Rising But Still Low New-Vehicle Inventory Tripped Up by Shift in Demand from Trucks (Now Lots of Supply) to Fuel-Efficient Cars (Very Little Supply) by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2022 • 59 Comments US brands gave up on cars. Now their trucks are piling up. Asian brands dominate cars and have shortest supply. And prices are too damn high.
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.
