Did Someone Turn Off the Spigot? Global Semiconductor Sales Plunge Most Since the Financial Crisis by Wolf Richter • Apr 30, 2019 • 91 Comments According to chip makers, the plunge isn’t over yet. Now hoping it won’t turn into the mess as in 2001 when the last tech bubble became the dotcom bust.
Tesla Discloses Record Pollution Credits for Q1: Without Them, it Would Have Lost $918 Million and Bled $1.14 Billion in Cash by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2019 • 71 Comments The surprise in the SEC 10-Q filing when no one was supposed to pay attention.
San Francisco WOLF STREET Meetup, April 30: Last Details by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2019 • 54 Comments And pics of beautiful hand-created name tags some people will get.
How the Inventory Pileup Boosted Q1 Blowout GDP and What Carmageddon Has to Do with It by Wolf Richter • Apr 28, 2019 • 61 Comments A six-quarter surge, with first signs that some of it has started to unwind.
Unemployment in Spain Still Miserably High Despite Six Years of Economic Growth. Now it Ticked Up Again by Don Quijones • Apr 27, 2019 • 30 Comments “The worst labor market” on the planet: unemployment exceeded 20% in three downturns over the past 35 years.
China Tries to Muscle in on Dollar as Dominant ‘Payments Currency,’ But It’s a Thankless Slog by Wolf Richter • Apr 26, 2019 • 59 Comments Dollar Hegemony is a tough nut to crack.
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.
China, Other Emerging Asia Sink World Trade by Wolf Richter • Apr 25, 2019 • 43 Comments World trade volume falls most since Financial Crisis.
Tesla Reports Another Doozie by Wolf Richter • Apr 24, 2019 • 76 Comments The ruse that helped shares jump 20%.
How a Little Money Laundering Can Have a Big Impact on Real Estate Prices by Stephen Punwasi • Apr 24, 2019 • 43 Comments Money laundering in Canadian real estate is a widely accepted fact of life these days, but the impact isn’t.