Fiscal austerity should be much more gradual to prevent a disorderly outcome in the eurozone, believes Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini, the famous American economist believe, that the ability to backstop, ring-fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near-insolvent sovereigns’ inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems. As a result, sovereign risk is now becoming banking risk, because sovereigns are dumping a larger fraction of their public debt onto banks’ balance sheet, especially in the eurozone.

Nouriel Roubini believes that in order to prevent a disorderly outcome in the eurozone, today’s fiscal austerity should be much more gradual, a growth compact should complement the EU’s new fiscal compact, and a fiscal union with debt mutualization - Eurobonds, should be implemented.

Military confrontation in 2013 would lead to a massive oil price spike and global recession, warns Nouriel Roubini

The Chairman of Roubini Global Economics - Nouriel Roubini believes that the long-simmering tensions in the Middle East between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other on the issue of nuclear proliferation could reach a boil by 2013. Roubini, who is a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, thinks, that the current negotiations are likely to fail, and even tightened sanctions may not stop Iran from trying to build nuclear weapons. With the US and Israel unwilling to accept containment of a nuclear Iran by deterrence, a military confrontation in 2013 would lead to a massive oil price spike and global recession.

Nouriel Roubini predicts a Perfect Storm on a global scale

Nouriel Roubini, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, predicts dark times for the global economy in 2013 in his recent analysis of the events that occur around the world. The Chairman of Roubini Global Economics foresees dark financial and economic clouds, which are rolling in from every direction: the eurozone, the United States, China, and elsewhere. He believes that the global economy in 2013 could be a very difficult environment in which to find shelter.

In his opinion, the Eurozone crisis is worsening, as the euro remains too strong, front-loaded fiscal austerity deepens recession in many member countries, and a credit crunch in the periphery. To add to that, the high oil prices undermine prospects of recovery. Roubini believes that the eurozone banking system is becoming balkanized, as cross-border and interbank credit lines are cut off. Capital flight could turn into a full run on periphery banks if, as is likely, Greece stages a disorderly euro exit in the next few months.

Pulling the plug on funding Greece will lead to the collapse of the Euro, warns Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini, an American economist, shared his point of view about the Greek crisis and the Euroepan single currency. According to him, pulling the plug on funding Greece, which has already been bailed out twice, would lead to the collapse of the Euro, Roubini warned. Roubini's opinion is that the euro zone had two choices.

The first one is providing funding to facilitate an orderly exit by Greece. And the other path is to keep the Balkan country in the single currency by financing it in the same manner as West Germany supported the East after unification back in 1990. Nouriel Roubini believes that the second option would be cheaper in the long term for the European taxpayer than allowing the euro zone to break up.

Nouriel Roubini: Europe needs growth

American economist Nouriel Roubini believes that Europe needs to boost growth instead of push for austerity. Roubini, who is the chairman of Roubini Global Economics an economic consultancy firm, explained that governments in Europe should lower taxes and increase salaries to boost growth rather than insisting on austerity and continued saving. The famous economist Nouriel Roubini gave his opinion in an interview to a German newspaper.

According to Roubini, the German government should give its citizens incentives to go on holiday in countries in the south of Europe that were affected by the debt crisis to help those states recover. Germany is one of the strongest economies in the EU.