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.
Inflation Data Point
Since the prices for Slope premium memberships haven’t budged in forever, I thought I’d share with you an email I just got from one of the few items to which I subscribe: RoboKiller, which suppresses junk phone calls. In spite of the government’s laughable declaration that inflation is 3% (instead of the truth, which is about ten times higher) here we have a real-life example in which a very popular product is going up by 166% in one year. I will, incidentally, be cancelling this, because this is ridiculous.
Upcoming Fashion: Pink Slips
Technology marches on and points working humans to the Exit sign:
How About NOW?
ServiceNow (NOW) is an insanely-highly-valued tech stock which appears to have completed a clean topping pattern. A similar pattern (the prior pink) happened before, but the difference this time is that the price broke well below and pattern and then retraced to resistance.