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.

Boeing’s Gaping Hole

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The failing corporation Boeing, buoyed only by the fact that it is a massive gift-giver to Congress and thus has survived off the grift from defense contracts, has been taking a lot of heat for manufacturing shoddy, defective, death machines known as Boeing passenger jets. The straight-out-of-central-casting CEO (white dude, check, bald, check, too cool to wear a tie, check) has finally decided to get the hell out before all of his transgressions are discovered, so that sent the stock zipping higher, celebrating the fact that this Bozo is heading for the Exit sign sometimes before the year is over, whenever he tidies up his golden parachute.

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Important Semi Gap

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The raging rally in semiconductors came to a screeching halt on the 8th of this month, and they’ve been trying to figure out their next move ever since. I’d like to point out that the fresh price gap in AMD is an important litmus test. Following today’s FOMC’s shenanigans, if this gap holds, I believe semiconductors will have the “all clear” to keep working their way lower.