Note that Barnes (ticker symbol B) has almost perfectly closed its price gap. This might be an interesting shorting opportunity.
Barnes Ignoble
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.
Teen Town
Chinese Bear Still Raging
Why, oh why, can’t America mimic China for a change? Good God, I’m jealous!
Cash Across the Atlantic
Castles and Cottages
I’m not surprised very often, but when I am, I’ll typically write a post about it. This is one of those times, and the source of my surprise came from somewhere utterly banal: messing around with Google Earth.
As a starting point, I have a simple picture to show you from near where I live. I took this image from Google Maps near the border of Atherton (a very rich town) and Menlo Park (a very affluent town, but not rich like Atherton). Even a partly-sighted person can see the stark difference between the upper left of this image (which is the more densely-populated Menlo Park) and the rest of the map. This, folks, is the difference between $8 million homes and $30 million homes.
