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?
Who Bought the $1.6 Trillion of New US National Debt Over the Past 12 Months? by Wolf Richter • Oct 16, 2018 • 93 Comments As a flood of US debt washes over the globe, someone is buying. Here’s who.
US-China Trade War, “Hard” Brexit Give Germany Inc. the Willies by Wolf Richter • Oct 16, 2018 • 85 Comments No economy is as dependent on a trade surplus as Germany.