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.
I’m on the Wrong Train
I’m a big fan of Woody Allen movies, and one of his less-appreciated ones is Stardust Memories. Below is the opening scene, which to me captures nicely what it’s felt like being a bear for the past seven years (including this most recent Friday, on which Mario Draghi single-handedly ripped worldwide markets literally hundreds of billions of dollars higher with just a few words, tearing my heart out again). The clip beneath is a hilarious scene (in a gallows humor kind of way), particularly given the superb casting choice of…………those faces.
