Housing Bubble Trouble in the Seattle-Bellevue Metro by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2019 • 53 Comments With Seattle’s economy still strong, the downturn isn’t caused by layoffs & defaulting mortgages. The fabulous bubble has run out of steam on its own
Germany Heads for a Technical Recession by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2019 • 67 Comments This is embarrassing in the land of super-stimulus via the ECB’s negative-interest-rate policy and years of QE.
Housing Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley & San Francisco by Wolf Richter • Jan 7, 2019 • 118 Comments But this time it’s not a result of a tech bust. That hasn’t happened yet.
Carmageddon in the UK: Auto Sales Plunge 12% in 2 Years, Diesels in Death Spiral. Consumers, Businesses, Fleets Cut Back by Wolf Richter • Jan 7, 2019 • 45 Comments This is getting serious.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • Jan 6, 2019 • 40 Comments Nothing Goes to Hell in a Straight Line, not even on Wall Street.
Trucking Boom Ends, Next Phase in Cycle Starts by Wolf Richter • Jan 5, 2019 • 28 Comments This is a very cyclical business.
Markets Are in a Tizzy. So What Will the Fed Do? by Wolf Richter • Jan 3, 2019 • 111 Comments Investors are waking up after years of somnolent money-making.
iPhone Sales Croak, China’s Economy Deteriorating Faster than Expected, Apple Warns. Shares Plunge by Wolf Richter • Jan 2, 2019 • 181 Comments “We did not foresee the magnitude of the economic deceleration,” it said, starting the year out on the right foot.
Long-Term “Buy & Hold” Crushed Stockholders in Largest Markets Except US & India. But for the US, Luck’s Running Out by Wolf Richter • Jan 1, 2019 • 99 Comments Ugly long-term charts that Wall Street doesn’t want us to see. And now US stocks are infected too.
US Dollar Status as Global Reserve Currency? by Wolf Richter • Dec 31, 2018 • 115 Comments To diminish the dollar’s role as a global reserve currency, central banks would have to dump the dollar. So, let’s see.
