{"id":37831,"date":"2018-09-16T07:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37831"},"modified":"2018-09-16T07:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:01:16","slug":"these-four-predicted-the-global-financial-crisis-heres-what-they-think-causes-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37831","title":{"rendered":"These Four Predicted The Global Financial Crisis; Here’s What They Think Causes The Next One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These Four Predicted The Global Financial Crisis; Here’s What They Think Causes The Next One<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A different kind of hurricane slammed into the American East coast, the nation and ultimately the world ten years ago today.<\/p>\n

Amidst the multiple introspective columns and soul searching that naturally occurred this\u00a0week, which looked\u00a0back on the missed warning signs behind the 2008 financial collapse exactly a decade ago this weekend, there is a small group of people whose opinions are actually worth paying attention to.<\/p>\n

Though arguably no single individual accurately called\u00a0all aspects of the crisis in its entirety, precipitated by the implosion of Lehman Brothers, some did very publicly predict key facets with prophetic clarity. As Market Watch’s Howard Gold explains in his profile of four analysts the world should have been listening to<\/a>: “People warned about subprime mortgage loans, derivatives, and too much leverage, but nobody, to my knowledge, said a bursting housing bubble would cause a global crisis that would lead to the demise of venerable financial firms, require trillion-dollar taxpayer bailouts, and cause a recession that rivaled only the Great Depression in its magnitude<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Trouble is like many religious prophets of ancient history, they were rejected at the time, cast as dour harbingers of gloom and doom.<\/p>\n

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Clockwise from upper left: Gary Shilling, Jim Stack, Raghuram Rajan and John Mauldin. Via MarketWatch<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are four names and their very public warnings that attempted to jolt the financial and banking sectors out of their sleepy stroll toward the abyss before 2008, as well as their predictions for the next big one, and what to look out for.<\/p>\n

Howard Gold interviewed each, and laid out the key quotes summarizing then and now…<\/p>\n

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These Four Predicted The Global Financial Crisis; Here’s What They Think Causes The Next One A different kind of hurricane slammed into the American East coast, the nation and ultimately the world ten years ago today. Amidst the multiple introspective columns and soul searching that naturally occurred this\u00a0week, which looked\u00a0back on the missed warning signs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2310,21679,8222,21680,8226,13053],"class_list":["post-37831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-depression","tag-gary-shilling","tag-great-financial-crisis","tag-jim-stack","tag-john-mauldin","tag-raghuram-rajan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37832,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37831\/revisions\/37832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}