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 Spectacle, Gold and a New Financial Era

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Commoditization of humanity now exponentially worse as a new financial era engages and gold conspicuously clings to support

This is a financial market article that also delves into social commentary. The new macro, as exemplified by the 30 year Treasury Bond yield chart below, will bring change; both social and financial. The two are, of course, related. Here we do not come to firm conclusions, and so perhaps the article does not get picked up by some re-publishers. But in a time of change, I believe that the process of interpretation is more important than forming conclusions, just yet. Conclusions will be handled by trend followers, promoters and gurus, as they have been for decades.

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Going Infinite Book Review

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cover design=sucks!

On Wednesday night, I just happened to stumble upon The Big Short on television, and, blue-blooded bear that I am, I simply couldn’t stop watching it. I’ve seen it before, obviously, but watching the film again back my bear juices all hot and bothered, but I stopped it about twenty minutes before the end, because I always get extra-ticked-off when they review how basically all the bad guys got away with it.

I then turned my attention toward a book that I had just received, and which had only hit the shelves that very day, which was Going Infinite, the book about Samuel Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall. It occurred to me it must be Michael Lewis day, because right on the heels of watching a movie based on one of his many books, I started reading a new one by the same guy.

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