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.
Currency Incinerator
The Death of Diamonds
This time I’m not referring to the Dow 30 fund DIA but instead actual diamonds. It just goes to show how a technology introduction (in this case, high quality lab-made diamonds at a fraction of the price of the natural ones) can lay waste to an industry. Like, oh, I dunno, the prospect of quantum computing destroying crypto?
2026 Monetary, Fiscal Backdrop & Economy
A modified * excerpt from the February 22nd edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 903:
The Drive to the Mid-Terms
We know that the Trump administration is going to do all it can to to pump the economy, or more precisely, the stock market, into the mid-term elections. It was no coincidence that AG Bondi was babbling about the Dow over 50,000 at a hearing that had NOTHING to do with the stock market. I believe Scott Bessent is hard at work trying to engineer policy of both government and Fed in order to see to a nice economic backdrop into Q4.
Politicians. These may be absurdly different ones. But politicians be politicians and they do politician things, like attempt to hoodwink the public through fiscal maneuvering and hence, manipulation every election cycle, regardless of political party.
(more…)Poor California!
Those listening to insane, unhinged media are convinced that California is an unmitigated disaster. The actual facts don’t tend to bear this out.
