THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Screwed-Up Student Loan Fiasco? by Wolf Richter • Jan 26, 2020 • 225 Comments Student enrollment has dropped 11% since 2011 while student-loan balances have surged 74%. Why?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Housing Bubble 2 in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Lost its Mojo. Why? by Wolf Richter • Jan 20, 2020 • 144 Comments Even as the Fed floods the market with $400 billion in four months, with stocks at record highs, and reality pooh-pooed as irrelevant. What’s different this time?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How Amazon Gains Control & Domination by Wolf Richter • Dec 22, 2019 • 123 Comments Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Worries me About “Hedonic Quality Adjustments” by Wolf Richter • Dec 1, 2019 • 166 Comments An arcane device that impacts so much.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Subprime Consumer Loan Implosion? by Wolf Richter • Nov 24, 2019 • 170 Comments These are the good times, but why are subprime credit cards, auto loans, and short-term installment loans blowing out?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Fear of “Reversal Rates” Sets in, Says the Fed by Wolf Richter • Nov 17, 2019 • 105 Comments The fear that today’s negative or low interest rates render central banks helpless in face of the next economic crisis.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How the Fed Boosts the 1%, as Told by the Fed by Wolf Richter • Nov 10, 2019 • 205 Comments Even the upper middle class loses share of household wealth to the 1%. The bottom half gets screwed.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Fed’s Bailout of the Repo Market? by Wolf Richter • Nov 3, 2019 • 104 Comments Whose Bets are Getting Bailed Out by the Fed’s Repos & Treasury Bill Purchases?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What Will Stocks Do When “Consensual Hallucination” Ends by Wolf Richter • Oct 27, 2019 • 118 Comments What’s astonishing is how long it lasts.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Here’s What I’m Worried About with the Everything Bubble by Wolf Richter • Oct 20, 2019 • 153 Comments How cash-burn machines power the real economy, and what happens to that economy when investors refuse to have more of their cash burned.
