4 Short Sellers Explain Why They Target Tesla – But Don’t Try to Do this at Home by Wolf Richter • Apr 24, 2017 • 63 Comments The bloodletting among Tesla shorts has become legendary.
I’m in Awe of How Fast Brick-and-Mortar Retail is Melting Down by Wolf Richter • Apr 24, 2017 • 180 Comments As so many times, Private Equity firms are in the thick of it.
The French “Political Class” Gets Crushed – on the Surface by Wolf Richter • Apr 23, 2017 • 48 Comments It designed the rules to protect itself against an election just like this.
Just How Safe is Spain’s Banking System? by Don Quijones • Apr 23, 2017 • 10 Comments Investment bank Mediobanca warns of “clear risk of contagion.”
What’s Wrong with the American Craft-Beer Boom? by Wolf Richter • Apr 22, 2017 • 59 Comments Big Beer, dogged by sagging brands, tries to control the market.
Why Brexit, Bombs, and Trump Can’t Move Oil Prices by Dan Dicker • Apr 22, 2017 • 22 Comments What then is driving prices at the moment?
Stock Markets Sit Blithely on a Powerful Time Bomb by Wolf Richter • Apr 21, 2017 • 96 Comments No one knows the full magnitude, but it’s huge.
Toronto House Price Bubble Hit with 15% Foreign Buyers Tax. “Property Scalpers” & “Double Ending” Brokers Targeted by Wolf Richter • Apr 20, 2017 • 89 Comments “People need to ask themselves very carefully, ‘Why am I buying this house?”’: Stephen Poloz, Bank of Canada.
This Vicious Cycle is What Bedevils the US Economy by Wolf Richter • Apr 20, 2017 • 48 Comments Railroads slash capital spending, but plow more money into buying back their own shares, after two years of Freight Recession.
Mexico’s Economy Is Being Plundered Dry by Don Quijones • Apr 19, 2017 • 23 Comments Debt is suffocating the economy, but where did the money go?