Quote from GSH1976:
If Paulson said the worst of the credit crisis is over it must be true. His track record has been impressive.
12/25/06: "I don't know whether [housing] has bottomed out... [Whether housing] has bottomed out, not quite bottomed out, or is going to take a quarter or two longer, the thing that we've seen is that other parts of the economy are doing so well that we're just powering through this."
3/13/07: "It's too early to tell whether [housing market] has bottomed. I believe it has. We'll know more in the next month or two."
4/20/07: "All the signs I look at show the housing market is at or near the bottom."
6/20/07: "We have had a major housing correction in this country. I do believe we are at or near the bottom."
7/2/07: "In terms of looking at housing, most of us believe that it's at or near the bottom. It's had a significant impact on the economy. No one is forecasting when, with any degree of clarity, that the upturn is going to come other than it's at or near the bottom."
7/23/07: U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday the U.S. housing market correction was "at or near the bottom."
8/2/07: Secretary Paulson: "No. ... let me be pretty clear about what I've said before. When I said... that there had been a major correction and the housing market was at or near the bottom, I also have said that I thought this would not resolve itself any time soon, and that it would take a reasonably good period of time for the sub-prime issues to move through the economy as mortgages reset... as an economic matter I believe this was largely contained because we have a diverse and healthy economy."