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.
Here’s an interesting diagram of what percentage of a given country’s economy is spent on the military. Ukraine is, for obvious reasons, by far the leader, spending ten times what the U.S. does in the midst of its existential crisis.
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(more…)Here’s some food for thought as temperatures warm up around the country: there’s a thin sliver where it’s pretty much comfortable the entire year.
I just went through 180 long-term commodity and futures charts. Here are those I found most interesting (remarks in caption area below each image)
Man, Moorea makes meandering morning musings more manageable.
As surely you have heard, our fearless leader has back-pedaled for the umpteenth time on what I had been told was his favorite word, tariffs. Whereas we had a delightful, Bear Force One-initiated plunge early on Friday, that entire drop has been undone, and then some, with Trump giving the EU yet even more time – – all the way through the July 9th “ninety day pause” terminus.
It’s kind of challenging trying to trade when a single tweet can upend everything.
