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.

They Chose HIM?

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When I read Bernanke had won the Nobel Prize, I thought it was some stupid joke. But it’s no joke. This man, who is one of the most culpable parties regarding the economic cataclysm that has only begun, had been giving the highest honor in economics. It’s absolutely disgusting, and quite sincerely, it tells me that the bear market is going to be FAR worse and longer-lasting than I dared dream.

Here’s this gem, in case you forgot how brilliant the man was:

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Fed Spread 2.0

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About six weeks ago, I did a post called The Near-Perfect Predictor which illustrated how, with some formulaic sleight-of-hand with SlopeCharts, its layered charts feature, and its access to Federal Reserve Economic Data, it could offer up a remarkably prescient view into what the S&P 500 was going to do next.

Ever since then, every Thursday, I have published for premium members up-to-date charts illustrating what the chart portends. (Interestingly, when I did the post, the S&P was just about at its juiciest with respect to potential to fall). Here were my crazy scribblings at the time:

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