It’s sometimes hazardous to judge a stock’s next-day performance based on its after-hours post-earnings behavior, but here are some quick takes on key stocks………….
Initial Reactions
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.
LBO So’s Ya Know
By the Book
Just as movie theatres were going to be wiped out by VHS tapes, and music was going to be wiped out by Napster, another prediction was that physical books would disappear thanks to eBooks. Nope!
Dalio Dalliance
Well, I’ve been going since 4:40 this morning, so I’m just about out of the proverbial gas. I’m a big fan of Ray Dalio’s work, particularly this item, and I wanted to share a few of my favorite charts and illustrations from his Economic Principles website. Here ya go:
Incomprehensible
A few days ago, I finally finished reading, for the first time, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I would like to introduce this topic by way of Groucho Marx.
I get my hair cut on a regular basis, which is about the only time I am exposed to television. Since I get my hair cut early in the afternoon, what’s on the television is even more horrid than normal since it is, by definition, daytime television.
What was being broadcast was a reboot of You Bet Your Life, this time hosted by a (surprisingly elderly) Jay Leno. Why Leno feels the need to whore himself out on a cheesy daytime game show is beyond me, but there ya go. It’s a free country. I guess he likes the money.
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