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.

End of the Diabetes Industry?

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A Threat To The Diabetes Cash Cow

Years ago, in a conversation with an endocrinologist, I mentioned there was no incentive to cure diabetes, giving the money companies were making from managing it (with testing supplies, insulin, etc.). He replied that the incumbents had no incentive to cure it, but a startup company would. Now it looks like one has—at least in one patient. Sana Biotechnology (SANA 0.00%↑) has developed a one-time treatment that could upend the entire diabetes industry.

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United Opportunity?

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Considering my opinion of United Healthcare as a company, and my adoration of Luigi Mangione, this will be a surprising post, but – – UNH looks like a cheaply valued long-term bullish opportunity based on nothing more than its trendline. Again, I wouldn’t mind UNH’s headquarters being hit with a neutron bomb, but as a chartist, I simply wanted to point out the stock has been beaten down to its lifetime support level (which, I should hasten to add, is not guaranteed to never fail).