Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Go Down as DNS Records Disappear under Mysterious Circumstances by Wolf Richter • Oct 4, 2021 • 155 Comments Let the conspiracy theories fly.
Office Slump Gets Even Uglier in Q3: Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle, Manhattan by Wolf Richter • Oct 4, 2021 • 77 Comments But tenants have choices and negotiating power.
My “Wealth Effect Monitor” for the Money-Printer Economy: Holy Moly, October Update by Wolf Richter • Oct 2, 2021 • 254 Comments The bottom 50% need not apply. They just get to eat the soaring costs of housing. How the Fed totally blew out the already gigantic wealth disparity during the pandemic.
Incomes Got Chewed Up by Inflation. Americans Spent Heroically on Goods, But Not on Services. Eviction Moratoriums & Forbearance Implicated by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2021 • 144 Comments Millions of people didn’t spend on two big services: rent & interest. How spending got skewed in bizarre ways.
Fed’s Lowest Lowball Inflation Measure Hits 30-Year High by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2021 • 118 Comments “Transitory” is the new Spandex.