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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.
The Dreadful Inflection
Five-Star Sloper Blank sent me the link to the WTF Happened in 1971 website, and here are a few choice charts to show that specific year was a horrid inflection point for the country (except for the top 1%) and has brought us to where we are today.
Endless Summer
When this bubble-to-end-all-bubbles finally pops, it’s going to be incredible. Until then…….
The U.S. is Off the Charts!
Wow, this is pretty sad.
Retail Real-Tell
This morning’s key economic report was retail, and it was a bit of a whiplash for futures. The core retail month over month figure was expected to be +0.2% but was instead -0.1%. They also had to update the prior month’s figure lower since it was, ya know, totally made up out of whole cloth.
