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substitute ([personal profile] substitute) wrote2009-02-22 10:00 pm

In which I totally say "I told you so"

[livejournal.com profile] kniwt was kind enough to point out that I was right in March 2007, and others have been kind to point out that I was right in July 2003 about the oncoming subprime mortgage tsunami.

I'd love to call myself a prophet, but most of us in Newport saw that one coming. Too bad the financial journalists didn't get to reporting on it until it was too late. Wonder why that happened?

[identity profile] dmlaenker.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Because they like being friends with people who have appletinis, cocaine, and Mexican resorts?

[identity profile] substitute.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone likes to blow bubbles.

[identity profile] dr-strych9.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wonder why that happened?"

"The plainest print cannot be read through a solid gold sovereign, or a ruble, or a golden eagle." --Sam Cummings, noteworthy arms dealer

Doom comes to Sarnath

[identity profile] taskboy3000.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think credit == income for too many people. Our economy is in a mighty pickle now. I suspect that only a good sized war will bail us out.

I'm thinking it will be Venezuela.

Re: Doom comes to Sarnath

[identity profile] substitute.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
But we already have TWO! How many wars do we NEED?