What Are All the Fed’s Corporate & Investor Bailout Programs and SPVs? Here’s the Whole Shitload of Them by Wolf Richter • Mar 23, 2020 • 232 Comments Indirectly via its Special Purpose Vehicles and its Primary Dealers, the Fed can buy even old bicycles, as long as taxpayers take the losses.
How Ratings Agencies Inflate Credit Ratings to Get Deals & Fees by Wolf Richter • Dec 30, 2019 • 57 Comments This time, a new thingy, “Commercial-Real-Estate CLOs.” But investors don’t care because they’re too busy chasing yield.
College Enrollment Skids for 8th Year in a Row in 2019, But Student Loans Skyrocket. What Gives? by Wolf Richter • Dec 16, 2019 • 225 Comments The stunning decline of men in the student headcount.
The State of the American Debt Slaves, Q3 2019 by Wolf Richter • Nov 8, 2019 • 201 Comments Paying the University-Corporate-Financial Complex and the big bifurcation.
Whole Foods’ Existential Threat? by John McNellis • Apr 12, 2019 • 108 Comments “Amazon’s plunge into the $800 billion US grocery industry posed an existential threat to rivals”: CNN, August 2018. So let’s see.
My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Jumps 18%, “Patient” Gets Slashed, “Moderated” Disappears by Wolf Richter • Apr 10, 2019 • 62 Comments What’s the Fed Trying to Say?
My Fancy-Schmancy “Fed Hawk-o-Meter” Ticks Down, Still Red-Lines. In Passing, Fed Plants Seed for Removing “Patient” by Wolf Richter • Feb 20, 2019 • 77 Comments Oh dude, glad no one saw it.
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.”
What’ll Happen to US Commercial Real Estate as Chinese Money Dries Up? by Wolf Richter • Jul 17, 2017 • 74 Comments See Manhattan.
“Retailers Are the New Oil & Gas,” Only Worse by Wolf Richter • Mar 7, 2017 • 88 Comments I’ve been doom-and-gloom on brick-and-mortar retail. But I haven’t been nearly doom-and-gloom enough, given the events of the past seven days. Includes my interview with The Financial Exchange, WRKO Boston.
