Monday, September 23, 2019

Fed's Rosengren Warns WeWork Business Model Is Systemic Risk To Economy, May Foreshadow Extinction Event

The second half of the headline is me, not the Boston Fed head. I was trying to get busy reader to take a look at something by making a ZeroHedge headline more ZeroHedge-y.
First up, Friday, Sept. 20:
In a stunning rebuke, echoing very closely our own concerns, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren has - without naming-names - called out the WeWork business model as being a systemic risk to the US economy....
But much more interestingly, the penultimate para from a post by NYU's Scott Galloway to which ZH directed us yesterday:
...Predictions:
  • In the next 30 days, a series of explosive investigative journalism pieces will document breathtaking malfeasance at We.
  • In the next 60 days, a state attorney general, SEC, or other regulatory body will launch a formal investigations into We.
  • Over the next 12 months, SoftBank's Vision Fund will be shuttered.
There's your extinction event.
HT, ZeroHedge's "The Mother Of All Party Crashers Took A Dump In The We IPO Punch Bowl"

We still have hope that SoftBank crashes and as noted last May:
"SoftBank mulls IPO of $100 billion Vision Fund"
Crap. As we've said on these pages a few times, a cash crunch to force the re-listing of ARM Holdings would have been nice....