No Thanks, Burma!
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.
Invictus
It’s simplistic. It’s clean. Maybe even naïve. But this is the path that makes the most sense to me between now and Memorial Day: a trek to about 3800, to make a nominal new low for the year 2023.
Techs Roar
The earnings season is finally underway with the companies people actually care about. The unabashedly permabullish site Zerohedge is excitedly praising GOOGL and MSFT’s strong showing, describing the very green quotes as “so far, so good“:
Bye Bye, Baidu
Well, here’s a big fish that got away. I explicitly pointed out this resistance on the BIDU trendline, yet I did nothing about it. In any case, all the Chinese internet stocks are, once again, getting blown to pieces.
What a Dish!
When I visited North Carolina, I quickly noticed something which didn’t make much sense to me: in all the crappiest apartments and neighborhoods, there were DISH satellite antennae everywhere. Sometimes on the roof. Often on the lawn. But it was a reliable marker that whoever lived in that place had no money. To this day, I have no idea why Dish Networks is the purview of the penurious, but maybe it explains why Dish Networks has crumbled to prices not seen since the last millennium.
