A Liebherr mining truck at dusk at Peabody’s North Antelope Rochelle Mine in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming (photo via Peabody).
(more…)Turns Out The World Still Needs Coal
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.
Not-So-Transitory Inflation
A typical couple enjoying their (presumably) debt-financed breakfast in bed (image via Affirm).
(more…)Nothing to Sphere but Sphere Itself
Here’s an interesting, little-known stock which seems to have formed a bullish base on increasing volume lately.
Crypto-Rainbows
Pretty fascinating how this plays out:
Like, OMG
I’ve backed off crypto talk tremendously lately, partly because some folks just seem so adamant that it’s a scam. I kind of understand. I feel equities have been a “scam” since 2008, and I considered anyone buying them to be complicit in the scam. But, understandably, I wasn’t strident in that opinion.
But, jeez, some people really take it hard. And below is a good example of some of the unfiltered crap I have to endure as the proprietor of this site. I did a post about crypto, and this one guy – – a practicing attorney, by the way, whom I thought would have a bit more decorum – – lashed out in the comments section deriding Slope for being a shill for crypto (he used a lot of rough language; it wasn’t a gentle ribbing). I took the extremely unusual step of banning him from comments, and I promptly got this love letter in my email:
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