The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, January Update: Now Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego Plunge Fastest by Wolf Richter • Jan 31, 2023 • 240 Comments This takes some doing: San Francisco Bay Area house prices plunged faster from the peak than they’d spiked to the peak.
Services PCE Price Index Spikes, But Goods PCE Price Index Falls as Energy Prices Plunge: Core PCE Re-accelerates by Wolf Richter • Jan 27, 2023 • 80 Comments Services inflation is tough to stamp out, and it has taken over inflation. Powell will be talking about it.
How Many People Were Actually Laid Off So Far in San Francisco and Silicon Valley? by Wolf Richter • Jan 24, 2023 • 85 Comments The WARN filings, by company.
Subprime Auto-Loan Delinquencies Rise to 2019 Levels: a Dive into Subprime Lending and Securitizations by Wolf Richter • Jan 23, 2023 • 67 Comments Surge of delinquencies not caused by unemployment, but by taking Big Risks, hoping for Big Profits, and getting slapped, just as in 2019.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Mass Layoffs in Tech & Social Media by Wolf Richter • Jan 22, 2023 • 151 Comments Drunk with Easy Money, companies were hogging office space and workers for a future that did not come.
San Francisco Bay Area House Prices Plunge 30% from Crazy Peak: Housing Bust 2 by Wolf Richter • Jan 19, 2023 • 201 Comments Hammered by waves of layoffs, swooning stocks, collapsing cryptos, and 6% mortgage rates.
2022, Year of Face-Ripping Bear-Market Rallies that Got Crushed by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2022 • 159 Comments But history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes: For your amusement, a Nasdaq comparison to the Dotcom Bust.
Truck Congestion at Worst Bottlenecks (MPH), Barge Rates on the Mississippi (WHOOSH), China-US Container Freight Rates by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2022 • 100 Comments Three tidbits with charts from the Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2022.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, December Update: Now Dallas, Las Vegas, Phoenix Plunge Fastest. San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego Down Most from Peak by Wolf Richter • Dec 27, 2022 • 209 Comments No dear, this is not seasonal.
The Most Astounding IPO Hype-and-Hoopla Show Ever Ends 2022 in Tears by Wolf Richter • Dec 26, 2022 • 87 Comments “The value of discipline is currently at an all-time high,” after years when the value of consensual hallucination was at an all-time high.
