via WOLF STREET: We have a situation here. Folks are out there promoting the idea that the Fed cannot keep interest rates at 4.5% for long, and that it certainly cannot hike interest rates to 5.0% or 5.5%, because the amount …
Guest post by Wolf Richter from WolfStreet.com: The era of money-printing and interest-rate repression in the United States, which started in 2008, gave rise to all kinds of stuff, and the easy money kept going and kept going, and all …
Guest post by Wolf Richter from WolfStreet.com: Sellers are struggling with denial: Priced “right,” a home will sell, but “right” is where the buyers are, and they’re a lot lower. Sales of all types of previously owned homes – houses, condos, …
Guest Post by Wolf Richter from his blog on WolfStreet.com: What the Fed did in details and charts. And, well, “Primary Credit” is starting to show up again. The Federal Reserve released its weekly balance sheet this afternoon, with balances as of …
via WOLF STREET: Inflation in the Eurozone jumped to 9.1% in August, a new record in the Eurozone data going back to 1997, according to preliminary data released today by Eurostat. It topped out at 25.2% in Estonia. Germany hit at …
The stock market is now on the verge disproving the Wolf Street dictum, “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line.” Apparently straight-down lines are now possible — and may even become the new norm! via Wolf Richter of Wolf Street: The final …
From Wolf Street: The Fed’s own data on the distribution of wealth in the US is a quarterly report card on the Fed’s official policy goal of the “Wealth Effect.” It has now released the data for Q4. The Fed …
The only measure of stock market leverage that is reported monthly is margin debt at brokers, via FINRA. Much of the stock market leverage isn’t reported, such as Securities Based Lending, and even banks and brokers that fund this leverage …
The disruption the pandemic has inflicted on global supply chains is really starting to harm consumers. Prices for most items are up double digits in the past year. And product shortages are rampant these days. How much longer is this …
from Kerry Lutz’s Financial Survival Network All of the madness is coming to a head in the housing market, so today, Wolf Richter and I get on the podcast to discuss what exactly is happening with buying and selling homes as a result …
Greg Hunter & C.H.: Hyperinflation Will Collapse Biden Administration! A 1-min. video of the m$m all robotically incantating the same verse, that lies are being spread on social media. SCARY/FUNNY: White House quietly signals inflationary run could last years The White …
Wolfstreet, Released on 5/23/21 It works until it doesn’t. Now all eyes are on housing. Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and …
RT, Released on 4/20/19 Max interviews Wolf Richter of WolfStreet.com about interest rates, property markets, Uber’s IPO and the future outlook for Amazon and Netflix. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program …
by Adam Taggart To all those investors expecting the Fed to step in to backstop the recent weakness seen in the stock market, Wolf Richter warns: The cavalry isn’t coming. After years of force-feeding too much liquidity into world markets, the …