Toxic Mix in Canada: Spiking Inflation, Variable-Rate Mortgages, and a Housing Bubble by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2018 • 52 Comments What will the Bank of Canada do?
E-Commerce Does it Again: The Stores that Got Pummeled by Wolf Richter • Aug 17, 2018 • 65 Comments Even brick-and-mortar sales at our hero-of-the-day Nordstrom actually fell!
Just in Time: Use of Home as ATM Surges in Canada by Daniel Wong • Aug 17, 2018 • 52 Comments Cash extraction at the peak of a long housing bubble, via multiple mortgages on the same property: Does that ring a bell?
What Truckers & Railroads Just Said about the US Economy by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2018 • 24 Comments It’s cyclical.
“Asia Will Be the Next Source of Downside Systemic Risk for Financial Markets” by Wolf Richter • Aug 16, 2018 • 35 Comments Emerging Markets turmoil: The price of cheap debt & misallocation of capital.
Who Bought the $1.36 Trillion of New US National Debt over the Past 12 Months? by Wolf Richter • Aug 15, 2018 • 63 Comments Russia, Japan, and the Fed dumped, China hung in there…. But who bought?
Shale Profits Remain Elusive by Nick Cunningham • Aug 15, 2018 • 35 Comments This time was supposed to be different.
Why Are ATMs Disappearing at an Alarming Rate after a Wave of Branch Closures? by Don Quijones • Aug 15, 2018 • 69 Comments Banks are curtailing “cash services.” But why?
Rise of US Dollar Haunts Emerging Market Debt by Wolf Richter • Aug 14, 2018 • 56 Comments A vicious cycle, kicked off by cheap debt that’s suddenly not cheap, after 8 years of experimental monetary policies.
Alibaba’s 20-F Annual Report… Financial Comedy Gold!! by Deep Throat IPO • Aug 14, 2018 • 48 Comments In the best-case scenario, Alibaba is the goofiest, most convoluted, opaque, mismanaged accounting mess and business structure in history.