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.

Lactose Intolerant

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When I was a kid, the business fantasy in America was “if we could just sell one Coke to every person in China….……” Of course,, never did the folks in the 1970s dream of what the China/U.S. relationship would be these days, in which American cities are old and decrepit looking compared to almost any major Chinese city (of which there are hundreds).

Starbucks isn’t trying to sell Coke, of course, but they are trying to sell coffee, and they aren’t exactly setting the world on fire, since the oddly-named Luckin is smoking them.

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Red China

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For all the pearl-clutching and teeth-gnashing last week about how amazing yet-another-bailout from China would be, it hasn’t amounted to jack squat. There was feverish talk about how the Chinese Communist Dictatorship’s Ministry of Finance (sounds straight out of 1984, doesn’t it?) was going to hold a big press conference on Saturday and Monday morning. They did, declaring how “ultra-long-term bonds” (that’ll never be paid off, I’m quite sure) in the TRILLIANS of yuan were being issued. In response, the market hasn’t done dick.

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