He's an Austrian economist and yes he like all of them saw this coming in 2001 and maybe earlier.
That was immediately before the crash.
The book he wrote about the coming crash was published by Wiley in February 2007, which means he must've been formed the idea some years before to have written it early enough for that publication date. A quick Google search turned up CNBC interviews with him in 2005 and 2006 about the topic.