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.

GME Isn’t the Only Way to Lose

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With the earnings season winding down, there aren’t many sexy stocks left for the /wsb crowd, but one meme stock that announced rather later in the cycle was Palantir (symbol PLTR). Over the weekend, the “traders” were flexing by putting in two hundred thousand dollar and three hundred thousand dollar bets, which in some cases represented most of the net worth of the given party.

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The Folly of Diamond Hands

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I’m old-fashioned. I was born that way. As a child, I was an Eagle Scout, sang in the church choir, and helped the old ladies of the neighborhood. In the world of Goofus & Gallant, I tried to be the latter. So I’m always interested when civic virtues are bandied about in public discourse.

There is one purported virtue, however, that I must take exception with, and it is neatly represented in a single image:

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