The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, October Update by Wolf Richter • Oct 29, 2019 • 94 Comments Despite startup millionaires, house & condo prices in SF Bay Area and condo prices in NY City fall from a year ago. Seattle down again. Los Angeles, Las Vegas lose steam. Phoenix, others running hot.
Without the Outliers, Inflation Is Running Hot. Fed Has Started Mentioning these Measures in the Minutes by Wolf Richter • Oct 14, 2019 • 77 Comments Cleveland Fed’s Underlying Inflation Measure Hits 3.0%, Hottest in the Data.
Will Social Security Be There for You? Status of the Social Security Trust Fund in Fiscal 2019 by Wolf Richter • Oct 13, 2019 • 176 Comments “Don’t rely on Social Security”: Inflation adjustments are punitively low, and benefits become more inadequate as you age.
The Day When Repo Rates Blew Out: Fed Recounts a Fiasco that Occurred as the FOMC Was Meeting, and How it Reacted by Wolf Richter • Oct 9, 2019 • 53 Comments I wish I could have sat in that meeting, watching the bewildered faces of Fed officials as they got hourly updates on repo rates blowing out.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: How the SoftBank Scheme Rips Open the Tech Bubble by Wolf Richter • Oct 6, 2019 • 71 Comments The biggest force behind the startup bubble in the US has been SoftBank. But the scheme has run into trouble, and a lot is at stake.
WeWork CMBS Cause Jitters, Bonds Hit Record Low by Wolf Richter • Oct 4, 2019 • 114 Comments It’s so big: Soul searching in the Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities market.
IPOs Crash & Burn, Debris Hits Housing, Office Markets by Wolf Richter • Oct 2, 2019 • 94 Comments Signs are now all over Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
US Gross National Debt Jumps by $1.2 Trillion in Fiscal 2019, to $22.7 Trillion, Hits 106.5% of GDP by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2019 • 133 Comments But what happens if there’s actually a recession?
Altria Rues the Day it Plowed $13 Billion into Super-Unicorn Juul by Wolf Richter • Sep 23, 2019 • 126 Comments Dark Side Comes to the Fore: Juul is the Second Highest Valued US Unicorn, Behind WeWork Which Crashed & Burned. Now it’s Juul’s Turn.
Asset Class of Vintage Cars Drops into Bear Market, Down by More than in 2008/2009 by Wolf Richter • Sep 22, 2019 • 127 Comments “Expert sentiment is at its lowest point since October 2010, largely due to market observers’ reactions to the Monterey auctions.”
