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 Fantastic Show

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The criminal executives from some of the bigger failed banks were dragged in front of the Senate today to explain how Nothing Is Their Fault. Some of you might think I am an unfiltered person. I assure you, I am not. I’d say I keep my mouth shut about 95% of the time. I’m definitely going to refrain from describing, in grotesque and lurid detail, precisely what I think should be done with every banker in the United States. Please enjoy the show below. It’s a delight, albeit a farce.

Tech Keeps Rocketing

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It’s disgusting. It’s appalling. It’s all driven by hundreds of billions of dollars of stock buybacks. But it’s real. What I’m referring to is the 3,000 points the /NQ has added since January for absolutely no reason at all except for what SHOULD be a crime: the self-dealing purchase of one’s own stock in the open market. There is, at the moment, nothing bearish about this chart.