Sinkhole City Chicago: Taxpayers Sensing Greater Slice of Flesh Being Stripped off their Bones? by Bill Bergman • Aug 31, 2016 • 24 Comments Better Credit Ratings and Bond Prices Don’t Signal Better Finances.
Worst Plunge in Canada’s GDP since 2009 by Wolf Richter • Aug 31, 2016 • 44 Comments This time, you can’t blame the dollar or oil prices.
“If You Own a Home in Palo Alto, CA, Sell it Now” by Wolf Richter • Aug 30, 2016 • 78 Comments Utter insanity is turning south.
What Rail Freight Volume just Said about China by Wolf Richter • Aug 30, 2016 • 31 Comments Mandating top-down economic growth is not enough.
Fear Spreads of a Housing Crash in Canada by Wolf Richter • Aug 29, 2016 • 73 Comments More Canadians sour on their Magnificent Housing Bubble.
QE, End of the Private Sector? Japanese Government Now Largest Shareholder of 474 Big Companies by Wolf Richter • Aug 29, 2016 • 27 Comments The two biggest buyers of Japan Inc. are flying blind and don’t care.
New Leak Confirms: Brussels Has Learnt Nothing from Brexit by Don Quijones • Aug 28, 2016 • 18 Comments Trying to tax the Internet.
The 11 Bone-Chilling Things I Gleaned from Yellen’s Chart by Wolf Richter • Aug 27, 2016 • 106 Comments Who says the Fed can’t have fun at our expense?
Japan Mega-Pension Fund Dives into Stocks, Foreign Assets, Loses Shirt. People Not Amused by Wolf Richter • Aug 27, 2016 • 33 Comments “It will not harm the pension beneficiaries”: official
Pemex Collapse Threatens Biggest Banks in Mexico by Don Quijones • Aug 26, 2016 • 34 Comments Big-oil bailout by taxpayers already under way.