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No, plenty did. From the more famous Nouriel Roubini, Nassim Taleb, and Peter Schiff, to lesser known money managers like Mike Shedlock and Karl Denninger, there were many. Just because the market-cheerleading media hardly covered them doesn't mean no one saw the housing crisis coming.


I said economists, not money managers. Of the group you mentioned, only Roubini and Taleb are economists. Taleb did not predict a recession. He made money off the financial crash of 2008, which is entirely different.

Of course there will be people who say there is a crash. That's what makes a market. But economists don't predict market crashes, they predict recessions. And very few economists predicted a recession, which is what I said.




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