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.

Honestly…….

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If during the fakest, phoniest, most over-supported stock market in the history of the human race, if all you can produce for investors is an 85% loss during the ten months you’ve been public, you might as well give up. Overpriced crap for your pregnancy and baby clearly isn’t a business model that’s working.

honest.com is a company that’s never shaken hands with an uptick………..

The Return of Dull

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Sigh.

A month ago, this market was so riveting that I could barely take my eyes off of it. As it is right now, if I may be so candid, it is as dull as dog shit. Honestly. And I say that, even if it harms me, because an unspoken component of my role is to get people excited about trading the markets. But one look at the VIX, and I think you’ll understand how disingenuous this would be. All the oxygen has left the room.

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