Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Money Maps

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I was driving one of my kids over to a friend’s house the other day. The destination was Atherton, which is adjacent to Palo Alto and a very rich town. The houses tend to be 10, 15, 20 million dollars, or much more, and the lots are vastly larger than those in neighboring communities.

As I was driving there, what was striking to me was the map on my display. Where I was driving, the streets were very far apart, whereas just on the other side of a particular road (the proverbial “wrong side of the tracks“) the density was far greater. Here is what I mean:

Athertonmap
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Gold Stock Correction and Upcoming Opportunity

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Note: I want to take a moment to thank Tim for the opportunity to occasionally post for the Slope audience. It occurs to me that it can get a little robotic as in ‘okay, time now to re-post my article over at SoH’ as if it’s just another function. But the proprietor here has given we guest writers a very nice venue and I think a note of appreciation is in order.

Before updating the status of the gold miner (HUI) correction, let’s take a quick review of the Macrocosm, because it’s always a good time to be clear on important macro considerations.

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Follow the Money (by Lee Adler)

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Note from Tim: I think I could save myself a lot of time and energy by just publishing really good emails. This is another one I just received from Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner – – he has kindly given me permission to share it here with all of you. I have made minor edits for clarity and brevity, plus I’ve added a bunch of goofy pictures to try to keep your attention.

Tim, as I hope you know, I love your work. I was a customer of ProphetCharts many moons ago. And of course, I’ve been syndicating your posts on WSE for a while.

I was somewhat bemused about your Via Mundi post.

I’ve spent the last 19 1/2 years online explaining just how the money gets into the system and how that impacts the markets.

There’s normally only one conduit for monetary policy transmission, except when the Fed goes crazy with alphabet soup programs. But even those are but the pimple on the elephant’s ass compared with its main transmission mechanism.

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I’m. An. Ord. I. Nar. Y. Guy.

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No visible means of support and you have not seen nothin’ yet
Everything’s stuck together
And I don’t know what you expect starring into the TV set
Fighting fire with fire

It is a terribly difficult time to be a thinking person. Almost agonizing.

Hey, hold up there, Tim-bo. I’ve been buying stocks, and I’ve been doing great! I’m a thinking person!

No, you’re not. You’re opportunistic. You’re profitable. But you’re not thinking. You’re just in the right place, at the right time, with the right disposition.

I say again: this is a terrible time to be a thinking person. The more stupid you are, the better you’ll do. The more cloying, the better. A sycophant? You’ll thrive.

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