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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.
Mister Chanos
One of life’s cruel truths is that short sellers tend to be, in the aggregate, much smarter and far poorer than their bullish counterparts. That seems counterintuitive, since people assume a positive correlation between intellect and wealth, but that simply isn’t the case (I direct your attention toward the White House if you disagree).
Although there are dozens of dingbat famous permabulls (Jim Cramer, Cathie Wood, etc.) there’s only one famous short in the world, and he is Jim Chanos. Please enjoy this terrific interview:
Crude Charts
No, not crude oil, and no, not in poor taste. I mean a crude granularity – – monthly charts – – now that July is behind us. I’ve put some remarks in the caption for each.
South Korea Rehash
I posted this on Friday, but it didn't get the attention it deserved. So here we are again:
I see that South Korea’s government is considering a number of things to bail out their doe-eyed bulls:
All Up to ES/NQ
For three entire months – May, June, and July – the /ES has been grinding around with absolutely no clear direction, unsure of what’s going on with the war, what’s going on with the economy, and what’s going on with AI. It is a nearly inscrutable mess, but I’ve tried to make the lines below as clean and simple as possible to illustrate what I believe are the important price levels.
