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.

Zynga Lynga Ding Dong

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Well, back in 2011, Zynga was the hottest thing since sliced bread, and the IPO was red-hot. Now, over a decade later, you have a stock which, even with a buyout at a 44% premium to its prior close, had managed to LOSE money for its investors in the most gargantuan, fakest, most fraudulent bull market in history. Well, done guys. It’s almost impossible, what you achieved. Their fundamentals must have been absolutely dreadful.

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Can’t Trust That Day

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Good morning, beloved Slopers. It’s going to be an odd day for me, because I’m going to be immersed in competition, but I’ll have laptop in hand and probably will be able to simulate a full work day (thus, as always, I’m confessing to something you would have never realized in the first place). In any case, people get used to my rat-a-tat delivery of content, so I always feel compelled to preface a semi-apology.

I’m getting ready, at this very dark pre-dawn hour, to hit the road, but I’m delighted at the red I see on the screen, in sharp contrast to the grotesque green hues which bid me good-night on Sunday. Here we have the ES:

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