THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Why the Wave of Mega-IPOs Won’t Bail Out the San Francisco & Silicon Valley Housing Bubbles by Wolf Richter • Apr 7, 2019 • 48 Comments Why the Wave of Mega-IPOs Won’t Bail Out the San Francisco & Silicon Valley Housing Bubbles, Despite All the Hype.
Update on the Deepening Housing Bust in Vancouver, Canada by Wolf Richter • Apr 6, 2019 • 71 Comments Market for houses freezes up. House & condo prices drop. High end hit the hardest.
Used-Car Market Profits from Carmageddon by Wolf Richter • Apr 5, 2019 • 91 Comments Many Americans are priced out of the new-car market.
Facebook Got Caught Phishing for Friends by Electronic Frontier Foundation • Apr 5, 2019 • 60 Comments “The company cannot be left to its own devices, and existing enforcement authorities haven’t done enough.”
UK Auto Sales Now Down 15% in Q1 from 2 Years Ago. Diesels in Death Spiral by Don Quijones • Apr 5, 2019 • 29 Comments But “superminis” are hot.
Fed’s QE Unwind Reaches $535 Billion, Balance Sheet Drops to $3.94 Trillion, Old Autopilot Still Engaged by Wolf Richter • Apr 4, 2019 • 78 Comments Then there’s the sinkhole of $1.5 trillion in MBS and $617 billion in Treasuries that mature in over 10 years.
Currency-Trading Algos “Flummoxed” by Rapid-Fire Brexit Headlines by Wolf Richter • Apr 4, 2019 • 57 Comments AI Not There Yet?
Next Phase in Trucking Boom-Bust Cycle Has Started by Wolf Richter • Apr 3, 2019 • 50 Comments From “capacity panic” to “overcapacity” in less than a year?
Market is Delusional: This is Not a Rate-Cut Economy by Wolf Richter • Apr 3, 2019 • 57 Comments Growth in the service sector backs off from red-hot spurts last year but remains strong.
Q1 Carmageddon for GM, Fiat-Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Mercedes, Mazda… by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2019 • 104 Comments Ford wisely kept its mouth shut. The problem with Mercedes and BMW is that they don’t yet sell luxury pickups, though they’re finally figuring it out.