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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.
Winners of the Years
Here’s a great snapshot of how various asset classes have fared in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024. You can see at a glance why the Bitcoin crowd is so strident.
Most Prosperous
Here is the ranked list of countries via GDP. Go, Luxembourg!
The Kings of Plunder
In more naive days, I assumed private equity firms were sharp and sophisticated optimizers of capitalism, but after reading Plunder (which I reviewed here a year ago), I now understand them as the most shameless of criminals which make Samuel Bankman-Fried look like a saint. Anyway, here are the most successful criminals in the world:
