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 Slippery Truth

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Oil is both literally and figuratively the energy behind the world’s economy. Take a good look at what crude oil, natural gas, and energy exploration companies have been doing. You think maybe this sector is trying to tell us something about how the economy is doing that maybe Jerome Powell is unwilling to admit? Of course, being a preening, sycophantic toady can get in the way of being earnest.

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Slice of Life

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Interesting morning so far. I haven’t had the time or interest yet to figure out why everything turned on a dime a few minutes after the open and started plunging. I’ve still got my morning paper to enjoy.

In the meanwhile, I’ll mention one of my shorts – Domino’s Pizza. Back when I was in college, Domino’s is what you ate when there was absolutely no other choice whatsoever. Even college kids it was the worst pizza in the world. I’m not sure what happened, but DPZ, the stock, went on to create gains of thousands and thousands of percent. The stock was a complete monster. Recently, however, the monster has started to falter.

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Roll Over, Beethoven

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It’s been a Slope-tacular weekend for me, as I’ve been totally immersed in new product design and fleshing out business plans. I’ve also been rackin’ and stackin’ stuff to SocialTrade, and I’d suggest you take a look at the most recent stuff, since there are some real gems in there.

I’ve also been looking at some of our economic data, and I gotta tell ya, from the charts below, it sure looks like we’ve peaked and are on the decline (sort of like the real estate in my neighborhood that I wrote about over the weekend). Just look at these:

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