Somehow the “mainstream” didn’t anticipate the 2008 global financial crisis until it actually happened, yet a few analysts did issue warnings. So it seemed like a good idea for the Real World Economics Review Blog to organize a contest and award a prize to “the economist who first and most cogently warned the world of the coming Global Financial Collapse.” Yet somehow they couldn’t allow even the nomination of the guy who predicted it first and most accurately (pdf). We are fortunate that Mason Gaffney has reviewed the record and documented what happened.