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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.
Bonds Falling from the Sky
America’s best days are in the past. Specifically, about twenty-six years in the past. The world is starting to clue in to the fact that America is a failing power, and an increasingly poor credit risk. Thus, U.S. bonds, formerly the pristine gold-standard of safety and security, continue to show signs of weakness.
Lenny and Squiggly
Rentier Nation
Septuagenarian Homebuyers
The map below shows how many years a person would have to save to buy a median-priced housed. Here in Palo Alto the market is white hot, so I suspect the years would be in the triple digits. Just a few doors down for me a house when on the market for $6.5 million and sold for $7.5 million. The dimensions on the palace? 2800 square foot house on a 6500 square foot lot.
