Roubini : Italy should go back to the Lira

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Roubini : Italy should go back to the Lira

Nouriel Roubini : Even a restructuring of the debt – that will cause significant damage and losses to creditors in Italy and abroad – will not restore growth and competitiveness...if you cannot devalue, or grow, or deflate to a real depreciation, the only option left will end up being to give up on the euro and to go back to the lira and other national currencies. - Roubini wrote in The Financial Times

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diabolik said...: Dear Sir

Italy has no need at all to restructure its public debt, nor to abandon the euro. Probably your information are superficial. Italy has at the moment a primary budget surplus, and next year (2012) its whole budget will become in surplus. Italy will cut the cost of financing its debt by real guarantees, so that the cost for interests in the budget will become very low. Then, Italy will become its reform; social welfare, politics, public expenditure, social relations in way that italian bonds will probably become one of the best assets in Europe. The question of Euro is different. It's probable than in a more or less far future Italy will quit that area, because it's not convenient for us. But we will decide it on the base of our convenience, not on the wage of a necessity that we don't have.

Best regards

A. Chiavacci

Master in international economy; November 10, 2011 at 11:55 AM

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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.

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Thursday, November 10, 2011