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.
Life in Lockdown
My house, precisely…………
Pain-Free Debt
Not a week goes by that the Federal Reserve doesn’t introduce some new multi-trillion dollar “emergency” package and shove it down the helpless throats of the public. Ever since 2008, I would wonder “how come this doesn’t seem to bother anyone?” It seem incongruous to me that the citizens of a nation would care so little about money-printing in such astronomical quantities.
Then, duh, I finally realized the answer this morning: it isn’t because John Q. Public doesn’t understand what’s going on (and he doesn’t). Instead, it’s because he doesn’t feel any pain from it. At least not directly. And at least not yet.
(more…)Easter Egg Hunt (3 of 6)
Preface to all six parts: As of Friday’s close, I’ve got 64 open positions, all of them individual shorts of roughly the same size. I am sharing all of them this weekend in six roughly-equal posts; three posts for all readers, and three exclusively for Gold and Diamond members. Here is this portion:
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