Below is a plot of the economic center, geographically, for the past couple thousand years. The massive shift from 1820 to 1913 was thanks to the U.S., whereas the equally large shift from 2000 to 2025 was due to China.
The Gravity of China
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.
Giving It 100%
Here is an eye-popping table for you: it illustrates a number of equity-related ratios – – cold, hard data, not Jim Cramer-eseque clown-like nonsense – – along with various percentile ranks. These relative positions are shown with data back to 2000, 1970, and 1950. As you can see by the plethora of 100% percentile values, the stock market is pegging the meter by virtually any measure.
It is clinically insane for a person to declare the stock market to be a bad investment in an environment of LIFETIME highs every single weekday, but…………I’ll embrace the insanity label, because this is nuts.
Calipoornia
Doin’ our part!
Czech’s in the Mail
Here’s a breakdown of poverty in Europe: plenty of poor folks in Turkey whereas Czechia has about one-third the percentage.
Palo Alto Pulling Its Weight
Most of the country just doesn’t matter, it seems, if it wasn’t for the fact we needed food to eat.
