Electric Delivery Vans in Era of Red-Hot Ecommerce Confront Legacy Automakers with New Deep-Pocket Competition by Wolf Richter • Feb 15, 2021 • 127 Comments Amazon, UPS, and FedEx, in search of cost savings, partnered with startups that are now rolling out electric vans. Has Ford, the leader in vans, dropped the ball?
Demand for Gasoline, Jet Fuel, and Diesel: Checking on the Recovery by Wolf Richter • Feb 11, 2021 • 139 Comments Watching for the EV drag on gasoline demand requires a lot of patience.
One Year After the Collapse of the Airline Business Began: What’s the Status Now? by Wolf Richter • Feb 8, 2021 • 126 Comments Still collapsed revenues, astronomical losses, red-hot cash-burn, hellish new piles of debt. Meanwhile, amid craziest markets ever, airline shares soared.
US Trade Deficit in 2020 Worst since 2008, Goods Deficit Worst Ever Despite First Ever Petroleum Surplus. Services Surplus Drops Again by Wolf Richter • Feb 8, 2021 • 174 Comments But the Trade Fiasco with China was the least terrible since 2013.
Despite Terrible US Economy in 2020, Workers of Mexican Descent Sent Most Dollars Ever Back to Mexico by Nick Corbishley • Feb 4, 2021 • 91 Comments Against expectations, the feared plunge in remittances, as during the US Housing Bust, did not occur. For interesting reasons. Weirdest Economy Ever.
Eurostar Near Collapse, Asks for Bailout, Becomes Hot Potato by Nick Corbishley • Jan 23, 2021 • 135 Comments Traffic down 95%. To run out of money by April.
Massive Inflation in Shipping Costs. And the Reasons by Wolf Richter • Jan 16, 2021 • 145 Comments Rates for trucking, ocean containers, airfreight, parcels, you name it, the costs for shipping consumer & industrial goods are surging.
Update on the WTF Collapse of Gasoline & Jet Fuel Consumption: The Holiday Period by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2021 • 120 Comments Long-term structural issues have long dogged these fuels. Then came the Pandemic.
The Amazon Empire Beefs Up its Logistics Juggernaut by Wolf Richter • Jan 5, 2021 • 101 Comments Wall Street loves conglomerates that are oligopolies or, better, monopolies — companies with a “wide and long-lasting moat,” as Buffett said.
US Dollar as “Global Reserve Currency” amid Fed’s QE and US Government Deficits: Dollar Hegemony in Decline by Wolf Richter • Dec 31, 2020 • 299 Comments Other options also shaky. Central banks leery of Chinese RMB, its share still irrelevant. Euro’s share is stuck. But the yen’s share has been rising.
