Consistently Bearish

In “Meet The Doomsayers Who Just Won’t Give Up,” Clusterstock highlights the names and perspectives of those analysts, investors, and forecasters — including yours truly — who’ve decided that, despite all the bullish spin, the fallacious statistics and logical inconsistencies, the myopic short-termism, the bogus academic theories, and the relentless cheerleading of the past nine months or so, the outlook remains troubling, to say the least:

Last April we ran a profile of the leading doomsayers — the folks who aggressively argued that the economy was going to hell in a handbasket.

Of course, back in April that seemed very possible, and so many of these folks were riding huge waves of fame.

Since then, things have improved markedly, but it’s hard to switch gears when you’re mostly known for being negative.

And so we’ve updated our survey to introduce you to the brave holdouts. Despite the rally, they’re warning us, Cassandra-like, that all is not well! The recovery is a mirage, and if we don’t change our ways fast then we’re screwed.

And the 19 individuals on the list are:

Jim Rogers
Marc Faber
Robert Prechter
Meredith Whitney
Nouriel Roubini
Nasim Taleb
J. Kyle Bass
Ron Paul
David Rosenberg
Matthew Simmons
Ambrose Evans Pritchard
Peter Schiff
Dmitry Orlov
Bill Bonner
Albert Edwards
Martin Armstrong
Niall Ferguson
Michael Panzner
Jim Chanos