Trucking & Rail Shipments Sink as US Goods-Based Sector Slows by Wolf Richter • May 14, 2019 • 77 Comments Weakness in transportation deepens. Freight rates still rising, but also coming under pressure.
Amazon Butts in on Google-Facebook “Duopoly” in the Huge Business of Internet Advertising. Publishers Hung Out to Dry by Wolf Richter • May 14, 2019 • 85 Comments Here are the latest numbers.
Nasdaq Drops 6.3% in 6 Days, as Uber & Lyft IPOs Turn into Colossal Flops. S&P 500 Chart Not Pretty by Wolf Richter • May 13, 2019 • 55 Comments Russell 2000 back where it had first been in November 2017.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • May 12, 2019 • 48 Comments Why a US-Style Mortgage Crisis Can Happen Anywhere.
QE Party Over, Bank of Japan Stealth-Tapers Further by Wolf Richter • May 11, 2019 • 54 Comments Straggler behind the Fed and the ECB gets the drift.
Inflation by City, from Hot to Cool, from San Francisco to Chicago by Wolf Richter • May 10, 2019 • 87 Comments Here’s Where Americans Suffer Hot Inflation, But There Are Cool Spots Too
House Flipper Zillow Lost $109K (37%) Per Flip, Net Loss Triples, Shares Soar by Wolf Richter • May 10, 2019 • 105 Comments But this new and horrendous house flipping operation inflated revenues “more than expected.”
In July, I Stuck My Neck Out to See a Housing Market Turning Point in San Francisco Bay Area’s Sonoma County: Here’s an Update on My Neck by Wolf Richter • May 9, 2019 • 45 Comments Now even the surface of the market has softened, not just the underlying dynamics.
Fed Launches ‘Rate Peg Instead of QE’ Trial Balloon for Next Crisis by Wolf Richter • May 8, 2019 • 87 Comments Wall Street hype artists and QE mongers would be deeply disappointed.
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q1 2019 by Wolf Richter • May 8, 2019 • 151 Comments It’s a tough job, but someone’s doing it.
