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.
Global Steel Production: China Blows the Socks off the Rest of the World, US Production Plunges by Wolf Richter • Jun 3, 2021 • 193 Comments The annual steel report is out.
Stock Market Officially a Bad Joke: AMC Warns Buyers of its New Shares: Don’t Buy “Unless You Are Prepared” to Lose “All or Substantial Portion of Your Investment” by Wolf Richter • Jun 3, 2021 • 156 Comments A joke where everyone is making fun of everyone in grand & crazy pump-and-dump schemes. But I can’t blame AMC. I blame the Fed.
SoftBank-Funded Silicon Valley Unicorn Katerra, which was to “Transform” the Construction Industry, Collapses by Wolf Richter • Jun 1, 2021 • 90 Comments Thousands of workers laid off. $2.2 billion up in smoke. 2nd SoftBank unicorn to collapse this year before getting to the IPO or SPAC window, after Greensill, which it helped take down.
