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 Magnificent Three

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This afternoon marks the close of the earnings season for the next three months. Oh, sure, only two-thirds have reported, but all the good ones will be done. Do you honestly care about crap like Ford, Affirm, Chipotle, and Eli Lilly? I sure don’t!

In any case, these three mega-cap, multi-trillion-dollar monsters will all be pouring out this afternoon. I have NO positions in any of these, and I find all three charts rather inscrutable. I hoist my mug, however, with the fondest wish that at least one of them gets nuked!

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Muskrat Love

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I get a lot of emails. 99% of them are spam, typically wanting me to put up “promotional” posts on Slope (I never do, so, you’re welcome) or pushing some service on me. As for the others, they typically are informative or friendly, but once or twice a year, I get something snarky or mean.

Earlier this week, I got one of those. It wasn’t anything too nasty; indeed, it was an empty email! The only content it had was the subject line itself, which read, in its entirety:

Subject: How can you support a guy like Elon Musk by buying a Tesla? Thanks

Now, this chap wasn’t a Sloper. I’m guessing he saw me mention owning a Tesla on tastylive, or maybe he read it on Slope and wasn’t a registered user. In any case, he knew I owned a Tesla (I actually own two) and, evidently being no fan of Elon Musk, he demanded that I explain myself.

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