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Friday, June 26, 2009

Nouriel Roubini , Peter Schiff and the Dr Doom Title

in his last Podcast Wall Street Unspun Click Here Peter Schiff accused Nouriel Roubini of having taken his title Dr Doom , since times Magazine started calling Nouriel Roubini Dr Doom , the two have a lot of similarities they have never met before until very recently in a dinner as reported by Peter Schiff in the same podcast , he said that they pretty much agreed on everything including the stimulus on which Nouriel Roubini was more bullish than Peter Schiff , Nouriel Roubini is a renown economist and expert in the field of international macroeconomics. He is a Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the co-founder and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics Monitor , Peter Schiff is a the Chairman of the licensed brokerage firm Europacific capital he is a self appointed economist as described by himself in his podcast he became a star in the media and on youtube especially after a video called "Peter Schiff was right received some million and a quarter hits ...Now I do not now who really deserves the title of doctor Doom , but just to be honest and fair let's not forget the other not less renown Doctor Doom , Marc Faber the Thailand based Swiss economist and investor who is predicting a Zimbabwe like hyperinflation for the US in the coming years ...the judgment is yours dear audience .....

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Nouriel Roubini, (born March 29, 1958, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish-born American economist and educator who was best known for predicting the 2007–08 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the subsequent global financial crisis.

Born to Iranian Jewish parents, Roubini moved with his family to Iran and Israel before they settled in Italy in 1962. After a year at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he studied economics at Bocconi University in Milan (B.A., 1982) and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1988), where he specialized in macroeconomics and international economics. He joined the economics faculty at Yale University in 1988 and taught there until 1995, when he moved to New York University. He also served as a visiting scholar to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), held single-year terms on the White House Council of Economic Advisers (1998–99) and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999–2000), and cofounded (2004) the consulting firm Roubini Global Economics. Roubini spent much of his early career studying countries that experienced extreme economic failures, such as Mexico (in 1994), Thailand and other countries associated with the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Russia (1998), and Argentina (2000). He determined that each shared one common element: a massive current account deficit.(www.britannica.com)

Nouriel Roubini is the Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, his own global macroeconomic consultancy 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, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public and private institutions have drawn upon his consulting expertise.