Plastics & Semiconductor Shortages, Container Port Backlogs, the Texas Freeze Wreak Havoc on US Auto Manufacturing by Wolf Richter • Mar 17, 2021 • 136 Comments Americans trying to buy a new vehicle will end up paying more.
Stock Market Leverage Spikes in Historic Manner: Another WTF Chart of a Zoo that Has Gone Nuts by Wolf Richter • Mar 17, 2021 • 153 Comments In an investment environment where nothing matters anymore – until it suddenly does.
SPACs Are Lining Up as the Next WTF Chart of the Year by Wolf Richter • Mar 16, 2021 • 127 Comments Who’s going to be the sucker? Even the SEC, which has been asleep through all this, warns retail investors. But in the current mega-bubble craze, no one gives a hoot about anything anymore.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Market Manias Galore, But Long-Term Interest Rates Smell a Rat by Wolf Richter • Mar 14, 2021 • 185 Comments These manias and the rising long-term yields are on collision course.
Long Way to “Normalcy”: When Will Americans Return to Flying for Vacation and Business? by Wolf Richter • Mar 12, 2021 • 147 Comments Airlines, meanwhile, face pent-up demand of the wrong kind.
Google, Ad Tech, and the Gutting of the News Publishers by Wolf Richter • Mar 10, 2021 • 241 Comments So now we have another gutting, this time at the HuffPost, and omertà reigns.
Yellen Coddles Up to Powell on Rising Long-Term Yields as a Welcome Sign of Recovery. Wall Street Crybabies Not Amused by Wolf Richter • Mar 6, 2021 • 206 Comments To let some hot air out of the markets? As long as it isn’t “disorderly.”
SoftBank Fintech Unicorn Greensill on Verge of Collapse by Nick Corbishley • Mar 4, 2021 • 77 Comments A massive murky mess of supply-chain finance, amid criminal allegations against the management of its German bank subsidiary, with wide repercussions.
Was That the IPO Stocks Bubble that Just Popped? by Wolf Richter • Mar 3, 2021 • 147 Comments When there are suddenly second thoughts in this market powered by so much blind and crazy exuberance, the entire foundation begins to wobble.
Movie Theater Business Isn’t Going Back to Normal: Disney CEO by Wolf Richter • Mar 2, 2021 • 162 Comments Are multiplex theaters even viable in the era of streaming and affordable big screen TVs, if studios crush the “theatrical window?”
