“Double Whammy of Rising Rates for Us and Our Consumers”: AutoNation by Wolf Richter • Oct 31, 2018 • 70 Comments We knew “free money would inevitably end”: CEO Jackson. “Affordability would become an issue – particularly around new vehicles.”
Declines Hit the Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America by Wolf Richter • Oct 30, 2018 • 87 Comments Seattle prices fall sharply. New York condo prices nearly flat for the year. First feeble declines in San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, etc. Something is afoot.
There’s Nothing in this GDP Report to Slow the Fed’s Rate Hikes by Wolf Richter • Oct 26, 2018 • 50 Comments But ballooning inventories point at risks next year.
Fed’s Medicine “Gradually” Pricking the Commercial Real Estate Bubble? by Wolf Richter • Oct 25, 2018 • 40 Comments “Everyone is worried where things are headed.”
It’s the Banks Again by Wolf Richter • Oct 22, 2018 • 56 Comments US bank stock index down 17% from January. EU bank stocks crushed, crushed, crushed since Financial Crisis.
Booms & Busts: Tech Stocks & Real Estate in the San Francisco Bay Area by Wolf Richter • Oct 20, 2018 • 49 Comments And now the biggest boom of all. Yup, charts.
What Truckers & Railroads Are Saying About the US Economy by Wolf Richter • Oct 18, 2018 • 26 Comments They’re a measure of the goods-based economy.
Implosion of Stock Market Double-Bubble in China Hits New Lows, Authorities Busy Elsewhere Keeping China Miracle from Unraveling by Wolf Richter • Oct 18, 2018 • 61 Comments Bigger issues than propping up the stock market beckon.
My Proprietary Fed “Hawkometer” is Redlining by Wolf Richter • Oct 17, 2018 • 62 Comments It shot up 240% from long-run average and 500% from a year ago.
Who Bought the $1.6 Trillion of New US National Debt Over the Past 12 Months? by Wolf Richter • Oct 16, 2018 • 93 Comments As a flood of US debt washes over the globe, someone is buying. Here’s who.
