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What measures are you taking to ensure your daily activities don’t end up in the wash with mortgages and stock certificates? Being optimistic, I had a tough time today. Someone sent me the link to Nouriel Roubini’s NY Times interview. It rocked me to the core. I had not heard of Mr Roubini until this morning.

August 20, 2008 Cultural Engagement, Economics | Tags: economic theory, New York Times, Nouriel Roubini |   The NY Times offers an interesting article on Nouriel Roubini (AKA “Dr. Doom”), an economics professor at New York University, who predicted the current decline in the U.S. economy two years ago.

You know the way some people gush over movie stars and athletes? With a Sun/Mercury/Saturn in financially-minded Capricorn opposing a cyclical Cancer Moon, I get a little starry-eyed over economists. Maybe the reason why practitioners of the so-called Dismal Science get my heart beating a little faster than usual is because I secretly consider them to be fellow travelers.

I just read two profiles. Neither was interesting enough to merit it’s own post, but the combination seemed to just pass the bar. The two: Dr. Doom. Depending on who you ask Nouriel Roubini is either a lucky pessimist or prescient thinker. There is, however, no doubt that he predicted America’s current economic turmoil in 2006.

NYT Profiles Dr. Doom Stephen Mihm writes: On Sept. 7, 2006, Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, stood before an audience of economists at the International Monetary Fund and announced that a crisis was brewing.

Prof Nouriel Roubini describes “The Decline of the American Empire” Filed under: Post-WWII Geopolical Regime, End of — Tags: American empire, nouriel roubini, rge monitor, trade deficit — Fabius Maximus @ 12:00 pm The hot dots in economics today are, in my opinion, David Rosenberg and Nouriel

According to Bloomberg today, the world’s biggest banks and brokerages have reported $497 billion of write-downs since the start of 2007. And the end is nowhere in sight, according to CNN Money’s Paul R. La Monica. The editor-at-large wrote this morning: Make no mistake: The worst probably is not over for financial firms.

By. John Browne - August 6, 2008 http://www.europac.net Yesterday, the Fed surprised no one and left its key rates unchanged and gave no indication that the committee was preparing to raise or lower rates anytime in the foreseeable future. As always, the market reactions were much more interesting and unpredictable.

by Danny Schecter Media Channel.org How are you marking the anniversary of the ongoing credit/financial crisis? The business magazine Barrons is interviewing NYU economist Nouriel Roubini who is finally being listened to because his predictions turned out to be accurate even though many were ignored.

Robin Blumenthal of Barron’s Magazine talked to Nouriel Roubini, a former Treasury Department director under the Clinton administration and head of Roubini Global Economics in New York, about the accuracy of his gloomy economic forecasts that he made from several years ago.