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.

Worst. Investment. Ever.

By -

This chart from Real Investment Advice is quite interesting – – it illustrates how $43 trillion in cumulative government “investment” in the economy has yielded $5.7 trillion in real GDP growth. In other words, for every dollar the government “invested”, 13 cents of good came out of it. This goes a long way to explaining why we’re $34 trillion in debt, and it’s only going to get bigger by the second. It’s all for the simulacrum of prosperity.

The stock market has never been higher. Look out your window. Does the world seem like it’s never been better? Yeah, that’s what I thought.