Although this chart is, as you know, none of your danged business (being the sensitive and confidential data of my little enterprise here), I wanted to say a couple of things about Slope’s chart of paid subscribers (God bless them all).

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Although this chart is, as you know, none of your danged business (being the sensitive and confidential data of my little enterprise here), I wanted to say a couple of things about Slope’s chart of paid subscribers (God bless them all).
A ‘blended’ orientation to markets and life…
I took a red pill, dropped into a rabbit hole and entered Wonderland in 2003 and lived down that hole for 2 years before I decided, ‘eh… not for me’. Paranoia 24/7 while trying to raise kids and keep a healthy marriage was not the way to go (though positives like an understanding of the value of gold, real gold, alternative heating sources (wood stoves), a generator and the means for the physical protection of my family came out of that phase.
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