The Fed Should Be Fired as Bank Regulator. Powell’s Discussion of Silicon Valley Bank & Regulatory Failure Shows Why by Wolf Richter • Mar 24, 2023 • 191 Comments The Fed is structurally too conflicted to regulate banks. The FDIC is not, but it needs tiger teeth to bite CEOs’ heads off.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada: March Update on the Housing Bust by Wolf Richter • Mar 17, 2023 • 209 Comments Year-over-year, home prices plunged by the most on record as the seasonal uptick in prices was far smaller than a year ago.
Defying Pivot-Mongers, ECB Hikes by 50 Basis Points, QT Continues, Explains Tools to Calm a Bank Panic while Fighting Inflation Simultaneously by Wolf Richter • Mar 16, 2023 • 129 Comments A hugely important concept: “There is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability.”
Retail Sales Dip a Tad in Feb after Huge Spike in Jan. Year-over-Year: +5.4% Despite Price Drops in Durable Goods & Gasoline by Wolf Richter • Mar 15, 2023 • 132 Comments Consumers are still spending like drunken sailors, especially online, now that they don’t have to blow so much on gasoline anymore.
Services Inflation Rages at Four-Decade High: Fueled by Rents, Auto Insurance, Repairs, Airfares, Hotels, Pet Services, Food Services, Delivery by Wolf Richter • Mar 14, 2023 • 228 Comments But durable goods prices drop, energy inflation eases, food inflation is less bad.
Housing Bust #2 Has Begun by Wolf Richter • Mar 4, 2023 • 364 Comments Some markets are already deep into it, others just started. A sobering trip from the free-money decade in la-la-land, back to normal.
US Natural Gas Production Surges to Record in 2022, up 33% from 2017. LNG Exports Hit Record despite Freeport Terminal Shutdown by Wolf Richter • Mar 3, 2023 • 63 Comments LNG exports to Europe up 150%, exports to Asia and Latin America plunge.
Fed’s Balance Sheet Drops by $626 Billion from Peak, Cumulative Operating Loss Grows to $38 billion: Update on QT by Wolf Richter • Mar 2, 2023 • 194 Comments Quantitative Tightening is starting to add up.
Inflation Dishes Up Another Nasty Surprise: Eurozone Core CPI without Energy Spikes to Record, Services CPI Spikes to Record by Wolf Richter • Mar 2, 2023 • 102 Comments What it looks like when inflation gets deeply entrenched in the broad economy, even as energy inflation backs off.
CPI Just Got Revised Higher for October through December. The Revisions Take a Bite out of “Disinflation” Hoopla by Wolf Richter • Feb 10, 2023 • 205 Comments Released Friday afternoon, the annual revisions by the BLS went in the wrong direction.
