The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: December Update on House Price Inflation Gone Wild by Wolf Richter • Dec 29, 2020 • 211 Comments The dollar lost purchasing power with regards to houses at the fastest rate in six years.
Biggest Share Buyback Queens in Q3: Tech and Buffett. The Banks Are Gone. But Share Buybacks Plunged 42% YoY by Wolf Richter • Dec 17, 2020 • 151 Comments Funded with debt: Share buybacks totaled $5 trillion since 2012. Over same period, corporate debt soared by $4.5 trillion.
Where Americans Splurged & Where They Cut Back in 13 Whiplash-Charts by Wolf Richter • Dec 16, 2020 • 149 Comments Stimulus Fatigue sets in. Second month of declining retail sales in a row. But online sales eked out a new record, if barely.
California “Techsodus”: Tech Companies, Billionaires, Millionaires, Tech Employees Flee San Francisco & Silicon Valley by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2020 • 253 Comments And we coined “Management by Zooming Around.” Which is what Oracle’s Larry Ellison is doing.
Update on the Fed’s QE by Wolf Richter • Dec 11, 2020 • 120 Comments No Wonder the Cry Babies on Wall Street are clamoring for more. Five SPVs, already on ice, will expire on December 31.
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.
