Gosh, what a surprise. The United States isn’t even NEAR this list.
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.
Enormous Balls
It’s cool. I’ll be the first to admit it. The Sphere in Las Vegas, from everything I’ve seen, looks like a technological, construction, and engineering miracle. Still, the notion of paying money to sit inside a giant living iPad with thousands of people who would actually CHOOSE to be in Las Vegas in my idea of Hell. I mention this only because Sphere (SPHR), the Madison Square Gardens organization behind this monstrosity, isn’t exactly doing that great on the ol’ business front.
The Real Fauci Ouchie
Good Lord, look at Pfizer (PFE). You’d think a company that got to feed off the government teat with unlimited Covid funds would be set for life, but nope, they’ve lost FIFTY PERCENT of their value from their government-welfare-peak. They are the same price now that they were in August 2016, over seven YEAR ago! Gosh, you’d think exploiting a disease would have helped more, but nope.
Fabulist!
Well, yes, the /ES is down, but it is meaningless. All that’s going on is that we’re unwinding a little bit of the “explode higher for no particular reason in just a few moments” that took place yesterday just before the cash close. Meh. BFD.
VinFast Returns
Remember VinFast? Yep, the Vietnam-based electric car maker (symbol VFS) which got cute and distributed a tiny little bit of their shares in the market so that it could get squeezed crazy-high for a couple of weeks (only to lose virtually its entire value). Well, it has managed to hammer out a base and is starting to zip higher again.
