Did People Use their Stimulus to Start a Business? The Spike in New Businesses, one of the Mindblowers of the Pandemic by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2021 • 116 Comments Now it’s confirmed, it wasn’t for PPP-loan fraud.
Today’s Unicorns Have Bigger Cumulative Losses than Amazon, Lost Money far Longer than Amazon, Still No Turnaround by Jeffrey Funk • Jul 5, 2021 • 117 Comments Just because Amazon was able to succeed does not mean others will. But they’re getting showered with money.
EV SPAC Lordstown Shows Why this Market Needs Short Sellers More than Ever; They’re the Only Sheriff Left in Crazy Town by Wolf Richter • Jun 17, 2021 • 86 Comments Lordstown now says it has “No Binding Orders” after saying it had “Binding Orders,” after admitting it had “No Binding Orders,” after hyping its binding orders for months. Sheesh.
A Glimpse at Hidden Stock Market Leverage of “Securities-Based Lending,” as Known Stock Market Leverage Spikes to WTF High by Wolf Richter • Jun 16, 2021 • 96 Comments We don’t know how much total leverage there is, but from the trends in margin debt, we know it’s huge and ballooning.
Third Publicly Traded Mall REIT Files for Bankruptcy in Eight Months: Washington Prime Group, the Simon Property Spinoff by Wolf Richter • Jun 14, 2021 • 87 Comments The brick-and-mortar meltdown for mall landlord started years before the Pandemic. For WPG, it started in 2016.
“Tesla only sold ~10%” of its Bitcoin Holdings: Musk Speaks, Bitcoin Moves. But it Takes Two to Tango by Wolf Richter • Jun 13, 2021 • 152 Comments Pump and dump just for the heck of it? Why can’t this dude just shut up? That’s what people, including the SEC, want to know.
EVs Hit 8% Share in California’s Declining New-Vehicle Market: Shaking Up Legacy Automakers by Wolf Richter • Jun 9, 2021 • 180 Comments Tesla Model Y Blows doors off US bestseller Ford F-Series. But Tesla lost share within EV space against the giants it woke up.
Will Americans, Who’ve Spurned Cheaper Cars for Decades, Buy a Lower-Priced Baby “Truck?” I Don’t Know Either by Wolf Richter • Jun 8, 2021 • 202 Comments Americans love big expensive equipment. And cheap cars have fizzled. Ford, which threw in the towel on its cheapest cars, is trying again.
The Countries with the Most Monstrous Business Debts: US in 22nd Place Despite Massive Spike During the Pandemic by Wolf Richter • Jun 7, 2021 • 106 Comments China and the tax havens rule!
AMC Insiders Dumped Huge Portions of their Shares after WTF Spike, AMC Sold Shares, and Wanda is Already Outa There by Wolf Richter • Jun 5, 2021 • 141 Comments But who’s buying? CEO Adam Aron is schmoozling and bamboozling the Reddit crowd.
