Nuts & Bolts of the Car Business: Subprime Loans, High Vehicle Prices & Big Discounts, EVs, and Why Automakers are Dropping Car Lines by Wolf Richter • Jun 11, 2018 • 68 Comments Wolf Richter with Jim Goddard on This Week in Money:
My Views on US-Canada Trade, Steel’s Impact on National Security, NAFTA, and the Dollar by Wolf Richter • Jun 9, 2018 • 32 Comments Trade agreements are designed to benefit companies, not people – which is part of the problem.
Update on the Fed’s QE Unwind by Wolf Richter • Jun 8, 2018 • 101 Comments Just as the Fed created money to buy Treasuries and MBS during QE, it now destroys money as these securities “roll off” the balance sheet.
How Chinese Investors Inflate Housing Markets in the US, Canada, and Australia, as Governments Try to Stem the Tide by Wolf Richter • Jun 7, 2018 • 139 Comments The “waterbed effect” of money flows.
Heavy Truck Industry on Cloud 9, Shippers Face “Capacity Crisis” by Wolf Richter • Jun 6, 2018 • 32 Comments “Veterans in this industry are saying this is the best freight market they have ever seen.”
Huge New Prop under the Stock Market is a One-Time Affair by Wolf Richter • Jun 5, 2018 • 87 Comments Crash insurance with an expiration date. But its working while it lasts.
FANGMAN Stocks Are Not a Bubble, Pleads Goldman Sachs by Wolf Richter • Jun 5, 2018 • 128 Comments This time, it’s different, say the strategists. So we’ll take a look.
Toronto’s House Price Bubble Not Fun Anymore by Wolf Richter • Jun 4, 2018 • 56 Comments Average price of single-family house plunges 13%, or C$160,000 from peak. Sales of homes priced over C$1.5 million collapse by 63%. Condos still hanging on.
Housing Bubbles in Sydney & Melbourne Deflate by Wolf Richter • Jun 3, 2018 • 46 Comments “Buyers are not rushing to put their name on any contracts if they fear that a property might be overpriced.”
Who Dominates Global Steel Production & Trade? by Wolf Richter • Jun 1, 2018 • 108 Comments So here are the charts.