Whoever would have dreamed that Chinese consumers would be the salvation for American pistachio farmers?
China Has Gone Nuts
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.
United Fats of America
Here’s a state-by-state breakdown of the U.S. and country-by-country breakdown of Europe showing where our portly compatriots reside. It seems like Kentucky is the heftiest, with over 40% of the population obese (!!!!) whereas most of France can still fit in their pants.
Buy A Home? Oh.
Balances and Imbalances
Here’s an at-a-glance way of seeing the countries with which the U.S. has a trade surplus (green) or deficit (red, with China obviously being far and away the largest).
Best Buds
For you dog fans out there, here’s a cute little video of Duke and Mojave. They roughhouse a lot, and in this instance Mojave bit Duke a little harder than he should have, which made him yelp. Duke came over a few moments later to assure Mojave that all was forgiven.
