First, watch this video:
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.
Where’s Taldo?
I was musing only a few days ago about maybe doing a Slope chat room inside the red-hot app Clubhouse. My idea was met with a resounding ticker symbol NFW from the group, and having listened to the Stocks & Options room again this morning (for as long as I could stomach it, which was about 40 seconds) I’m starting to lean that way.
Fated Rates
The headline over at ZeroHedge pretty much says it all…………
So here we’ve got the one-two punch that our ($SPX/FR:DGS10) ratio chart has been anticipating: on the one hand, soaring equity prices (since, ya know, bargain) and on the other hand, falling interest rates. Put the two of them together, and the ratio chart is destined to rip higher. Given the well-formed top as well as the perfect touch of the channel’s midline, it’s an agonizing work of art:
(more…)Dwindle
Want more proof that the entire world is falling asleep from this market, and it isn’t just me whining? Look at the volume. It’s about one-third what it was earlier this year, and one-sixth what it was during the Covid crash. Pathetic. Just sad and pathetic.
The Untouchables
This graphic (from Visual Capitalist) shows what a sea-change has taken place in the concept of business valuation. A half century ago, businesses were valued, largely, based on their honest-to-God assets: things like equipment, cash on hand, and other capital holds. In our new loosey-goosey, make-it-up-as-you-go-along world that we live in, all of that “real” stuff is basically rounding error, and the vast majority (almost the entire value, in fact) is pie-in-the-sky stuff like Customer Goodwill, to which you can just dream up any value you like.
