I’m sure you’ve heard of the Sphere. It’s that gargantuan hemisphere with a zillion monitors on the inside which people pay to go inside and take videos of the monitors. Literally people taking videos of videos. Sheesh. Anyway.

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.
I’m sure you’ve heard of the Sphere. It’s that gargantuan hemisphere with a zillion monitors on the inside which people pay to go inside and take videos of the monitors. Literally people taking videos of videos. Sheesh. Anyway.

Almost every penny of this is courtesy of the tens of trillions of dollars of debt in the U.S. If the country had a balanced budget for its entire history, the top person on this list would probably have a few billion bucks. Anyhoo, here they are…….

Every so often, I get the urge to run barefoot through Slope’s wonderful economic database. Here are some of the more interesting charts I found, any one of which you can click for an easier-to-read, screen-filling version.

