Many of you know of my fondness for being short auto retailers. This really paid off last month when such firms as O’Reilly Auto Parts……..
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.
Regrettable Eateries
Although I covered my retail stocks early this morning (M, JWN, DDS) I am still cheerfully short a different kind of “retail”, which are casual dining establishments (AKA places I would never, ever want to eat). Here they are………...Fiesta Restaurant Group:
Carmageddon
So how many times have I touted auto-related retail stocks on the short side here on Slope or on Tastytrade? A hundred? A thousand? Suffice it to say……..a lot. Here we go…….
Biotech Smack-Up
During last year’s insane election, Trump made big claims about really taking drug companies to task, reigning in the crazy expenses of medicine, and in general giving the overpaid makers of drugs the kind of smack-em-up they all deserve. Well, right on the heels of his rousing success building a border wall (and having the Mexicans pay for it), completely overhauling the tax system, and sending Hillary to jail, he has, on top of all those successes and promises kept, beat the stuffing out of the drug companies, including the entire biotech sector………
Tech Blech
If, one happy day, the world is engulfed in financial cataclysm and mayhem, we can remember back to the days when the turd-throwing apes at places like CNBC were pushing stories like this:
