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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Roubini Global Economics Launches iPad App

NEW YORK, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/

-- Roubini Global Economics today announced the release of an iPad app that allows clients to read and save the firm's latest macroeconomic research on the go. Free to download, the app provides clients and trial subscribers with access to current and past content available on Roubini.com, including Research, Thoughts, Key Views and Global Outlooks.

"Markets don't wait, so we developed an app to put our research right at clients' fingertips, enabling them to react as soon as opportunities arise," said Scott Hall, Managing Director of Sales & Marketing. "We're constantly focused on developing new ways to engage, interact and collaborate with our clients, and we can't wait for them to start using our app."

The app lets users select their favorite research pieces, saving them to their devices for future reference—even when offline. When connected to the internet, the app automatically scans for new content and allows users to search through Roubini's entire collection of research for the insight they need.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/roubini-global-economics-launches-ipad-app-2014-06-25

Nouriel Roubini is an American professor of Economics at New York University`s Stern School of Business and chairman of RGE Roubini Global Economics

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.