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Title: Don't Panic About the Credit Market
Post by: Straw Man on February 06, 2019, 11:07:43 AM
So said David Malpass in an article in the Wall Street Journal in August of 2007

At the time Malpass was the Chief Economist at Bear Stearns which collapsed a month later

Malpass is one of those "best people" that Trump just nominated to head the World Bank

I guess we should be glad that he didn't give the job to Ivanka.....or Barron
Title: Re: Don't Panic About the Credit Market
Post by: Humble Narcissist on February 06, 2019, 11:20:09 AM
Who besides Taleb saw a crash coming at that time?
Title: Re: Don't Panic About the Credit Market
Post by: Straw Man on February 06, 2019, 12:07:49 PM
Who besides Taleb saw a crash coming at that time?

lots of people (go watch The Big Short)

https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2015/07/07/6-economists-who-predicted-the-global-financial-crisis-and-why-we-should-listen-to-them-from-now-on

Malpass didn't see it coming a month before it destroyed his own company (where he'd been the Chief Economist for the prior 15 years)

Title: Re: Don't Panic About the Credit Market
Post by: Humble Narcissist on February 06, 2019, 01:06:34 PM
lots of people (go watch The Big Short)

https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2015/07/07/6-economists-who-predicted-the-global-financial-crisis-and-why-we-should-listen-to-them-from-now-on

Malpass didn't see it coming a month before it destroyed his own company (where he'd been the Chief Economist for the prior 15 years)


A lot of people in hindsight but not many (besides the usual doom and gloomers) before.
Title: Re: Don't Panic About the Credit Market
Post by: Straw Man on February 06, 2019, 01:18:44 PM
A lot of people in hindsight but not many (besides the usual doom and gloomers) before.

the six people listed in the link are all before 2008

also Malpass's company was at the center of creating the toxic debt that not only destroyed his company but also precipitated the collapse of the credit markets