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.

Creme de la Creme

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There is an important new page on Slope, which is this one. In a way, this page took over a decade to put together, since it represents what I consider some of the very best content from the site over the years. This will be a permanent part of the site, accessed from the Read menu, and I’ll update it on occasion as other important posts make the grade. Enjoy!

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(Note: Actually, as of the time of this posting, I’m nowhere near done with all the entries, but I will be by day’s end. I’m simply too uneasy without having a fresh post, so I decided to let you folks have a sneak peek).

Fuzzy

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As much as we try to discourage the discussion of politics here (although some people are simply too ill-mannered to follow the rules), it is unavoidable to mention that the runoff race in Georgia today is the centerpiece of market observation. It’s a truly singular occurrence to have a single state hold such a binary event in its hands. Runoff elections typically receive almost no national attention, whereas this one is garnering as much fixation as the real race we have early in November. Thus, the VIX is showing a pulse:

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Cover to Cover

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There it was on my driveway, just like every month: the latest issue of Gentry magazine, which, as I described it in a prior post, “is a free magazine they distribute around here, packed with a combination of real estate ads, for the tech zillionaires, and plastic surgery ads, for their vain spouses”.

Well, the cover of the January 2021 issue got my attention, so I thought I’d share it, which I’ve thoughtfully scanned:

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