LAST week Ben Bernanke appeared before Congress, setting off a discussion over whether the president should reappoint him as chairman of the Federal R...
CNBC | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
Nouriel Roubini, the economist whose dire forecasts earned him the nickname "Doctor Doom", told CNBC Monday that the economic recovery is going to be ...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
Nouriel Roubini warned for years that the subprime mortgage sector would bring about economic calamity. We should listen carefully to his warnings on the danger of a double dip recession
Dan Dorfman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
My grandma said that if I read something that doesn't seem to make sense, I should think twice about it. With that thought in mind, I decided to rattle off a slew of economic absurdities coming from Wall Street, the media and Washington.
CNBC.com | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business
Nouriel Roubini, the economist whose dire forecasts earned him the nickname "Doctor Doom," said after markets closed Thursday that earlier reports cla...
RGE | Posted 08.05.2009 | Business
The June employment report suggests that the alleged 'green shoots' are mostly yellow weeds that may eventually turn into brown manure. The employment...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
This is a disaster-laden forecast, which essentially describes a developed global economy mired in staggering contraction.
Reuters | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will not recover until the end of this year, and even then growth will remain meek and vulnerable to higher inte...
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business
By now, you've probably heard of the much-ballyhooed "green shoots" in the economy. On Friday, the Dow actually closed positive for 2009, leading some...
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
If it's just as rational to be optimistic as to be pessimistic, why does the media have to pick one or the other? Why are those the only two choices?
Sheldon Filger | Posted 07.01.2009 | Business
I never thought I would witness the day when Paul Krugman and Dick Cheney agree on economic policy.
Reuters | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
SEOUL (Reuters) - Nouriel Roubini, the famously glum economist who predicted the financial crisis, said that while the recession in the United States ...
The New York Review of Books | Posted 06.25.2009 | Business
Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Muse...
The New Republic | Julia Ioffe | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
This year, Nouriel Roubini, the economist known to the general public as Dr. Doom, Prophet of the Financial Apocalypse, spent the early hours of Mardi...
cnbc.com | Posted 06.16.2009 | Business
The U.S. economy isn't likely to recover for months, and even then will remain weak for a long time, two well-known economists told CNBC. Nouriel Rou...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media
I have got to tell you all, I am LOVING THESE STRESS TESTS. For real. Who'd have thought that you could have a test in which the testees could negot...
New York Post | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
ECONOMISTS aren't known as sex symbols, but Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini of NYU's Stern School of Business "was mobbed by a swarm of young women" the ot...
Financial Times | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
Joseph Schumpeter famously argued that the essence of capitalism was creative destruction, by which new economic structures are born from the rubble o...
Wall Street Journal | Nouriel Roubini and Matthew Richardson | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
Consider also recent bank risk-taking. The media has recently reported that Citigroup and Bank of America were buying up some of the AAA-tranches of n...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
The results of the much-anticipated bank stress tests are finally set to be released on Thursday. But we can already give the Obama economic team a grade for the way the tests have been handled: F.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
NEW YORK -- "As you might have realized by now, we're in a difficult situation," said billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros to a sold-o...
Newsweek | Lally Weymouth | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business
Most other economists rolled their eyes when Nouriel Roubini warned in a September 2006 speech to the International Monetary Fund that the global bubb...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
Many of the U.S. banks are doomed to fail, and no contrived stress test or Geithner speech can alter that outcome. A global economic depression will be the irreversible outcome.
Michael de Portu | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
Financial fraud typically takes a long time to detect and yet, paradoxically, the tell-tale signs are (almost) always in plain sight.
businessinsider.com | Joe Weisenthal | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business
The financial crisis has turned bearish pundits into media stars. But it can be a chore keeping track of who's who. Some believe in gold. Some think t...
New York Times | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 08.26.2009 | Business