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.

Bursting the Bubble

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I have managed to acquire two tin cans and a significant amount of string in order to establish a communications line between this plane and the ground. (C’mon, airlines, can you just get Starlink and enter the 21 century?!?!) I’ll be sitting up in bed late tonight cranking out lots of posts, but for now you folks are on a starvation diet.

As I speculated last night, all it took to vault markets into yet-more-lifetime-highs was a non-hot CPI report. Thus, the Dow Industrials are at lifetime highs:

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DeAAd

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I’m sorry everyone, but due to the fact that American Airlines has the world’s worst Wi-Fi I am almost completely off-line and it will not be doing any posts for the trading day. The only reason I’m able to leave this post is because I am pathetically using my phone to send this message. Sort of like shoving a piece of paper into a bottle and hoping that somebody gets it. In any case you can count on a ton of posts this weekend, but the crappy Wi-Fi that’s American Airlines has provided has rendered this entire flight a washout.