Is this the Sound of the Bottom Falling Out of the Auto Industry? by Wolf Richter • Mar 21, 2017 • 83 Comments Not quite, not yet, but it’s not good either.
Despite Financial Engineering & Clever Reporting Schemes, S&P 500 Earnings per Share Stuck for 3+ Years, but Stocks Soar by Wolf Richter • Mar 20, 2017 • 30 Comments $1.7 trillion blown on making EPS look less bad.
Rising Inflation, Four Rate Hikes, Financial Repression on Menu in 2017: Fed Heads by Wolf Richter • Mar 20, 2017 • 49 Comments Bondholders, savers, consumers to be put through inflation wringer.
Central Bank Shell Game: What Sweden’s Negative Interest Rates Do to Consumers by Contributor • Mar 19, 2017 • 28 Comments Next: higher rates or currency crisis?
Stop Counting On Oil Contangos by Dan Dicker • Mar 19, 2017 • 18 Comments “I feel like I’ve created a Frankenstein.”
Stocks Soared on Trump’s $1-Trillion Infrastructure Boom. But that Just Evaporated. Now What? by Wolf Richter • Mar 18, 2017 • 93 Comments Wall Street will have to go look for another mirage to hype.
Deepening EU Banking Crisis Meets Euro-TARP and Taxpayers by Don Quijones • Mar 17, 2017 • 39 Comments If the ECB scales back stimulus, banks face even greater risk of collapse. But now there’s a new solution.
Where’s Citizenship for Sale? Huddled Masses Need Not Apply by Wolf Richter • Mar 17, 2017 • 50 Comments Most countries offer citizenship (passports) the hard way. But 7 sell them outright, and 3 have “powerful” passports. “Citizenship Planning” is a thing.
ECB Trapped in its Own “Doom Loop” as Inflation Surges by Don Quijones • Mar 16, 2017 • 11 Comments To keep a financial system and currency union from collapsing on each other.
How Auto Sales Are Getting Crushed in Houston by Wolf Richter • Mar 15, 2017 • 34 Comments First oil & gas, then construction, then new vehicle sales.