HELOCs in the US & Canada: As “Scarred” Americans Learned Bitter Lesson, Canadians Went Nuts by Wolf Richter • Sep 20, 2018 • 107 Comments Home-equity-loan balances in Canada per capita are now 3.3 times what they were in the US during HELOC peak before it all collapsed.
Collapse of Outsourcing Giant Carillion May Have Silver Lining by Don Quijones • Sep 15, 2018 • 21 Comments “Cash retentions” by large companies come under attack in the UK.
Toxic Mix in Canada: Spiking Inflation, Variable-Rate Mortgages, and a Housing Bubble by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2018 • 52 Comments What will the Bank of Canada do?
Why Are ATMs Disappearing at an Alarming Rate after a Wave of Branch Closures? by Don Quijones • Aug 15, 2018 • 69 Comments Banks are curtailing “cash services.” But why?
Have Rising Gas Prices & Uber’s Serial Fiascos Impacted the Desire to Become an Uber Driver? by Wolf Richter • Aug 4, 2018 • 46 Comments But there’s a bottom for everything.
UK “Housing Downturn” Pushes Biggest Real-Estate Agency with 10,000 Employees to Brink, Shares Collapse by Don Quijones • Aug 3, 2018 • 36 Comments Blamed: political and economic uncertainty, Brexit, and the very measures designed to tamp down on London’s housing bubble.
The Largest Ships in the Huge Iron-Ore Trade by MC01 • Jul 28, 2018 • 42 Comments Exports are dominated by two countries, imports by three. And everything revolves around China.
It “Hit the Mortgage Market Over the Head with a Baseball Bat” by Wolf Richter • Jul 11, 2018 • 56 Comments 8 boots-on-the-ground findings about Sydney’s deflating housing bubble.
Update on Deflating Property Bubbles in Sydney & Melbourne by Wolf Richter • Jul 2, 2018 • 39 Comments “Recent home buyers could be facing negative equity”: CoreLogic.
It Gets Spiky: The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America by Wolf Richter • Jun 26, 2018 • 134 Comments Historic spikes in Seattle and other metros. But New York condos skid.