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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.
Nuclear Bonds
It’s adorable how the simple-minded equity bulls keep thinking we’re at the cusp of a massive new rally, and they keep bidding prices up this morning. Listen, you whimpering parasites, the thirteen years of endless government welfare you’ve been on is done. Exhibit A is the fact that the bond market, in its various forms around the world, continues to crumble inexorably lower.
Bonds. James Bonds.
Well, happy Sunday Slope. Yesterday was an absolutely amazingly beautiful day here in Nashville. I think we were in the mid-80’s, and nothing but clear blue skies. I spent the day going into downtown Nashville to enjoy being outside. It was so nice to see Nashville bustling with masses of maskless people once again just enjoying life. (Editor’s note: agreed! On and on the plane! What a pleasure!)
In today’s article we’re going to take a look at my new friend, TLT. For those of you that have never traded TLT before, it is an ETF that tracks the long end of the US Treasury bond curve. It looks at bonds of 20 years and longer. Not exactly a high flying tech stock, eh? It’ll pay the bills.
(more…)Global Rates
This is an extraordinary perspective into how wildly interest rates vary around the world (driven largely, of course, by each nation’s internal inflation rates; Argentina, for example, has a shocking 44.5% interest rate, but in real terms, it’s actually still negative!
Yield Curve Animation
Yeah, interesting, but the one I made is still WAY better.
