Permabear Albert Edwards Draws A Crowd In London

Societe Generale’s Albert Edwards, who has made his name as a perma-bear predicting financial doom for well over a decade, had a chance to air some of his grievances yesterday at the bank’s annual January conference in London, reports Katie Martin for The Wall Street Journal. Even though most analysts disagree with his gloomy stance, his opinion carries enough weight that he was able to fill the room in Paris and packed in close to 500 journalists for a press conference in London (an astounding number for someone unknown to the general public).

“People listen to me a little bit less when equities are going up,” said Edwards “One way to deal with that is to bang the table more...