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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.
The Big Plunge
Watching clips from The Big Short made me wistful for the glory days of late 2008 and early 2009. Let’s take a look at a good example from that era: AIG International.
Until the year 2000, this was one of the safest, steadiest, winningest stocks. It was pretty much the NVDA of its day.
The Real Short
Here is a really entertaining video of the actual Steve Eisman discussing The Big Short, which is an important movie for any Sloper to see.
Meetings Galore
It’s very unusual for me, but I’ve got an afternoon full of business meetings, so you’ll need to excuse me a while. I will pledge, however, that if the aforementioned meetings are not at least as diverse in age, hair, race, and gender as the one pictured below, I will be SO out of there! And by God, everyone had better be smiling when I speak, just as demonstrated here.
Charta Obscura
I plumbed the depths of my secondary watch list to uncover these short-sale ideas. You’re welcome.
