Glut of New Completed Single-Family Houses for Sale Spikes to Highest since 2007, Prices Drop to Lowest since 2021 But Are Still Way too High by Wolf Richter • Dec 23, 2024 • 29 Comments Lennar shocked the market by saying it’ll address this situation with further price cuts; its average price to drop by 16% from the peak in 2022.
GM Shuts Down its Misbegotten Robotaxi Money-Pit after Acquiring Cruise in 2016 and then Blowing $10 Billion on It by Wolf Richter • Dec 10, 2024 • 95 Comments Cruise was supposed to generate $50 billion in revenues by 2030, according to GM’s former hype, which Wall Street ate up.
Credit-Market Mania Crushed “Yield Spreads” & Risk Premiums, but Corporate & CRE Borrowing Costs Are Still Much Higher by Wolf Richter • Dec 9, 2024 • 45 Comments Loosey-goosey financial conditions don’t mean low borrowing costs. They just mean narrow yield spreads.
Factory Construction Spending Soars to New Record, +16% YoY, +242% since 2019: Result of Corporate & Strategic Rethink by Wolf Richter • Dec 2, 2024 • 101 Comments Trump’s tariffs — a tax on profit margins of US & foreign companies — will push in the same direction as Biden’s taxpayer-and-debt-funded incentives.
Americans Buy Ever Bigger, More Powerful, More Fuel-Efficient Trucks, SUVs & Cars. EVs Escalate the Horsepower War by Wolf Richter • Nov 25, 2024 • 83 Comments “The roughly linear increase in specific power” of ICE vehicles over the past 50 years “does not appear to be slowing”: EPA.
Our F-150 XLT & Camry LE Price Index, Going Back to 1990, Is Updated with 2025 Model-Year Prices. There Were Some Twists by Wolf Richter • Nov 11, 2024 • 132 Comments Ford cuts truck prices after grotesque increases in prior years. Toyota axes the base Camry; new base Camry is a more expensive hybrid.
We May Not Get Our Recession until the AI Spending Bubble Implodes by Wolf Richter • Nov 10, 2024 • 186 Comments But this stuff takes years. Until then, the massive spending from corporate balance sheets and cash flows that circulates & circulates is very stimulative.
Buffett T-bills & Chills: Piled up T-bills, Ditched Stocks, Bonds, and Share Buybacks in Q3 by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2024 • 102 Comments Oracle of Omaha will sit on lots of dry powder when the S hits the fan and there will finally be some stocks worth buying.
Super Micro Computer Becomes the First AI-Mania Highflyer in our Imploded Stocks by Wolf Richter • Oct 31, 2024 • 58 Comments -42% in two days, -76% from peak-AI-mania in March 2024. There is some dark humor in those kinds of charts.
Boeing Launches $22 Billion Share Offering to Get Breathing Room, Dodge Junk Credit Rating, after Having Wasted $64 Billion on Share Buybacks by Wolf Richter • Oct 28, 2024 • 130 Comments It will dilute the bejesus out of already beaten-up stockholders. Share buyback karma.
