Debt and Fracking at Low Oil & Gas Prices: Wave of Defaults, “Outright Liquidations” Next by Wolf Richter • Jan 25, 2015 • 3 Comments Time and money are running out for junk-rated energy companies.
Billionaire’s Dream: Uber’s New American Economy by Larry Kummer • Jan 23, 2015 • 14 Comments Who gets the crumbs in the ironically named “sharing economy”?
Why the Great American Oil Bust Will Be Long & Painful by Wolf Richter • Jan 22, 2015 • 11 Comments BHP Billiton, perhaps unwittingly, explains the irony: despite oil glut, collapsed prices, layoffs… US oil production will continue to soar.
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.”
