Roubini : Global Equity Rally Masks Risk From Europe to U.S.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Roubini : Global Equity Rally Masks Risk From Europe to U.S.

The rally in global equity markets isn’t reflecting risks to economic growth from the European debt crisis and U.S. spending cuts, said Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor famous for predicting the 2008 crisis. Global stocks have gained more than $2 trillion since the start of 2013 as central banks move to stimulate economic growth. Risks including a deeper recession in Europe triggered by austerity measures and political turmoil as well as slower U.S. economic growth may return in the second half of the year, said Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC. “Those risks are currently somehow under-priced by the market,” he said today in an interview. “They may be contained in the first half of the year, but they may re-emerge.” - in Bloomberg

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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Monday, March 4, 2013

Roubini : Global Equity Rally Masks Risk From Europe to U.S.

NOURIEL ROUBINI BLOG