The IRS and the Federal Reserve are vying for the organizations Americans would most like to hit with nuclear weapons.
Let’s All Hate the Government!
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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The $4 Salad
Gold is a Counter-Cyclical Anchor
As inflation signals moderate and Goldilocks gets pumped, gold is forecasting something more virulent for Q4 – H1, 2025
While this is not an article about gold mining, it is an article about the counter-cyclical economic backdrop ahead that gold is forecasting, and a reminder that the gold mining industry is counter-cyclical and due to leverage gold’s macro relationships in a way that it could not during long inflationary trends.
Since projecting a Goldilocks (inflation not too hot or cold, but just right) flavored market recovery to be led by Tech/Growth stocks well over a year ago that is exactly what came about, with an interruption by the recent bump up in macro inflation signaling, which we also anticipated in advance (due to Treasury yields bottoming and various inflation signals beginning to percolate). But that was expected to be counter the trend toward an interim deflationary liquidity problem for the markets.
(more…)Microsoft Business Cycle
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.
