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The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, August Update: West Coast Markets “See the Dip”

by Wolf Richter • Aug 27, 2019 • 75 Comments

Seattle house prices fall year-over-year. New York condos drop to Aug 2017 level. San Francisco Bay Area near-flat. Los Angeles, Denver, Boston set new highs. Las Vegas, Phoenix dream of crazy Housing Bubble 1. Miami stalls.

Lenders Fear Ascena with 3,519 Stores May File for Bankruptcy: Source

by Wolf Richter • Aug 26, 2019 • 114 Comments

Cash running low. Brick & mortar meltdown for landlords of Dressbarn, Ann Taylor, Loft, Lou & Grey, Lane Bryant, Cacique, Catherines, and Justice. Shares annihilated.

THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How Even “Low” Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy

by Wolf Richter • Aug 25, 2019 • 111 Comments

Interest rates don’t have to be negative to make a mess in the era of “Secular Stagnation.”

World Trade Skids for First Time Since Financial Crisis

by Wolf Richter • Aug 25, 2019 • 56 Comments

Exports by China, Japan, and Eurozone under pressure — in part because of globally weak demand for new vehicles, which transcends the trade war.

Near-Record Low Mortgage Rates No Relief for Dropping New House Prices

by Wolf Richter • Aug 23, 2019 • 143 Comments

Last time was during the Financial Crisis. Now it’s happening in a kinder and gentler way, but there is no crisis.

Suddenly Leveraged Loan Issuance Gets Rough

by Wolf Richter • Aug 22, 2019 • 62 Comments

Fifth deal croaked in August. Moody’s has a cow over Ancestry.com’s deal. Deals had to be sweetened to find buyers. Retail investors bail out.

Repo Market Problems & Ballooning Inventories of Treasuries at Primary Dealers Make it into the Fed’s Minutes. My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Jumps

by Wolf Richter • Aug 21, 2019 • 113 Comments

Fed Warns about “Elevated” Asset Prices and High Business Leverage.

How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy

by Wolf Richter • Aug 21, 2019 • 191 Comments

Now they’re clamoring for this NIRP absurdity in the US. How will this end?

Canada’s Most Splendid Housing Bubbles, July Update

by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2019 • 66 Comments

Vancouver sags. Calgary, Edmonton down from many years ago. Toronto rises but below 2017 peak. Montreal, Ottawa hit new highs.

How the Ecommerce Boom Crushes “Mall Retailers” One by One

by Wolf Richter • Aug 19, 2019 • 130 Comments

The segments at the core of the Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown.

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