There was a time that DELL was a thing of beauty. Supple, winsome, successful, and sure to inspire little else than up, up, and up some more.
Dell, Before and After
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.
Nurse! Oh, Nurse!
Below is an illustration of how much the public trusts those in various professions. At the top of the heap are nurses. I dunno, I mean, they have a tough job, and God bless ’em, but they’re exceptionally well paid for what they do. Way at the bottom of the list is anyone in Congress. Why not just disband the whole stupid thing? That 43-day government shutdown didn’t affect me one BIT, and I’d love to hang on these extra millions every year instead of sending them to corrupt scumbags like Hegseth and Bondi.
Tesla Trend Fails
Tesla peaked at almost $500 on December 22nd. In the short time since then, it has shed about 15% of its value.
The Red Hills of Georgia
It was only one week ago that I wrote a post called Advantage: Bulls, in which I decried the hopeless situation for the bears. Woe, woe be unto you who dare, as did I, the endless advantages our bullish brethren possess!
Well, if you have even a lick of sense, you know that when the likes of Tim Knight throw his arms up at any possibility the market would ever fall, you should buy every single put option you can find. Because what followed my defeatist and self-pitying post was more than predictable……….
The Red Menace
The population of China is begin to fall, and if things keep going this way, they are going to shrink by hundreds of millions of people. GREAT! The fewer humans, the better, I always say. It’s interesting to me that the birth rate plunged AFTER the government stopped their one-child policy. Leave it to a federal government to screw it up, no matter what the circumstances! Can you imagine being a failure at telling people to have more unprotected sex? They found a way.
