Following the publication of the New York Times profile article about me as Dr Doom a number of readers have asked me for the text of the two speeches – cited at the beginning of the NYT article - that I gave at the IMF, one in September 2006 and the other in September 2007, where I presented – early on – my views about the housing bust, the credit crunch, the likely banking crisis and insolvency of Fannie and Freddie, the oil shock and the severe recession and financial crisis that would follow those shocks.

Here are below links to the full text of those speeches: