Oops, this Isn’t Supposed to Happen in a Rosy Credit Scenario by Wolf Richter • Feb 27, 2017 • 32 Comments For the first time in the US since the Financial Crisis.
Whatever Happened to Inflation after All This Money Printing? It Has Arrived! by Wolf Richter • Feb 15, 2017 • 75 Comments Workers, bondholders, savers get sacked. So what would Yellen do?
Fed Frets about Commercial Real Estate Bubble & its $2 Trillion in Loans Mostly at “Smaller Banks” by Wolf Richter • Feb 15, 2017 • 35 Comments Fear of “waiting too long” or of “having already waited too long?”
Deflation Probability Drops to 0% for Next Five Years by Wolf Richter • Jan 26, 2017 • 95 Comments A “horrifying threat” (lower prices) has been vanquished.
Financialization of Rents Gets Taxpayer Guarantees by Wolf Richter • Jan 24, 2017 • 99 Comments Government Buckles, Guarantees Buy-to-Rent Mortgage-Backed Securities for First Time Ever. Wall Street Wins Again.
Treasuries Got a Break. Now Beatings Resume until the Mood Improves by Wolf Richter • Jan 19, 2017 • 32 Comments So what would Yellen do?
These “8 Men” Own as Much as Poorest Half of the World, Oxfam Reports as Global Elite Hobnobs in Davos by Wolf Richter • Jan 16, 2017 • 129 Comments Even in “rich countries,” more and more people “are no longer willing to tolerate the status quo.”
Fed Pays Banks $12 Billion on “Excess Reserves,” Taken from Taxpayer Pockets by Wolf Richter • Jan 11, 2017 • 60 Comments The circuitous hidden wonders of paying interest on “excess reserves.”
Evictions by Wall-Street Mega-Landlords Soar, Financialization of Rents Cause “Housing Instability”: Atlanta Fed by Wolf Richter • Jan 7, 2017 • 106 Comments It blames the Fed & Bernanke; the dark side of “healing” the housing market.
The Thing in the Jobs Report that Gives the Fed the Willies by Wolf Richter • Jan 6, 2017 • 82 Comments It’s all about cheap labor.