Fed’s Balance Sheet Drops by $458 Billion from Peak: January Update on QT and the Fed’s Losses by Wolf Richter • Jan 5, 2023 • 68 Comments The Fed’s cumulative losses reached $20.5 billion.
Crypto-Bank Silvergate Details its Own Implosion, Much of its Equity Capital Wiped Out. I’m Waiting for the FDIC to Show Up by Wolf Richter • Jan 5, 2023 • 68 Comments Wait a minute… It still “believes in” crypto? Is crypto now a religion that a bank “believes in?” FDIC, are you reading this?
Layoffs beyond Hype: No, Layoffs.fyi Does Not Track Actual Layoffs in the US, but Media Stories of Plans of Global Layoffs. See Salesforce Today. Actual Layoffs & Discharges in the US Are Still Historically Low by Wolf Richter • Jan 4, 2023 • 132 Comments Many of these announced layoffs are in the future and won’t be in the US and won’t impact the US labor market. But we got data on actual layoffs and discharges in the US today.
Fed, FDIC, & OCC Warn Banks about Contagion from Cryptos, with Laundry List of Sordid Stuff Inherent in the Crypto Scene by Wolf Richter • Jan 3, 2023 • 158 Comments Only a couple of smaller banks have significant exposure to cryptos, and their shares have collapsed.
US LNG Exports in 2022 Match Qatar, #1 in the World. US Natural Gas Price Plunges 11% Today, 40% in 2 Weeks by Wolf Richter • Jan 3, 2023 • 113 Comments On Delays at restarting the explosion-damaged Freeport LNG export terminal and on weather forecasts.
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Exchange Rates Hit Foreign Exchange Reserves by Wolf Richter • Jan 1, 2023 • 157 Comments Complicated times for the dollar. The Chinese Renminbi, a distant also-ran, loses ground.
2022, Year of Face-Ripping Bear-Market Rallies that Got Crushed by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2022 • 159 Comments But history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes: For your amusement, a Nasdaq comparison to the Dotcom Bust.
Truck Congestion at Worst Bottlenecks (MPH), Barge Rates on the Mississippi (WHOOSH), China-US Container Freight Rates by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2022 • 100 Comments Three tidbits with charts from the Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2022.
Keeping an Eye on the Labor Market to See if the Fed’s Anti-Inflation Drug Started Working by Wolf Richter • Dec 29, 2022 • 103 Comments Maybe just a little. But not seeing the Great Loosening of the job market yet. Laid-off H-1B visa holders complicate the picture.
ECB’s Balance Sheet Plunges by €492 billion in One Week and by €850 Billion from Peak by Wolf Richter • Dec 28, 2022 • 86 Comments Monetary Rug-Pull? December dump in the markets anything to do with global QT?
Natural Gas Futures in Europe Plunge 77% from Crazy Spike by Wolf Richter • Dec 28, 2022 • 92 Comments Record supply of LNG from the US and other sources. Record supply from Norway via pipeline. Conservation, power production shift… It adds up.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, December Update: Now Dallas, Las Vegas, Phoenix Plunge Fastest. San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego Down Most from Peak by Wolf Richter • Dec 27, 2022 • 209 Comments No dear, this is not seasonal.
The Most Astounding IPO Hype-and-Hoopla Show Ever Ends 2022 in Tears by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2022 • 87 Comments “The value of discipline is currently at an all-time high,” after years when the value of consensual hallucination was at an all-time high.
The Price of Easy Money Now Coming Due by Wolf Richter • Dec 25, 2022 • 216 Comments The Crazy Stuff & Asset Prices that arose during Easy Money are coming unglued as Easy Money ended.
My Thoughts on Vehicle Repos, How Far the Fed May Go, our Housing Bust in San Francisco, and Crypto Bust v. Dotcom Bust by Wolf Richter • Dec 25, 2022 • 38 Comments Wolf Richter on “This Week in Money.”
Tesla Joins my Imploded Stocks, -70% from Peak: Object of Religious Veneration Turns into Automaker by Wolf Richter • Dec 24, 2022 • 267 Comments Beyond the consensual hallucination, the real world for automakers is not fun.
Consumer Spending on Services Blows Past Inflation, Fuels Services Inflation Further. Spending on Goods Fizzles by Wolf Richter • Dec 23, 2022 • 61 Comments Inflation isn’t going to just vanish: 62% of consumer spending went to services where demand is growing and where inflation is raging.
PCE Price Index for Services Doesn’t Let Up. Goods Inflation Improves. Why Powell Is Frustrated with Inflation in Services by Wolf Richter • Dec 23, 2022 • 61 Comments Services inflation rages, but the durable-goods PCE price index had biggest month-to-month drop in years: yardstick for the Fed’s inflation target.
How Strung-Out Are Households with their Debt Service & Financial Obligations as the Miracle of Free-Money Fades? by Wolf Richter • Dec 22, 2022 • 138 Comments Looks like households have lots of fuel left to throw on inflation, if they’re in the mood.
Eleven Months After Going Public via SPAC, Texas-Based Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy by Wolf Richter • Dec 22, 2022 • 136 Comments Consensual-hallucination stocks and crypto just keep on giving.
