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.
Quite a Week Ahead
Anyone miss the days when the ES moving up 10 points was a big deal? Here’s what’s in store this week, with one item of particular interest (to say nothing of what it’ll be like in another month).

Help Is Here
Although Slope has a fairly wide variety of instructional documentation and videos on the site, it clearly isn’t enough, because I get the same questions day after day. Thus, I am spending my Saturday putting together a 7-part video series to give a thorough run-down of how to use the site. Here’s the first entry.
Phasing Back
We all keep hearing about we just have to tough it out through Easter, and everything’s going to be totally back to normal. Spoiler Alert: it’s not. Indeed, the end of this endlessly-cited “15 Days” is on Tuesday! So there seems to be this cultural meme being bandied about that we’re just a few days away from ending this thing. We ain’t.
Of course, at some point, things will start to drift back to normal. In sharp contrast to the opinion of our ostensible leadership, however, I don’t think an enormous “pent-up demand” is suddenly going to explode into the former capitalist society of ours. I think it’ll vary tremendously. Off the top of my head:
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