I’d say this is the end of the road for the BBBY lunatics.
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.
Another Cursed Bear
Jeez, these days even having the word “bear” in your name is enough to guarantee disaster. Here is Big Bear AI, which was yet another SPAC stock that went up over 60% before commencing an endless decline. It’s down 90% in just four months.
Verizon Topping (from LZ)
So, About That Content….
You have had 100% of me for 17 years. 365 days a year. 366 if it’s a leap year.
You’re going to have 5% of me, at best, for the next few days.
So, I ask again – – content providers – – SEND me stuff. Options trading techniques. Chart ideas. Honeymoon mishaps. Anything. Email me or post it directly.
I’ve spoiled you since 2005, but it’s going to be a very, very dry spell here. Relatively speaking.
Six Years and $10 Million Later
Back in 2016, I wrote a post called Ten. Million. Dollars. which is worth a re-read (and will save me telling you the story again). The elevator pitch is that, around the corner from where I live is a cottage (not even 940 square feet) on a half acre lot which was bought for $10,000,000 by, I would assume, a Chinese national who wanted a safe place to keep his money. In the six years that have passed since then, not a single person has spent a single night there. It’s literally just an asset that has no function to anyone.
As I was walking my dogs on one last pre-trip walk at 5:30 this morning, I walked by the property, which I’ve done hundreds of times before, and it occurred to me that it would be interesting to know what the estimated value of the place was. Amazingly, I hadn’t bothered checking even one time for over six years after I wrote the post, so I fired up Zillow and……….
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