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.

Boeing’s Gaping Hole

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The failing corporation Boeing, buoyed only by the fact that it is a massive gift-giver to Congress and thus has survived off the grift from defense contracts, has been taking a lot of heat for manufacturing shoddy, defective, death machines known as Boeing passenger jets. The straight-out-of-central-casting CEO (white dude, check, bald, check, too cool to wear a tie, check) has finally decided to get the hell out before all of his transgressions are discovered, so that sent the stock zipping higher, celebrating the fact that this Bozo is heading for the Exit sign sometimes before the year is over, whenever he tidies up his golden parachute.

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Semi-Soft

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A few days ago, an announcement came out that the U.S government was showering Intel (INTC) with countless tens of billions of dollars of aid, grants, tax breaks, and other goodies. To me, this was disgusting, because INTC has likewise spent countless tens of billions (hundreds, actually) of dollars buying back their own underperforming stock for years, and now they are using corporate welfare to suck money out of taxpayers. Thus, it’s heartening to see that, even with this grift, INTC is getting shellacked this morning.

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