“Prelude to Recession”: the Dallas Fed’s Unsettling Charts by Wolf Richter • Feb 22, 2016 • 47 Comments The “sharp cross-sector split.”
Restaurant Industry Suddenly Tanks, Worst Plunge since the Beginning of the Financial Crisis by Wolf Richter • Feb 3, 2016 • 62 Comments Plunges like this only occur when something big is going on.
This is Where Industrial Production Normally Meets a Recession by Wolf Richter • Jan 15, 2016 • 55 Comments It’s getting painful: only exceptions were in the early 1950s.
Wal-Mart Rubs Salt on Deepening Retail Wounds by Wolf Richter • Jan 15, 2016 • 62 Comments Brick-and-mortar retailers are being taken out the back and shot.
Chilling Thing Jamie Dimon just Said about the Economy by Wolf Richter • Jan 14, 2016 • 29 Comments “Hopefully… It’s not the beginning of something really bad.”
“The Sky is Falling” on California Manufacturing, Worst since February 2009, Might Kick Regional Economy into Recession by Wolf Richter • Jan 8, 2016 • 26 Comments “The wheels have come off this quarter.”
Business in the Midwest Takes Worst Hit since July 2009 by Wolf Richter • Dec 31, 2015 • 19 Comments Ugly, ugly, ugly. Manufacturing and non-manufacturing.
Fed is Raising Rates for the Opposite Reasons They Claim by Larry Kummer • Dec 17, 2015 • 24 Comments Look at the Fed’s dashed hopes!
Toxic Mix Hits Trucking, Orders for New Trucks Totally Collapse, Pummel Manufacturers by Wolf Richter • Dec 4, 2015 • 26 Comments Slack demand and sudden overcapacity.
Recession Watch: Falling Commodity Prices to Hurt America by Larry Kummer • Nov 24, 2015 • 9 Comments Leading indicator of trade, economic growth, and geopolitical instability.