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.
Bears Welcome
It’s nice to see that the mere allowance of short-sellers into the 1999-NASDAQ-style Chinese stock market is having a cooling effect, even on our own markets.
U.S. Markets: The Safest Place to Invest?
The following 5-Year Daily ratio charts of the S&P 500 Index compared to Major World Indices shows that the SPX has underperformed all of them since the beginning of this year, and some for the past 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years.
China Express
As China ascends to the top global economic superpower (leaving the U.S. permanently behind, in spite of visionary leadership from the likes of Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi), the chart of the stock markets from the middle kingdom are breathtaking. It sort of reminds me of the divergences that took place in 1999/2000 between big global markets, some of which were stratospheric while others had already topped out. This is only going to feed the frenzy of retail excitement in China, as their citizens continue to jump into equities feet-first.
