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.”

Michelle Leder is a badass.  She’s a seasoned business journalist blowing up people’s spots right and left.  An 8K here, a signing bonus there, a few ‘retention salaries’ and mergers later and you’ll feel like you’re in with the in-crowd on Wall Street and Bank Street.  If the Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the New York Times all collapsed, you’d feel like you were right in the mix if you kept tags on this lady and her blog.  Here’s to Michelle.  We love you man.  Woman.

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http://www.crisisofcredit.com/