Evidently, Russia’s olive branch extended yesterday (green arrow) was saturated with kerosene and set ablaze (red arrow), so we’re still all mired in the fog of war. Ridiculous.
Just Kidding
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.
Unusually Bad Breadth
I’m not going to do any of the dull ‘bad breath” type jokes that are so common in the financial space: I simply wanted to point out just how weirdly divergent the market is from the cumulative advance/decline. These were created with our super-cool Layered Charts feature. The first shows our entire history of the advance/decline line versus the SPY.
Live Poll Test!
We’ve added (hopefully) the ability for poll results to update in real time. I’d like to see if it works. Thank you!
So Many Zillionaires!
This is pretty interesting – – folks were ask to take their best guess as to what percentage of people made certain amounts of money. To say that the guesses were “off” would be a tremendous understatement. People actually think 10% of the public makes over a million bucks a year? Good Lord!
Language of the Left
Well, my friends, this is one of those rare times when the last thing I want to talk about is the stock market. No charts. No retracements. No trendlines or arcs. Nothing. I’m just too damned disgusted with the entire affair. So I’m going to write about something different, and it’s from my personal life.
The majority of our family’s wealth is in California real estate, most of it income generating. Each month, we get a lump sum payment of the accumulated rent gathered from tenants, along with a report as to who paid what, what expenses were incurred, and so forth. Simple stuff.
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