Nouriel Roubini is the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an independent, global macroeconomic and market strategy research firm. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Dr. Roubini has extensive policy experience as well as broad academic credentials. From 1998 to 2000, he served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. He has published over 70 theoretical, empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and coauthored the books “Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence” (MIT Press, 1997) and “Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets” (Institute for International Economics, 2004) and “Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance” (Penguin Press, 2010).
Dr. Roubini received an undergraduate degree at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and a doctorate in economics at Harvard University. Prior to joining Stern, he was on the faculty of Yale University’s department of economics.
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Recent Blog Posts by Nouriel Roubini
- The Trapdoors at the Fed’s Exit
- The Global Economy on the Fly
- Preparing for a Perfect Storm
- Nouriel at Davos: Global Tail Risks Remain
- The Year Ahead in the Eurozone: Lower Risks, Same Problems
- U.S. Has Been Let Down by Its Leadership
- Nouriel on Bloomberg: U.S. Growth Will Be “Barely 1.7%” in 2013
- Nouriel: Politics Will Define 2013
- Nouriel Explains More Positive Outlook on Greece to WSJ
- The Year of Betting Conservatively
- Hard to be Easing
- Nouriel on Bloomberg: TBTF Banks Are Worse Than Before
- Nouriel: Indonesia Still a Compelling EM Story
- Fiddling at the Fire
- Nouriel on Draghi’s Plan: It Could Weaken EUR in Longer Run
- Early Retirement for the Eurozone?
- American Pie in the Sky
- ‘Roubini’s Devastating Diagnosis’ – Freeland File (Full Video Interview – 16:49)
- Roubini Reuters Videos on Global Perfect Storm and Europe’s Slow Motion Train Wreck
- Roubini Bloomberg Video: 2013 Global Perfect Storm May Surpass 2008 Crisis
- Fix it or Fixit – Could Finland Be Next?
- Roubini and Bremmer Bloomberg Video on G-Zero Leadership, the European Debt Crisis, and a Global Perfect Storm (Full Clip)
- Roubini and Bremmer Bloomberg Video on G-Zero Leadership, the European Debt Crisis, and a Global Perfect Storm (Full Clip)
- Video of my Talk in Bologna: “Roubini-Rampini: Is There a Future for the Eurozone and its Social Welfare Model?”
- A Global Perfect Storm
- Berlin Is Ignoring the Lessons of the 1930s
- Time to Blackball Russia’s Autocratic State
- Bartiromo One on One with Nouriel Roubini: Trouble Ahead for Economy
- Greece Must Exit
- Get Ready for the Spanish Bailout
- CNBC Roubini Video from SALT Conference: Global Economy Faces a ‘Perfect Storm’ in 2013:
- Michael Milken Faces Off With Nouriel Roubini: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- Europe’s Short Vacation
- Jim O’Neil and Nouriel Roubini on Global Economic Recovery
- A Divorce Settlement for the Eurozone
- Scary Oil
- Roubini Bremmer FP Interview: $200 Oil and the Moscow-Beijing Alliance
- CNBC Video and Report – Portugal to Fall, Greece to Leave Euro Zone: Roubini
- Greece’s Private Creditors Are the Lucky Ones
- The Uptick’s Downside
- Nouriel Roubini and Patrick Chovanec EconoMonitor Video – China: How Much Stress Can the System Take?
- Draghi, Soros, Geithner, Roubini, Calderon, Merkel: In Their Own Words From the WEF on the Europe Crisis Via Bloomberg
- Roubini CNN Davos Vidoes: Europe Needs a ‘Bazooka’, U.S Has 1929-Style Income Inequality
- Roubini and Rogoff with CNBC’s Bartiromo – Recession in Europe, SOTU, Global Growth Risks
- ‘We’ve Got Bigger Problems Right Now’ – Roubini and Bremmer Reveal the Surprising Winners and Losers of the Coming Year, and Debate Whether the Big Brains at Davos Can Rescue a Global Economy in Crisis
- Nouriel Roubini, Ian Bremmer on Economy, Risks – Bloomberg Video
- The Straits of America
- A Plea to Policymakers: We Can’t Risk Another Year of Delay
- Fragile and Unbalanced in 2012
- Italy’s Debt Must Be Restructured
- Nouriel Roubini #30 – The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
- Roubini Yahoo! Finance Interviews: Europe’s Contagion ‘Has Now Gone Viral…and Global’ While U.S. Government Gridlock ‘Ensures’ 2012 Recession
- Video: Roubini in Moscow Diagnoses the Eurozone
- Rising Risk of Eurozone Breakup
- Why Italy’s Days in the Eurozone May Be Numbered
- Eurozone Crisis: Here Are the Options, Now Choose
- Nouriel Roubini’s 2006 Speech at Davos-WEF Warning That Italy and PIGS May Experience Debt Crisis and EZ Break-Up in 5 years; and Tremonti’s Reaction to the Speech
- Krugman: Roubini On Internal Devaluation
- Professor Nouriel Roubini Tips 50pc Chance of Another Recession – Summary of My Speech in Perth
- ‘Dr. Doom’ Stays Bullish on Indonesia’s Economy – Jakarta Globe Interview
- Roubini, Zandi, Ellis and Sanchez on the State of the Global Economy – Latest EconoMonitor Videos
- Full Analysis: The Instability of Inequality
- The Instability of Inequality
- Foreign Policy: Roubini and Bremmer – ‘There’s a Huge Amount of Anger’
- Roubini Bloomberg Interview – Roubini Says Europe Needs €2 Trillion ‘Bazooka’
- Roubini Bloomberg Interview: U.S. in Throes of Economic Contraction
- EMERGING MARKETS Interview with Nouriel Roubini – Risk of Depression Is ‘Huge’
- Full Analysis: Greece Should Default and Abandon the Euro
- How to Prevent a Depression
- Greece Should Default and Abandon the Euro
- A Radical Policy Response to the Rising Risks of a Depression and Financial Crisis
- Roubini Bloomberg Interview – ‘Roubini: Slowdown Brings Forward New Financial Crisis’
- Roubini Reuters Interview at Ambrosetti – Fed Options and Fate of the Eurozone
- Roubini Bloomberg Video Interview – Roubini Sees Recession Threat in Most Advanced Economies
- Roubini Speaks with Bloomberg TV’s Margaret Brennan – We Are Going into a Recession
- Roubini CNBC Interview with Maria Bartiromo on Risk of Global Recession
- Is Capitalism Doomed?
- WSJ.com Video Interview – Roubini Warns of Global Recession Risk
- Roubini on Charlie Rose with Bill Gross, Steven Rattner and William Sahlman
- Roubini Bloomberg Videos on ECB Policy, Europe U.S Economies
- Mission Impossible: Stop Another Recession
- Roubini Bloomberg Interviews on S&P Downgrade and U.S. Growth
- Greece Financing Offer: I Am Not Going to Say I Told You So, But…
- The Eurozone’s Last Stand
- July 4th Bloomberg Interview – Roubini Says Spain, Italy Risk Losing Market Access
- CNBC Video – ‘Perfect Storm’ Coming for Global Economy in 2013: Roubini
- Hiccup or Total Organ Failure?
- Bloomberg – ‘Perfect Storm’ May Threaten Global Economy: Roubini
- The Eurozone Heads for Break Up
- Paying Greece’s Creditors: History Teaches Us Only So Much
- Much Ado About Relatively Little: Contagion Risks From an Orderly Greek Debt Restructuring Are Modest, Contained and Manageable
- A Loan and a Prayer
- Why Inflation Is Not a Desirable or Likely Way to Reduce Unsustainable Debts
- CNBC’s NetNet Reports on My Remarks at the SALT Conference
- Portugal: Policy Postcard From the Edge—Third Time Unlucky?
- Honey, I Shrunk the Gross National Debt!
- My Profile and Interview with The Independent – Nouriel Roubini: ‘We Haven’t Seen the Last of Financial Crises’
- Nouriel Roubini and Tom Keene: Thinking Globally
- My Speech at the Symposium of the Banque de France
- Wednesday Note: S&P Outlook Downgrade Reminds Washington to Do the Right Thing
- Wednesday Note: S&P Outlook Downgrade Reminds Washington to Do the Right Thing
- Double-Dip Days
- Sagging Global Growth Requires Us to Act
- Interpreting China’s FX Regime Change
- India, China, and V vs. U
- To Catch China, India Needs Human and Physical Capital, Says Dr. Roubini
- RGE’s Wednesday Note – The Perils of Name-Calling
- Why Japan Needs a ‘Hatobama’
- Insolvent banks should feel market discipline
- We Can’t Subsidize the Banks Forever: Government has to show it can handle major insolvencies
- Concorde’s fate offers a lesson for finance
- Geithner Presents a Viable Plan to Dispose of the Toxic Assets…that Does Not Rule Out that Insolvent Banks Should be Taken Over
- Nationalize the Banks! We’re all Swedes Now
- A proposal to prevent wholesale financial failure
- Formula For Fiscal Fitness
- The Fading American Superpower
- 2006 and 2007 IMF Speeches by Roubini Predicting the Recession and the Financial Crisis…And the Five Stages of Grief…
- CNBC and NPR Interviews; Guest Bloggers; and the Severe Worsening of Financial Market Conditions and of the Credit Crunch
- The Perfect Storm of a Global Recession: An Op-Ed for Project Syndicate
- Bloomberg: Here’s to Hoping Nouriel Roubini Is Proven Wrong by William Pesek
- The worst economic and financial crisis in decades
- New York Times Article on Nouriel Roubini as “Dr. Doom”
- The Decline of the American Empire
- The Perfect Storm of a Global Recession
- Two CNBC Interviews: $2 Trillion of Credit Losses, a Severe Banking and Financial Crisis, a Severe US Recession and a Broader G7 Recession
- Barron’s Interview and Video with Roubini: “Yes, That’s $2 Trillion of Debt-Related Losses”
- Barron’s Interview and Video with Roubini: “Yes, That’s $2 Trillion of Debt-Related Losses”
- If it walks, quacks and ducks like a recession duck it is a RECESSION now: the current W-shaped double-dip recession may have started in Q4 of 2007 rather than Q1 of 2008
- Global Recession Watch: Recoupling rather than Decoupling
- Super-Senior Tranches of CDOs are Worth Much Less than 22 Cents on the Dollar: Another Ponzi Scheme of “Selling” Toxic Garbage with More Leverage
- Who is Going to Rescue the Hundreds of Busted U.S. Banks? Don’t Count on Suckering Again the Foreign Governments (the Sovereign Wealth Funds). And the Biggest Fire Sale in the History of Humanity…
- Video Interview on Tech Ticker: Roubini: “Bear Market Only Half Over, But It’s Not Armageddon”
- The Coming Systemic Bust of the U.S. Banking System: “Dead Stocks Rallying”
- American Un-Beauty: The Crisis of the Suburbian (McMansions and Gas-Guzzling SUVs) Way of Life
- Bloomberg TV Interview: Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression and Worst U.S. Recession in Decades
- Insolvency of the Fannie and Freddie Predicted Here Two Years Ago. What Happens Next? Or How to Avoid the “Mother of All Bailouts”
- Interview on CNBC and Rising Estimates of Credit Losses from the Financial Crisis Now Up to $1.6 Trillion
- Will the Bretton Woods 2 (BW2) Regime Collapse Like the Original Bretton Woods Regime Did? The Coming End Game of BW2
- Some Recent Media Appearances: Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN
- A deadly cocktail mix: the 1973 & 1979 “Stagflation” meets the 1990 and 2001 “Asset/Credit Bust” with the result being an ugly U.S. recession and sharp global slowdown
- The delusional complacency that the “worst is behind us” is rapidly melting away…and the risk of another run against systemically important broker dealers
- Global Recession Watch: A Dozen Significant Economies are at Risk of a Hard Landing
- The Specter of Global Stagflation
- Rising Risk of a Military Confrontation between Israel and Iran?
- RGE Content Weekly Roundup and the launch of the new U.S. EconoMonitor and the Emerging Markets Monitor group blogs
- RGE Monitor launches the U.S. EconoMonitor and the Emerging Markets Monitor group blogs
- Interview on Bloomberg TV and the temporary effects of the tax rebates on consumption
- Global Stagflation Ahead? The Interplay of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Shocks
- Deepening Recession, Tumbling Equity Markets and Sky-High Oil Prices
- The Complacency that the Worst Was Behind Us in Financial Markets is Rapidly Fading Away
- Will Israel Attack Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Before the End of the Bush Administration? Joschka Fischer Argues Yes
- RGE Monitor Event on the US Economy, the Risks of a Systemic Banking Crisis and the Outlook for Financial Intermediaries
- Video Interview with the Financial Times
- Recent Contributions to the RGE Monitor Group Blogs
- The Systemic Effects of Countrywide Going Bust…
- How will financial institutions make money now that the securitization food chain is broken?
- Broad Support Among Economists and Experts of the Goal of Providing Mortgage Debt Relief to Distressed Borrowers
- Why the Frank-Dodd Proposal for Resolving the Mortgage Crisis Makes Sense and Why the Threatened Veto of This Legislation by the White House is Reckless
- RGE Launches the Global Macro EconoMonitor, the Finance & Markets Monitor and the Asia EconoMonitor
- Effects of the US recession on Asian growth
- Martin Wolf’s Seven Principles of Financial Regulation
- The Fed is Getting Desperate in Dealing with a Liquidity Crunch that Shows Little Signs of Relenting
- Negative Equity in Auto Loans and the Bust of the Auto Bubble
- CNBC Interview: Why the Worst is Ahead of US
- Q1 GDP: Aggregate Demand (Final Sales) in Negative Growth Territory
- The Coming Global Economic Slowdown and Rising Inflation: Is Stagflation-Lite in the Cards?
- The Top 100 Intellectuals list by Foreign Policy magazine
- Interview on the U.S. Recession on CNBC’s Squawk Box today
- Recession Spreading from Housing to Starbucks’ Lattes, Eye Surgeries and Restaurant Meals…
- The Shape of the US Recession: V or U or W or L-Shaped?
- The worst is ahead of us rather than behind us in terms of the housing recession and its economic and financial implications
- TV Interview on the US and Global Economy
- Video Interview with the Financial Times on the Global Slowdown
- G7 Stance on the US Dollar: Talk is Cheap
- Estimates of $1 trillion are now a floor, not a ceiling, for the losses in this financial crisis…
- The US Recession: V or U or W or L-Shaped?
- New Book by Charles Morris: “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown”
- Ten Fundamental Issues in Reforming Financial Regulation and Supervision in a World of Financial Innovation and Globalization
- Interview in Investment News…A Deep Recession and a Severe Financial Crisis Ahead
- Should Securities Firms be Regulated and Supervised like Banks?
- The Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression is Getting Worse…and the Need for Radical Policy Solutions to the Crisis
- A Generalized Run on the Shadow Financial System
- Step 9 of the Financial Meltdown: “one or two large and systemically important broker dealers” will “go belly up”
- Martin Wolf on My Estimates of Financial Losses: $1 Trillion is the New Size 6!
- The Rising Risk of a Financial Meltdown and the Escalating Losses in the Financial System
- Risk of a systemic crisis is rising: the markets are becoming “utterly unhinged”, the financial system is “broken” and “everybody’s in de-levering mode”
- Will Default Rates on Muni Bonds Sharply Rise During the Recession? Most Likely Yes
- The Staggering Fiscal Costs of Bailing Out a Financial System in Crisis
- Testimony on the Economy, Fed Policy and Financial Markets at a Hearing in the House Committee on Financial Services
- Latest Thoughts on Recession, Credit Crunch and the Risk of a Systemic Crisis
- The Bust of the Private Equity and LBO Bubble…or the End of Schmalpha…
- Latest Roubini Op-Ed for Project Syndicate: “Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown”
- Martin Wolf of the Financial Times on my “12 Steps to Financial Disaster”
- The Forthcoming “Jingle Mail” Tsunami: 10 to 15 Million Households Likely to Walk Away from their Homes/Mortgages Leading to a Systemic Banking Crisis
- The Coming Muni Bonds Default Crisis…and the Monoline Downgrade Saga…
- Debating the Recession with Larry Kudlow on CNBC..and the Risk of a Systemic Financial Crisis…
- The Worsening Credit Crunch…
- CNBC Interview on the Plan for a 30 Day Foreclosure Freeze
- Forbes Reporting on the Financial Meltdown Scenario
- Can the Fed and Policy Makers Avoid a Systemic Financial Meltdown? Most Likely Not.
