As a child of the 80s, I have been trained by movies to cheer when the bad guys lose. It is thus heartening to see healthcare criminals, even blonde, cheerleader types who have been appointed as CEO, get destroyed.
Demolition Derby
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.
Hello, Mister Chips
Shits Ahoy!
Long-time readers know of my lifelong disdain for anything related to cruises. Having experienced a cruise precisely zero times, I nonetheless harbor an abiding loathing for the things, since I vividly imagine them to be gargantuan floating hotels, peopled with morbidly obese gastropods who are desperate to interrupt the emptiness of their lives with a brief bacchanalia lined with all-you-can-eat buffets. The entire enterprise disgusts me.
With that sparkle-eyed introduction, I am delighted to report that Royal Carribean Group (RCL) is getting absolutely nuked this morning. I suspect their profits have been severely diminished by the gluttonous blobs bobbing up and down on their ships, eating far too much fried chicken and cheesecake.
Analog Waterlogged
You’d think since I’ve been mixed up in tech since 1980 that I would know my way around the terminology, but until now I never really grasped what an “analog semiconductor” was. It sounds like an oxymoron. All this time, I figured TXN wasn’t much different than NVDA or any other semiconductor company. Wrong! Analog devices measure variable signals and “real world” type data, and that sector is getting zapped hard today. Here are three representatives, with our old friend ON included:
A Tale of Two Quanta
There’s one hot sector which is so speculative that it makes AI investing look like the most prudent and conservative decision since T-Bills, and the name of it is………
