Who Really Runs the United States? Jamie Dimon by Bill Bonner • Dec 16, 2014 • 3 Comments Stock markets are slipping all over the world. But outside of Russia and Greece, there is no sign of real panic. That will come later.
Great Unwind of Oil-and-Gas Junk Bonds to Defund Fracking? by Wolf Richter • Dec 16, 2014 • 1 Comment Yields spike, damage spreads. Investors try to bail out while they still can.
BMW Smacks Down Elon Musk’s Tesla Collaboration Hype by Wolf Richter • Nov 28, 2014 • 28 Comments BMW insiders: Tesla CEO Elon Musk “is using us for PR purposes.” Stung by Daimler’s and Toyota’s exit, he wants to “decorate” himself with the name BMW.
It’s Official: Party Now, Apocalypse Later by Wolf Richter • Nov 19, 2014 • 13 Comments That’s the new thinking about the markets in a crummy global economy where everything is overvalued.
Warren Buffett Is Dumping Stocks out the Backdoor by Wolf Richter • Nov 17, 2014 • 13 Comments His impeccable sense of timing appears to have kicked in.
Fiddling the Figures by Contributor • Nov 15, 2014 • 5 Comments If you’re in and out fast, you can make money just by stock arbitrage. Smart players know that. Corporations that work to please them know it too.
How Low Can the Price of Oil Plunge? by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2014 • 15 Comments The bloodletting will go on until the money dries up.
Retail Investors’ Mad Rush into Short Volatility, and How They’ll Get Crushed by Contributor • Nov 9, 2014 • 3 Comments “The biggest wealth transfer from retail investors to professional investors in history.”
The Big Unwind: After Messing up the Housing Market, the “Smart Money” Bails Out by Wolf Richter • Nov 6, 2014 • 14 Comments Housing Bubble 2: Sales to institutional investors plunge to lowest level since 2010.
No “Yellen Put?” You Gotta be Kidding… by Wolf Richter • Nov 4, 2014 • 15 Comments “Not the Fed’s job to rescue reckless investors from the errors of their ways.” Now they tell us!