As a kid who grew up listening to Beethoven and Gilbert & Sullivan operas, I was never exactly a Black Sabbath or Ozzy Osbourne guy. As an adult however, I stumbled upon The Osbournes show on MTV years ago, and I was instantly hooked. It was cool to see a famous heavy metal star dealing with the same kind of family and dog nonsense (albeit in a mansion) that the rest of us do. He died yesterday, so let us all hoist a mug of – – what, goat blood? – – in his direction.
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.
This Afternoon’s Rainmakers
We’re getting into the white-hot part of the earnings season when multiple household names are doing their reports at the same time. Let’s face it, it’s not very exciting when the biggest event on an earnings day is Pacific Gas & Electric. Anyway, here are the four monsters heading straight for us, with two of them being Mag-7 members.
Microcap Positioned to Profit
Sticky Fingers
Analog Waterlogged
You’d think since I’ve been mixed up in tech since 1980 that I would know my way around the terminology, but until now I never really grasped what an “analog semiconductor” was. It sounds like an oxymoron. All this time, I figured TXN wasn’t much different than NVDA or any other semiconductor company. Wrong! Analog devices measure variable signals and “real world” type data, and that sector is getting zapped hard today. Here are three representatives, with our old friend ON included:
