Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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Now I Own the Whole Phrase

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I would hope that everyone here is well acquainted with the classic bromide about financial markets: “They climb a wall of worry and slide down a slope of hope.” The more perceptive among you figured out a while ago that the domain name for my beloved little corner of the Internet comes from that phrase. That’s one reason, I would suppose, that the site is perceived as bearish.

A while back, I noticed that the domain wallofworry.com was for sale. I almost bought it, but I decided it was just a silly waste of money (similar to my purchase of knight.club which, let’s face it, is a cool URL). Anyway, I checked again this morning, and the price has dropped enough that I couldn’t resist. So, people of the world, I now own both URLs and, thus, the whole flippin’ expression!

Errr, No Thanks.

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As we enter yet-another-day-of-lifetime-highs, a brief anecdote……Over the many years I’ve been doing Slope, I’ve received literally thousands of solicitations to submit “guest posts” (thinly disguised advertisements for products and services). I’ve refused them all. In fact, I’ve set my email filters to screen out this junk, since easily 99% of my emails are spam. Sometimes they get through, like this one:

I’ve tinted this email, because, keep in mind, this is a solicitation to post written articles in Slope. My comments on the tinted areas are:

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