Mar 12

SolarWinds Stock Analysis

When the SolarWinds supply chain attack happened in 2020, I didn’t really get deep into what SolarWinds does because I had to focus on day-to-day business. But now, in 2022, I found out what SolarWinds does because I was searching for monitoring solutions myself. In this article I want to…

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Mar 4

Influence of Sanctions on Economies

The current events in Ukraine led to many economic sanctions against Russia. Despite this war is the result of leaders, not their citizens, the West decided to define many very hard sanctions which resulted into making it impossible to trade with Russian Stocks right now. …

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Feb 27

Alternatives to SWIFT

In all the recent news to the War between Russia and Ukraine, I always ask myself about the economic consequences. Recently the EU and US declared a ban of SWIFT currently focused on the state owned banks (which are also the biggest banks in Russia). What’s SWIFT exactly? Before getting into possible alternatives…

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Feb 22

The Russian-Ukrainian War and the Stock Market

In 2008 Russia fought against Georgia in the Russo-Georgian War. This resulted into a catastrophic situation for the people which live in the areas occupied by Russia. Still today, Russia claims that parts of Georgia are “independent” Countries which do not belong to Georgia. So why do I start with…

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Jan 22

The Social Bot Lie

Recently this talk was given on the rC3 2021 Chaos Communication Congress: In summary, Florian Gallwitz explained that there are no “Social Bots” which are often covered in newspapers and magazines. Newspapers and Journalists create stories about AIs which post about political discussions but in reality these “Social Bots”…

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Dec 10, 2021

Create fast new posts for your Hugo Blog

Static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll or Nuxt are awesome. They provide way faster delivery of your contents to your customers than any PHP solution like WordPress. Unfortunately you have to create the Markdown files for your content yourself, but because every single post has a filename, title, date and…

1 min read

Create fast new posts for your Hugo Blog

Static site generators like Hugo, Jekyll or Nuxt are awesome. They provide way faster delivery of your contents to your customers than any PHP solution like WordPress.

Unfortunately you have to create the Markdown files for your content yourself, but because every single post has a filename, title, date and…

Dec 8, 2021

The Problem with Finance APIs

Since 2014 I invest and trade with stocks. Since then, I always wanted to create programs which make my life as an Investor easier and since then my journey with always reliving finance API problems started. Unfortunately I didn’t find my first PHP scripts which tried to get stock data…

3 min read

Sep 21, 2021

The Evergrande situation

Over the last days Evergrande China, the 2nd largest property developer in China after revenue, was in all financial news. More than 1.5 million homes are planned by Evergrande and it has $300 billion in liabilities. There are fears that Evergrande China will cause another financial crisis like in 2008…

2 min read

Sep 15, 2021

How I write my Journal

Recently I came across a blog post which described some Tips how to write a Journal on Hacker News. This interested me because I also write a Journal since multiple years (since the 20th March of 2018 to be precise and if we don’t count my Journals I had as…

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May 25, 2021

The Difference between Wirecard and Steinhoff

Wirecard and Steinhoff are both companies of German origin which had accounting scandals. …

Stock Market

3 min read

SolarWinds Stock Analysis

Influence of Sanctions on Economies

Alternatives to SWIFT

The Russian-Ukrainian War and the Stock Market

The Social Bot Lie

Create fast new posts for your Hugo Blog

Create fast new posts for your Hugo Blog

The Problem with Finance APIs

The Evergrande situation

How I write my Journal

The Difference between Wirecard and Steinhoff

Christoph Miksche