Here’s today’s watch-list:
Long Dow Chemical (DOW)
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.
General Ripper
For the sixth time – sixth! – in the past couple of months, the Russell 2000 is trying to enter a bull market again. I’ve marked each attempt below, following the lifetime high made on March 4. Lower lows. Lower highs. These ripping rallies are a big pain in the butt. It’s enough to drain one of one’s precious bodily fluids.
Terminological Inexactitudes
In the UK parliament it has been for a very long time been a rule that no MP (Member of Parliament) can call another MP a liar in the Houses of Parliament. Over the years a number of ways round this restriction have been used and my personal favorite is the term ‘terminological inexactitude’ as a euphemism for a lie.
Why does that spring to mind this morning? Well the Western Powers have been trying to be polite and conciliatory towards Russia over the Ukraine, despite Russia’s breaking of their treaty commitments to Ukraine, and thinly masked manoeuvrings to try and seize a large part of the Ukraine for themselves, but that must be strained to breaking point today. (more…)
