The Fed’s Not Backing Off: Powell’s Standouts & Zingers at the Press Conference by Wolf Richter • Sep 26, 2018 • 67 Comments The US is “on an unsustainable fiscal path, there’s no hiding from it.”
What Will Surging Mortgage Rates Do to Housing Bubble 2? by Wolf Richter • Sep 26, 2018 • 66 Comments 5% is here, 6% beckons as the next target.
Gold in the “Everything Bubble”: Effective Diversification? by Wolf Richter • Sep 24, 2018 • 131 Comments What do you do when nearly all asset classes are overvalued?
My Long View of the “Yield-Curve Inversion” by Wolf Richter • Sep 22, 2018 • 73 Comments All bull markets come to an end, even the 35-year Great Bond Bull Market.
HELOCs in the US & Canada: As “Scarred” Americans Learned Bitter Lesson, Canadians Went Nuts by Wolf Richter • Sep 20, 2018 • 107 Comments Home-equity-loan balances in Canada per capita are now 3.3 times what they were in the US during HELOC peak before it all collapsed.
Mortgage Rates Head to 6%, 10-Year Yield to 4%, Yield Curve Fails to “Invert,” and Fed Keeps Hiking by Wolf Richter • Sep 19, 2018 • 81 Comments Nightmare scenario for the markets? They just shrugged. But homebuyers haven’t done the math yet.
Just How Wildly Exuberant is the Junk-Credit Market? by Wolf Richter • Sep 18, 2018 • 42 Comments This deal is “reminiscent of the kind of deal I would have seen in 2006 and 2007.” They’re still blowing off the Fed.
What Can Cause the Next Mortgage Crisis in the US? by Wolf Richter • Sep 16, 2018 • 96 Comments The soothingly low mortgage delinquency rate is a deceptive indicator: the New York Fed weighs in.
What Will These Mortgage Rates Do to Homeowners Trying to Refinance, Homebuyers, and Mortgage Lenders? by Wolf Richter • Sep 12, 2018 • 50 Comments Refinancing activity plunges to the lowest level since 2000.
Markets Increasingly Sure: 4 Rate Hikes in 2018 by Wolf Richter • Sep 10, 2018 • 40 Comments A distant possibility in early 2018 is making its way to reality.
