Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubiniis an American economist. He teaches at New York University's Stern School of Business and is the chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an economic consultancy firm...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth29 March 1958
CountryUnited States of America
believe government play
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise.
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I believe investors should invest for the long run, so I don't buy and sell. I usually maintain the classic index of global equities, diversified U.S. and global and emerging markets, and when the risk is larger, I diminish the amount in global equities and put more into liquid assets - but very irregularly.
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I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy might be the worst economic regime available, apart from the alternatives. I believe that people react to incentives, that incentives matter, and that prices reflect the way things should be allocated. But I also believe that market economies sometimes have market failures, and when these occur, there's a role for prudential - not excessive - regulation of the financial system.
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There's renewed market attention on global imbalances as governments have showed again they're worried and the U.S., without saying it has a weak dollar policy, is making clear it would like a lower dollar.
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While central banks care less than private investors about the return on their investments, they're not completely clueless,
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The ability to send a 'sell' order that roils markets may not give China a veto over U.S. foreign policy, but it surely does increase the cost of any U.S. policy that China opposes.
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If we continue with our current patterns of spending above our incomes, by 2013 the U.S. foreign liabilities could be as high as 75 percent of GDP and an increasing fraction of such liabilities will be in the form of equity. So, let us stop whining about the dangers of unfriendly foreigners owning our firms and assets and get used to it.
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My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
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The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was spending more than its income, running up large current-account deficits. Now we have to tighten our belts and save more.
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There is definitely a big split in Europe at the moment. Europe is getting leaner and meaner, but that causes nervousness at the household level.
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Were living beyond our means, ... and we have to get our act together.
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The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.
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No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.
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Celebrity has become a burden. There are more demands on your time. People think it is glamorous to fly places. But it is not - even if you travel business class and stay in wonderful hotels, you end 10,000 miles away from home.