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.

Tuba Mirum Spargens Sonum

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I rarely got told ‘no” as a child.

The reason, mainly, was that I asked for so little. It’s not like we were destitute. We were a perfectly normal middle-class family. It’s just that, for whatever reason, I never felt inclined to bug my parents for this-or-that. Even if the thing I wanted cost maybe two bucks, I didn’t have the heart to bug them.

It isn’t that I didn’t want anything, though. I would see things on television, or in stores, which would absolutely captivate me, but even though I was never admonished to not ask for “stuff”, I instinctively refrained from doing so. Maybe it was a sense of decency toward my family. Or maybe I was too afraid of being disappointed. Whatever the reason, I didn’t ask.

But the memories are still there. Allow me to share with you some of the trifles that I wanted so badly as a child, but never asked my parents to buy.

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NFT… arrrRH

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Dear Slope people, this is a different post than my usual. If Tim decides it is worth posting please take it in the spirit intended, which is the spirit of despising bubbles and especially bubbles that are so transparent and promoted at the hands of the media/celebrity complex. –Gary

Response from Tim: Nah, Gary, I’m delighted you did this post. I think the NFT thing is insane too, with one obvious exception.

NOTES FROM THE rabbit hole…NFTrh

The NFT part is all that matters. Not the words “notes from the”, implying information delivered from somewhere. Not “rabbit hole”, implying that somewhere is a pretty different, even weird place.

You see, with my antiquated notions of sound market management, which includes investment and/or speculation in real assets, including real monetary value (gold), equities of real companies doing real things and the commodities consumed during real… okay, manufactured economic growth, it is really pretty odd that I am now seen, because of 3 stupid letters, by some as part of the newest craze in the financial markets, the Non Fungible Tokens craze.

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Free Two Months & Free NFT!

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Good morning, everyone. Well, it was another terrific night for crypto, so in that spirit, here’s the wildest Slope of Hope membership deal ever!

Buy any Annual Membership (which means you pay for 10 months and get 2 months for free), and I will also send you ANY of the five remaining ticker.art NFTs at absolutely no charge! (You’ll need a wallet, obviously, so I can transfer it).

Now at long last you can tell your friends at cocktail parties about your one-of-a-kind NFT, so the bragging rights alone must be worth something. And when you see some of the changes coming before this year is over, believe me, you ARE going to want to be a premium member of some kind. Trust me on that.

To take advantage of this:

  1. Click this link to go to the Annual signup page;
  2. After you’ve subscribed, just email me your wallet ID and your choice of NFT, and I’ll get it to you at once (assuming it hasn’t been snapped up already). Here is a link to OpenSea so you can see what’s available. As of this post, there are five tickers remaining: GILD, WMT, GPRO, BYND, and PTON, and they are all priced at about $200 (0.05 ETH).
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Everything Must Go!

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Well, folks, I hate to go all Crazy Eddie on you, but I’ve got a neurotic fixation on selling the remaining few pieces from ticker.art. We’ve sold 90% of our creations but as of this writing there are seven items left in our First Edition, and I wanted to make you a special offer to goose you into getting one of these NFTs.

The offer is simple: buy one of these, and send me your receipt, and I’ll immediately send you back:

  1. Whatever gas fees you paid (up to $100), and
  2. 0.02 ETH

In other words, assuming you don’t pay more than $100 in gas, you’ll pay 0.05 flat for any of these items. I’ll honor this bargain until the end of Sunday, and I’d be delighted to be totally sold out. If not, no big deal; they’ll remain available at their normal price, and I’m sure every single one will eventually be added to someone’s collection.

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