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.
The Best and the Brightest
This is horrifying, sad, and funny all at the same time.
The Easy Way Out
For better or worse (probably worse), I had never paid attention to Novo Nordisk in my life. Recently, however, this company has soared in value by hundreds of percent, largely because of all the breathless press about Ozempic, which is an injection for Type 2 Diabetes. From what I’ve read, the web’s “influencers” have made it clear to the people of Earth that this is also an effortless way to lose lots of weight.
Crypto is Sending a Memo!
Recalling my post yesterday evening about how crypto’s huge rise yesterday was “a one-hit wonder”, that seems to have panned out nicely. What hasn’t panned out (yet) is for equities to follow along. Give it another day or two, m’kay?
I’m On To You, XLU!
I am rather obsessively watching XLU, because it is by far my biggest position, and the one in which I have the most faith. The dirty little trick this ETF is playing these days is that, each morning, pretty much without fail, it goes zipping higher and freaking me out. Then, just as reliably, it burns off all those gains.
