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.
Talk Talk
A Dozen Days of Prison
Feeling frustrated? Trapped? Exasperated?
You’re not alone. The reason is simple: we have spent WEEKS (specifically, twelve trading days) trapped inside a teeny little range, with the market lacking any particular reason to go up or down by any meaningful amount. The longer this incarceration goes on, the bigger a deal it’ll be when it breaks.
I Feel So Ordinary!
This is one of those tall-ass infographics, so I’ve put it below the fold. I’m old enough to remember the cover story on Money magazine declaring “A Million Millionaires” (on the planet, I guess). These days, EVERYONE is a millionaire. The magic of inflation………
(more…)The Kenny Rogers Excursus
One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard…….
