Dr. Christopher Thornberg has been called many things throughout his career, but his favorite thing to be called is correct. Notably, he predicted the collapse of the sub-prime real estate bubble in 2006 and the Great Recession that followed. During the Covid-19 pandemic he was one of the few economists on record to correctly push back against the forecasting community’s panicked predictions of a depression. In the past two years, he has again stood against the grain, and stood out, for accurately forecasting that there would be no recession. A dynamic public speaker, he challenges audiences to question popular narratives – and to ask the right economic questions.

Ken Perlman serves as Managing Principal at John Burns Research and Consulting, where he leads the firm’s real estate consulting practice. In this role, he oversees a team of consultants covering over 100 markets nationwide who advise homebuilders, developers, investors, and capital providers on high-stakes strategic decisions across the housing industry. Ken has deep expertise across a wide range of project types, including large-scale master-planned communities, land development strategy, for-sale and for-rent housing analysis, and complex portfolio and M&A transactions.

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