Wolf Richter

The Foreign Investors Who Bought the Recklessly Ballooning US Debt: July 2025 Update

by Wolf Richter • Jul 18, 2025 • 12 Comments

US Treasury debt surged by $441 billion since the debt ceiling, to $36.7 trillion. Foreign demand for this stuff is an increasingly important issue.

My Thoughts about those June Retail Sales

by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2025 • 63 Comments

Tariff-frontrunning ruffled the numbers earlier. That dust has settled.

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, June 2025: The Price Drops & Gains in 33 Large Expensive Metros

by Wolf Richter • Jul 16, 2025 • 79 Comments

US home prices nearly flat YoY, but fell in 21 of our 33 metros: Austin, Tampa, Miami, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Phoenix, Orlando, Atlanta, Denver, Raleigh, Houston, Seattle… YoY gains shrink further in Boston, Chicago, New York…

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, June 2025: Single-Family & Condo Prices Plunge to Multi-Year Lows in Toronto, Hit Record High in Montreal

by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2025 • 37 Comments

And everything in between: Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg.

Fed’s Nightmare: CPI Inflation in Services Reheats (not tariffed), while Inflation in Durable Goods, Apparel & Footwear (tariffed) Remains Cool

by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2025 • 182 Comments

While pundits looked with their magnifying glasses for tariffs in consumer goods prices, it was in services, which are not tariffed, where inflation took off again. Shocker? No

Homes for Sale Also Surge in Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit, but Are Still Very Low

by Wolf Richter • Jul 14, 2025 • 27 Comments

They’re among the stragglers, behind other big markets whose inventories have shot up to at least decade-highs.

30-Year Treasury Yield Jumps to 4.96% despite “Solid” Auction, Long End of Yield Curve Steepens, Mortgage-Rate Spread Historically Wide

by Wolf Richter • Jul 12, 2025 • 169 Comments

The bond market’s reaction to the inflationary environment, to fears of a lax Fed, and to a Mississippi River of new debt.

Inventory of Homes for Sale Blows Out in Texas, Price Cuts Spike

by Wolf Richter • Jul 11, 2025 • 80 Comments

The situation in Texas and its four big metros, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio.

Homes for Sale in Florida’s Biggest Markets Rise to Highest in Many Years and Languish as Demand Fizzled

by Wolf Richter • Jul 10, 2025 • 103 Comments

He who panicked first panicked best.

ECB Balance Sheet: QT Assets Drop by €64 Billion in June, by €3.18 Trillion from Peak, to €3.98 Trillion, Lowest since June 2020

by Wolf Richter • Jul 10, 2025 • 25 Comments

It also wrote down its €1 trillion in gold by €30 billion due to its price decline in euros in Q2.

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