Shorted This Bottle Rocket
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.
Big Break for Small Caps
Steadfast
I’ve been doing this a while. A long while. Longer than virtually anyone. And, over the course of time, the kinds of words used to describe Slope are “open”, “earnest”, and the like. On rare occasions, though, there are rumblings in the force. Such as last night, when I reminded readers of the very positive posts I did about Tesla seven years ago……….
…….or when I mentioned how my current portfolio had all profitable positions, in spite of the marketing hitting a record high………
The Map to $2 Trillion
Degrees Of Separation
My apologies for my being unusually quiet over the last few days, My wife of 23 years and I are starting the process of getting divorced and I have been distracted by that. It’s definitely for the best, and likely this would have started a year ago if she had not been diagnosed with cancer then. She is now clear and largely recovered, and the reality that we really shouldn’t still be married to each other any longer has been brought into very sharp focus by COVID-19 and the quarantine this year, as I suspect it has for quite a few couples, so we are starting the process of correcting that. Our children are old enough now, are supportive of the split and it is just one of those things.
On to the markets where SPX has made the new all time high that seemed likely and where stock markets seem very disconnected from the real economy of eye-wateringly high unemployment, social distancing and sagging consumer demand. Is this sustainable? Well as always time will tell but I suspect not. We’ll see.
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