
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.
Where the Growth Is

Tech is King
If you’re as old as me, you’ll well remember how in the early 1990s the NASDAQ would constantly run ads urging people to trade those newfangled high-tech stocks like Intel. Their tag like, which I heard a thousand times, was “NASDAQ: the stock market for the next 100 years.”
Warren’s Cash Horde
Mr. Buffett is no dummy. There’s got to be some awfully good reasons he’s taking over a third of a trillion dollars off the equity table.

This Afternoon’s Hulks
After the close, we’ll wrap up – – sadly – -the last two cool earnings announcements of this cycle. Indeed, for the entirety of 2025, only NVDA’s report (in a month) will break the boredom. Looking at these two, Apple and Amazon, it seems to me AAPL is best poised for more strength while AMZN is vulnerable to weakness.

