Market Minds

Well, emotions are running pretty hot in the financial blogosphere, as one might expect after such a one-sided victory over the past six months. I’ve continued to churn out my own postings, day after day, week after week, in spite of it all. You might think I would be really interested in how popular or well-liked Slope (or I) was, but I hardly ever check any kind of ranking systems. But mole did a check recently on how Evil is stacking up against Slope, and it’s got his  knickers in a twist . Evil’s in green, and Slope’s in blue: As you can see, Evil was about to blast right through my traffic levels in March, but he’s evened out since then. My traffic, on the other hand, hit some kind of inflection point in April and has been steadily rising ever since. This strikes me as a little odd Slope is, to some degree, a bearish blog, and if anything, you would think traffic would be drying up as the market skyrocketed higher. I personally like Evil a lot - - some of mole’s post are brilliant, and occasionally awe-inspiring. But I don’t think any of us should wring our hands over who’s got a little more traffic than the other

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