Manufacturing Hit by Oil-Price Plunge? Southeast Worst Since Financial Crisis by Wolf Richter • Jan 21, 2015 • 10 Comments The Atlanta Fed begins to fret.
The American Dream Goes Bust, KB Home Wrecked, Other Homebuilders Follow by Wolf Richter • Jan 14, 2015 • 11 Comments What is going on in this glorious housing market of ours?
How Wall Street Drove the Oil & Gas Drilling Boom That’s Turning into a Disaster by Wolf Richter • Jan 13, 2015 • 13 Comments “We are not panicking” – bank CEO.
Subprime Spikes Auto Sales, Delinquencies Soar, Industry in Total Denial, Fallout to Hit Main Street by Wolf Richter • Jan 9, 2015 • 8 Comments The industry is drunk with its own enthusiasm.
Hot Air Hisses out of ‘Advertising Tech’ Startup Bubble by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2015 • 7 Comments And VCs are trying to bail out while they still can.
This Isn’t Investing… It’s Russian Roulette by Bill Bonner • Jan 8, 2015 • 1 Comment Betting against mathematical odds has won every time so far.
Oil-Bust Bloodletting: Projects Cancelled, Layoffs Ripple to Other Areas, Default Hits Private-Equity and Pension Funds by Wolf Richter • Jan 7, 2015 • 10 Comments The “most reliable profit driver” has “abruptly turned sour.”
Consumer Companies Issue Most Negative Guidance Ever, Despite Lower Gasoline Prices by Wolf Richter • Jan 6, 2015 • 16 Comments But the oil-price crash was supposed to goose consumer spending.
Oil-Bust Contagion Hits Hedge Funds, Supplier Layoffs Begin by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2014 • 8 Comments The toxic mix of financial engineering and an oil-price collapse.
How Asset Manager BlackRock Gave Me the Willies About 2015 by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2014 • 5 Comments “Financial instability” is a euphemism for “crash.”
