December 20, 2007

Seeking Alpha columnist throws Harvard's idiot-in-residence housing-cheerleader Nicholas Retsinas under the bus


You all remember the laughable and discredited Nicholas Retsinas, head of the REIC-supported "Joint Center for Housing Studies" at Harvard. The guy who called all of you "chicken littles" and said there was no housing bubble or crash to come.

Well, nice to see someone besides HP calling this guy a moron. Why Harvard hasn't fired him is beyond me.

Here's Tim Iacono, who also does The Mess that Greenspan Made, writing at Seeking Alpha

Adding to the growing evidence that you can work at Harvard and still be a moron, Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies commented "The fundamental problem with housing is oversupply.''

No, the fundamental problem is that a speculative bubble just burst and now everyone is thinking rationally again - home prices are still too high, potential buyers realized home prices are still too high, lenders are now interested in the borrower actually paying back the home loan, and investors don't want to go near securitized debt.

Could someone aside from Robert Shiller and about a thousand people with blogs say this just once?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Retsinas also said that if employers would do their part and give people a 100% pay raise, then housing would be just fine. He truly is an idiot.

Paul E. Math said...

Bijon Frise.

Anonymous said...

"Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies commented "The fundamental problem with housing is oversupply."

I agree. An oversupply of as*holes posing as smart people who are really nothing more than corrupt, immoral paid-for-in-full whores, sorta like has been actors selling real estate lots late at night on TV... - Priceless.

Barf, Fart, Belch.
Joe Six-Pack

America the Cowardly and Doomed.

Anonymous said...

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That guy looks like he needs more fiber in his diet!



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Anonymous said...

Didn't Bush get his MBA there? Why would anybody go to Harvard now???

** They wanted to cash out before the avg folk caught on.