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.
A Couple of Second Chances
Since we are in the throes of this semiconductor mania, I wanted to point out a couple of semi companies which, unlike Nvidia, are actually bearishly-configured and are pushing back to appealing prices.
(more…)Another Cover Curse
We’ve seen many examples of the cover curse in recent years (Elizabeth Holmes, Samuel Bankman-Fried, etc.) but here’s a doozy. At the end of 2013, Time magazine put an even-uglier-than-normal Carl Icahn on its cover, declaring him “The Master of the Universe“. This preceded an enormous wipe-out in his stock. It took many, many years to try to climb back to that peak, but only in recent weeks has the drop resumed with turbocharged vigor. The curse persists!
The Banks Most Likely To Go Bust
A Memorial to Remember
Happy Friday, Slopers. Well the chatter is that the debt ceiling thing has to get put to bed either today or tomorrow (yes, Saturday) before the wheels start to fall off. There’s certainly zero fear in the markets about anything going awry. Every single quote is green, and that’s even with the PCE numbers coming in hotter than forecast.
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