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Long View of Job Growth by Industry. And the “Multiple Jobholders” Question

by Wolf Richter • Jun 3, 2023 • 93 Comments

To shed some additional light on the jobs report.

Landing Got Cancelled: Job Market Still at Cruising Altitude with Some Bumps

by Wolf Richter • Jun 2, 2023 • 219 Comments

Even Wage Growth for Nonsupervisory Workers Accelerated. Powell is scratching his head, after all the rate hikes.

Fed’s Balance Sheet Plunged by $348 Billion in the 10 Weeks since Peak Bank Crisis, and by $580 billion since QT Started

by Wolf Richter • Jun 1, 2023 • 138 Comments

QT on track, bank liquidity measures unwind.

Banks’ Unrealized Losses on Securities Drop for Second Quarter in a Row, -25% from Peak

by Wolf Richter • Jun 1, 2023 • 47 Comments

From huge to somewhat less huge? Because they’re still six times the magnitude of the prior worst-record in 2018

That was Fast: Mortgage Rates Re-Spike to 7% Range as it Sinks in that the Fed Won’t Cut Rates “Anytime Soon,” Mortgage Applications Plunge to 1995 Levels. Even Investors Pull Out

by Wolf Richter • May 31, 2023 • 194 Comments

Spring selling season was a dud. But what comes next may be worse, that’s what mortgage applications and investors tell us.

Still an Astonishing Labor Market: Very Tight or Getting Even Tighter in Some Sectors, Getting Less Tight in Others, Not Loose Anywhere, Despite the Rate Hikes

by Wolf Richter • May 31, 2023 • 66 Comments

Powell is going to mention this with some frustration in his voice.

What Are Manhattan’s Older Office Towers Worth? First Benchmark Prices in the New Era

by Wolf Richter • May 30, 2023 • 76 Comments

Whoever buys the defaulted loan gets the tower. So far, investors and specialized lenders have been on the hook, not commercial banks.

Update on US Government Holy-Moly Debt, Interest Expense, and Tax Receipts, and How they Stack Up Against GDP

by Wolf Richter • May 29, 2023 • 186 Comments

We shoulda known better.

Americans’ Ability to Pay for Emergency Expenses or Three-Month Job Loss with Cash/Cash Equivalent, by Selling Assets, by Borrowing, or Not at All

by Wolf Richter • May 27, 2023 • 188 Comments

54% have three months of expenses set aside in their account. But 13% can’t pay for a $400 emergency expense.

Despite Getting Whacked by Bank Turmoil, Layoff News, Credit Crunch, High Interest Rates, and Inflation, our Drunken Sailors Spent Even More, Even Adjusted for Inflation

by Wolf Richter • May 26, 2023 • 241 Comments

Where does the money come from? They now out-earn inflation and dipped into their assets whose prices ballooned over the years.

Fed’s Favored Core PCE Price Index Re-Accelerates, Driven by Services, Motor Vehicles: Inflation Stuck on High, Shifts from Item to Item

by Wolf Richter • May 26, 2023 • 132 Comments

Not encouraging: core PCE price index refuses to come down, has moved sideways since July last year.

Free-Money Party for Corporate Profits Turns into Hangover amid Rising Costs and Pressured Revenues

by Wolf Richter • May 25, 2023 • 115 Comments

“We are entering an EBITDA recession”: S&P Global Ratings.

Inflation a Stickier Problem than Markets Realize

by Wolf Richter • May 25, 2023 • 110 Comments

Wolf Richter on inflation, consumers, the labor market, and when will these drunken sailors finally stop throwing money around, with Adam Taggart on Wealthion.

Inflation Dishes Out Another Nasty Surprise: All Heck Breaks Loose in UK Services CPI & Core CPI, with Scary Monthly Spikes & Multi-Decade Year-over-Year Highs

by Wolf Richter • May 24, 2023 • 92 Comments

Food Inflation Raged at 19%. But energy prices plunged. In response, UK government bond yields spiked, pricing in higher BOE policy rates.

Delinquencies in Subprime Auto-Loan-Backed Securities Have Second-Worst April Ever, Behind only Lockdown April: The Cost of Free Money

by Wolf Richter • May 24, 2023 • 61 Comments

In the free-money era, subprime auto lenders took huge risks amid seething demand from yield-chasing investors.

Prices of New Houses Drop Further, Builders Stimulate Sales with Price Cuts, Pulling Demand from Previously Owned Homes

by Wolf Richter • May 23, 2023 • 121 Comments

That arbitrage is now happening among homebuyers. But regular homeowners wanting to sell haven’t figured it out yet.

Rent Inflation Re-Accelerates to Red-Hot, All Three Now Agree: Zillow Asking Rents, What Big Landlords Said, and Actual Rents Tracked by CPI

by Wolf Richter • May 22, 2023 • 240 Comments

Debacle on the Inflation Front: The Fed’s victory lap about having licked rent inflation was premature.

Meta Fined “Unprecedented” $1.3 billion by EU = 17 Days of Pre-Tax Income, LOL

by Wolf Richter • May 22, 2023 • 65 Comments

LOLs keep piling up. Cost of doing business. Nevertheless, Meta came out swinging against it.

Faster QT instead of More Rate Hikes to Fight Inflation? Higher Rates Can also Fuel Spending? Are Auto Loans Harder to Get? EVs and the Energy Sector; the Future of Office Towers…

by Wolf Richter • May 21, 2023 • 67 Comments

Wolf Richter on This Week in Money.

Six-Month Treasury Yield Begins to Price in One More Rate Hike

by Wolf Richter • May 20, 2023 • 130 Comments

Either mid-June or possibly in July.

Econ Rumblings

Fed’s Favored Core PCE Price Index Re-Accelerates, Driven by Services, Motor Vehicles: Inflation Stuck on High, Shifts from Item to Item

by Wolf Richter • May 26, 2023

Not encouraging: core PCE price index refuses to come down, has moved sideways since July last year.

Inflation a Stickier Problem than Markets Realize

by Wolf Richter • May 25, 2023

Wolf Richter on inflation, consumers, the labor market, and when will these drunken sailors finally stop throwing money around, with Adam Taggart on Wealthion.

Delinquencies in Subprime Auto-Loan-Backed Securities Have Second-Worst April Ever, Behind only Lockdown April: The Cost of Free Money

by Wolf Richter • May 24, 2023

In the free-money era, subprime auto lenders took huge risks amid seething demand from yield-chasing investors.

Faster QT instead of More Rate Hikes to Fight Inflation? Higher Rates Can also Fuel Spending? Are Auto Loans Harder to Get? EVs and the Energy Sector; the Future of Office Towers…

by Wolf Richter • May 21, 2023

Wolf Richter on This Week in Money.

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