Exactly twenty-two years ago, I walked into the Fry’s Electronics store in Palo Alto to get a few items, and I was faced with this cheerful cover on the magazine rack:
The Boom that Busted
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.
For T.K.
The Steve Jobs Movie
Just to set this up, here’s the trailer from the movie in question (which came out a few years ago):
75 Years Ago Today
Thank You, Centron!
In retrospect, I guess it was all a little too obvious.
Betting on Zero
I love documentaries. And I love equity bears. So I’m doubly-stunned that I didn’t know about Betting on Zero, which is available freely to any of you that are Netflix subscribers.
The documentary is about Bill Ackman’s fabled fight against Herbalife by way of his billion dollar short position. The film is marvelously edited, and absolutely engrossing. It was done a few years ago, so it’s kind of awkward that Bill Ackman pledges to the poor Latinos he’s speaking with that he would fight until the end of time against HLF, and yet he actually surrendered completely in March 2018. Still, I heartily encourage you to watch this documentary; it’s terrific.
A Sale of Two Titties
We’ve all heard about the college admissions scandal in which 50 parents were charged with trying to cheat to get an acceptance from elite schools for the sake of their apparently not-too-bright offspring.
As much publicity as this scandal has received, the two most well-known of the accused are these two mothers-of-the-year – Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman:
