Incidentally, one of the greatest posts I’ve ever penned will come out Monday morning. I should win the Nobel Prize for a blog post. Maybe someone will give me theirs.
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.
Late-Stage Silver & Gold Rally
An update on the silver and gold rally
There has not been much use writing about the precious metals rally lately because, why add to the noise? The time for making noise was back in the spring when the Gold/Silver ratio topped (Silver/Gold bottomed) and we prepared for a stronger rally in the precious metals, this time led by silver, and also including the wider “inflation trades”. Now we look ahead in a very different way.
Silver
Let’s start with the superstar of the rally. Silver has gone vertical and on Wednesday ticked our long-term target of 92. This was based on measurement of the giant, decades-long Cup as the silver price finally broke above the rim in the 50 area and well, boy did it break.
The fundamentals have been broadcast far and wide. These include increasing industrial use in many different areas, from Medical Equipment to Clean Energy (although the solar industry is now seeking to employ less expensive alternative materials).
(more…)The Lay of the Land
You’re No Longer Needed
Here is an interesting chart: it shows how, for a solid twenty months, traffic has been diminishing with Wikipedia. This certainly makes a certain amount of sense, since these days any web search (or Copilot or Gemini or what have you) is going to give most people just about all the information they require.
