THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Free Money Turned Brains to Mush. Now Some Banks Fail by Wolf Richter • Mar 19, 2023 • 208 Comments The Fed ended Free Money, and the only thing it broke is the consensual hallucination that spawned during the Free Money era. And look what we got.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Housing Bust #2 Has Begun by Wolf Richter • Feb 26, 2023 • 228 Comments Some markets are already deep into it, others just started. A sobering trip from the free-money decade in la-la-land, back to normal.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: What’s Behind the Mass Layoffs in Tech & Social Media by Wolf Richter • Jan 22, 2023 • 151 Comments Drunk with Easy Money, companies were hogging office space and workers for a future that did not come.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: The Price of Easy Money Now Coming Due by Wolf Richter • Dec 18, 2022 • 188 Comments The Crazy Stuff & Asset Prices that arose during Easy Money are coming unglued as Easy Money ended.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Where’s the Contagion from the Crypto Implosion? by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2022 • 208 Comments As the FTX collapse shows, the shenanigans guarantee smooth and efficient contagion inside the crypto zone. But beyond it?
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Housing Bubble Pops, and the Fed Can Let it Rip by Wolf Richter • Oct 30, 2022 • 222 Comments Raging inflation knocked out the “Fed put,” and banks are no longer on the hook for mortgages; taxpayers and investors are.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Return of the Bond Vigilantes Sends Shockwaves Around the Globe by Wolf Richter • Oct 16, 2022 • 224 Comments Deficits don’t matter – until the bond vigilantes ride into town.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Something Big Has Already Broken: Price Stability by Wolf Richter • Oct 9, 2022 • 331 Comments The Fed will tighten “Until Something Breaks” and then pivot? Wait a minute…
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: This Inflation Will Be Tough to Get under Control by Wolf Richter • Sep 18, 2022 • 182 Comments It’s like a dam broke. And now higher interest rates and mortgage rates for much longer, with lower asset prices, as the Everything Bubble gets repriced.
THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Housing Bubble Getting Ready to Pop – The Big Boys Leave, Waiting for Reset by Wolf Richter • Aug 7, 2022 • 226 Comments Biggest investors in single-family houses: “We need to be patient and allow the market to reset.”