Wolf Richter

Condo Prices Already Dropped by 12%-26% in 21 Bigger Cities through July. Condo Bust Takes Shape

by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2025 • 77 Comments

Oakland, Austin, San Francisco, Denver, Tampa, Seattle, New York City, Saint Petersburg, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Boise, Jacksonville, Detroit, New Orleans, Portland, Arlington, Naples, Mesa, Aurora, Reno, Scottsdale.

Where Americans Spend $1.2 Trillion a Year at Ecommerce Retailers and How that Changed Over Time

by Wolf Richter • Aug 19, 2025 • 58 Comments

Clothing & general merchandise online retailers are the biggie.

Credit Card Delinquencies, Balances, Burden, Credit Limits, and Collections in Q2 2025

by Wolf Richter • Aug 19, 2025 • 30 Comments

Our Drunken Sailors and their Credit Cards.

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

by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2025 • 101 Comments

Home prices fell YoY in 20 of our 33 metros: Tampa, Austin, Miami, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, San Antonio, Dallas, Phoenix, Orlando, Atlanta, Denver, Raleigh, Houston, Seattle… Some still up YoY: Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia…

My Thoughts about those July Retail Sales

by Wolf Richter • Aug 15, 2025 • 113 Comments

Drunken Sailors going about their lives, spending money, moving the economy forward.

Core Services PPI Explodes, Worst since March 2020, Causes Overall PPI and Core PPI to Explode

by Wolf Richter • Aug 14, 2025 • 223 Comments

Food prices also spiked. Energy prices surged due to diesel, jet fuel, and industrial electric power. Ugly all around.

Inventory of Homes for Sale in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Nashville, Atlanta, Washington DC, Columbus, Detroit, Minneapolis

by Wolf Richter • Aug 13, 2025 • 68 Comments

Each market dances to a different drummer. But in some metros, the drummer hasn’t gotten out of bed yet.

Fed’s Nightmare: CPI Inflation in Core Services Worst in 6 Months, Pushing Core CPI to Worst in 6 Months. Some Goods Prices Fell, Others Rose

by Wolf Richter • Aug 12, 2025 • 209 Comments

The shocker for the 2nd month was the re-acceleration of inflation in core services, the biggie, accounting for 60% of overall CPI.

Serious Delinquency Rates for Subprime & Prime Auto Loans, their Balances, and their Burden: Our Drunken Sailors in Q2

by Wolf Richter • Aug 11, 2025 • 34 Comments

Subprime is, as always, in trouble, which is why it’s subprime – high-risk-high-profit auto sales & lending that can entail steep losses.

Average Age of First-Time Home Buyers and How it Changed over the Past 25 Years

by Wolf Richter • Aug 11, 2025 • 104 Comments

Turns out, younger people live their lives, and have always done so.

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