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Nouriel on Bloomberg: TBTF Banks Are Worse Than Before
This morning, Nouriel spoke on “Bloomberg Surveillance” about too-big-to-fail banks (TBTF): “It’s worse than before, because there has been massive consolidation of the banking system in the U.S. JPMorgan took over WaMu and Bear Stearns, Bank of America took over Country Wide and Merrill Lynch. We had banks that were TBTF before the crisis, and [...]
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Nouriel: Indonesia Still a Compelling EM Story
In Indonesia to speak at the NYSE, Nouriel noted Indonesia’s continuing strong performance among emerging markets. In the two years since Nouriel loudly advocated Indonesia’s status as a major EM, Russia has indeed suffered numerous macro and political setbacks, while Indonesia has continued a process of solid fiscal and macro policy, for laudable growth. The [...]
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Fiddling at the Fire
Financial markets have rallied since July on the hope that the global economic and geopolitical outlook will not worsen, or, if it does, that central banks stand ready to backstop economies and markets with additional rounds of liquidity provision and quantitative easing. So, not only has good – or better-than-expected – economic news boosted the [...]
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Nouriel on Draghi’s Plan: It Could Weaken EUR in Longer Run
Nouriel speaks on Bloomberg about Mario Draghi’s bond-buying plan, the future of the euro and the Fed’s plans this week and ahead of the election. Roubini: Here’s My Blueprint for the Future
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Early Retirement for the Eurozone?
Whether the eurozone is viable or not remains an open question. But what if a breakup can only be postponed, not avoided? If so, delaying the inevitable would merely make the endgame worse – much worse. Germany increasingly recognizes that if the adjustment needed to restore growth, competitiveness, and debt sustainability in the eurozone’s periphery [...]
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American Pie in the Sky
From Project Syndicate: While the risk of a disorderly crisis in the eurozone is well recognized, a more sanguine view of the United States has prevailed. For the last three years, the consensus has been that the US economy was on the verge of a robust and self-sustaining recovery that would restore above-potential growth. That [...]
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‘Roubini’s Devastating Diagnosis’ – Freeland File (Full Video Interview – 16:49)
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Roubini Reuters Videos on Global Perfect Storm and Europe’s Slow Motion Train Wreck
Reuters — Roubini: Euro crisis a “slow motion train wreck” – Freeland File (4:26) Reuters — Roubini: “Global perfect storm” looms – Freeland File (2:17)
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Roubini Bloomberg Video: 2013 Global Perfect Storm May Surpass 2008 Crisis
July 7 (Bloomberg) — Nouriel Roubini discusses “greedy” bankers, the euro-zone crisis and risks facing the global economy in 2013. He speaks in Aix-en-Provence, France, with Bloomberg Television’s Caroline Connan.
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Fix it or Fixit – Could Finland Be Next?
Talk of Finland leaving the EZ sooner rather than later has increased, with many in influential positions now reconsidering the costs and benefits of EZ membership and coming to the conclusion that a “Fixit” may be the country’s best option. Consider the following factors. First, the other Nordic countries are outside the EZ and/or the [...]
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Thomas Grennes
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Thomas Grennes is a professor of economics at the North Carolina State University and a former visiting faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. His research has dealt with various aspects of international economics, including open economy macroeconomics, international finance, and international trade in agricultural products. Recent research topics have included macroeconomic aspects of the Great Moderation, offshore outsourcing, sovereign wealth funds, and the relationship between government debt and economic growth. Earlier work dealt with emerging market issues in the Baltic countries and Russia and trade and macro policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic history topics include the Columbian Exchange of plants and animals, the effects on food markets of introducing mechanical refrigeration, and the integration of Tsarist Russia into the world grain market. When he is not involved in economics, he enjoys mountain hiking.
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