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.
Intel is the has-been of the semiconductor sector. As such, the profligate U.S. government decided to shower them with goodies, and last night, following their earnings report, the stock exploded higher. It stayed high all night long and yet, several hours into the next trading day, they are actually down.
I’ve made allusions in the past to The Tale. It’s truly the most incredible story of my life, but I can’t tell it for years. In the meanwhile, I’ve suggested multiple times that Meta’s deep-pocketed effort to take over AI would ultimately flop. The first hint of this has come out in the form of Meta kicking 600 of its AI employees out the door, giving them sixteen weeks of severance as a thank-you.
Until just a few days ago, one of the hottest sectors out there was anything with a rocket engine on it. AST Spacemobile (ASTS) is a good example, and it has lost one-third of its entire value (!!!!!) in just days.
The entirety of my relationship with golf is the fact that I’ve watched Caddyshack a couple of times. That’s it. I otherwise consider the entire enterprise to be an absurd waste of time and land. I stumbled upon this video today, which told me something I didn’t know, which is that all those Top Golf monstrosities I see are a crumbling business.
