Far be it from me to throw stones from this glass house, but Atilla’s obsession with shorting TSLA has been well-reported, including many times this calendar year.
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.
You CAN Drive 55
Here are the spots in the country where you are most likely to get a speeding ticket (and, coincidentally, where municipalities are most dependent on this income).
Prepare to Dive
Dollars for Dreaming
Here is a fascinating infographic: it shows what constitutes (for sane, normal folks) a good life in our once-great republic. Costs sure have gone up! My wedding, which was quite a grand affair, cost all of $14,000. On the other hand, private schools tack on a million dollars for EACH kid. So, yeah, some dreams are more costly than others, although, for my funeral, you can just leave my corpse in the lobby of the Eccles Building, just for the lulz.
Billionaire? Big Deal!
I remember way back in the early 1980s when the first Forbes 400 list was published. I think at the time there were maybe seven billionaires on the planet – – or maybe the U.S. – – but it was a really, really big deal to be a billionaire. It was almost unreal. These days? Thanks to inflation and a massive usurpation of wealth from below to above, there are THOUSANDS of these creatures running around.
