It’s curious that, while Bitcoin is pretty much just paddling around the water, staying afloat, not doing much of anything (with the same price it had over half a year ago)……..
Widening Saylor Spread
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.
All About Revenue
Most traders think of companies in terms of market cap, but revenue is a very different angle. It never occurred to me that United Healthcare has greater revenue than Apple!
The Age of Fake
You and I, being more or less human, have things in life we love or hate. I suspect my “hate” list is longer than most, although in my defense I’d like to think my much shorter “love” list is executed with special intensity.
Right near the top of my hate list is fakery, and I’d like to share some thoughts on that.
This came to mind because, with increasing frequency, I am seeing all manner of social ads which inform the viewer that if they would just sign up some kind of AI service the money would absolutely pour into one’s lap. For example, there’s a firm called Zeely which shows a comely lass sitting in front of her computer gripped with the kind of anxiety that one shows when awaiting news about a terminal illness.
Big Beautiful Shill
Another morning, another all-green screen. We have the /ES just barely skirting below lifetime highs from December and February:
1979
The video below is fascinating. It’s simply random interviews with folks on Wall Street about the topics of computers, bureaucracy, and their jobs. Everything these people were concerned about is, oh, about a hundred times worse now, so they honestly didn’t know how good they had it. It’s chilling to think that the youngest people in this are around 80 years old now, and the middle-aged folks are long dead.
