“Market is on Edge”: US Commercial Real Estate Bubble Pops, San Francisco Braces for Brutal Dive by Wolf Richter • May 6, 2016 • 51 Comments “All it takes is a couple of big tech companies folding and the floodgates open, causing the sublease market to blow up, rents to drop, and new construction to grind to a halt.”
US Commercial Bankruptcies Skyrocket by Wolf Richter • May 5, 2016 • 25 Comments The credit cycle begins to unravel.
Freight Rail Traffic Plunges: Haunting Pictures of Transportation Recession by Wolf Richter • May 4, 2016 • 108 Comments Majestic sight: 292 Union Pacific engines idled in Arizona Desert.
This is Why No One Should Bail Out the “Smart Money” Stuck in Brick-and-Mortar Retailers: Let them Shed their Own Tears by Wolf Richter • May 3, 2016 • 74 Comments Another bankruptcy. Toxic Safeway-Albertsons combo waiting in the wings.
US Manufacturing Sinks Deeper into Mire, Sep. 2009 evoked by Wolf Richter • May 2, 2016 • 18 Comments Markit and ISM add to the gloom.
China’s Furious Stimulus-and-Debt Binge Backfires by Wolf Richter • May 1, 2016 • 61 Comments Fabled transition to a service economy? Forget it.
What the Heck is Going on With the Dollar and “Fear?” by Wolf Richter • May 1, 2016 • 76 Comments “Speculators are losing faith.”
The Hong Kong Housing Market Fizzles by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2016 • 42 Comments Everything suddenly goes the wrong way.
Why this Economy Feels Even Lousier than the Lousy GDP Print by Wolf Richter • Apr 29, 2016 • 81 Comments But the numbers are hushed up.
