Subprime Profit-Machine Hiccups: Credit-Card Charge-Offs Rise Across Banking System by Wolf Richter • May 22, 2019 • 45 Comments Impact felt by the real economy and the most vulnerable consumers.
Subprime Bites: Auto-Loan Delinquencies Spike to Q3 2009 Level, Despite Strongest Labor Market in Years by Wolf Richter • May 15, 2019 • 80 Comments But what will happen to banks and automakers when the cycle turns?
Inflation by City, from Hot to Cool, from San Francisco to Chicago by Wolf Richter • May 10, 2019 • 87 Comments Here’s Where Americans Suffer Hot Inflation, But There Are Cool Spots Too
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q1 2019 by Wolf Richter • May 8, 2019 • 150 Comments It’s a tough job, but someone’s doing it.
I Just Hope the Fed Won’t See This: US Economy Has Blowout First Quarter by Wolf Richter • Apr 26, 2019 • 75 Comments “Patient” may become less patient.
Consumers Revert to “Normal” Range, after Red-Hot mid-2018 by Wolf Richter • Mar 29, 2019 • 59 Comments Personal income sets record. Bond market bet on inflation may get challenged.
Demand for HELOCs Collapses to 15-Year Low by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2019 • 100 Comments American homeowners have learned a lesson, despite what banks and the Fed want them to do.
Formerly Red-Hot Retail Sales Fizzle Back to Normal by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2019 • 55 Comments But back to “normal” hurts after a good run.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • Mar 10, 2019 • 75 Comments The Risks of American Consumer Debt Hide Beneath the Averages.
Tesla Falls from Grace with Americans, Facebook Plunges to the Ignominious Level of Goldman, Wells Fargo, Sears by Wolf Richter • Mar 6, 2019 • 99 Comments But the US government got them all beat.