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.

Jack WHO?

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Feel like getting your heart broken? It’s easy. Go to Slope’s Woulda Shoulda Coulda page. Punch in the ticker JKHY with a purchase date of 1/1/1990 (thirty years ago) and a purchase amount of a very reasonable $10,000. Not a huge amount. Something most of us surely could have scrapped together. And then weep at the results.

jackhen

Twenty. Five. Million. Dollars. It puts even Amazon to shame. You say you had $100,000 to invest? Cool. That’s a quarter BILLION bucks.

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