Booms & Busts: Tech Stocks & Real Estate in the San Francisco Bay Area by Wolf Richter • Oct 20, 2018 • 49 Comments And now the biggest boom of all. Yup, charts.
Backlash Against War on Cash Reaches the Bank of Canada by Don Quijones • Oct 20, 2018 • 42 Comments A cashless society could have “adverse collective outcomes.”
US Housing Turns into Buyer’s Market by Wolf Richter • Oct 19, 2018 • 115 Comments Forget the hype about a shortage of supply.
Spain’s Supreme Court Flip-Flops on Mortgage Ruling After Just 1 Day Amid Bank Stocks Bloodbath, Legal Shitstorm Erupts by Don Quijones • Oct 19, 2018 • 15 Comments Plunging bank stocks got the Court’s attention, or something.
What Truckers & Railroads Are Saying About the US Economy by Wolf Richter • Oct 18, 2018 • 26 Comments They’re a measure of the goods-based economy.
Italy’s Debt Crisis Thickens by Don Quijones • Oct 18, 2018 • 28 Comments But outside Italy, credit markets are sanguine, and no one says, “whatever it takes.”
Implosion of Stock Market Double-Bubble in China Hits New Lows, Authorities Busy Elsewhere Keeping China Miracle from Unraveling by Wolf Richter • Oct 18, 2018 • 61 Comments Bigger issues than propping up the stock market beckon.
My Proprietary Fed “Hawkometer” is Redlining by Wolf Richter • Oct 17, 2018 • 62 Comments It shot up 240% from long-run average and 500% from a year ago.
New Market Rigging Scandal Tangles Up Already Teetering Construction Giants in Europe by Don Quijones • Oct 17, 2018 • 19 Comments Italian and Spanish construction companies with global projects on the brink or over the brink.
Making Sense of Recent Market Gyrations by Wolf Richter • Oct 17, 2018 • 32 Comments Which triggers are driving the action? What’s next?