THE VIDEO SHELF · housing bubble prediction
Peter Schiff Mortgage Bankers Speech Nov/13/06
Peter Schiff's November 2006 speech to the Western Regional Mortgage Bankers Conference, in which he warned an audience of mortgage bankers that the housing bubble would collapse. The clip runs about 73 minutes.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as a famous example of someone publicly predicting the housing crash before it happened.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Peter Schiff
- Topic
- housing bubble prediction
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2009–2013
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I recommend Peter Schiff for investing ideas, here's a famous video, he's got some bestselling books too. [VIDEO]
iterationx on Hacker News · 2009-12
In Ask HN: How do you manage money?The best whistle blowing before the bubble popped had to be Peter Schiff telling a huge crowd of mortgage bankers they were about to lose their jobs in Nov 2006: [VIDEO]
jcven on Hacker News · 2013-01
In Blowing the Whistle on the Mortgage Bubble
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.