Brick & Mortar Meltdown, Manhattan Style by Wolf Richter • May 16, 2019 • 116 Comments Retail space asking rents plunge as landlords try to fill scores of vacant shops. Charts by shopping corridor.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • May 12, 2019 • 48 Comments Why a US-Style Mortgage Crisis Can Happen Anywhere.
QE Party Over, Bank of Japan Stealth-Tapers Further by Wolf Richter • May 11, 2019 • 54 Comments Straggler behind the Fed and the ECB gets the drift.
House Flipper Zillow Lost $109K (37%) Per Flip, Net Loss Triples, Shares Soar by Wolf Richter • May 10, 2019 • 105 Comments But this new and horrendous house flipping operation inflated revenues “more than expected.”
Fed Launches ‘Rate Peg Instead of QE’ Trial Balloon for Next Crisis by Wolf Richter • May 8, 2019 • 87 Comments Wall Street hype artists and QE mongers would be deeply disappointed.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT by Wolf Richter • May 5, 2019 • 82 Comments Can Australia’s Housing Bust Morph into a Financial Crisis?
Trucking Skids into Downturn after Phenomenal Boom by Wolf Richter • May 4, 2019 • 106 Comments A hard U-Turn.
Fed’s QE Unwind Continues at Full Speed in April by Wolf Richter • May 3, 2019 • 85 Comments Fed sheds $46 Billion, Total QE Unwind Reaches $580 Billion. Assets drop to lowest level since Nov 2013.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, April Update by Wolf Richter • Apr 30, 2019 • 135 Comments Condo prices fall year-over-year in New York. In San Francisco, SoCal, & Seattle, year-over-year price gains shrink to nearly nothing. Despite the hype, Boston prices decline. Denver, Dallas & Atlanta eke out records.
How the Inventory Pileup Boosted Q1 Blowout GDP and What Carmageddon Has to Do with It by Wolf Richter • Apr 28, 2019 • 61 Comments A six-quarter surge, with first signs that some of it has started to unwind.
