Billions for Planes, Billowing Losses by MC01 • Nov 10, 2018 • 68 Comments The Long-Haul “Low-Cost Carrier” Business Model in a world awash in cheap money.
This is What Retail Investors Did with GE This Year as it Plunged by Wolf Richter • Nov 9, 2018 • 69 Comments Lured by the siren song of a “buying opportunity” and a fat yield.
Bank Shares in Mexico (and Beyond) Plunge as Incoming Government Threatens Core Business: Fee Gouging by Don Quijones • Nov 9, 2018 • 12 Comments Part of a global trend, as exasperated consumers are squealing, but no country has threatened to do what Mexico proposed.
Hilarious How Wall-Street Crybabies Whine about the Fed’s QE Unwind after a Decade of “Wealth Effect” by Wolf Richter • Nov 8, 2018 • 124 Comments Their “Everything Bubble” is being pricked “gradually,” and they don’t like it.
Startup Boom a “Dangerous, High-Stakes Ponzi Scheme”: Silicon Valley Investor by Wolf Richter • Nov 7, 2018 • 60 Comments “It’s time to wait patiently as the air is slowly let out of this bizarre Ponzi balloon created by the venture capital industry.”
Mattress Firm’s Moral Bankruptcy by John McNellis • Nov 6, 2018 • 40 Comments Moral bankruptcy may be one of the quickest preludes to Chapter 11.
Apple Gets Re-Crushed: New iPhone Prices Too Damn High? by Wolf Richter • Nov 5, 2018 • 106 Comments Time for some hefty share buybacks.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • Nov 4, 2018 • 46 Comments Will this Scheduled Bloodbath in Corporate Debt Deter the Fed?
Where the Heck are Share Buybacks in This Rotten Market? by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2018 • 71 Comments The myth of the “blackout period.” And the price of “unlocking value.”
What General Electric Is Doing to Dodge the Question: “When Will GE File for Bankruptcy?” by Leonard Hyman and Willian Tilles • Nov 2, 2018 • 68 Comments The hail of two-notch downgrades doesn’t help.