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.
Charlotte Wall of Bar Bottles
It’s Quite a View
I have found the one and only electrical outlet in the entire Charlotte Convention Center. This is my view at this very moment. Jealous?
By the Book
Just as movie theatres were going to be wiped out by VHS tapes, and music was going to be wiped out by Napster, another prediction was that physical books would disappear thanks to eBooks. Nope!
Global Rates
This is an extraordinary perspective into how wildly interest rates vary around the world (driven largely, of course, by each nation’s internal inflation rates; Argentina, for example, has a shocking 44.5% interest rate, but in real terms, it’s actually still negative!
