New Vehicle Sales Down 19% in Q3 v. Q3 2019, Due to Shortages: I Estimate the Piggybank of Unmet Demand for a Recession by Wolf Richter • Oct 5, 2022 • 85 Comments Very different from prior recessions when the industry was caught with huge inventories and large production runs.
Recession Mongers Shocked & Horrified by this Surge in Employment by Wolf Richter • Aug 5, 2022 • 165 Comments They’re praying for a recession to “force” the Fed to pivot. But it’s tough to have an official recession with employment growing, wages surging.
Powell Puts 75-Basis-Point Hike on Table for Sept, Fed “Determined” to Get Inflation Down, Come Heck or High Water: Most Hawkish FOMC Press Conference I Ever Watched by Wolf Richter • Jul 27, 2022 • 363 Comments “People at the lower income spectrum are suffering from high inflation”: Seems Powell wants markets to come out of denial.
Riding Out the Recession in Commercial Real Estate: Time to Hold? by John McNellis • Jul 3, 2022 • 198 Comments Our property with a Walmart store has arguably declined 25% in value in the last six months. But cash-flow hasn’t changed.
OK, it Gets Sticky: Job Openings Plunge the Most Since the Great Recession by Wolf Richter • Feb 11, 2020 • 108 Comments Down 15% from a year ago. Employment lags job openings by a few months. It hit the usual suspects but also the services industries, including finance & insurance, tech, and healthcare.
Inversion Watch: Dancing the Global “Yield Curve” Tango? by Wolf Richter • Sep 29, 2018 • 13 Comments Treasury yield curve survives rate hike upright. Yield curves steepen in China, Japan & Germany. Era of NIRP scheduled to end.
What’s Booming in this Economy? Bankruptcy & Restructuring Business “Highest Since Great Recession” by Wolf Richter • Feb 8, 2016 • 10 Comments “Up over 25% from one year ago.”
So Just How Bad is the Revenue and Earnings Recession? by Wolf Richter • Feb 1, 2016 • 18 Comments Nasty secondary effects of corporate cost-cutting.
Is Canada Next? Recession Is “Quite Contained” by Wolf Richter • Jul 14, 2015 • 10 Comments Not just a “massive contraction” in the energy sector.
What Does California Gov. Jerry Brown Know about the Next Crash and Recession that We Don’t? by Wolf Richter • Jun 11, 2015 • 13 Comments “Not if, when.”
