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Monday, October 22, 2012

Can the Eurozone survive or will we see its final collapse?

Nouriel Roubini in Madrid today for policy meetings and a keynote speech on the Eurozone at the Fundación Rafael Del Pino , Roubini's keynote speech is entitled "Can the Eurozone survive or will we attend its final collapse?"
On October 22, 2012, Professor Nouriel Roubini pronounced in the Rafael del Pino Foundation conference entitled "Can the Eurozone survive or will attend their final collapse?". Nouriel Roubini is a professor at NYU's Stern School of Business and chairman of Roubini Global Economics. Professor Roubini is one of the premier authorities in the fields of macroeconomics and finance, as well as in the study of the challenges facing the capitalist system. Nouriel Roubini is known internationally for having anticipated in 2008, the subprime mortgage crisis. He has published over 70 theoretical and empirical and is coauthor of the book "Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence", "Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets "and" Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance "(published in Spanish with the title" How to get out of this "by Destiny.)

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.