The bubblicious fervor for investing in the FAANG family of equities have been abandoned for technology stocks related to artificial intelligence since early 2023. That niche includes advances in semiconductor functionalities, CPUs, GPUs, microchips, quantum...
The commercial real estate (CRE) implosion has exposed endemic risk among regional banks and foreign financial institutions that adds fuel to a banking crisis bonfire that surfaced last spring after Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic collapsed. A...
An increasing number of Americans cannot afford the higher car prices and are falling behind on record-high car payments, which adds more misery to tighter household budgets as the U.S. economy heads for a hard-landing recession after a pandemic, supply chain crisis,...
The unsustainable U.S. national debt and deficit burden (view the real-time National Debt Clock) is a theme within my series on an impending bond storm ouroboros, the housing bubble’s entry into a capitulation phase, an imminent hard-landing recession vs. a Goldilocks...
It has been a year since I penned the last chapter in a series on the housing market, and it’s time to look at what transpired since last summer and fall. The affordability factor has worsened, there are rising interest rates for mortgage debt, prices remain elevated...