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.
What’s with Nvidia?
Six Figures Down the Middle
Inflation has become so rampant that a six-figure household income has become merely the 50% mark for states like California. The least-surprising data: D.C. sucks out more money than anyone else, whereas Mississippi has taken its usual position in last place.
Annual Bars to Consider
Instead of the normal daily bar charts, let’s do something unusual and check out a much cruder granularity: annual bars. That’s right – – just a single bar to represent the billion things that take place inside a calendar year.
Below is the SPY going back for about eighty years. I have highlighted with rectangles two portions to make a particular point.
Slope: Still Human!
I’ve written professionally since I was 15 years old. Rest assured, the nearly 50,000 posts here on Slope all come from human beings (mostly me). For better or worse, what you read are transcripts from the voices in my head.
