As I do at the end of every calendar year, I have gathered together what I consider the very best posts of the thousands that have been penned this year. There are so many, I’ve broken the list into ten parts, with one to be published each day.

Here are today’s:

• Crappy Days Are Here Again – the Costco short
• Better Than the Real Thing – trade wars absurdity
• Curb Schlemiel – buy a house and be my neighbor!
• The Age of Fake – deceit in advertising
• Ratio Charts Update – bullish precious/bearish equities is the mantra

As I do at the end of every calendar year, I have gathered together what I consider the very best posts of the thousands that have been penned this year. There are so many, I’ve broken the list into ten parts, with one to be published each day.

Here are today’s:

• Eerily Quiet – buy gold instead of stocks!
• Gold Mining Macrocosm Fully Engaged – the heads-up on buying precious miners
• Polite Society – greetings from Moorea
• Entry Level Blobs – AI instead of humans!
• The Bilateral Foreign Deal – trade deals galore

As I do at the end of every calendar year, I have gathered together what I consider the very best posts of the thousands that have been penned this year. There are so many, I’ve broken the list into ten parts, with one to be published each day.

Here are today’s:

• Fifty Thousand Posts Ago – Slope turns Twenty
• Twenty Years of Slope – a video to commemorate our 20th birthday
• 3 Weeks. 3 White Flags. – the aftermath of Liberation Day
• Front Page Follies – ripped from Palo Alto’s headlines
• Circles of Trust – we get a scary card in our mailbox

As I do at the end of every calendar year, I have gathered together what I consider the very best posts of the thousands that have been penned this year. There are so many, I’ve broken the list into ten parts, with one to be published each day.

Here are today’s:

• Hot New Boondoggle – the government’s massive bet on AI
• Divine Justice – the DeepSeek bomb drops
• Great Expectations and Bitcoin – Crypto bros are clinically insane
• Severed – philosophical musings from the television series
• Love Story – the most personal post ever