In The Laboratory, Studying Bubbles There is a lot of effort to find the next big stock to buy now or get in while it’s still hot but it’s quite difficult to find people to find people advocating to sell short now. Of course, it’s a such a game of timing and with the market […]
Month: October 2023
Silver Play
The Production Problem: A Silver Set up Silver production has a unique trait that many may not be familiar. It’s that it’s majority production are not done by silver miners. Instead, the silver that comes about is a byproduct of lead or zinc mining, which accounts for 65-70% of the amount of silver produced yearly. […]
Nova Scotia
78 years old & Back to School I have a relative by marriage who is from Nova Scotia and is excited to be deriving from the Nova Scotia Teachers Pension. They seemed so confident that they are secure & set for life and arrogantly I figured I’d take a look (already knowing that pensions around […]
An Interesting Fact Everyone Should Know
What’s in your head? Science Lesson What is in your head? Your Brain of course. Ok, let’s hope most of you have a brain. I’m not so sure about everybody. But what is brain? What is it composed of? The Brain is said to be one of the most complex systems in the entire universe—but […]
Jokes Vol 4.
Jokes Volume 4 Joke #1: The Soviet A Russian, a Frenchman, and an Englishman are in an art museum admiring a painting of Adam and Eve in the gardens of Eden. The Englishman takes a look at the painting and says “They look so calm, they must be British!” The Frenchmen responds “no no! They’re […]
Serbia
OnTheBall Travels (Serbia) It’s an old place, covered in graffiti and it’s falling apart–but I like it Serbia… always something going on. We travelled here for over a week by bus from Hungary. Serbia has become an interesting place to get a flavour of Europe without spending your entire savings account. Read about our Hungary […]
Pok a Tok
Soccer or Football? Neither! You may have thought this article is a pissing contest on whether it should be named soccer or football–some have tried extensively to argue one name over the other. Although none of them go far as back as the similar game of Pok-a-Tok. It sounds like a Chinese microwaveable meal, but […]
Now, Jokes Require Certification
Digital Gulag for me… It is stuff like this that have motivated me to launch On The Ball. There is an immense amount of censorship on the internet and the space where we share information. I’m well aware I’m not the only person who had been censored on Twitter daily, it seems to be a […]
Scottish Birth Rate
Scots are not having babies According to the National Records of Scotland, Scotland’s experiencing the second LOWEST fertility rate since they began collecting such data back in 1855. The data released is from 2021, where 47,786 live births occurred, 2% higher than 2020, but this still being the second lowest. There were 10% more excess […]
An Overlooked Commodity
Platinum Play Platinum is a rare, stable metal that, owing to its diverse and distinctive chemical and physical characteristics, is often used in jewellery as well as medical, electrical, and chemical applications as we’ll discuss below. Most people who are into the metals space pay considerable attention when it comes to gold and silver while […]
