This is a shameless comment-cleaner (I’ll do a real post in a bit), but in honor of the just-deceased Michael Collins, here is a very funny Norm bit that involves the man:
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.
A Labor of Love
This………….is incredible. Of all the things to come out of /wsb-land, this must be the best ever. Someone spent a huge amount of time on this:
Why am I still holding? I’m an Apeman. from r/wallstreetbets
Farewell, Phillip. Rest in Peace.
Where’s Taldo?
I was musing only a few days ago about maybe doing a Slope chat room inside the red-hot app Clubhouse. My idea was met with a resounding ticker symbol NFW from the group, and having listened to the Stocks & Options room again this morning (for as long as I could stomach it, which was about 40 seconds) I’m starting to lean that way.
The Meaning of SPAC
Even just a couple of years ago, the notion that “blank check” companies (that is, publicly-traded shell corporations with no business, no revenue, no earnings, and no real purpose) would be one of the most popular vehicles for taking a company into the public markets would have been seen as laughable, if not scandalous. We live in wacky times, however, so Space Purpose Acquisition Corporations (SPAC) stocks have been all the rage.
Having seen what appears to be a very typical pattern among these stocks – – I would like to suggest a new definition to the acronym:
Scrutiny
Precludes
Ailing
Corporations
Because any legitimately promising organization has to go through the travails of a lengthy road show and all the deep examination of investment banks and the buying public before they achieve what so few private companies achieve, which is to become a public-traded financial instrument. The “back door” that the SPAC provides allows sub-par companies to do the same thing without the discomfort of prying eyes.
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