I confess, I’m surprised, but the night is young.
Reddit’s Strength
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.
Polestar Drives Off the Road
The entire EV space has been a wreck, but one particularly bad outcome is Polestar, which was a partnership between Volvo and a Chinese manufacturer. The first time I saw one of these cars on the road, it was so ugly that I literally followed it until it parked just so I could read the (way too small) brand name. Anyway, the public has spoken:
Robinhood Strengthens Again
There are enough 19-year-old traders out there to keep this thing growing:
Shift Happens
After my utterly somber post this morning, it was nice to go to Philz to pick up my chai and see this screen, for a change (which is all the futures I follow and all my positions). An all-red screen always cheers me up.
Heaven Seventeen
One of my favorite comics, the late, great Gilbert Gottfried (not the late, great Hannibal Lecter you’ve heard so much about this week) often said his secret fantasy was that he’d be backstage the club, waiting to go on, and the club’s owner would come back and tell him there had been a flood and, here’s your check, you can go home. I’m afraid in recent weeks that’s precisely how I’ve been feeling, which is utterly uncharacteristic of my entire life. That feeling had better change soon. In the span of just four weeks. from April 19 to May 17, the markets have all exploded to lifetime highs, with the /NQ alone adding about 1,800 points. That’s more than ten percent. In four weeks.
