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Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini

Writing for PS since 2007
181 commentaries
3 videos & podcasts

Nouriel Roubini, Professor Emeritus of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business, is Chief Economist at Atlas Capital Team, CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, Co-Founder of TheBoomBust.com, and author of MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them (Little, Brown and Company,  2022). He is a former senior economist for international affairs in the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton Administration and has worked for the International Monetary Fund, the US Federal Reserve, and the World Bank. His website is NourielRoubini.com, and he is the host of NourielToday.com.

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  1. What Climate Finance Needs
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    What Climate Finance Needs

    Sep 20, 2023 Nouriel Roubini & Reza Bundy explain what it will take to channel private capital and savings toward sustainable development.

  2. Preventing a US-China War
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    Preventing a US-China War

    Aug 23, 2023 Nouriel Roubini urges both sides to pursue a new strategic understanding on the issues driving their current conflict.

  3. Israel’s Slippery Slope
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    Israel’s Slippery Slope

    Jul 31, 2023 Nouriel Roubini considers what the right-wing governing coalition's attack on the judiciary will mean for the economy.

  4. A Mild Global Contraction Is Coming
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    A Mild Global Contraction Is Coming

    Jun 27, 2023 Nouriel Roubini anticipates a short and shallow recession, though with the potential for more worrying knock-on effects.

  5. America and China Are on a Collision Course
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    America and China Are on a Collision Course

    May 30, 2023 Nouriel Roubini juxtaposes recent developments and current trends with diplomatic happy talk about a “thaw” in tensions.

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    Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”

    Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the language commonly used to describe the shift toward authoritarianism is hampering solutions.
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    Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists

    Yanis Varoufakis worries that the European Central Bank's blunders have revived the far right's political fortunes.
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    Bridging the Climate-Development Gap

    Dani Rodrik & Ishac Diwan explain how to free up fiscal space for sustainable development in many low- and middle-income countries.
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    Lower Transaction Costs for Greater Innovation

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng highlight the link between access to global markets and investment in research and development.
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    Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more

    Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
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    Why India’s Women Are More Vulnerable to Disasters

    Joyita Roy Chowdhury & Prarthna Agarwal Goel call attention to gender inequalities that exacerbate the effects of floods and other natural catastrophes.
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    Europe in the Age of Industrial Policy

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    While China and the US take advantage of scale to pursue large-scale investment in critical sectors, the EU struggles to follow suit, owing to its decentralized fiscal structures and rules limiting government subsidies to industry. A new EU-level investment program is urgently needed.

     advocates a federal investment program, funded by EU sovereign-debt issuance and administered centrally.
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    Fixing Global Governance

    Gordon Brown explains how to make the G20 and the Bretton Woods institutions fit for purpose once again.
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    The EU Needs Fiscal Union

    Lucrezia Reichlin laments the pro-cyclical bent of the European Commission’s proposed reforms to fiscal rules.

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