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.

Free $50 Book: Here’s Why…..

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I have written dozens of books, but the one I’m most proud of is my novel Solid State.

It is a very well-reviewed book (4.8 stars!) but I’d love to bump this up to 100 reviews to help get the word out more. For this reason, I am taking brand new copies of my $50 book and giving them away for nothing except the promise that, if you really like it, you’ll leave a positive review.

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Until They Don’t

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This is one of those days which doesn’t exactly write itself, content-wise. I’ll therefore just show a couple of hand-scratcher charts whose purpose in life seems to be to just go up every day without fail.

The first is Sandisk (SNDK), the #1 performer (by far) of Q1 2026 which is continuing to create lifetime highs every single day, in spite of absolutely no earnings at all. It’ll keep going up until it doesn’t, and this is the kind of stock I would never short………..ever.

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Rogue’s Gallery

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It’s widely agreed that the world’s best-known crime family has stolen BILLIONS of dollars from their nitwit followers, particularly by way of crypto. The catastrophes have been legion – – but the latest scandal revolves around the hilariously-named World Liberty Financial, whose chart bears a striking resemblance to just about every other thing he has smeared with his reputation:

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