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.

Politics Flows into Finance

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Remember DWAC and PHUN? Those were tickers that, back in the day, were quite frisky due to the new social media platform Truth Social. Well, now that it seems like the front-runner for the 2024 Presidential election is pretty much a lock, these tickers have sprung to life again, sort of like an obscure proxy for the candidate. Below is Digital World Acquisition DWAC, which blasted higher on huge volume after the Iowa caucus results.

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Samson Mowed Over

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I’m not sure what it is about me, but it really, really bothers me when people spew absolute crap just to get attention. I’m weird that way. Take Samson Mow (please!) who apparently is staking his entire future on crypto. When the ETFs were risibly introduced just days ago, he spouted off that BTC would be a million bucks in a matter of “days or weeks“. Well, BTC better flip around fast and go up by 25-fold in a big hurry, or else Samson Mow is going to look like a total asshole.