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Cultural Cash Cows
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.
Expert Systems
You’ve seriously got to hand it to the government: since they are in the business of tamping down any market insecurity, they are getting better every single time. The evidence is right in front of us in the form of the VIX: every few months, when a genuinely plausible reason comes out for the market to weaken, the VIX briefly pushes high. However, it gets less-high every single time. Every. Single. Time. This is what worried me about April 19th, because we were approaching the prior high. Like clockwork, it turned tail and collapsed back to 13 again.
Weekly Cycle Analysis
The Price of Poverty
A week ago, a woman in my neighborhood drove full-speed into the side of my car, as shown below a few minutes after it happened. This weekend, I’m picking up a brand new, identical car from the Tesla factory. How could this be? Isn’t a cataclysm like this supposed to be more awful and drawn-out? I’ve been thinking about that.
Be Reasonable
My hand to God, if this gorgeous NQ top doesn’t result in a complete slump in tech stocks, we all might as well become cabbage farmers.
