Quotes by Nouriel Roubini - Page 1

I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.
Nouriel Roubini / Economist
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Rock Star
Rocks
Stars
Rock Star Rock Star
Geeks
Nerds
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I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.
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Funny Oxymoron
Oxymoron
Told You So
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A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.
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Excess
Falling
Leads
Prices
Supply
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In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.
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Crisis
Economics
Modern
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I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.
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Bleak
Pessimist
Way
Sees
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I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people.
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Risks People More
Concerns
Vulnerabilities
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We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.
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Continuing
Loss
Profit
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Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.
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Technology
Demographics
Innovation
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The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.
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Technology
Gains
Population
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I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.
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Investing
Keys
Thinking
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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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Iranian
Jewish
Family Born I Was Born
Background
Italy
Mixed
Turkey
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What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not.
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Something People
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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.
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Alive
Humans
New Yorkers
Normal
Life I Am New
Why
Being
Am
Anyone
Human
Human Being
Multifaceted
Surprised
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Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
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Kindness
Running
American Empire
Might
Deficits
Depend
Empire
Strangers
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If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.
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Ammunition
Armageddon
Bars
Gold
Gun
Worry
Time Food Your
Bunker
Canned
Guns
Indeed
Stock
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You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.
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Banking
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The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.
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Average
Wall
He Or She
Previous
Recession
Trader
Wall Street
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Among the social media - I've tried them all - Facebook is a bit of a game, but Twitter is a productivity tool. I use it regularly and I'm addicted to it.
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Productivity
Social Media
Facebook
Regularly
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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.
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Gold
Rising
Worried
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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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Becoming
Economic
Financial
Financial System
Income
Bailing
Job Losses
Losses
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The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
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Crisis
Economic
Financial
Financial Crisis
Geopolitical
Pricing
Risk
Analyst
Missed
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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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Complacent
Debt
Excess
Financial
Financial System
Household
Interconnected
Create
No Country
System
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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.
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Back Again
Credit
Levels
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I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.
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Anxiety
Pain
Percent
Privilege
Thinking
Elite
Excessive
Exists
Fully
How Much
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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.
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Analysis
Growth
Reading
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Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue... when you see there is no oxygen, things change.
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Emerging
Fire
Oxygen
Patterns
Years
Bubble
Repeated
Studying
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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.
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Causes
Credit
Crunch
Gold
Triggers
Extreme
Calls
Correction
Downward
Forced
Margin
Peak
Price
Purchases
Sales
Upward
Volatile
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I've nothing against Goldman Sachs. But Goldman Sachs isn't an investment bank. Goldman Sachs is a hedge fund. It's bigger than any hedge fund. It's more leveraged, to the power of three or five, than any hedge fund.
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Fund
Goldman Sachs
Investment
Bank
Hedge
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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.
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Travel
Burden
Glamorous
Miles
Time Business Home
Celebrity
Hotels
Time People
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For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.
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Geopolitical
Narrow-minded
Me Important People
Caricature
Charts
Economists
Me People Important
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I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you?
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Consistently
Doom
Dr
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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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Belts
Excess
Income
Spending
Deficits
Tighten
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What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.
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Bubbles
Exuberance
Irrational
Needs
Panic
Periods
Two
Asset
Crashes
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I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don't think everything is being homogenized. If anything, your food, your culture, and your ethnicity might become part of the globalized world, and thus absorbed by other countries.
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Country
Ethnicity
Thinking
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If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.
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Bail
Bankruptcy
Greed
Innovative
Loss
People
Views
Contained
Excessive
Losses
Systematically
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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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Running
Assets
Believe
Classic
Diminish
Emerging
Investors
Liquid
Long
Believe Long I Believe
Believe I Believe Long
Invest
Diversified
Sell
Long Run
Maintain
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I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature - things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest.
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Appreciate
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Day To Day
Humanistic
Matthew
Barney
Collect
Complex
Italy
Pursuits
Richer
Suggest
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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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Believe
Goods
Health Care
Monetary
Play
Providing
Stimulus
Two
Education Health Government
Fiscal
Fundamentalists
Unlike
Important Role
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A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.
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Assets
Currency
Gold
Groceries
Mean
Payment
Providing
Three
Wealth
Account
Functions
Prices
Services
Store
Unit
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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.
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Graduate School
Iran
Israel
Perspective
School
Thinking
Jewish
Background
Broader
Ended
Graduate
Italy
Turkey
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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.
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Bankers
Littles
Stress
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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.
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Law
Loss
Years
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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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