I am using every bit of my force of will to prevent me from buying palladium until it is at a good price. What’s my target? I’d say this gap closure I’m emphasized:
Hey, Pall, Come Here a Minute
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.
I, Robot. Sort Of.
Having opened up a retail store for robots in 1985 (I’m serious), I’m naturally interested in all things robotic. I have started seeing advertisements for a new humanoid robot called Neo, and I instantly knew it was not ready for prime time. Check out this hilarious overview:
Snap To It!
As you surely have heard, SNAP benefits (called “food stamps” back in my day) are at risk of being chopped off immediately since the government is shut down. Below is a map (larger when clicked) showing the percentage of households using this handout. It’s jaw-dropping to me that this goes up to nearly 50%. Does ANYONE besides me (and premium members) work anymore?
Spidey Sense FTMFW
Early this morning, when the NASDAQ was raging hundreds of points higher, I said my “spidey sense” was that it would weaken all day. Well, so far, so good. Take THAT, Zerohedge permabulls!
The Horror of Meta
Last August, I couldn’t have been clearer. I wrote at length in a premium post about why Meta was headed for disaster. Simply stated, paying young men $300 to $1,000 million a year to sit on their butts and shoot the breeze a few hours a day isn’t a business model, but that’s PRECISELY what they were doing inside MSL. I was so uneasy about the post that, for the only time in Slope history, I deleted it shortly after posting it. All the same, my words were prescient.
