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.

Before the Crash

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Here’s a fun clip from a program I watched as a kid, Wall Street Week. This was recorded the Friday before Black Monday in 1987. The panelists, naturally, all speak of how the bull market isn’t over. Indeed, Martin Zweig expected “a violent rally early next week” (which he totally nailed, except for the rally part). In any case, some things never change, particularly when it comes to Wall Street shills endlessly telling the people to just buy, buy, buy.

Unhinged Lunacy Update

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I honestly thought the whole “meme stock” thing was dead and buried, but as the past few days have proved, this is not the case. The desperate desire to gamble and make huge gains overnight is hard to shake for 19-year-old “traders“, and the stars of the past, AMC and GME, are again the stars of today. At least until about 30 hours ago. Both of these stocks, quite predictably, are getting clobbered, and I am highly confident the blood is just going to keep flowing.

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