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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.
Pretend Prosperity
If you ever want to know where all the good times are coming from, the answer is simple: they’re borrowed from the future. At this point, WAY in the future, since the good people of Earth have plunged one third of a QUADRILLION dollars in debt. When one has to use figures that seem like the silly made-up terms from a Dr. Seuss children’s book, you know things are bad.
Bouncing Bonds
As a lifelong permabear, it’s honestly a great feeling to be long in something that I truly believe from a charting perspective is going to go well. I own a very large quantity of TLT (this one position is bigger than all my shorts put together), and although it isn’t exciting, it’s definitely moving the right direction, as illustrated by the /ZB futures recently.
Lower Education
Most colleges are essentially high schools (in terms of rigor and curriculum) except with an $80,000 tuition. As the preposterous inflation in the education sector has taken hold, folks are deciding it isn’t worth the opportunity cost and tuition (well over half a million dollars), particularly for anything other than a top-tier education. It’s no surprise that middling schools are dying off, one by one.
WentPro
Remember GoPro? It was all the rage a decade ago, when they were widely promoted as a way to film yourself skiing, snowboarding, surfing, or what-have-you. They peaked around 2015, and the ubiquity of smart phones, I suppose, has made them kind of unnecessary. Sales are half what they used to be.
