My Take on Auto Sales in March – Come to Think of it, My Take on the Tough & Ugly US Auto Market by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2026 • 83 Comments GM, Ford, Honda in a quagmire. Tesla now like GM & Ford. Stellantis & Nissan try to exit a death spiral. Toyota gains. Hyundai-Kia rocks from record to record.
Retail Sales Plunged in February. But Huge Seasonal Adjustments Caused them to Jump. A Look at Both by Wolf Richter • Apr 1, 2026 • 11 Comments But what the heck happened at food & beverage stores?
Farm Action’s Letter to Congress, Lambasting the Concentration of Fertilizer Makers and its Impact on Prices by Wolf Richter • Mar 31, 2026 • 44 Comments “These structural dynamics allow supply disruptions … to translate into rapid, outsized, and sustained price increases.”
Humana, Caught up in the Metastasizing Medicare Overbilling Scandal, Enters Our Imploded Stocks by Wolf Richter • Mar 30, 2026 • 69 Comments Government crackdown and legal entanglements take all the fun out of the Medicare Advantage plan bonanza.
US Winemakers and Beer Brewers Face an Existential Crisis: Plunging Alcohol Consumption by Wolf Richter • Mar 26, 2026 • 138 Comments Beer brewers have long suffered as Americans switched to wine. But since Covid, even winemakers got hit, and 2025 was really bad.
$5+ Diesel Could Unleash Inflationary Mindset the Fed Better Not “Look Through.” Inflation Was already Hot before Iran War by Wolf Richter • Mar 24, 2026 • 118 Comments When this inflationary mindset takes off, inflation becomes like a runaway train.
Construction of Data Centers, Power Plants, Factories, and Office Buildings: Boom & Bust by Wolf Richter • Mar 23, 2026 • 53 Comments Explosive spending on data-centers exceeded plunging spending on office buildings for the first time ever.
Money-Market Funds & CDs: Americans’ Ballooning Piles of Interest-Earning Low-Risk Investments by Wolf Richter • Mar 20, 2026 • 50 Comments They’re investment choices, like bond funds, bonds, etc., not that illusory “cash on the sidelines.”
Prices of New Single-Family Homes Drop Further, Inventory of Completed New Homes for Sale Highest since 2009 by Wolf Richter • Mar 19, 2026 • 37 Comments Hoping for lower mortgage rates that may not come.
Another Mostly Empty Office Tower in San Francisco Sells for 75% Off: Juul’s Abandoned Headquarters by Wolf Richter • Mar 16, 2026 • 45 Comments Now there’s a new wave of investor-funded tenants in town that are swimming in cash: AI companies.
