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.

A Well-Running Morning

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I’m just delighted at my positions. They are cruising along magnificently, and with the /RTY down 1.75%, I feel like the portfolio is truly firing on all cylinders. My superstar, which I’ve mentioned endlessly (and originally to my cherish Gold/Platinum members) is XLU, which is spot-on perfect. The only wart on my morning was a dead computer, which I’ve managed to repair (yay, me!) although it’s making too much fan noise (boo, me). Onward.

Never Bigger

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It is Thursday evening, and the sounds in my ears are those I haven’t heard in a long while: countless cicadas, chirping on full blast. It’s a nice bit of incidental music while I compose some content for you good people.

Being Thursday, that means we can catch up on the liquidity data. The Antichrist Yellen handed out more free cash to her banking buddies, although the pace has slowed to virtually nothing.

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