A negative outlook in the commercial real estate (CRE) market emerged from a combination of trends that include secular and cyclical ones, a liquidity crisis in the banking sector, and the wicked crime wave in certain major metropolitan areas. The secular trend is...
Most firearms that are bought or sold in the United States are produced by two private gunmaker companies: Sturm Ruger with a market capitalization of $959 million and Smith & Wesson at $473 million. They are responsible for over a third of the guns manufactured...
The recession that’s taking hold in the U.S. and Europe is deepening amid a likely escalation of NATO’s proxy war (Twitter thread) with Russia in Ukraine. A sanction-induced energy shortage and subsequent liquidity crisis spawned by a strengthening dollar that the...
Since penning Part 1 and 2 (Twitter thread) in early April on the risk of recession this year, the chances of a hard landing vs. the Fed’s sanguine soft-landing narrative morphed into “we have a good chance of a softish landing” when Jay Powell delivered the FOMC’s...
My wish is for subscribers at CrushTheStreet to have a safe and happy Christmas season as we wait for events to unfold in 2022. The geopolitical situation, economic malaise, U.S. political circus, and circumstances surrounding the pandemic have turned our world upside...