This rather engaging analogy……..
May I Propose……..
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.
Go Fourth: Crucial Knowledge
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, I was delighted to see The Fourth Turning is Here book, which I purchased and read over the course of just a couple of days (which is no mean feat, since this sucker is nearly 500 pages long).
I truly enjoyed the book, although I’d say easily 70-80% of the book is there for fleshing out the concepts. The entire thesis of this book, as well as its prediction about what is to come, could be condensed down to probably about thirty pages or so. This is not to say that the bulk of the book is fluff; it’s simply not essential to the points being made.
I’m certainly not going to try to boil it down further into a single post, but I’d at least like to share a variety of thoughts and impressions drawn from my reading. I’m going to be completely lazy and just bang this out as a series of individual, disjointed paragraphs. I’ve also interspersed a variety of graphics that are related to the content.
(more…)Pure Imagination
I suspect most of you have heard about the incident in Glasgow, Scotland, in which parents and children alike were beckoned to buy tickets to have a “chocolate experience” created by none other than Willy Wonka which would be “a chocolate fantasy like never before“. Fanciful images were offered to suggest the kind of sensational, vibrant paradise that could be experienced at this one-of-a-kind event.
Parallel Perilous Pathways
I like looking at charts. I think that’s clear, because if I didn’t, I would have quit this job decades ago. Thus, when I was thumbing through them the other day, I was struck by a strange parallel. First, we have the chart of Abercrombie & Fitch, the maker of pricey clothing for young people with the famously sexy advertisements.
Colliding Waves (by Silver Singularity)
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Hey Slopers, happy new year and I’m back with some crispy food for you!
This is certainly the most interesting time since I’ve been in the markets, I think we are at a very critical time and let me explain why:
Here we are back at all time highs for the three big indexes after a rapid digestion of the pullback we had this summer, pullback that was once again driven by long term rates.
And today you know the narrative: “soft landing, rates are going down because the inflation fight is over and the FED is going to be our friend again so we’re so back baby!”
Btw the bond market has become such a holy temple of volatility nowadays that it has become a little scary. Crazy how the market has been getting used to it at first glance.
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