The biggest story these days is, of course, the hellscape of southern California, which looks like a post-nuclear warzone. This is what is left of Ryan O’Neal’s house.
Edison
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.
Cop Out
Conoco Phillips gave me a good scare this morning, blasting its shares higher. It apparently doesn’t realize what a wreck the economy is going to be worldwide. Did I bail? Let me put it this way: I increased my bearish position by 25%, selling into the strength.
Crude Awakening
Good morning, everyone! Are you ready for your one-day trading week? I sure am, and we’re off to a nice start.
Irrational Protuberance
I must say, it’s heartening to see the entire quantum sector burst into flames based on a single off-the-cuff remark by Jen Shun Huang, but the most amusing to me by far is QSI, which I wrote about in some detail on December 30th. I have seen the AI-article-maker robots twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain the rise in this stock, since they couldn’t reach the true but insane conclusion that it went up just because it had the word “Quantum” in its company name. It any case, it has lost about 50% of its value in a matter of hours.
