“Tech” Paid $5 Billion in Fees to Wall Street in 2016, and Look What it Got for it by Wolf Richter • Sep 8, 2016 • 27 Comments Most often it just leads to more shut-downs, write-offs, and layoffs.
The Great Debt Unwind Beneath the Surface: US Commercial Bankruptcies Soar by Wolf Richter • Sep 7, 2016 • 52 Comments They’d believed in six years of Wall Street hogwash. Now reality sets in.
Crude Oil Freight Rates Plunge to Record Lows by Wolf Richter • Sep 7, 2016 • 37 Comments Overcapacity meets broken promises of soaring demand.
Household Discretionary Spending Stuck in 4-Year Quagmire by Wolf Richter • Sep 6, 2016 • 46 Comments Spending the same to end up getting less.
“Zombie Apocalypse”: The Hanjin Bailout that Didn’t Happen by Wolf Richter • Sep 5, 2016 • 47 Comments It “shatters the complacency” that TBTF carriers “are immune to failure”
The 11 Ghastly Things I Got out of NSO Group’s iPhone Hack by Wolf Richter • Sep 4, 2016 • 45 Comments You have nothing left to hide.
How a Small-ish Stock Market Swoon Might Unleash the Next Credit Nightmare by Wolf Richter • Sep 3, 2016 • 29 Comments The number of “weakest link” companies worst since October 2009.
It Starts: Rents Drop in 10 of the Top 12 US Markets by Wolf Richter • Sep 2, 2016 • 79 Comments Check out the rental trends in your own city.
No “Free Money for All,” only for Corporations & Governments; Consumers Need Not Apply: ECB’s Nowotny by Wolf Richter • Sep 1, 2016 • 44 Comments Consumer Debt with Negative Rates is “a Perversion.”
Worst Plunge in Canada’s GDP since 2009 by Wolf Richter • Aug 31, 2016 • 44 Comments This time, you can’t blame the dollar or oil prices.