Peak Good Times? Stock Market Risk Spikes to New High by Wolf Richter • Dec 27, 2017 • 31 Comments Leverage, the great accelerator on the way up and on the way down.
The Flattening US “Yield Curve”? NIRP Refugees Did it by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2017 • 69 Comments Sez Fitch & Yellen.
Yellen Shrugs Off Bitcoin as “Full-Blown Financial Stability Risk.” In Other Words, No Fed Bailout when Prices “Fluctuate” by Wolf Richter • Dec 13, 2017 • 61 Comments As long as banks are not exposed to bitcoin.
Fed Gets More Ammo for Rate Hikes by Wolf Richter • Dec 12, 2017 • 35 Comments Producer Price Index rises most in six years.
How Fed Rate Hikes Impact US Debt Slaves by Wolf Richter • Dec 11, 2017 • 73 Comments But savers are still getting shafted.
The Fed’s QE-Unwind is Really Happening by Wolf Richter • Dec 7, 2017 • 122 Comments Fed’s assets drop to lowest level in over three years.
Fed Tightens, “and so far, Nothing Has Blown Up” by Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2017 • 67 Comments Gundlach frets about bonds during QE unwind, rate hikes, tax cuts, and rising deficits.
The Fed Might “Surprise” Markets with its Hawkishness in 2018 by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2017 • 73 Comments The tax cuts and “elevated asset prices.”
US Gross National Debt Jumps $723 billion in 12 Weeks, Yellen “Very Worried about Sustainability of US Debt Trajectory” by Wolf Richter • Nov 30, 2017 • 153 Comments But only a few lost souls in Congress care.
Stock Market Lazes Happily on a Powerful Time Bomb, and the Fed Begins to Worry by Wolf Richter • Nov 29, 2017 • 84 Comments Pointing at “excesses,” “distortions,” and “imbalances.”