Brick & Mortar Meltdown: Bon-Ton Department Stores Hires Bankruptcy Advisor by Wolf Richter • Sep 8, 2017 • 49 Comments Vitamin World to file for bankruptcy, Perfumania Holdings just filed. And Toys R Us… All in just two weeks.
Global Stock Prices Fueled by Ugly Earnings by Wolf Richter • Sep 7, 2017 • 43 Comments Hype works, until it doesn’t.
Markets Throw Hissy-Fit about US Default by Wolf Richter • Sep 5, 2017 • 69 Comments With peculiar consequences.
Banks Earn Record Profits in Q2, Savers Sacrificed: FDIC by Wolf Richter • Aug 22, 2017 • 57 Comments $9 trillion in deposits go a long way.
Stock & Bond Markets in Denial about QE Unwind, but Banks, Treasury Dept Get Antsy by Wolf Richter • Aug 21, 2017 • 49 Comments “Let markets clear.” It’ll be just “a financial engineering shock.”
US Asset Bubbles Crack as Frantic China “Restricts” Outbound Investments by Wolf Richter • Aug 20, 2017 • 120 Comments What happens to prices when the biggest, reckless buyer walks away?
Cashing Out of Unicorns Gets Hard by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2017 • 50 Comments Until shares can be sold, “valuations” remain fake wealth.
What the Heck’s Going On with Vintage Automobiles? by Wolf Richter • Aug 15, 2017 • 84 Comments Asset class of Beautiful Machines deflates: fate of bubbles under the new regime.
Stock Market Warning Siren is Blaring by Wolf Richter • Aug 12, 2017 • 114 Comments Are we blinded yet by the brilliance of corporate earnings?
This Hits the Wheezing Commercial Real Estate Bubble at Worst Possible Time by Wolf Richter • Aug 8, 2017 • 48 Comments The last big enthusiastic buyer, China, is leaving the party.