Just for the heck of it, I went to Google today and typed "Bearish Blogs" – – and was surprised to see Slope didn't even show up once on the first page. In fact, there wasn't a single reference to any useful blog – – – just a bunch of fairly random articles. The topmost link was this post by Paul Kedrosky from nearly three years ago, which is an article he wrote lamenting how dour bearish bloggers were. He said……
…..their commenters in an echo chamber muttering darkly about canned food, plunge protection teams, a bullet-less Fed, and on and on. It's bleak and apocalyptic at the best of times, and now it's a relentless and somewhat bizarre mixture of Calvinist moralizing and noisy negative-triumphalism.
Wow, do you think he's talking about us? Anyway, I've marked the point where he was talking about how loony folks like us were being:
