Rides to Avoid
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.
The Fast-Growing Frontier
I imagine SpaceX can take credit for almost all of this:
The Final Frontier
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.
The Cow Goes Mu
Right on the heels of an explosive rally yesterday, Micron decided to add some frosting to the cake with their own earnings announcement, and MU blasted higher after-hours. It is at a record high. Again.
Important Semi Failure
Bulls were counting on Jensen Huang to supercharge the bull market into a whole new chapter yesterday afternoon, by making a speech about the super-expensive, super-fast, super-huge new computing products Nvidia was announcing. It didn’t work. NVDA, SMCI, SMH, and QQQ are all down, and AMD, a vitally important component of the semi/AI bubble, has broken short-term support.
