Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, November Update, after Bank of Canada Ended QE and Put Rate Hikes in Sight by Wolf Richter • Dec 18, 2021 • 225 Comments Home prices spike in a few cities, “pause” in some, drop in others. Vancouver prices are below August levels.
Stocks Don’t Need More Alarm Bells, They’re Already Clanging and Jangling All Over the Place. But Here we Are: Leverage by Wolf Richter • Dec 17, 2021 • 304 Comments Stock market leverage, the big accelerator on the way up, and on the way down.
Inventory & Supply of New & Used Vehicles in Dollars & Units: What a Mess by Wolf Richter • Dec 16, 2021 • 139 Comments Dollar-denominated inventories plunged amid historic price spikes. But by units, new vehicle inventories collapsed; used vehicle inventories not so bad, but prices are ridiculous.
Powell: Everything’s Moving Much Faster, incl. End of QE, Balance Sheet Reduction, Rate Hikes by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2021 • 297 Comments Inflation now a “big threat.” After downplaying inflation all year, the Fed is starting to get serious.
Inflation Magic: Retail Sales +19.5% Year-over-Year, But Flat with Blowout Oct, as Department Stores Sagged, Auto Dealers Had No Inventory, and Cannabis Stores? by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2021 • 105 Comments Spiking prices inflate retail sales across the board, but particularly at auto dealers and gas stations.
What Needs to Happen to Get this Inflation under Control? And How Would Markets React? by Wolf Richter • Dec 15, 2021 • 168 Comments My conversation with Adam Taggart.
US Wholesale Price-Spike Worst in the Data, Even Services. But Further up the Producer Price Pipeline, Inflation Rages at 28% by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2021 • 185 Comments Raging price pressures in the pipeline are heading for consumers.
Vehicles in Operation and Registrations in 2021 by Automaker and Segment. Where’s Tesla? by Wolf Richter • Dec 13, 2021 • 121 Comments And which states are the leaders in pickup truck sales?
Wholesale Price Inflation in Germany Totally Blows Out, Highest in the Data Going Back to 1962 by Wolf Richter • Dec 13, 2021 • 161 Comments The ECB is still recklessly delusional.
Share Buybacks Surge to Record ahead of Potential 1% Tax: Companies Buy as Insiders Dump like there’s No Tomorrow by Wolf Richter • Dec 12, 2021 • 173 Comments Buy High, Don’t Buy Low. Prices are sky-high and but companies are buying them back like never before.
