Check out what’s happened to Playboy over the past two years. You can just hear the numbskull analysts in 2021 recommending this thing………..listen carefully………….”iconic brand“……….”American classic.”
What garbage.
Unexpected Shrinkage
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.
Murky
The electric car company Lucid is predicated on a simple business model: sell their knock-off Tesla copies to people who want to virtue signal that they don’t approve of Elon. That’s seriously the only reason I’ve ever heard why people buy a Lucid. As you can see, virtue signaling only gets you so far, especially if your car is the Hydrox to Tesla’s Oreo.
Interest Champ
If you want to see just about the most consistent winner of 2023, look no further than plain old TBT, which is the ultra-short fund based on treasury bonds. It is up nearly 200% over the past twelve months, even with the disadvantage of being a leveraged instrument and thus subject to some hard deterioration.
An Oversold Gold Miner
Dawn
We awake to a red morning, in which the (relatively minor) unemployment report that came out is souring the mood. Of course, the big Kahuna report is tomorrow, but in a market this dynamic, we must take things one session at a time.
