Is This the Next Big Retailer to Melt Down? Its Bonds Crashed by Wolf Richter • May 25, 2018 • 102 Comments It was bought out by a PE firm, saddled with $8 billion in debt, and grapples with its fate.
Oops, It’s Starting, Says This Chart from the FDIC by Wolf Richter • May 23, 2018 • 87 Comments And its eerie exhortations to the banks to prepare for a downturn to avoid “undue disruption to the financial system.”
Where the Debt Slaves Are the Most Vulnerable by Wolf Richter • May 22, 2018 • 103 Comments I’m shedding a different light on consumer debt.
Credit Card Delinquencies Spike Past Financial-Crisis Peak at the 4,788 Smaller US Banks by Wolf Richter • May 18, 2018 • 84 Comments Subprime is calling.
As Malls Melt Down, Industrial Properties Heat Up by Wolf Richter • May 7, 2018 • 37 Comments This is the brick & mortar part of e-commerce.
Jobs, Sliced and Diced by Wolf Richter • May 4, 2018 • 86 Comments Where they went, where they came from.
Fed’s QE Unwind Accelerates Sharply by Wolf Richter • May 3, 2018 • 122 Comments These are getting to be serious amounts.
Tesla Discloses Worst Quarterly Zinger of a Loss Ever, Burns $1.1 Billion Cash by Wolf Richter • May 2, 2018 • 106 Comments Not The Boring Company, but The Hopeless Company.
Why Aren’t Big Banks Paying Higher Interest Rates on Deposits though Rates Have Surged? by Wolf Richter • Apr 15, 2018 • 54 Comments Well, they do pay higher rates, but not to their own clients.
Our Dental Insurance Sent us “Free” Internet-Connected Toothbrushes. And this is What Happened Next by Wolf Richter • Apr 14, 2018 • 146 Comments When the product is “free,” WE are the product.