In the midst of lifetime market highs, here are my six bearish positions: all of them long puts expiring between September 2024 and January 2025:
(more…)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.
Dow 40,000
Errr. Here’s a medal.
(more…)THAT De-Escalated Quickly!
Potent Predictions
I know we’re well into 2024, but this is still well worth watching:
Gobble, Gobble
If there’s one thing you can count on from ‘Mericuh, it’s the endless consumption of stuff. That is playing out beautifully, decade after decade, by way of the big box retailers. There was a time when a company selling gallon jugs of mayonnaise and 1000-packs of Ibuprofen would have merited a P/E ratio of 5, instead of 51, but these are not normal times. Lifetime highs, everywhere you look:
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