Dynamics and Surging Magnitude of US LNG Exports: Started 10 Years Ago in a Glut of Natural Gas that Collapsed the Price by Wolf Richter • Apr 23, 2026 • 53 Comments 10th liquefaction & export terminal shipped first cargo. List of LNG export terminals, operating and under construction, by in-service date.
Hedge-Fund Meme-Stock Short-Squeeze Queen Avis Budget [CAR] Implodes by 72% in 26 Hours by Wolf Richter • Apr 23, 2026 • 34 Comments “Stairs up, express elevator down” as hedge funds sock it to each other.
Nasdaq up by 60% since Liberation Day Selloff and by 100% in 3 Years. People Are Just Having Fun by Wolf Richter • Apr 17, 2026 • 174 Comments While the Nasdaq gained 100%, the economy grew by 15% not adjusted for inflation. Who needs cryptos when stocks are so much fun.
About those Orders for Durable Goods that Factories in the US Received by Wolf Richter • Apr 7, 2026 • 20 Comments The 12-month average, which irons out Boeing’s huge orders, shows the trend: +8.8% year-over-year.
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 • 93 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 • 72 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 • 139 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.
