[brooke]

Rich’s new business partner has MLS access and has been using this data for in his monthly charts for several months now.

As far as some of the suggestions, if Rich believed that stories and anecdotes were valid arguments, he would have believed the “everyone wants to live here” and other myths that have been circulating for years. But Rich deals in evidence, not stories. Sure, many people do think stories are convincing, but those are not the people Rich is talking to.

Also, the topic is not the current slowdown, which is still relatively mild. The topic is that we have experienced a huge bubble, and we are at the very beginning of what could be an equally huge correction.

If they want someone to tell stories they’ve got the wrong guy.

…just my extremely biased two cents. :0)

brooke

[brooke]

I though Rich presented his arguments very succinctly in both debates (I’m obviously biased).

In the first, it is painfully obvious to anyone with any logical reasoning abilities that Mr Jolly was grasping at puppies and cupcakes to defend his argument. Charles Jolly might have interrupted a number of times, but “steamrolled” implies that Rich’s arguments did not stand up to the test.

At least the second debate focused on facts – the Sandag argument was interesting. But again, Rich’s arguments held up much better. And I thought Rich appeared much more comfortable this time.

This bubble issue is complicated, so there is a segment of the population that doesn’t want to understand it and couldn’t if it wanted to. Rich is not speaking to these people. I also know that Rich finds the Chris Matthews style of debate – whoever talks loudest wins – repulsive, so he’s not going to act like a jerk for the sake of convincing viewers who are probably hopeless anyway.

brooke

[brooke]

Let’s try this again…

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PmWPEOhNYY

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfBHAZBtRE

[brooke]

Here are the links to of both of the appearances on youtube:

Part 1

Part 2

[brooke]

Rich is going to try to get recordings of both up on the site.

– brooke

[brooke]

Under the text box when you are creating content you should see a link to “enable rich-text.” If you want to turn this on by default you can do it through your profile in “my account” on the left.

[brooke]

Well, in general I don’t have time to compose responses, but I like to “lurk.” And Rich commenting-by-proxy is not really allowed.

[brooke]

Rich will be on next Sun, Aug 20th. Last time, the interview appeared the same week it was filmed, so Rich assumed that would be the case again. But as we discovered last night when we watched the show, they waited an additional week this time. Sorry about the confusion, but he will be on next week.

~Brooke

P.S. Rich would have posted this himself, but for regulatory reasons he’s no longer permitted to post comments.

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