Ode to Nouriel

Nouriel. RecessionGirl loves you in a deep, emotional, spiritually profound, economic way. No one processes multiple, global-financial variables the way you do. In a tribute to you, I’d like to share some of your greatest hits with the fine citizens of the People’s Republic of Brooklyn.

For those of you unfamiliar with my economic Guru, here’s the ridiculously brief skinny: Nouriel Roubini is an NYU professor of economics and the chairman of RGE Monitor. He was one of the only predominant economists of our time to publicly discuss -on the record- the dangers of the financial practices that eventually led to our current credit crisis. He has been nicknamed Dr. Doom for his Nostradamus-like financial forecasting, but ya gotta give him props for his realism. He’s not an investor-puppet or a talking-head so you’ll find his comments less cheerleaderesque than your average financial spin-doctor. If I can just borrow a quick phrase that Renee Zellweger said to Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire, “Nouriel. You complete me.”