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.

The Second Vignette

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I’m afraid my guilt is getting the best of me, and my dismal and depressed feelings about this “market” be damned, I owe you some content. So I’m going to share something special.

In my novel – – which I thank God for, since it gives me a creative outlet and a distraction from these idiotic market machinations – – I have three tiny vignettes that break the book into equal parts. I’d like to share the second one of them with you here for the first time. I hope you like it.


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Navigating Down Markets

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I’ll be the first to admit it: when I’m disenchanted with the markets, I don’t feel like writing about them. Conversely, when I’m really into the markets, I can’t shut up about them. In any case, this is clearly one of the instances of the former. Below is a three-foot-tall infographic that (bullish, I’m sure) New York Life put together about this so-called “down” market (Coulda fooled me!)

As you can see, right out the chute the present a chart which ostensibly declares that P/E ratios have gone from a frisky 38 down to almost half that level. So – – stocks are a bar-GOON, right? That’s the conclusion they surely want you to draw. Long-term, this all depends on where “E” (earnings) are heading, right? In any event, I’m going to give myself the gift of time and share this item with you below:

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