These “Gradual” Rate Hikes Start to Add Up: US Treasury Yields up to Three Years Hit 10-Year Highs by Wolf Richter • Sep 5, 2018 • 53 Comments An entire generation on Wall Street has never seen Treasury yields this high.
My Theory about Gold and Silver for Long-Term Investors by Wolf Richter • Sep 4, 2018 • 179 Comments Why are these trends so long and so big — both, up and down?
The Experience of Actually Buying Physical Gold by WOLF STREET Reader • Sep 4, 2018 • 49 Comments A WOLF STREET reader shares his experience and emotional tension of buying and taking possession of physical gold.
Housing Bubble Pops in Sydney & Melbourne, Australia by Wolf Richter • Sep 3, 2018 • 59 Comments And with impeccable timing, an immense flood of new construction.
Mexico’s Central Bank Just Broke with the War on Cash by Don Quijones • Sep 2, 2018 • 24 Comments Motivated by inflation?
Automakers Take Note: Americans Are Changing How They Commute to Work by Wolf Richter • Sep 2, 2018 • 117 Comments A structural shift with some significance for the auto industry.
Fully Autonomous Cargo Ships Face Enormous Challenges by MC01 • Sep 1, 2018 • 82 Comments As with all “bleeding edge” technologies, the challenges are huge, and it’s possible they may end up derailing the whole venture.
No Other Banks Are This Exposed to Turkey, Argentina, Brazil…. Emerging Markets Haunt Spanish Banks by Don Quijones • Aug 31, 2018 • 69 Comments To diversify from the euro debt-crisis, the biggest Spanish banks pushed deeply into Emerging Markets. Now, six years later, they’re in a new crisis.
Update on Rental Bubbles & Crashes in US Cities by Wolf Richter • Aug 31, 2018 • 34 Comments Rents plunge in Chicago & Honolulu, spiral down in New York, Washington DC, & others, but surge in many markets.
Turkey’s Debt & Currency Crisis Morphs into Financial Crisis as Banks Face Funding Squeeze by Don Quijones • Aug 30, 2018 • 27 Comments “Substantial Increase in the Risk of a Downside Scenario”: Moody’s