Pundit
Nouriel Roubini
4 receipts • Tracked since Apr 2026
Dr. Nouriel Roubini is Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, a New York-based global macroeconomic consultancy, and Professor Emeritus of Economics at NYU Stern School of Business. He serves as Chief Economist and Portfolio Manager at Atlas Capital Team and Senior Economic Strategist to Hudson Bay Capital, focusing on international finance, economic policy, and geopolitical risks. Renowned for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, he has held senior roles at the IMF, World Bank, and
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2018
1 prediction- Feb 2, 2018Missed it.“Dubbed 'Dr Doom', Roubini said the sharp fall was the beginning of a crash that would see the value of the digital currency plummet 'all the way down to zero'.”
Bitcoin did experience a significant market downturn after the prediction, but it never reached zero. It subsequently recovered and achieved new all-time highs in later cycles, remaining actively traded and widely used.
2006
3 predictions- Sep 7, 2006Called it.“There is a risk that the U.S. growth slowdown that we are observing right now this year is going to end up in recession by early next year. So we're going to have a hard landing rather than the soft landing that most people believe.”
NBER dated the Great Recession to December 2007 — Roubini was about a year early but directionally correct, and the call was famously contrarian at the time.
- Sep 7, 2006Called it.“I believe for a number of reasons that the world is not going to decouple from a U.S. hard landing. As they say, when the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world gets a cold.”
The 2008-09 crisis was global — Europe, Japan, and EM all contracted; 'decoupling' thesis collapsed.
- Sep 7, 2006Called it.“Even if the Fed were to start easing to avoid a recession, in my view it is not going to prevent the recession.”
Fed cut from 5.25% to 0% by Dec 2008 — recession came anyway and proved deeper than 2001.