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Video: Roubini in Moscow Diagnoses the Eurozone
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Rising Risk of Eurozone Breakup
From Project Syndicate: The eurozone crisis seems to be reaching its climax, with Greece on the verge of default and an inglorious exit from the monetary union, and now Italy on the verge of losing market access. But the eurozone’s problems are much deeper. They are structural, and they severely affect at least four other [...]
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Why Italy’s Days in the Eurozone May Be Numbered
From the Financial Times: With interest rates on its sovereign debt surging well above seven per cent, there is a rising risk that Italy may soon lose market access. Given that it is too-big-to-fail but also too-big-to-save, this could lead to a forced restructuring of its public debt of €1,900bn. That would partially address its [...]
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Eurozone Crisis: Here Are the Options, Now Choose
The announcement of the most recent EZ rescue package (acceptance of a bigger haircut for Greek private creditors, the recapitalization of EZ banks and the use of guarantees and financial leverage in the hope of preventing Italy and Spain losing market access) led to markets rallying for a day as the tail risk of a [...]
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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
Here is a post from my blog from January 28, 2006: On Friday I was in Davos on a panel on the “Ups and Downs of EMU” (European Monetary Union) where ECB head Trichet, Italian Economy Minister Tremonti, a few other EU officials and myself were supposed to discuss the following questions: Will EMU collapse [...]
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Krugman: Roubini On Internal Devaluation
From Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal: Nouriel Roubini has a very good, very grim new paper on European prospects titled Four Options to Address the Eurozone’s Stock and Flow Imbalances: The Risisng Risk of a Disorderly Break-Up (RGE Trial Available). I particularly liked this passage: The international experience of “internal devaluations” is mostly [...]
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Professor Nouriel Roubini Tips 50pc Chance of Another Recession – Summary of My Speech in Perth
From Perth Now: THE economist known as “Dr Doom” has tipped a more than 50 per cent chance of another global recession that could force the break-up of the eurozone. Professor Nouriel Roubini spelled out for delegates at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Perth today there were potential positive and negative impacts stemming from the [...]
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‘Dr. Doom’ Stays Bullish on Indonesia’s Economy – Jakarta Globe Interview
From Jakarta Globe: ‘Dr. Doom’ Stays Bullish on Indonesia’s Economy by SK Zainuddin He has been referred to as Dr. Doom for his dire economic predictions. After all, he claims to have predicted both the collapse of the US housing market and the 2008 global recession. But Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics and [...]
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Roubini, Zandi, Ellis and Sanchez on the State of the Global Economy – Latest EconoMonitor Videos
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Full Analysis: The Instability of Inequality
The following piece of analysis was summarized in a recent OpEd on Project Syndicate. This year has been characterized by social and political turmoil and instability throughout the world, with masses of people in the real and virtual streets protesting: The Arab uprising and revolts; the recent riots in England as well as the earlier [...]
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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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