Status of the Social Security Trust Fund, Income and Outgo: Fiscal 2022 by Wolf Richter • Nov 8, 2022 • 136 Comments Income jumped by $105 billion to a record $1.04 trillion as more people worked and earned higher wages, and contributed more.
Used-Vehicle Wholesale Prices Plunged, but Not Retail Prices; They’re Still in the Ridiculous Zone by Wolf Richter • Nov 7, 2022 • 109 Comments Buyers’ strike is in effect. Used vehicle retail sales drop, dealers sing the blues but don’t want to cut prices from their ridiculous levels.
Imploded Stocks of the Day: Carvana, Twilio, Atlassian, Cloudflare by Wolf Richter • Nov 6, 2022 • 203 Comments The free-money virus turned investors’ brains to mush. But the healing has started, interest rates are recovering, QT is here, and look what we got.
The Housing Bubble Popped, and the Fed Can Let it Rip by Wolf Richter • Nov 5, 2022 • 293 Comments Raging inflation knocked out the “Fed put,” and banks are no longer on the hook for mortgages; taxpayers and investors are.
Has this Contorted Labor Market Forced Companies to Change their Thinking about Layoffs? by Wolf Richter • Nov 4, 2022 • 149 Comments Looking at the supply-and-demand imbalances and structural changes in the labor market, and what it means for employers.
Fed’s Balance Sheet Drops by $289 Billion from Peak: November Update on Quantitative Tightening by Wolf Richter • Nov 3, 2022 • 219 Comments We also keep an eye on Primary Credit and look at the Fed’s deal with the Swiss National Bank.
Bank of England Hikes 75 Basis Points, Most since 1989, to 3%. Hopes Raging Inflation Will “Fall Sharply” in mid-2023. If Not, “Will Respond Forcefully” by Wolf Richter • Nov 3, 2022 • 59 Comments But in Q4, inflation will shoot to 11%, the BOE said. Media reported it as a “dovish” monster rate hike. Whatever.
Fed Hikes 75 Bpts to 3.75-4.0%, Pivots Even More Hawkish: “Very Premature to Be Thinking about or Talking about Pausing.” Markets Tank by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2022 • 230 Comments “What I’m trying to do is make sure our message is clear: we think we have a ways to go,” Powell said. “Rates have to go higher and stay higher for longer.”
Wages Soar by 7.7%. But Job Hoppers Boost their Pay by 15.2%, Leveraging this Historically Tight Labor Market by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2022 • 109 Comments An indication underlying inflation won’t drop significantly just on its own.
Bank of England Sold Bonds Outright Today to Speed up QT, Will Sell More at Regular Auctions: First Major Central Bank to Sell Bonds Outright by Wolf Richter • Nov 1, 2022 • 99 Comments It went fine. Gilt yields are way down from panic highs. Another dream of the “pivot” mongers goes to heck.
