Altria Rues the Day it Plowed $13 Billion into Super-Unicorn Juul by Wolf Richter • Sep 23, 2019 • 126 Comments Dark Side Comes to the Fore: Juul is the Second Highest Valued US Unicorn, Behind WeWork Which Crashed & Burned. Now it’s Juul’s Turn.
Here Are Photos of Some of the Dilapidated Equipment San Francisco Wants to Buy from Bankrupt PG&E for $2.5 billion by Wolf Richter • Sep 9, 2019 • 148 Comments Californians have had it with PG&E, a convicted felon infamous for sacrificing safety, maintenance, reliability, and people to enhance “shareholder value.” But is San Francisco overpaying? Take a look.
Housing Bubble 2 in San Francisco Bay Area & Silicon Valley Pops Despite Startup Millionaires & Low Mortgage Rates by Wolf Richter • Aug 15, 2019 • 123 Comments House prices dropped again – and ironically the most in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Hottest, Most Expensive Rental Markets Unwind by Wolf Richter • Aug 2, 2019 • 78 Comments But apartment rents in 10 other cities surge 10% to 15%. Here are the top 100 and how their rents have changed.
Californians Sour on Tesla Model S and Model X by Wolf Richter • Jul 23, 2019 • 101 Comments In their most important US market, the plunge in registrations far outpaced their already stunning global decline. Which opens a whole new question.
Housing Bubble 2 Lost its Mojo in the San Francisco Bay Area: House Prices Drop 8% by Wolf Richter • Jul 18, 2019 • 90 Comments For the 9 counties, the median price in June dropped back to June 2017 levels.
Apartment Rents Fall in Seattle, Southern California, New York, Oakland, San Jose, Chicago, Honolulu by Wolf Richter • Jul 1, 2019 • 66 Comments But 8 markets show double-digit increases.
This is What Happened Next After Special Interests at U.C., Berkeley Retrieved their Power by John McNellis • Jun 28, 2019 • 43 Comments Hundreds of millions of dollars in lost opportunities, bungled projects, and out-right featherbedding.
California Panics about Losing Businesses and People (to Texas): What the Housing Market Fears Most is Cropping Up in the Data by Wolf Richter • Jun 24, 2019 • 236 Comments But Texans Say, “We’re Full.” And Californians, Buckling Under Housing Costs & Congestion, Tell Wannabe Leavers, “Just Do It”
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
