Perhaps you’ve heard of the way to make God laugh: tell him your plans. I suspect the treasonous fool Jerome Powell fits in that category. Behold the four charts below.
Making God Laugh
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.
2020 World Economic Cannibalism
Here’s a snippet of what I wrote in my post of November 9, 2018 with respect to world market headwinds and ‘harmonic globalism’…
(more…)Blimey!
Because I am a deeply-troubled person, I spent my Sunday morning looking at centuries-old financial data from the United Kingdom. SlopeCharts – – which, if you’re not, you really should be using – – has a jaw-dropping amount of data in its economic database, and for a lunatic like me, it’s great fun just trawling through it. Here are some gems I found (descriptions captioned):
Pivot Point
Any time I look at a long-term chart of economic data from the U.S., there seems to be an important inflection point at 1979. For example, wealth equality seemed to reach its peak then, but then it “V-bottomed” and has never looked back.
I thought of this recently when I was messing around in the economic database within SlopeCharts and looked at the debt-to-GDP ratio. Look at what was going on from about 1965 to 1979:
Economic Chart Funhouse
Some carefully-chosen charts I’ve created in SlopeCharts with data from our friends at the Federal Reserve. Draw your own conclusions. I’ve certainly drawn mine. Click any chart for a big version, and note the description is thoughtfully captioned by your favorite financial blogger.
The Shift of Trade Power
Pre-Market Earnings
Here are the five big firms reporting Wednesday morning before the opening bell. These all seem to be financial “perma-risers” to me, but click on any of these for a large version. They all seem to be eerily steady.
