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Multifamily CRE Meltdown Keeps Getting Uglier
Multifamily CRE Meltdown Keeps Getting Uglier
Authored by Wolf Richter via Wolf Street,There are about $2.3 trillion in multifamily commercial real estate (CRE) loans out there, backed by buildings with rental apartments. The US government, via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, holds about $1.2 trillion of that. Fannie and Freddie have become very aggressive multifamily CRE lenders. So, dear taxpayer, you're on the hook for about half of the multifamily CRE debt.The rest is held around the globe by banks, insurance companies, real estate funds, alternative asset managers - a...
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May 16, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Pakistan Uses Diplomacy To Secure LNG Supply from Hormuz
Pakistan Uses Diplomacy To Secure LNG Supply from Hormuz
Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com
Pakistan has negotiated the passage of vessels laden with Qatari LNG out of the Strait of Hormuz in a diplomatic feat that no other energy buyer has managed so far in the Iran war.
Pakistan, which was the mediator of the U.S.-Iran talks and is passing messages from one to the other, appears to have used well its close ties with both Qatar and Iran to negotiate the successful imports of two tankers with Qatari LNG.
Pakistan has...
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May 15, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Ethanol: Not The Energy Transition We're Looking For
Ethanol: Not The Energy Transition We're Looking For
Authored by Ike Kiefer via RealClear Energy,
With current events stirring up global energy prices, corn ethanol is again being dressed up as if it is a domestic energy source and agent of energy security. The truth is that corn ethanol is an energy sump, and that it takes more fossil fuel energy to make a gallon of corn ethanol than a gallon of gasoline. It is time to face this unpleasant truth and the other perverse outcomes achieved by twenty years of...
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Apr 24, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Flurry Of Reports Signal 'Breakthrough' In US, Iran Getting Back To The Table In Pakistan, As Third US Carrier Arrives
Flurry Of Reports Signal 'Breakthrough' In US, Iran Getting Back To The Table In Pakistan, As Third US Carrier Arrives
After signaling all day yesterday that it has not decided to engage the United States in a second round of peace talks, Friday morning has seen a flurry of headlines out of Saudi and regional media speculating that today is different. "Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi may arrive tonight accompanied by a small delegation," Pakistani government source has told Al Arabiya's correspondent.
Also Bloomberg too is reporting that Iran's FM Araghchi...
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