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.
Harry Boxer’s Charts of the Day
Congrats to Boomers
I know a number of Slopers went long in a big way before the announcements. For about five seconds, it looked like you guys were hosed, but………well………..congratulations. Now I’ll go back to looking stunned.
Two-Way Conversation
Greetings from the chilly interior of my attic, where I finished diagnosing some network issues (Springheel Jack and I seem to be having computer woes at the same time!) I am sitting here, cross-legged, Kobe watching me curiously, as I bang out a post that has a couple of purposes. (more…)
The Fed Big Guns
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere,
diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx
Just a short post today as I am having fairly serious computer troubles since yesterday afternoon. I suspect my hard drive is failing, so I have a new one arriving tomorrow which I can install at the weekend. In the meantime I’m expecting my main trading computer to crash several times a day which is time-consuming. (more…)