Housing Collapse Was a Foreseeable Event
Mike Burry is a doctor who decided to become a hedge fund manager in 2000. He is one of the highlighted characters in Michael Lewis’ new book, The Big Short, who called the housing crash well before it started in June 2007. He recently wrote an article that was published in the NY Times back in April of 2010. For those that say “no one saw this coming,” he proves that not only was this not true, but he was trying to tell anyone who would listen that it was happening. He also lays out Alan Greenspan’s complicity, such as when he said in February 2004, just when the Fed was going to stop lowering interest rates and start RAISING them: “American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.” Wow!
I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?
By MICHAEL J. BURRY
Published: April 3, 2010ALAN GREENSPAN, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, proclaimed last month that no one could have predicted the housing bubble. “Everybody missed it,” he said, “academia, the Federal Reserve, all regulators.”
But that is not how I remember it. Back in 2005 and 2006, I argued as forcefully as I could, in letters to clients of my investment firm, Scion Capital, that the mortgage market would melt down in the second half of 2007, causing substantial damage to the economy. My prediction was based on my research into the residential mortgage market and mortgage-backed securities. After studying the regulatory filings related to those securities, I waited for the lenders to offer the most risky mortgages conceivable to the least qualified buyers. I knew that would mark the beginning of the end of the housing bubble; it would mean that prices had risen — with the expansion of easy mortgage lending — as high as they could go.
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