After Spiking by 2,600% or Whatever, Newsmax Stock Plunges 80%, Straight into our Imploded Stocks, All in 3 Days by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2025 • 80 Comments For humans and AI trading the stock, it’s just a spectacularly fun video game. For observers, it proves this market is dangerously nuts.
Oh Elon! Tesla Deliveries Plunge as Musk Crushes One of the Most Successful Consumer Brands by Wolf Richter • Apr 2, 2025 • 201 Comments Are they still selling any Cybertrucks?
As Life Happens, “Locked-in” Homeowners Pay Off Below-4% Mortgages: Share Drops to 54%, Lowest since Q4 2020 by Wolf Richter • Apr 1, 2025 • 47 Comments Conversely, the share of 6%-plus mortgages outstanding surges to the highest since 2016.
Not Another Free Lunch: Don’t Let Fannie and Freddie Turn Back into GSEs by Edward Pinto and Alex Pollock • Apr 1, 2025 • 25 Comments “The risk is 99% public and the profit is 100% private.”
Underlying Labor Market Dynamics Still Tight Despite Highest Gov Layoffs & Discharges since Census Wind-Down of 2020 by Wolf Richter • Apr 1, 2025 • 15 Comments Hiring Begins to Shift to Private-Sector where Hiring Jumped, while Hiring by Governments Slumped.
Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into Other Currencies and Gold by Wolf Richter • Mar 31, 2025 • 114 Comments The surge of the “nontraditional reserve currencies.”
Could a Market Meltdown Trigger the Next Recession? by Wolf Richter • Mar 29, 2025 • 118 Comments Wolf Richter on Thoughtful Money.
Bad Settlements Beat Good Lawsuits: A CRE Landlord, a Restaurant, and Commercial Rents that Plunged by John McNellis • Mar 29, 2025 • 29 Comments Greed may not kill, but it does have a way of clouding one’s judgment.
Inflation Galore Now: Fed Started Rate Cuts at the Low Point 6 Months Ago, just as Inflation Began to Resurge by Wolf Richter • Mar 28, 2025 • 105 Comments Core PCE price index jumps MoM by most in 13 months on Non-Housing Services. Recreational Services blow out. Durable Goods continue 6-month trip out of deflation.
US Government Fiscal Mess: Debt, Deficit, Interest Payments, and Tax Receipts: Q4 2024 Update on an Ugly Situation by Wolf Richter • Mar 27, 2025 • 162 Comments The Deficit-to-GDP ratio and Debt-to-GDP ratio get even uglier.
