Can you imagine it? Just 12,000 years ago, there were only 4.5 million people on the entire planet. Wouldn’t that be an amazing time? The dog to person ratio alone would make it worthwhile.
My Dream World
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.
Celebrate the Bifurcation!
Attentive readers know all too well how obsessed I’ve been with ratio charts this year. The message has been unanimous and strong: bullish precious/bearish equities. I am particularly fixated on the lesser-known palladium, whose long-term value divided by the SPY yields a very bullish-looking base.
Farewell, iRobot
What a Creep!
For weeks now, or even months, the morning market seems to come in just two flavors. One of them, the most common, is for everything to be up a little bit, which has accrued into an equity market that makes lifetime highs on a regular basis. The other, far less common, is a good, strong chop lower based on some kind of news that actually justifies some selling.
This morning, we appear to be in Mode One, as typical, with equity futures all up about 1/4 to 1/2 of a percent. Boooooooooo-ring.
