navigating the new era of research security

As global competition intensifies, this new Breaking Defense webinar examines how research security policies and practices are evolving to protect federally funded innovation while maintaining open scientific collaboration.

Healthcare doomvesting - opportunities in dystopia

The US healthcare system is an ongoing train wreck and federal and state governments have yet to implement any real plan for fixing it other than randomly throwing cash at one segment or another. What I want to do here is provide an overview of the problems and which companies are poised to profit off of them. This is going to be long because healthcare is very complicated. I'm not including alternative medicine because grifters abound in that market so I haven't done any research on it. First l

Okay so all these talks off bubbles

I am not much into chart reading but all the hoohaa about AI being a bubble just makes me think its not a bubble. But seing the price of Gold the chart looks eerily similar to the wall street crash before the 1929. Gold looks like a bubble to me. And I am a gold bug btw hey I am into the Austrian School of Economics, although I am not a fanatic about it. I mean the gold option is the doom and gloom. ..ahhh goverments are printing so much money, we are gonna have hyperinflation etc.... I mean gov

The Fed may already be too late in hiking interest rates — which is bad news for these borrowers

Friday’s strong jobs report could soon feel like a double-edged sword for borrowers struggling to keep up with inflation and their bills.