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.

Bumbling Toward Bankruptcy

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Hold the phone. Stop the presses. Don’t touch that dial. I’ve just discovered to most woke website in human history.

See, my original intent for this post was prompted by noticing that Bumble (symbol BMBL) was at yet another lifetime low and has lost about 83% of its value so far. Such a post would take me about four seconds to create, since I’d just show you this chart, audibly chortle, and then move on. So here is the disaster du jour:

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Limp Wood

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For the ungodly amount of press that Cathie Wood has received over the years, one is compelled to ask: “why???” Below is one simple chart, which shows the relative performance of her flagship fund ARKK, which is “innovation” focused, versus the plain old boring simple QQQ (whose, umm, expense ratio is much lower). In any case, the chart speaks for itself about how amazing an investor she is: