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(more…)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.
High Taxes —> Joy
Sally Fourth
The Fourth Turning is part of the required reading here on Slope, and it is featured on my Recommended Books page.
I have read and highlighted the book many times, and I’ve written about it on Slope on a few occasions. I have to trot it out once more, however, since I was surprised at yet another prophecy. As a recap, here is how the important Chapter 10 begins, and keep in mind, this book was published in 1997. Before Covid. Before Trump. Before 9-11. Hell, back then, Zuckerberg was a pimply 13 year old kit. So a lot has happened since then:
Catastrophe in a Nutshell
Holy LORD. Give me a time machine and let me short crypto when I was predicting its doom! Good GOD! One chart shows it beautifully; only a week ago, a gorgeous break with “bullish” written all over it, but once the breakout failed, a complete calamity. This is being experienced all across crypto-land. Just………..WOW.
Ten Broken Trends
The last few days have been very important, because we’re finally getting a meaningful number of trendline failures. These are no trivial trendlines, either: they are all the big ones from the March 23 2020 bottom. Read ’em and leap:
