Nuts & Bolts of the Car Business: Tariffs, Subprime Defaults, EVs, Buy New or Used, & Why I Drive a Gas Guzzler (Ha!) by Wolf Richter • Jul 8, 2018 • 2 Comments A wide-ranging interview on the auto industry, housing, retail, and more.
“Big Three” Korean Shipbuilders & Their Huge Shipyards in a World of Overcapacity and Collapsed Orders by MC01 • Jul 7, 2018 • 55 Comments Years of “growth at any cost” led to accounting fraud, huge government bailouts, and murky restructuring plans.
Banks Squeal as Spain’s New Government Threatens to Do Unthinkable: Raise Taxes on Their Profits by Don Quijones • Jul 7, 2018 • 15 Comments Payback time for the financial sector that was bailed out by taxpayers, the new government thinks.
Update on the Fed’s QE Unwind by Wolf Richter • Jul 6, 2018 • 94 Comments With QE, the Fed created money to buy securities and pump up asset prices; now it sheds securities to destroy this money.
Heavy-Truck Orders Explode, Trucking Companies Struggle with “Capacity Crisis,” Truck Makers & Supply Chains are Inundated, Backlog is Ballooning, But it’s a Cyclical Business by Wolf Richter • Jul 6, 2018 • 42 Comments “Fleets are desperate for more equipment, but trucks are in short supply due to the supplier constraints.”
As the Yield Curve Flattens, Threatens to Invert, the Fed Discards it as Recession Indicator by Wolf Richter • Jul 5, 2018 • 51 Comments This Fed is getting seriously hawkish: It revealed that instead of thinking about backing off rate hikes, it’s replacing the yield curve.
Already Troubled Pemex & Mexico’s Oil Industry Wake Up in a New World by Don Quijones • Jul 5, 2018 • 19 Comments Tectonic shifts and clouds of uncertainty after Sunday’s election.
Bank of Japan Takes Away Punch Bowl, Balance Sheet Declines by Wolf Richter • Jul 4, 2018 • 35 Comments Was “QQE” just a pretext for bringing the government bond market under absolute control to avoid a Greek-style debt crisis?
Here’s Why Vacant Stores, Zombie Malls Are Much Bigger than Mall Vacancy Rates Indicate by Wolf Richter • Jul 3, 2018 • 120 Comments Zombie malls and shuttered stores don’t count.
Saudi Arabia Won’t Bring 2 Million Bpd Online by Nick Cunningham • Jul 3, 2018 • 47 Comments President Trump said they would. Here’s why they won’t.