Here’s What I’m Worried About with the Everything Bubble by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2019 • 43 Comments How cash-burn machines power the real economy, and what happens to the economy when investors refuse to have more of their cash burned.
Cash-Flow Zombie Netflix Extracts Another $2 Billion from Befuddled Investors. Here’s How it Tricks Up its Earnings by Wolf Richter • Oct 21, 2019 • 142 Comments Having burned cash for 22 years and counting.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Here’s What I’m Worried About with the Everything Bubble by Wolf Richter • Oct 20, 2019 • 153 Comments How cash-burn machines power the real economy, and what happens to that economy when investors refuse to have more of their cash burned.
Another Chinese Mega-Construction Project in California Is Halted, this one in San Francisco. List of Troubled or Scuttled Chinese Projects in California Grows by Wolf Richter • Oct 18, 2019 • 81 Comments How China’s crackdown on debt and capital flight pulls the rug out from under mega-real-estate projects.
There Are a Couple of Things Not Coming Together Here by Wolf Richter • Oct 17, 2019 • 131 Comments I Get it: Stock-Market Shorts Sit on Sideline, Fearing Rally. Investors Deleverage, Fearing Sell-Off. VIX Falls Asleep, Fearing Nothing.
Why Banks Didn’t Lend to the Repo Market When Rates Blew Out: JPMorgan CEO Dimon by Wolf Richter • Oct 15, 2019 • 89 Comments “Does that mean that we have bad markets?”
Just Weeks After the Collapse of Thomas Cook, Spain Launches First Bailout of its Huge Tourism Industry by Nick Corbishley • Oct 12, 2019 • 38 Comments “An unforeseen crisis.” Other headwinds intensify too
Carmageddon for General Motors in China: Q3 Sales Collapse 30% from 2 Years Ago by Wolf Richter • Oct 10, 2019 • 58 Comments Just how important is China to GM, its Largest Market & Once Biggest Hope for Growth?
Twitter “Unintentionally” Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising by Electronic Frontier Foundation • Oct 10, 2019 • 35 Comments You give a tech company your personal information to activate a security feature and later find out they were using it “unintentionally” for targeted advertising.
How the SoftBank Scheme Rips Open the Startup Bubble by Wolf Richter • Oct 9, 2019 • 41 Comments This scheme worked wonders for a while but has now run into trouble, and a lot is at stake.
