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Mike Stathis: The Prophet Wall Street Erased
The only analyst who predicted the 2008 collapse, called the bottom, mapped the recovery—and was silenced for being right.
“If you’re too accurate and you don’t belong to the club, they bury you.”
— Mike Stathis
A 2006 Forecast That Read Like a 2009 Headline
Before anyone was talking about subprime, before CNBC knew what a CDO was, Mike Stathis published America’s Financial Apocalypse (2006).
In that book, he predicted:
- A 30–35% national housing collapse
- The failure of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Washington Mutual
- A stock market crash bottoming near Dow 6,500
- Government bailouts for banks, insurers, and the housing industry
- And most presciently: a massive rise in wealth and income inequality
At the time, no one in finance or government was discussing inequality.
It only became mainstream after Occupy Wall Street forced academics and pundits to pay attention—years after Stathis documented and explained it.
“I laid it all out: free trade would gut wages, healthcare would become a privilege, retirement would collapse, and inequality would explode. And they stole my work while I remained banned.”
— Mike Stathis
He Linked What No One Else Could See
What truly set Stathis apart wasn’t just the forecast. It was the framework.
He was the first and only analyst to connect these major systems into a single economic diagnosis:
Free trade ➝ Wage collapse, job outsourcing
Healthcare profiteering ➝ Middle class debt, deferred care
Retirement system fragility ➝ Savings crisis, pension shortfalls
Wall Street fraud ➝ Housing bubble, stock market crash
Media deception ➝ Delay in public awareness, deception, lies, investor losses
“Together, corporate America, Washington and Wall Street engineered America’s decline. Trade deals shrunk wages and eliminated jobs, healthcare drained wealth, Wall Street defrauded investors, and the media lied to the masses.”
— Mike Stathis, 2006
The Investment Calls That Made Fortunes
Stathis wasn’t just a macro prophet. He gave clear, actionable investment strategies.
1. Crisis Shorts (2006–2008):
Homebuilders (Lennar, KB Homes, Toll Brothers)
Subprime lenders (New Century, Countrywide)
GSEs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
General Electric and GM
Retailers and regional banks
Washington Mutual, which he accused of accounting fraud in a formal SEC complaint filed in October 2008
2. Contrarian Bull Call (March 2009):
Predicted the stock market could collapse to 6,500 in his 2006 book.
Advised clients to go long the stock market at Dow 6,500 on March 10, 2009 which would end up being the bottom.
Recommended god and silver ETFs, pharma, select tech, and healthcare.
3. Sector Rotation (2009–2020+):
Pharma & biotech: Driven by aging demographics
Telemedicine: Cost-efficient healthcare
Nutrition & wellness: Preventative medicine wave
Travel & leisure: Baby boomers fueling global experiences
These picks—based on data and brilliant insight, not ideology—outperformed the market for the next decade.
The SEC Complaint That Made Him a Target
In 2008, as WaMu teetered, Stathis submitted a blistering 23-page formal complaint to the SEC, alleging:
1) Insider trading
2) Naked short selling
3) Coordinated takedown of WaMu by Wall Street interests
4) Thefraudulent “seizure” allowed JP Morgan to acquire $307 billion in assets for $1.9 billion
5) That the OTS and FDIC manufactured insolvency claims without proof.
His language was unambiguous:
“The theft of Washington Mutual represents the biggest heist in U.S. banking history.”
— Mike Stathis, SEC Complaint, 2008
After filing the report to the SEC, Stathis says he was interrogated by federal agents and put under surveillance. And the SEC never really pursued his findings.
The Price of Telling the Whole Truth
Stathis didn’t just expose Wall Street. He exposed everyone:
1) The Fed for bailing out the banking cartel
2) The media for parroting lies and ignoring real analysts
3) Alternative media for being bought-and-paid-for by gold dealers
4) Academia for showing up late and taking credit
5) Politicians of both parties for selling America to lobbyists
“Left, right, libertarian—it’s all distraction. It's about elites keeping the public stupid while they loot the system.”
— Mike Stathis
Censored for the Crime of Not Belonging
Despite being more accurate than anyone on his 2008 financial crisis predictions, Stathis was banned from every major and alternative outlet.
Even today, as it's even more apparent that Stathis is one of the world's greatest investment analysts ever, he remains completely banned.
He believes one key reason is ethnoreligious discrimination.
“Virtually every person promoted as an expert—before, during, and after the crisis—was Jewish. Schiff, Burry, Roubini, Whitney, Krugman, Shiller, Eisman, Bass, Keen, Paulson, Bernanke, Rogoff. And let's not forget who runs CNBC, Bloomberg, the hedge fund industry, Hollywood, newspapers, and the rest of the media, including ad agencies and publishers. It's the same group. This explains it all."
— Mike Stathis
He continues:
“I challenge anyone: name one Gentile who was promoted as a credible expert before, during or after the crisis. Just one. There were none. All of the experts were Jewish. And this theme still holds true today. Jews are 2% of the U.S. population. Their overwhelming representation in media, academic, and finance and even politics is statistically impossible by random chance. It’s clearly racial discrimination and exclusion. It's like a mafia operation."
— Mike Stathis
The Scorecard: Who Got It Right?
Final Word
Mike Stathis didn’t just predict the financial crisis.
He explained it with spectacular detail and accuracy.
He helped people profit from it.
He mapped out what would come next.
“They erased me because I didn’t fit their ethnic profile and tow their fictional narrative—and because I made them look bad by being right.”
— Mike Stathis
If truth, foresight, and honesty mattered in the investment world, Mike Stathis would be celebrated as a legend.
Instead, he’s the most accurate, most censored voice of his era.
It’s time to break the silence.
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