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Lighthearted doom clip of the day

Disappointed with Geithner’s ‘financial stability’ plan?

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Here’s the (counter-intuitive) antidote – a CNBC interview with ‘Dr Doom’ Nouriel Roubini, and ‘Mr Black Swan’, Nassim Taleb. Click to watch and marvel at the financial clash of cultures.

Roubini: the UK is not Iceland

Nouriel, fresh from his trip to the UK last week, has written up his thoughts on the outlook for the UK. If you didn’t actually catch him last week, he appeared on a couple of BBC programmes that made for interesting viewing/listening. More…

Dr Doom on the UK

As we revealed yesterday, Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr Doom, is on these shores.

On Friday morning, the New York University economics professor appeared on Radio 4′s Today programme and gave his verdict/outlook for the UK economy. More…

Doom tweets

A reader points us to Nouriel’s latest Tweet, barely half an hour old:

Is the U.K. an Iceland 2? Nouriel is in London to find out.
- 22 minutes ago from web

Meanwhile, on the Icelandic front…

Roubini: Not even halfway there

Nouriel Roubini is just a day late to make the most depressing day of the year just that little bit more painful, but his latest missive is sure to continue the pain into Tuesday.

By his calculations we are not even halfway through the fallout from the financial crisis. More…

Taleb: “It’s worse than Roubini thinks”

We missed this last week, but Nassim “I see Black Swans” Taleb believes Nouriel Roubini isn’t being bearish enough. 

Click the image for the clip. The whole video interview with Charlie Rose can be found here. More…

Stand by for “generalised systemic financial meltdown”

“Gold is for optimists. I’m diversifying into canned goods.”

So said one reader on Felix Salmon’s Market Movers blog, in response to a post on crisis blogging.

The trouble with being the leading harbinger of doom is that, More…

The uber-bear: Roubini’s ten steps to a hard landing

For the ultimate bear hug, visit Nouriel Roublini’s global economics blog. The professor of economics is on Tuesday due to lay out in detail his views on the current financial turmoil and the prospects for the US, More…