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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.
Holy Dow!
Equities are an absolute runaway train at this point. Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) has clenched the throats of the trading public, and a money-losing Internet company whose principal product is a disappearing-dick-pics app is about to enjoy one of the most sensational IPOs of the decade tomorrow. Here below we see the Dow 30 blowing past 21,000 in another multi-hundred point move:
Oral Wrecks
Well, that sucked out loud. Just when it seemed like the equity bears might have a tiny fighting chance of stringing together two or three good days, blammo, Trump’s speech is a hit and everyone goes ape buying stocks. Quite a sight to behold.
All the same, I’d like to offer up the VIX to illustrate that these periods of doe-eyed giddiness have always, even in this insane market, ended in tears. It’s just a matter of time.
Lending Club Triangle Failure
On a day when all stock indexes are at the highest levels in human history…….