I hope Slopers had a nice Christmas. I did. Silver is having an even better Christmas, however, as it continues to blast higher. Good Lord!
Silver Bells, Silver Bells
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.
Best Posts of 2025 (Part 5 of 10)
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:
- Crappy Days Are Here Again – the Costco short
- Better Than the Real Thing – trade wars absurdity
- Curb Schlemiel – buy a house and be my neighbor!
- The Age of Fake – deceit in advertising
- Ratio Charts Update – bullish precious/bearish equities is the mantra
God Bless Us, Every One
I thought I would share with you some cherished childhood memories from my youth in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Perhaps it’ll remind you of a few of your own.
Christmas Specials Anticipation
The earliest, best sign that Christmas was nigh was when my mom would start to scotch-tape clippings from the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate onto the television set featuring Christmas specials. There would be the crucial ones such as Charlie Brown and the Grinch, and the lame-ass ones like Little Drummer Boy. In those days, of course, it was your ONLY chance all year long to see any of these, so it was terribly exciting to anticipate each one of them and relish every marvelous second.
