Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
DISQUSted
UNG and SRS – Separated at Birth?
By the way, I get the sense that Disqus is – yet again – behaving about as well as the above-mentioned equities. So if you're having trouble posting a comment, it's not you. Honest.
Nice Cup with Handle
NOTE! Disqus seems down (surprise!) which is a shame, considering the market action. Anyway, it's not you.
Oh, It’s All Just So, So Sad…….
The landscape of bear blogs and their brethren in the blogosphere is in a sorry state. Gaze out upon the smoldering ash heaps and witness:
xTrends – once the most popular destination for bearish traders and recipient of thousands of comments per post – – now a virtual ghost town, with perhaps a few posts a month (only one of which is from the chief there) and a smattering of grateful fare-thee-wells in the comments section;
Market Ticker – our beloved Karl, the Don Quixote of the blogosphere, tilting against the insanity that surrounds us but few can see; Karl seems like a mensch, but one wonders when the black helicopters are going to make their landing in Niceville, Florida to take him away for re-education at the Bernanke Center.
noXtrends – shuttered, due to the departure of its most frequent commenter and the fact that their principal target (that would be xTrends) doesn't really offer anything at which one can take pot-shots anymore
Slope of Hope – populated largely with True Believers, but increasingly the home of agonizingly smug bulls who are there to cluck their tongues and pat the poor, misguided heads of the few bears that have survived the past year.
One recalls the suicide note of Abbie Hoffman – "It's too late. We can't win. They've gotten too powerful." Virtually everyone believes this of the satanic Blankfein/Geithner/Bernanke triumvirate. We'll see. Until then, Slope is here to stay, smoldering ashes be damned.
