Climate change will break the housing market, says David Burt, who predicted the 2008 financial crisis
Posted on AllSides November 3rd, 2019
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Risk to the housing market from underestimated climate change echoes lessons from the 2008 subprime-mortgage debacle — as does the chance to capitalize on these miscalculations.
That’s the view of David Burt, whose old firm and its timely escape from the financial crisis just over a decade ago featured in Michael Lewis’s book “The Big Short.”
Burt makes a climate change and subprime lending connection in a recent interview with Vice: