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.

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Leading up to the celebrated IPO of SpaceX, Tim did several header posts highlighting a number of rocket companies that were enjoying a price rise as though they were somehow a proxy for the real deal: “This is just nuts, because anything with a rocket attached to it is blasting to preposterous levels.”

Tim further noted, “If SPCX starts to weaken in its first real trading week, you can expect this entire sector to go to the doghouse.” Tim was right, and the stocks he highlighted are now in a downtrend.

This post focuses on a separate “space” company, one I posted about on 7Jne26, stating, “ASTC looks bound to retrace its lofty rise of the past week.” Here’s that SocialTrade post:

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Black Gold

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Years ago, for a job, I made a recipe card for Black Gold. It was distributed to the public and was a featured handout when we held elementary school Compost workshops – where we made soil.

Working with the kids was fun. We got our hands dirty planting flowers, planting trees, pulling weeds, making black gold. Through a grant we made to elementary schools [$5k total; 5 schools], we built 3-bin composters made of timbers, posts and wire. Parents and students built them, and there were community contributions for some of the materials. (Big bang for buck.)

Black Gold. The dark, almost sweet-smelling, rich loamy soil that one makes from carbon and nitrogen sources. When I built a composter in my yard, I’d take a 50 gallon metal drum in the truck, drive down the road a few miles to the chicken houses, where I’d backup under the shoot and fill the drum with fresh chicken manure, a premium let’s-go material.

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Three For The Road

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After I wrote the other day about Walmart’s weak chart, it shot higher, up about 14% for the year. Dummy me hadn’t even checked their earnings date when I wrote the piece.

After Walmart’s earnings report this morning, Investopedia wrote that “all 12 of the analysts tracked by Visible Alpha with recent assessments recommend buying shares.”  If they liked shares at $102, I imagine they like them even better now around 98.

Walmart’s earnings didn’t meet analyst earnings projections of $0.73, and instead were $0.68.  Gee, a $0.05 difference and the stock price slides.  (Recall at their prior earnings report in February that WMT said to expect lower earnings.)

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