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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.
Clear as Mud
Imagine a world in which the quote for NVDA was $117 on one chart and $87 in another. Drive you crazy, right? That’s how polling is these days. We’re only 20 days until the election, and the polls from the largest organizations are TOTALLY different.
Check these out: the top one is Nate Silver’s 538 Project, and it shows Harris with an overall 2.6% lead. The lower is the RealClearPolitics amalgamation of polls, and it shows Trump with a HUGE 16% lead. The good news: your candidate is WINNING, no matter which one it is!
Ticker Beat the Polls?
Better Than Polls?
The stock DJT has more than doubled in price in just a few weeks. This would seem to suggest a GOP win for the White House. It’ll be clear in 22 days (well, maybe not clear……….) how prescient this ticker was versus the gazillion polls going on.
October Surprise
Here’s an eye-opening analysis about what October is like for the stock market in non-election years (up strongly) versus election years (down worse than any month). We shall see…………Election Day will be here in no time.
