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Nouriel Roubini
American
March 29, 1958
Economist
I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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