CRE Nightmare for CMBS Holders: Office Mortgage Delinquency Rate Has Biggest Six-Month Spike Ever. It’s just the Beginning by Wolf Richter • Jul 5, 2023 • 133 Comments And it’s structural. Variable-rate CRE mortgages and much higher rates just speed up the process.
End of Easy Money: Unicorn Bubble Implodes, Normalcy Returns by Wolf Richter • Jul 4, 2023 • 100 Comments AI hype & hoopla replaces crypto, blockchain, and FinTech hype & hoopla. You’ve got to go with the times.
Revenge of the Variable-Rate Commercial Debts by Wolf Richter • Jun 28, 2023 • 121 Comments Most people in finance today cut their teeth in the era of Easy Money, when history books were thrown out the window. But that era is over.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Revenge of Variable-Rate Commercial Debts by Wolf Richter • Jun 24, 2023 • 160 Comments Most people in finance today cut their teeth in the era of Easy Money, when history books were thrown out the window.
How Can a Company Lose $3.3 Billion on $402 Million in Sales? Cannabis Companies Show How as Shares Get Wiped Out by Wolf Richter • Jun 22, 2023 • 131 Comments It just never ends with these hype-and-hoopla stocks. And when one wave finally dies, there’s something new. This stuff is just hilarious.
The Four Monster Service Sectors whose Sales Dominate the US Economy by Wolf Richter • Jun 16, 2023 • 166 Comments Their huge sales, dizzying growth rates, and high pay-scales move the needle.
I’ve Had it with Stupid Stuff about Hotels in San Francisco: Park Hotels & Wall Street Screwed Shareholders, Bond-Fund Holders, and Pension Funds, but Blame San Francisco? by Wolf Richter • Jun 12, 2023 • 127 Comments The clueless WSJ reporter needs to be taken to the woodshed. That kind of BS article doesn’t belong in the WSJ.
Commercial Real Estate Woes in the Stock Market: Office REITS by Wolf Richter • Jun 9, 2023 • 113 Comments But the dividends are so sweet – until they get cut or “suspended.”
Global Steel Production in 2022 Fell Most since 2009, Unwound Stimulus Spike of 2021. China’s Production Fell for 2nd Year by Wolf Richter • Jun 8, 2023 • 41 Comments China still produced more than the rest of the world combined, 12 times more than the US.
The End of Easy Money: Bankruptcy Filings Pile Up at Fastest Rate since 2010 by Wolf Richter • Jun 7, 2023 • 136 Comments A cleansing process, long overdue, to whittle down the corporate debt overhang and clear out deadwood, at the expense of investors.