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.

That Man

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Well, my friends, here we are again. Instead of letting the organic, God-given natural forces of markets work themselves out, we have to wait like unruly children outside the Vice Principal’s office, waiting for him to do whatever it is he’s going to do with us. The entire financial system holds its breath while a tiny group of government academics that constitute an authoritarian financial politburo called the Federal Reserve deigns to give us their command-and-control edict for our once-great economy.

As such, the aforementioned children are squirming in their chairs and picking their noses with absolutely nothing to do but wait. As I’m typing this pre-market, all of the equity futures are up slightly, but in truth they’ve gone absolutely nowhere this week. Yesterday’s marvelous tumble was met with ferocious buying, yielding the entire day an utter waste of time.

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Not All There

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There are many trite phrases one could use to describe U.S. equities right here. Here are a few: It’s a mixed bag. The jury is still out. Your guess is as good as mine. And so forth. From what I can see, there are some important indexes which have absolutely completed important topping patterns, and there are some others that have some more work to do. I’ve broken this groups, respectively, into some charts that are “There” and those which are simply “On the Brink”………..

There

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Hum Along with Me

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I was intrigued to learn that Hummer is being re-introduced as an electric vehicle, and they’re already pre-sold out for years to come. “Electric Hummer” seems like an oxymoron, sort of like “accurate Federal Reserve forecast”, “happy ARK investor”, or “excellent Jim Cramer investment idea”, but it’s real. Please click on this link for a large and interesting graphic about the history of this beast of a machine.