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.

Santa’s Shiny Ornaments

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I have been enthusiastic about precious metals for years. There are a couple of reasons why I was able to defy my own instincts to just short everything in sight and make a special exception for precious metals:

  1. I wanted to do whatever I could to get away from being labeled nothing but a permabear, so I wanted an entire sector for which I could be a cheerleader;
  2. I perceived the success of precious metals as a hearty poke in the eye to central bankers around the world, so philosophically it was a very agreeable position.

I just randomly jumped back a couple of years to offer up a tidbit of evidence that I loved precious before loving precious was cool, and I found one not very subtly titled Go Go Gold in which I state how bullish GDX and GDXJ look. They’re up about 250% since then. Not bad!

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Best Posts of 2025 (Part 1 of 10)

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As I do at the end of every calendar year, I have gathered together what I consider the very best posts of the thousands that have been penned this year. There are so many, I’ve broken the list into ten parts, with one to be published each day.

Here are today’s: