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.

Torrential Tesla

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For those not acquainted with my TSLA bona fides, I have been writing in the most glowing terms about Elon Musk and his creations for over a decade. Here is just one example from almost a dozen years ago (a post so old, the graphics don’t even exist on the server anymore!) in which I wrote:

Within days, I’m picking up a Model S (long-since reserved; there’s a one-year wait). I have a deep fondness for Tesla; their founder, Elon Musk, is an incredible entrepreneur; the attention to detail to the product line is Steve Jobsian, and the chart looks poised to break out. I’m going old school and buying a bunch of stock for my kids, getting it in certificate form, and shoving it into a safe deposit box. I think this company has a very bright future ahead.

I’d say I nailed that prediction, wouldn’t you?

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Chairman Sheesh

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Perhaps you read yesterday that the Communist dictatorship of China decided yet, again, to dump trillions of yuan into their fake economy to try to create the simulacrum of prosperity. As before, countless times, it popped the stock market higher and, as has always happened, it eroded almost immediately. As I type this, the majority of gains that trillions of new debt accomplished has been laid waste. Here is what the FXI has done over the past twenty-four hours:

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