An investment in the “safe” treasury bond fund, symbol TLT, including all dividend payments, has thrown off a 0.00% gain if held for the past decade. We are matching the price set in January 2014.
Nine Years GONE
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.
Radical New School
I’d like to talk about schools, In particular, I wanted to share with you a completely off-the-wall thought experiment I just had.
Killer Queen
The chart illustrates there’s always at least two ways to view data: on the one hand, homicides are way down from the mayhem of 1991 (a year, by the way, in which East Palo Alto was the murder capital of the United States!!!), while on the other hand, they are WAY up from the bottom in 2014.
In the Beginning
I have a new short position – Agilent – which is one of those handful of stocks that has a nifty little single-character ticker symbol (A). The very long-term trendline failure is, I think, a big “tell“:
Three Biggies This Evening
I really enjoy the earnings season, because it brings me back to a classic, old-fashioned time when stocks were about corporate growth and profits instead of if Powell made a certain pause during a meaningless speech or if Yellen picked her nose with a particular finger. Tonight there are dozens of reports coming out, three of which are featured below. I’d say Tesla (TSLA) is in a particularly precarious position, since it has been ever-so-slowly damaging its supporting trendline and has, for the past few months, been hammering around a series of lower highs.
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