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Only days ago, the Q3 GDP came out, and it was a record. A massive record. It wasn’t even close. Fantastic news, right? Of course! C’mon!
Perhaps you have noticed the tremendous drop just prior. That’s important. Because it explains the big gain that follows.
(more…)As a child of the Cold War, I have a very easy “tell” that indicates when I am really anxious: I have a dream about a nuclear war. It happens every single time. If I’m extraordinarily worried, then the mushroom clouds show up. It happened to me just the other night.
The reason, as you might guess, is related to the election. However, it isn’t the election per se: it is the market’s reaction to it. Just think back to the mayhem that took place on Election Night 2016. I suspect something akin to that, but instead of taking place over several hours, it could go on for days, or even weeks. Just wild, crazy swings, up and down, with every tidbit of news lurching the market this way and that. Thus, the dreams of nuclear annihilation.
(more…)I’m just so weary of it all. I don’t care about any of these people. Trump. Biden. Hunter. Kayleigh. Not a single one. They could all be gathered together – – every single federal employee, from Powell on down, and be vaporized in a thermonuclear explosion, and we’d all be better off.
As I see it, for the whole of my life, the federal government has had two accomplishments: (1) taken away lots of my cash in taxes, which it has thrown away (2) divided the country.
That’s it. Nothing more. Divided us from top to bottom. From a national scale right down to the comments section of my beloved site.
I take solace in song. I watch something like the clip below and am reminded that it is still possible for people to create beautiful things together. There is still harmony. There is still joy. There is still the soothing melancholy of song and adoration. I live there, because it is shelter enough from the swill and discord that surround us all.
Over the course of time, many of the improvements on Slope are so small,. I don’t mention them. If I find that a noun is missing an “s” at the end, and we fix it, I’m not going to waste your time with the big news. (As a side note, the generosity of some Slopers is jaw-dropping. Mississippi Man recently spent hours reviewing the options strategy guide and send me ample corrections, and Violet has been tidying up my work for years!)
Anyway, we did release a hodgepodge of improvements lately that I think are worth noting. In no particular order:
We have improved the measurement tool so that it is intelligent about where it places its information box.
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