The State of American Used Cars & Trucks: A Market Gone Haywire and Now in Process of “Normalizing” by Wolf Richter • Dec 10, 2020 • 79 Comments We may well see more of these types of charts cropping up for other markets that too went haywire this year.
The State of American Restaurants, by City: The Catastrophe of the Second Wave by Wolf Richter • Nov 29, 2020 • 143 Comments Despite the rampant indoorification of outdoor dining.
This Spike of New Businesses is a Doozie, on Several Levels by Wolf Richter • Nov 27, 2020 • 162 Comments People are massively striking out on their own. But new businesses with planned wages have been getting scarcer since 2007.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: Nov. Update by Wolf Richter • Nov 24, 2020 • 268 Comments A pandemic of house price inflation.
Taxpayers Face $435 Billion in Student-Loan Losses, Already Baked in: Leaked Education-Department Study by Wolf Richter • Nov 22, 2020 • 211 Comments No one has ever put a number to it until now.
No Payment, No Problem: In Rosy World of Forbearance, Official Delinquencies Plunge, Credit Scores of Delinquent Borrowers Jump by Wolf Richter • Nov 18, 2020 • 141 Comments Credit-score algos got fooled by forbearance. Weirdest economy ever where no one knows what’s going on anymore.
Stimulus Fatigue? Retail Sales Wane at Many Brick & Mortar Stores. Department Stores Progress to Zombiehood. But Online Sales Surge to Record by Wolf Richter • Nov 17, 2020 • 121 Comments My 13 whiplash-charts by retailer category.
Volkswagen to Throw $86 Billion at EVs over 5 Years. GM, Ford, Others Plow Mega-Bucks into Shift to EVs. Tesla Instigated It by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2020 • 298 Comments Commercial trucks and vans too, including at Volkswagen’s Traton, one of the largest truck makers in the world, acquirer of Navistar.
Wild Ride for Used Cars & Trucks in Weirdest Economy Ever by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2020 • 65 Comments After Crazy Price Spikes over the Summer, Wholesale & Retail Prices Drop, amid Lower Sales and Plenty of Supply.
Jingle Mail Haunts Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities as Property Values Get Slashed Below Loan Amounts by Wolf Richter • Oct 26, 2020 • 125 Comments At the time of securitization into CMBS a few years ago, inflated collateral values led to soothingly low loan-to-value ratios. Then trouble hit.
