And there we have it. After a sharp drop in the value for the world’s largest company, the markets have totally healed yet again, with the screen entirely green this morning, celebrating NVDA shrugging off its quarterly report.
Is That So Huang?
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.
Shrinking Planet
The portions in red indicate the countries in which more people died in 2024 than were born. In other words, the population is shrinking. Interesting clustering of these nations, don’t you think?
Fertile Grounds
For once, my home state of Louisiana leads the way.
Poverty Gets Unpopular
Gold Ratios to Cyclical Markets
Important gold ratios to markets that are more cyclical
When gold rises again vs. these markets the counter-cyclical economic view will generally be back on. Gold has far more utility (insurance, risk-off liquidity, relative value retention) during economically troubled times than cyclical assets like stocks and commodities.
Gold/SPX (U.S. stock market)
A sweet consolidation as the market angst of the spring has gone bye-bye. This is a lovely consolidation that was much needed as gold got over-pumped to the upside (and stocks to the downside) in April.
