Bill McBride

Real Estate Analyst, Calculated Risk

CR is the primary author of the online finance and economics blog:

http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/

The blog covers a variety of economics topics, with a focus on real estate, mortgage and credit issues.  CR has been widely quoted in the press; the NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other publications have referred to the research and analysis from Calculated Risk.    

Here are a few quotes:

"... calculatedrisk.blogspot.com, my go-to site on housing matters." Paul Krugman, NY Times, July 27, 2007

"[B]y far the broadest, deepest, and smartest coverage of the subprme crisis and housing meltdown comes not from any newspaper but rather from the blog Calculated Risk."  Felix Salmon, Condé Nast Portfolio.com, Nov 7, 2007

"Most housing and mortgage blogs these days read like the obits-a dry chronicle of the latest builders and lenders to fail, without any behind-the-scenes insights into how this mess happened in the first place.  But Calculated Risk, written by a retired-and anonymous-executive of a public company and an ex-bank officer who goes by the name "Tanta," provides analysis of the mortgage business as only insiders can. The duo's posts not only offer running commentary on the news but also break down the economics of the mortgage game. ... Some of the commentary can be a slog, but no other site offers this level of analysis."  Business Week, Blogspotting: Loan Smarts, Sept 10, 2007

Prior to writing on housing and economics, CR was a senior executive with a public company based in Southern California.  He received his MBA from the University of California, Irvine.