I Just Hope the Fed Won’t See This: US Economy Has Blowout First Quarter by Wolf Richter • Apr 26, 2019 • 75 Comments “Patient” may become less patient.
China, Other Emerging Asia Sink World Trade by Wolf Richter • Apr 25, 2019 • 43 Comments World trade volume falls most since Financial Crisis.
Tesla Reports Another Doozie by Wolf Richter • Apr 24, 2019 • 76 Comments The ruse that helped shares jump 20%.
Cut the Price and They Will Come: New House Prices Drop to December 2014 Level by Wolf Richter • Apr 23, 2019 • 63 Comments So Sales Finally Tick Up.
Stock-Market Margin Debt, after Plunging in Q4, Has Not Bounced Back Despite S&P 500 Historic Surge by Wolf Richter • Apr 23, 2019 • 33 Comments Leery investors?
California’s Housing Bubble Counts on Blistering Population Growth, But it’s Fizzling by Wolf Richter • Apr 19, 2019 • 112 Comments Los Angeles population drops, San Francisco & Silicon Valley population rises least since 2010, North Bay’s population drops.
Here Are Sears Holding’s Five “Fraudulent Transfers” and Why “Culpable Insiders” Lampert, Mnuchin, et. al Got Sued by Wolf Richter • Apr 18, 2019 • 63 Comments Greed and scheming dominated the five deals: SHO, the spinoffs of Orchard, Sears Canada, Lands’ End, and the putrid Seritage deal.
House Prices in 12 of California’s Most Expensive Coastal Counties Fell in March from a Year Ago. Here are the Charts by Wolf Richter • Apr 17, 2019 • 67 Comments Despite “the lowest interest rates in more than a year.”
What J.B. Hunt Just Said About the U-Turn in Trucking by Wolf Richter • Apr 16, 2019 • 73 Comments Largest US Trucking Company: “Volume, or lack thereof, is obviously the main story.” The inventory pile-up hurts. And the driver shortage is ending.
Who Bought the Huge $1.26 Trillion of New US Government Debt over the Past 12 Months? by Wolf Richter • Apr 15, 2019 • 66 Comments There was strong appetite. Only the Fed shed them. Here’s who bought.