If Everything is so Bullish, Why Are Bank Insiders Dumping Their Shares at Record Pace? by Wolf Richter • Dec 9, 2016 • 115 Comments What are they seeing from their perch that we don’t?
Crunch Time for “Zombie Bank… on Brink of Collapse” by Don Quijones • Nov 30, 2016 • 5 Comments Short-sellers have a field day with Spain’s “Most Italian Bank.”
Will Trump’s New Financial-Engineering Loophole Make Stocks Rally and Bonds Crash? by Wolf Richter • Nov 21, 2016 • 73 Comments Goldman and the rest of Wall Street are smelling the money.
Now it Begins to Unravel by Wolf Richter • Nov 21, 2016 • 72 Comments The Credit Bubble Peak was Marked by “Totally Crazy Lending.”
Is Merger-Mania-October the Classic Paroxysm before it All Comes Unglued? by Wolf Richter • Nov 1, 2016 • 72 Comments Something weird is going on – that’s all everyone knows.
Italy’s Banking System on Verge of Nervous Breakdown by Don Quijones • Oct 30, 2016 • 22 Comments The “Doom Loop” resurges.
Housing Bust 2? Low- and No-Down-Payment Mortgages Surge, “Shadow Banks” Dominate by Wolf Richter • Oct 25, 2016 • 55 Comments Some of the same characters that played leading roles last time.
I Went to a Wells Fargo Branch, this is What Happened Next by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2016 • 140 Comments They have learned nothing.
Rescue of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi Gets ‘Dark’ & ‘Complicated’ by Don Quijones • Oct 4, 2016 • 12 Comments A Gargantuan Crime Scene.
Subprime Auto-Loan Backed Securities Turn Toxic by Wolf Richter • Oct 3, 2016 • 47 Comments What will sink the US auto boom?