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.

Doge Day Afternoon

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It’s fascinating how pop culture can intersect with the financial markets.

Early in 2021, Dogecoin was all the rage, and one of its main proponents, Elon Musk, was surprisingly slated to host Saturday Night Live. The boys on reddit figured this would be just what the doctor ordered to launch $DOGE into the stratosphere, since Elon would pump it up on the show. Thus, the 19 year olds loaded in. A contrarian would assume that, paradoxically, Elon’s presence on SNL would not only not mark a new bull market in the coin, but in fact be an important top.

And it was. But, uncannily so. Elon’s SNL gig wasn’t merely the same month as the DOGE top. Or the same week. It was the same goddamned DAY (almost to the millisecond). The odds of him nailing the precise top, with the coin having traded thousands and thousands of days, is vanishingly small. But………..

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12 Angry Slopers

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There are rare occasions when I’m alone for a few days, and I normally make use of this surplus time by:

  1. Working on Slope even more than I normally do;
  2. Taking on some big house project and/or obsessively cleaning;
  3. Watching a classic movie I’ve never seen before.

Well, I’ve been doing all three of these things in the past few days, and the classic movie I just watched for the first time in my life was 12 Angry Men, which is about two-thirds of a century old. Each of the twelve actors who comprised the jury are dead now (with Jack Klugman, funny enough, being the longest to survive – – he died a decade ago on Christmas Eve) but the drama could absolutely be portrayed today with no change in content.

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