Some of these real estate boosters make claims that would be totally illegal if made for other types of investments. A securities trader could never get away with making some of the wild claims that these guys have been getting away with.

I have a hard time listening to George whenever he appears on the local NBC morning show. I think that once the bubble pops he’s going to conveniently disappear, because he’ll have an awfully hard time explaining how this could have happened.

I can’t stand to watch him, mainly bec. his yellow skin makes him look so sickly. I also wonder why they don’t replace him with someone better looking, and send him off to the writing division. I don’t mean to be rude, but the guy is worse looking than Donald Dump.

That’s my pet name for Donald Trump.

So, 5 years ago when this thread was first posted, George Chamberlin was persistently cheer leading for San Diego housing. He was quite certain he was right, but clearly he wasn’t. His logic and reasoning were biased and faulty and naturally things didn’t turn out the way he thought they would. I hadn’t really paid any attention to him in the last 5 years; I figured he ran away and hid. I mean, if he’d been reasonable but wrong, that’d be fine. But he was a real jackass and mocked those who disagreed with him. How embarrassing for him, right? Apparently not. The other day I get an email from my credit union talking about how we’re invited to a George Chamberlin seminar. So I google him and he’s all over the place. People still listen to him.

WTF?

That this commentator and local “financial commentator” is still around is a reminder that we need to hold purported experts to their record. Piggington does that, but it is a small slice of the population. Journalists especially need to dig deeper into those they interview and quote so the public would get a fairer picture.