“Car Recession” Bites GM: Inventory Glut, Layoffs, Plant Shutdowns by Wolf Richter • Dec 19, 2016 • 86 Comments Five assembly plants, 10,000 workers.
TiSA: The Transatlantic Corporatocracy’s Last Straw by Don Quijones • Dec 19, 2016 • 46 Comments Trump’s silence on TiSA is deafening.
How Will Homebuyers Swallow these Mortgage Rates? by Wolf Richter • Dec 19, 2016 • 79 Comments Many of them say they won’t. And they can’t.
Italy Banking Crisis is Also a Huge Crime Scene by Don Quijones • Dec 18, 2016 • 21 Comments Toxic loans on the banks’ books as a result of corruption, political kickbacks, fraud, and abuse.
Trump Talked, the Fed Listened: Let’s Shrink the Balance Sheet, Bullard Says by Wolf Richter • Dec 17, 2016 • 104 Comments Even a Fed dove! This could get interesting.
No Demand, No Problem: Inflation Pressures Surge by Wolf Richter • Dec 16, 2016 • 45 Comments Businesses expect their input prices to jump by 4.6% in 2017.
“This Indecisiveness We’re Seeing? It’s Fear” by Melissa Terzis • Dec 16, 2016 • 28 Comments Washington D.C. Housing Market at a crossroads.
Foreigners are Dumping US Treasurys as Never Before by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2016 • 131 Comments Hence the bloodletting in what’s considered one of the most conservative investments in the world.
Here Are the Multinationals whose Bonds the ECB is Discreetly Buying by Don Quijones • Dec 15, 2016 • 27 Comments Its new role as “debt-buyer of first resort” raises a whole litany of concerns.
Currency Armageddon? A Word about the Hated Dollar by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2016 • 69 Comments The “death of the dollar” will have to be rescheduled.