The Cost of a Tipped Spacecraft
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.
The Oracle of Overrated
Yes, yes, he’s incredibly rich and did amazing things in the 1970s and 1980s. But, honestly, take a look at how Berkshire stacks up against the plain old boring simply SPY since the March 2009 bottom. It beat it, yes, by about 10%, but is 10% really worth that kind of adulation?
A Real-Life Stock “Tip”
Rivian Down 94% From High
Teledork
Who is one of the most famous pundits on the entire planet about the stock market? Whose face is known the world over? Who name is heralded? Why, Cathie D. Wood, of course.
Her flagship fund, ARKK, has changed 0% since August of 2018. There is nothing shameful in this, because the stock market has been flat for the past six years, and nothing has happened in the world in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, or so far in 2024.
One of her favorite stocks of all time is Teledoc. Here’s a video of her pushing it, saying how it is “like Amazon” and how it is going to “10x“.
