Glimmer of Hope that Rate Hikes & QT Pushed Down Inflation or Just Another CPI Head Fake? (The Fed Warned on Head Fakes) by Wolf Richter • Dec 13, 2022 • 191 Comments Inflation in many services is red-hot. Health insurance CPI pushed down again by record mega-adjustment.
Car & Truck Trends: Faster, More Powerful, Bigger, Heavier, and More Fuel-Efficient by Wolf Richter • Dec 12, 2022 • 112 Comments Americans like big, fast, powerful equipment more than ever. Four decades of horsepower, MPG, 0-60 acceleration, size, and weight. The new data is out.
Starting to Be Housing Bust 2 for Homebuilders & New Single-Family Houses by Wolf Richter • Dec 11, 2022 • 217 Comments To get rid of ballooning inventories amid spiking cancellations & plunging sales, builders try to sell to rental operations, but they pulled back too.
How Big Are the Fed’s Losses and Where Can We Go See Them? by Wolf Richter • Dec 9, 2022 • 156 Comments We find a good rubbernecking spot.
When Will the Waves of Layoffs Loosen this Crazy Labor Market? by Wolf Richter • Dec 8, 2022 • 239 Comments Now starting to (but just a little).
Fate of “Free” Online Publishers: BuzzFeed’s Existential Crisis after its SPAC Merger by Wolf Richter • Dec 7, 2022 • 122 Comments It burned through most of its $700 million of investor cash. So now what?
New SPAC Stuff Keeps Imploding amid Shortage of “Consensual Hallucination,” as I Call it, But Now the Imploding is a Lot Faster by Wolf Richter • Dec 6, 2022 • 101 Comments I mean, like within hours and days, rather than weeks and months. But the SPAC sponsors want to make some money.
$1,768 a Month, with $10,407 Down, 5% APR, on a Ford Pickup? Update on Q3 New-Vehicle Finance by Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2022 • 238 Comments Automakers need to do some serious navel-gazing about price levels and going upscale, if they want to sell more vehicles.
Drop in 10-Year Treasury Yield & Mortgage Rates Is Just Another Bear-Market Rally. Longer Uptrend in Yields Is Intact, with Higher Highs and Higher Lows by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2022 • 149 Comments “Nothing goes to heck in a straight line.” That’s how functional markets adjust to a new reality: Higher inflation, higher rates.
Where Will Inflation & Interest Rates Go, How Far Can Housing Drop, Was FTX the Canary in the Crypto Mine, What Do I Really Think about EV Incentives (LOL) and New Vehicle Prices? by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2022 • 61 Comments Wolf Richter in an interview on these and other delectable topics on This Week in Money.
