The American economist is predicting America´s descent to second rank world power. Roubini, who is 50, has been an outsider his entire life. He was born in Istanbul, the child of Iranian Jews, and his family moved to Tehran when he was 2, then to Tel Aviv and finally to Italy, where he grew up and attended college. He moved to the United States to pursue his doctorate in international economics at Harvard. Along the way he became fluent in Farsi, Hebrew, Italian and English. His accent, an inimitable polyglot growl, radiates a weariness that comes with being what he calls a “global nomad.”
As a graduate student at Harvard, Roubini was an unusual talent, according to his adviser, the Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs. He was as comfortable in the world of arcane mathematics as he was studying political and economic institutions. “It’s a mix of skills that rarely comes packaged in one person,” Sachs told me. After completing his Ph.D. in 1988, Roubini joined the economics department at Yale, where he first met and began sharing ideas with Robert Shiller, the economist now known for his prescient warnings about the 1990s tech bubble.
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Read here:
http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/253363/new_york_times_article_on_nouriel_roubini_as_dr_doom
Where Nouriel himself is not so gloomy.
You have to read the NY Times nowadays the way you once read Pravda - between the lines. All will be doom and gloom until the election of President Obama and then happy days will be predicted. If McCain wins, so will the "depression" in the media.
McCain looked very good on TV last night. Obama gave evasive answers. Americans don't like their President to be too intellectual.
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