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gawker.com - 10/14/2008

The Secret Pleasures of Dr. Doom [Nouriel Roubini]

— gawker.com — One can tell the world's condition is dire because the practitioners of that famously dismal science, the economists, are the new celebrities. Putting aside Princeton's Paul Krugman—who this week won... (more) The Secret Pleasures of Dr. Doom [Nouriel Roubini]

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calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 10/15/2008

Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years

— calculatedrisk.blogspot.com — Click image for video. Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years (Source: Bloomberg) From Bloomberg: Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years, Rally's End Nouriel Roubini, the professor who predicted the financial crisis in 2006, said the U.S. will ... (more) Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years

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bloomberg.com - 10/14/2008

Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years, Rally's End (Update2)

— bloomberg.com — Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years, Rally's End (Update2) By Eric Martin and Rhonda Schaffler Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Nouriel Roubini , the professor who predicted the financial crisis in 2006, said the U.S. will suffer its worst recession in 40 ... (more) Roubini Sees Worst Recession in 40 Years, Rally's ...

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Goldman Sachs Takes on ‘Dr. Doom’
DealBook — ... year and that “the only reason Goldman didn’t go bust” was because of the “direct and indirect support from the Fed.” Mr. Roubini contends that this support is unsustainable and that even though “Goldman may be better managed” than many of its peers, it could not survive by itself given the fundamental changes in the market. “Look at Morgan Stanley ,” he said. “They are teetering on the edge. Goldman is no different — it depends on the same model to make money.” Mr. Roubini, whom The New York Times has called “Dr. Doom,” predicted in February that every major, independent ...

Parabolic Roubini
Gregor.us — ... . When Nouriel was covered by The New York Times Magazine this summer, photographed on a downtown street in somewhat fashionable style, I paused. Were we finally approaching the end of the story? ...

What If I Were Dr. Doom?
EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — ... . In fact, while he recognizes a line-drawing problem, he seems to favor a bailout for any firm that involves "systemic" risk. I wonder: If I had correctly predicted the stock market crash, if I were "Dr. Doom," would people be listening to my policy advice to let the free market work out its own solution? CATEGORIES: ...

Frank Rich Mention of Tanta
Calculated Risk — ... Joseph Stiglitz and Nouriel Roubini but also Doris Dungey, a 47-year-old financial blogger known as Tanta, who died of cancer in Upper Marlboro, Md., last Sunday. As the ...

Dr. Doom Finds Promise in Obama's Toxic-Asset Plan
DealBook — ... Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. “The most important thing is what Bernanke and Geithner said today about the need for an insolvency regime for systemically important institutions,” Mr. Roubini said. “You are going to need that not just for the A.I.G.’s of the world, but also the bank holding companies as they go into Chapter 11.” He added, “You are going to need that in shutting down, potentially, a bank like Citigroup .” –Cyrus Sanati Go to Related Item from DealBook » Go to Article from The New York Times Magazine »

What Can the Credit Crisis Teach Us About Flu Pandemics?
Freakonomics — ... the housing bubble an epidemic of “infectious exuberance,” which threatened to collapse into one of “irrational pessimism and mistrust.” Now that we’ve seen this financial pandemic come to pass, and have lived through the first wave of a new influenza epidemic, it’s a good time to ask what, if anything, the financial crisis can teach us about handling the flu. First, both crises were predicted far in advance, but still managed to surprise us when they hit. Ignoring a drumbeat of warnings from experts , Wall Street was still caught off guard by the drop in home prices and wave ...

Disaster Averted, But 'Dr. Doom' Still Sees Grim Economic Outlook
Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker — NYU Professor Nouriel Roubini earned the moniker "Dr. Doom" for his dire predictions in late 2006, 2007 and early 2008. He then earned global fame when many of those forecasts came to fruition. More recently, Roubini has faced criticism because his fears of a global depression did not come to fruition. The economist has ...