It’s hard to believe that, within our lifetimes, the notion of losing a lot of money in the stock market was actually part of pop culture.
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.
Last Week in One Image

F.A.T. Stocks!
I thought this was funny and also spot-on:
All Is Vanity
You’re getting older. So am I.
With every passing day, month and year, we’re going to degrade. Our hair will turn grey (or fall out). Our skin will wrinkle. Our muscles will weaken. And, at some point, we’ll die. It happens to everyone, and it shouldn’t be a source of shame or discomfort.
That is, unless you are nuts. We have all been witness to those in life who are so mentally troubled that they will spend any amount of money to attempt to stave off the aging process, sometimes with absolutely comic (more accurately, pathetic) results.
Not To Be Missed
There are some big changes coming to our nation in the months and years ahead. Here are five things I am looking forward to doing without.
ONE: The pronoun virtue-signaling insanity. (my friend Andy Swan notes that AOC has already struck this from her profile)

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