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.

Critical Mineral Exploration

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Manufacturing, Bessent & the Orange Man

Excerpted from the October 12th edition of Notes From the Rabbit Hole, NFTRH 884:

[edit] A reader commented at the Substack version of this article (please subscribe, it’s free) suggesting that I not redact the names of the stocks in question (below) so that readers can measure the value of my “recommendations” before subscribing.

My response: I understand, and agree to a point. That point is one I don’t cross, however. If [NFTRH Premium] subscribers are trying to buy/add to positions, having me blabbing about them is counter-productive. I do not promote at all costs. That’s the next newsletter down the street. As a side note, most of this stuff has already gone up so far that I would not reco buying up here. All I am doing is in some cases adding on pullbacks.

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Gold Rules the Roost

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Gold’s strength isn’t a one day, one week, or one month thing. The king of precious metals has outperformed equities over every meaningful time horizon. If the media presented the stock market in real money terms (that is to say, gold) the interest in the stock market would be 10% of what it is today, because people would realize that stocks peaked in late 1999 and haven’t revisited those highs since!