The Hype is No Longer with Tesla: Suppliers & Creditors Start to Fret by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2018 • 82 Comments 18 of 22 suppliers believe Tesla is now a financial risk to their companies.
Dagong, which Slashed the US to BBB+, Suspended in China for Selling Fake AA and AAA Ratings to Chinese Outfits by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2018 • 32 Comments China struggles to contain its corporate bond morass.
Don’t Fall for This Scary “Critical Alert from Microsoft” Scam that just Happened to Me by Wolf Richter • Aug 19, 2018 • 109 Comments Here’s how I dealt with it — screenshots and all. And now you can have some fun at their expense, literally.
Toxic Mix in Canada: Spiking Inflation, Variable-Rate Mortgages, and a Housing Bubble by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2018 • 52 Comments What will the Bank of Canada do?
E-Commerce Does it Again: The Stores that Got Pummeled by Wolf Richter • Aug 17, 2018 • 65 Comments Even brick-and-mortar sales at our hero-of-the-day Nordstrom actually fell!
What Truckers & Railroads Just Said about the US Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2018 • 24 Comments It’s cyclical.
“Asia Will Be the Next Source of Downside Systemic Risk for Financial Markets” by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2018 • 35 Comments Emerging Markets turmoil: The price of cheap debt & misallocation of capital.
Who Bought the $1.36 Trillion of New US National Debt over the Past 12 Months? by Wolf Richter • Aug 15, 2018 • 63 Comments Russia, Japan, and the Fed dumped, China hung in there…. But who bought?
Rise of US Dollar Haunts Emerging Market Debt by Wolf Richter • Aug 14, 2018 • 56 Comments A vicious cycle, kicked off by cheap debt that’s suddenly not cheap, after 8 years of experimental monetary policies.
The Price of Cheap Dollar/Euro Debts: Local Currencies Come Unglued, Debt Crises Ensue by Wolf Richter • Aug 13, 2018 • 62 Comments Grand Collapse in Turkey; to avoid the same fate, Argentina hikes rate to 45%.