Nouriel Roubini Quotes

I'm Not A Pessimist By Nature. I'm Not Someone Who Sees Things In A Bleak Way.

If You Worry About Financial Armageddon, It Is Indeed Metaphorically The Time To Stock Your Bunker With Guns, Ammunition, Canned Food And Gold Bars.

In An Extreme Credit Crunch, Leveraged Purchases Of Gold Cause Forced Sales, Because Any Price Correction Triggers Margin Calls. As A Result, Gold Can Be Very Volatile - Upward And Downward - At The Peak Of A Crisis.

Edward Conard Provides A Provocative Interpretation Of The Causes Of The Global Financial Crisis And The Policies Needed To Return To Rapid Growth. Whether You Agree Or Not, This Analysis Is Well Worth Reading.

I Am Just A Normal Human Being - I Am Alive! Why Is Anyone Surprised That I Am Human? Like Many New Yorkers, I Have A Multifaceted Life.

The Treasury Plan Is A Disgrace: A Bailout Of Reckless Bankers, Lenders And Investors That Provides Little Direct Debt Relief To Borrowers And Financially Stressed Households And That Will Come At A Very High Cost To The Us Taxpayer. And The Plan Does Nothing To Resolve The Severe Stress In Money Markets And Interbank Markets That Are Now Close To A Systemic Meltdown.

Gold Has No Increasing Value. And If You're Really Worried About, Say, Inflation Rising, I Would Buy Spam. You Know, You Can Eat Spam. You Cannot Eat Gold.

Technology Is Spurring Innovation, And The So-called "demographic Dividend" Has Brought Change.

All The Risky Things That Were Happening Back In ’06 And ‘07 Are Back Again To The Same Level, If Not More. So We Are In The Beginning Of A Credit Bubble, But Just The Beginning.

I Am Not Going To Say I Told You So, But I Did.

But In The Financial Markets, Without Proper Institutional Rules, There's The Law Of The Jungle - Because There's Greed! There's Nothing Wrong With Greed, Per Se. It's Not That People Are More Greedy Now Than They Were 20 Years Ago. But Greed Has To Be Tempered, First, By Fear Of Losses. So If You Bail People Out, There's Less Fear. And Second, B Prudential Regulation And Supervision To Avoid Certain Excesses.

I Am Quite International. My Background, Born In Turkey. My Family Is A Jewish Family From Iran, So I Went From Turkey To Iran To Israel, And Then Grew Up In Italy And Ended Up In U.s. For Graduate School. So I Tend To Look At Things From An International Perspective, And I Think That Gives You A Little Bit Of A Broader View Of What's Going On.