Wages Soar by 7.7%. But Job Hoppers Boost their Pay by 15.2%, Leveraging this Historically Tight Labor Market by Wolf Richter • Nov 2, 2022 • 109 Comments An indication underlying inflation won’t drop significantly just on its own.
Horror-Show Inflation in Euro Countries: Overall 10.7%, Germany 11.6%, Without Energy 6.9% by Wolf Richter • Oct 31, 2022 • 157 Comments “Defeating inflation is our mantra, our mission, our mandate,” that’s “why we have to raise interest rates”: Lagarde now after years of money-printing.
New-Vehicle Inventory Improves, Still Woefully Low. But Full-size Trucks Pile up. Many Fuel-Efficient Models out of Stock by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2022 • 117 Comments By brand & segment: Big incentives or interest-rate buydowns for pickups. But many Kia, Toyota, and Honda models essentially out of stock.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, October Update: Prices Plunge at Fastest Pace on Record by Wolf Richter • Oct 21, 2022 • 140 Comments As the Bank of Canada’s rate hikes and QT goose mortgage rates, some practically funny price spikes are getting unwound very fast.
Margin Debt Is Still Far from Calling a Bottom for Stocks by Wolf Richter • Oct 21, 2022 • 139 Comments It nailed the top last November and it nailed the tops and bottoms going back at least to the 1990s.
Housing Bubble Woes: Home Sales Plunge, Prices Drop 7% in 3 Months, Price Reductions Surge. Mortgage Rates Spike by Wolf Richter • Oct 20, 2022 • 172 Comments Investors are also pulling back.
The WOLF STREET Real-World New-Vehicle Price Index, F-150 XLT & Camry LE, 2023 Models: Ford’s Truck Price Shocker by Wolf Richter • Oct 12, 2022 • 132 Comments But Toyota barely raised the price of the Camry. Here are 32 years of real-world price increases compared to the CPI for New Vehicles.
Something Big Has Already Broken: Price Stability by Wolf Richter • Oct 11, 2022 • 138 Comments The Fed will tighten “Until Something Breaks?” Wait a minute…
There’s Lots of “Liquidity” in the Treasury Market, but at Higher Yields, in this Raging Inflation by Wolf Richter • Oct 10, 2022 • 185 Comments Higher Yields Solve “Liquidity” Problems.
Cutting-Edge US Semiconductor Makers Crushed by One Thing after Another in 2022 after Mind-Boggling Bubble in 2020 & 2021 by Wolf Richter • Oct 10, 2022 • 96 Comments Nvidia -66% from the high, AMD -64%, Intel -62%, Marvell Technologies -57%, Micron -48%.
