What Kind of Hyper-Enthusiastic Market is this that Blindly Keeps Pursuing Scams to Make a Fortune Overnight, even if They Already Crashed the First Time? by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2018 • 65 Comments It’ll take many more sell-offs and the collapse of many more iffy stocks before this over-enthusiasm, after nine years of central bank nurturing, is finally wrung out of the market.
Brick & Mortar Retail Meltdown, March Update by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2018 • 63 Comments And private equity firms are at the helm.
Collapse of Cryptocurrencies in Q1: Even the Biggest Crashed 67% to 88% by Wolf Richter • Apr 1, 2018 • 71 Comments But nothing goes to heck in a straight line.
FirstEnergy Seeks US Gov Rescue. Who Should Pay for Bad Decisions by Capitalists? Not the Capitalists, Obviously by Leonard Hyman and Willian Tilles • Mar 31, 2018 • 63 Comments The coal and nuclear power generator may default in April.
What Could Dethrone the Dollar as Top Reserve Currency? by Wolf Richter • Mar 30, 2018 • 103 Comments Central banks seem leery about the Chinese yuan.
UK Vows to Crack Down on Money Laundering: What Will This Do to the Property Bubble? by Don Quijones • Mar 30, 2018 • 34 Comments The London property market is already in trouble.
The Peculiar Phenomenon in the Rental Market Implodes by Wolf Richter • Mar 29, 2018 • 38 Comments Update on the 100 most expensive cities. A story of deep-red and big surges.
The $73 billion in Voluntary Taxes (up 9%!) Consumers Pay Eagerly and with Great Excitement by Wolf Richter • Mar 29, 2018 • 72 Comments Lottery revenues soar. State-by-state. And the states need it!
Banks & Builders Want New Property Bubble In Spain, Government Obliges by Don Quijones • Mar 29, 2018 • 16 Comments “This plan, far from solving or alleviating the problem, is likely to make it a whole lot worse.”
“Next Bitcoin” Ripple Does $126-Bn Round Trip in 15 Weeks by Wolf Richter • Mar 28, 2018 • 62 Comments The crypto-crash crushes hopes, but will it impact the economy?