About Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini (born March 29, 1958) is a Turkish-born American economic consultant, economist, speaker, and writer. He is a professor emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University. Roubini earned a BA in political economics at Bocconi University in Italy and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University. He was an academic at Yale University in the 1990s, and a researcher/advisor researching emerging markets. During the Bill Clinton administration in 1998-99, Roubini was for one year a senior economist in the Council of Economic Advisers. He was one of the people who predicted the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and he predicted the ensuing Great Recession, and warned that the COVID-19 recession could be even worse. Roubini is also a frequent critic of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In 2005, Roubini co-founded Roubini Global Economics, a small economic consultancy for financial analysis.
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