The Most Astounding IPO Hype-and-Hoopla Show Ever Ends 2022 in Tears by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2022 • 87 Comments “The value of discipline is currently at an all-time high,” after years when the value of consensual hallucination was at an all-time high.
The Price of Easy Money Now Coming Due by Wolf Richter • Dec 25, 2022 • 216 Comments The Crazy Stuff & Asset Prices that arose during Easy Money are coming unglued as Easy Money ended.
Eleven Months After Going Public via SPAC, Texas-Based Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy by Wolf Richter • Dec 22, 2022 • 134 Comments Consensual-hallucination stocks and crypto just keep on giving.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Price of Easy Money Now Coming Due by Wolf Richter • Dec 18, 2022 • 188 Comments The Crazy Stuff & Asset Prices that arose during Easy Money are coming unglued as Easy Money ended.
Rising But Still Low New-Vehicle Inventory Tripped Up by Shift in Demand from Trucks (Now Lots of Supply) to Fuel-Efficient Cars (Very Little Supply) by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2022 • 59 Comments US brands gave up on cars. Now their trucks are piling up. Asian brands dominate cars and have shortest supply. And prices are too damn high.
Starting to Be Housing Bust 2 for Homebuilders & New Single-Family Houses by Wolf Richter • Dec 11, 2022 • 217 Comments To get rid of ballooning inventories amid spiking cancellations & plunging sales, builders try to sell to rental operations, but they pulled back too.
Fate of “Free” Online Publishers: BuzzFeed’s Existential Crisis after its SPAC Merger by Wolf Richter • Dec 7, 2022 • 122 Comments It burned through most of its $700 million of investor cash. So now what?
New SPAC Stuff Keeps Imploding amid Shortage of “Consensual Hallucination,” as I Call it, But Now the Imploding is a Lot Faster by Wolf Richter • Dec 6, 2022 • 101 Comments I mean, like within hours and days, rather than weeks and months. But the SPAC sponsors want to make some money.
BlockFi, 8 Subsidiaries File for Bankruptcy: Smooth & Efficient Crypto Contagion Continues by Wolf Richter • Nov 28, 2022 • 167 Comments The price of consensual hallucination. Filing also lists $30 million SEC settlement, and huge amounts owed to unnamed “clients.”
Lose $1.7 billion on $519 Million in Revenue? Bitcoin Miner SPAC Core Scientific Shows How. Bankrupt a Year after Going Public? by Wolf Richter • Nov 23, 2022 • 151 Comments Consensual hallucination was required to pull this off.