The portions in red indicate the countries in which more people died in 2024 than were born. In other words, the population is shrinking. Interesting clustering of these nations, don’t you think?
Shrinking Planet
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.
Chinese Resistance
It seems to me that long-term broken trendline for the Chinese fund FXI, represented in dashed blue, suggests formidable resistance to any higher prices from these levels.
Tesla Ain’t All That
Global Gorging
It seems that it isn’t just the /wsb crowd that has decided to plow their savings into supremely-expensive equities. The rest of the world has joined in as well.
Where Oil Flows & Goes
This is quite mesmerizing, and it’s particularly striking how little energy China makes (except for filthy coal) versus what it consumes.
