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.

Taking A Peek At 2012 (by BBFinance)

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Everyone worth his/her salt is making projection about the 2012. There is almost unanimity in the blogosphere that Euro is going to crash and we will see a repeat of 2008/9. So everyone is bearish biased in varying degree. Doomsday drummers like ZH, Mish, Prechter  et all are having a field day predicting the coming demise of Eurozone and return of the civilization to the stone age. We are encouraged to buy guns, bullets and canned foods. In the mean time, readership surges, ad-revenue and subscriptions come pouring in. They or their sister companies sell bonds by the bucket and deposit the much maligned fiat currency in the same TBTF banks on which they heap scorn every day. Not a bad business model, eh?

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The Constitution or The Establishment? (by BDI)

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Ron Paul is about as inept & il-suited a politician as one could conceive, yet today he stands well positioned to win the first U.S. Presidential Primary of the new year. Why is this?  What is happening here?  Can it be that the American people are finally awakening to the fact that the establishment is no longer working for them?  Have they had enough of the self serving lies spewed out by one slick willy politician after another?  Are they thirsting for truth?  Could the venerable document pictured above show us the way?  Well, if the preliminary polls out of Iowa are any indication, it may very well be working its magic once again. The self effacing Ron Paul, could be just the right man to shine a bright light on the magnificent document that this great Nation was founded on. His entire campaign platform is none other than the Constitution itself, and the TRUTH is resonating once again.

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