Preface to all parts: 2019 was a great year for the Slope of Hope, with a much wider array of tools and a record number of premium subscribers. I have extracted what I consider the best posts from the year and, for the sake of everyone’s sanity, arranged links to them in a set of ten short posts.
Trillionaire
A young FOREX goofball trips on his way to becoming earth’s richest man
The China Deal
A guest post that anticipated the outcome of the China deal eleven months in advance
What’s Your Problem?
Do bears short market from a sense of virtue?
Derailed
The dumb, dumb, dumb California High Speed Rail fiasco
Palo Alto Problems
Getting kicked off the robotics team causes a local brouhaha
Ten. Long. Years.
A less-than-enthusiastic celebration of the bull market’s 10th birthday
Parental Perspective
Reflections on the college admissions scandal
The Shroud
The death of a local Stanford student
