Forget charts. You need music. Turn the volume up. Play this. And listen to the voice of God, to expose the dark crime which has enveloped us all.
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.
The Boomerang of Hate
The Slope of Hope has a well-deserved reputation for being a kind and helpful community. That’s largely because of the cultural fabric each of us has woven into this place over the past eight+ years. I have been online since 1981, and I have a profoundly acute sense as to what constitutes a good online culture, so I daresay Slope is the last bastion of financial discussion that isn’t laced with vitriol within the components of the group. (more…)
Oil and Precious Metals Plunge
SPX closed back just under the daily upper bollinger band on Friday. As long as this uptrend continues SPX should stick close to the upper band. If it starts to fall away then the chances are that an interim high will have been made:
Watch for the “Silver Tsunami”
Shares of Vitamin Shoppe (VSI) were just upgraded from Neutral to Outperform at Wedbush, Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo.
I’m not a fan – yet – as the stock may have gotten ahead of itself.
On a dip, I may be interested only because of the coming “silver tsunami.”
Baby boomers have begun retiring by the thousands, clearing out their retirement accounts, spending trillions of disposable income just to keep their bodies going another 30+ years.
But what many don’t realize is that this major formidable, 20-year event will change just about everything. Not just because this generation holds trillions in wealth… not just because they’ll force massive changes in Social Security and health coverage…
But because this group expects to have longer, more active lives…
And that means they’ll spend heavily – at any cost – to keep their bodies in tip-top shape.
Retailers, marketers, doctors, gym equipment companies, and hair experts alike have already picked up on this very trend, as 80 million baby boomers spend whatever it takes to keep their bodies up to par.
GNC Holdings – a national retailer of supplements – just announced that baby boomers are one of its biggest buyers of its products for high blood pressure, digestion, eye and brain health, and muscle and bone density.
Vitamin Shoppe is likely to benefit from the trend as well. Keep an eye on it for now. It’s not a buy just yet.
Fresh Comment Cleaner
I was just on my 372th little errand this weekend when I asked for this song in my car (one of the Tesla’s spiffier features is you can ask it for play any song, and it’ll do so – – great for instant gratification). I had seriously forgotten how awesome this song and its video are.
