Not for the squeamish. Shield your eyes, Frank.
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.
A Declaration for Later Reference
The closer Bitcoin gets to $40,000, the more opportune a time it will be to short every stock that has a ticker symbol. There. I said it. And I mean it.
Master Baiter
For many months now, I’ve been seeing advertisements for a company called Masterworks. Here, for instance, is an ad from my Twitter feed:
Carlin Copy
Most of you know that George Carlin is the patron saint of the Slope of Hope, and I’ve listened to his routines and specials countless times. I noticed something odd about the one below, however. From time to time, I would notice a little extra phrase – – just a few words – – that I hadn’t remembered from earlier viewings of the special. I assumed that maybe they trimmed the video special a little bit for purposes of time.
Eventually, though, I figured out that it wasn’t editing – – the audio recording is literally a different performance than the one recorded for HBO. What astonished me is that the two were 99.9999999% identical. The pacing, the timing, the tone, the inflections, the pauses. Believe me, I notice this stuff, and while I realize that doing a “show” means repeating the same thing, Mr. Carlin’s ability to create an almost indistinguishable facsimile from one performance to the next is yet more proof of his incredible genius and skills as a performer. As if he reputation needed to be ANY better.
Tonight’s Biggies
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is going to be one of the biggest trading days of the year, but even before then, we’ve got plenty of action cooking for this afternoon. Here are some of the more important earnings releases:
