Dr. Doom Still Obsessed With Our Gentle Ribbing
Tra la, our superstar economist friend Nouriel Roubini is back in the news! Roubini, a.k.a Dr. Doom, is still upset with us for the whole "Vagina Loft Party Facebook" thing. But we like him regardless!
Dr. Doom Can't Escape His Party-Boy Rep
Nouriel Roubini has made it clear he'd rather be known for his prescient economic predictions than his playboy lifestyle. But his parties are catnip for the media who inflated his reputation.
How Long Will the Greatest Depression Be?
When does a recession turn into a depression? When economists start getting fired! Since the experts can't even agree on how long this downturn will last, let's hope that starts happening soon.
How Even Dr. Doom Got Caught Up In The Loft Bubble
It should be by now well-established that Nouriel Roubini's media persona—an economist so dour he's known as Dr. Doom—is entirely at odds with his party-loving hottie-stalking ways. (We've published several items about the salons at the playboy-professor's Tribeca loft and the 50-year-old bachelor's rambling and…
Valley's dirty old man beats New York's dirty old man
Stewart Alsop, the goofy San Francisco-based venture capitalist, has this in common with Nouriel Roubini, the louche New York University professor known as "Dr. Doom" for his timely predictions of the current market collapse: Both are Facebook stalkers, aggressive in their requesting of friendship from attractive…
Journalists Are 'Bunch of Wimps' Blackmailed By Gawker, Says Dr. Meltdown
Some background: Nouriel Roubini is an economist known for his longstanding pessimism, at the peak of his professional reputation, vindicated by the financial crisis. The NYU academic, when he's not predicting another great depression, throws parties at his vagina-encrusted Tribeca loft for young Facebook ladies.…
Dr. Doom On Charlie Rose
We wouldn't want anyone to think that playboy-professor Nouriel Roubini expended all his energy inviting Facebook hotties to join him in St. Tropez, holding soirées at his Tribeca party pad—or giving in to late-night paranoia about the Nazi-financial conspiracy against him. Let us not forget that the Iranian-Jewish…
'Nick Denton Is An Anti-Semite With A Nazi Mind'
Playboy-professor Nouriel Roubini has never ridden so high. The NYU economist was one of the first to warn of impending financial doom; he's burnished his reputation as an eligible intellectual; and I'm sure the regular parties at his vagina-decorated Tribeca apartment are more popular than ever among his Facebook…
Credit Crunch's Dr. Doom Is A Facebook Stalker
The NYU professor's latest Facebook status message is as doomladen as one would expect: "Nouriel Roubini worries that the world is at risk of a global systemic financial meltdown and a severe global depression." But the economist-nicknamed Dr. Doom for his longstanding prediction that the United States was heading for…
The Secret Pleasures of Dr. Doom
One can tell the world's condition is dire because the practitioners of that famously dismal science, the economists, are the new celebrities. Putting aside Princeton's Paul Krugman-who this week won the Nobel prize for economics-one academic has emerged with a reputation of a seer, Nouriel Roubini. The NYU…
