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.
Pre-Midterms QE
There are seventy-six days until the very consequential midterm elections. Your hero is exceptionally unpopular, in spite of what you might be telling yourself, and his underling, Scott Bessent, well realizes he needs to do everything in his power to help. Thus, the power bottom of the Treasury just announced a DOUBLED of the quantitative easing program, plunging the nation even farther past its already $40 trillion in debt, all for the purpose of buying U.S. debt that no one else wants.
The effect has been immediately, as treasuries are soaring (I mentioned covering my TLT short and selling my TBT long yesterday):
Louder than Bonds
As America continues to crumble for reasons I’ve pledged not to discuss, lest I pierce one group’s ostensibly thick and high-T-count skin, I applaud my bet-again-Mericuh, by way of my TLT short.
Understand the Carry Trade
Bureaucrats Nail It!
Between now and the election, about 80 days away, the federal government is going to crank out ANY forecast that’ll support the stock market. They did so this morning, with four numbers which, gosh, gee, precisely match in all four forecast cases. Golly!
