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.

Zuck Markerberg

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I was eating at a new Chinese restaurant in Belmont and was chatting with the waiter, asking how business was going. He told me things were going well, and he proudly stated that they also served as caterers to Zuck Markerberg. I thought that was a pretty cool reimagining of the man’s name, and it reminded me how much I love my META short. The put options I own on this are already up 50%, and keep in mind, they are CONSERVATIVE options with months of time left.

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About to Get Spicy!

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I’ll begin today not with a prayer but with a quote which I think is quite germane for our times.

“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world is being destroyed.” — Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic (1972)

With that in mind, here’s with the /NQ is doing relative to the comic mega-spike of Monday morning. This deceit has been about 80% reversed so far (irrelevant to the Trump clan, who already secured profits on their long ES/short CL positions).

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