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.

Semi-Soft

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A few days ago, an announcement came out that the U.S government was showering Intel (INTC) with countless tens of billions of dollars of aid, grants, tax breaks, and other goodies. To me, this was disgusting, because INTC has likewise spent countless tens of billions (hundreds, actually) of dollars buying back their own underperforming stock for years, and now they are using corporate welfare to suck money out of taxpayers. Thus, it’s heartening to see that, even with this grift, INTC is getting shellacked this morning.

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The Final Frontier

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Stocks related to space tourism and transport have been fairly disastrous. Virgin Galactic (symbol SPCE, brought to you by Chamath “Scamath” Palihapitiya) has lost virtually all its value, as has the ironically-named Momentus. The third one of these, Intuitive Machines, was the company that crash-landed its lunar module a few weeks ago. Of these, the last of them actually looks the least-awful.

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