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.

Sinking the Middle Kingdom

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This one chart says it all. The desperate and cynical Chinese Communist Party has tried harsher and harsher measures to recapture the image of prosperity, which peaked literally in August 2008, which was eons ago. Besides making short-selling illegal (which is always a sign of a doomed market), the latest scheme is buying TRILLIONS in stock as a “rescue package”. The result? The last few days of price drops have been erased. What a joke. The money is going to be GONE, but believe you me, the market is going to cut through to new lows, and probably for years to come. China is screwed.

REALLY Red China

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In spite of being a country which exists on nothing but lies, China has been unable to fool the world into thinking they are some kind of commercial paradise. This is reflected in their dying stock market, which, in complete defiance of the trillions of dollars thrown at it by the dictatorship ruling the country, simply keeps sinking lower. It’s actually pretty damned beautifully, particularly since it conforms to what should happen beneath a right triangle top on FXI.

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