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At the risk of flirting with ad hominem, the author of this piece is a highly controversial character. His delivery style in particular is highly abrasive, and

At the risk of flirting with ad hominem, the author of this piece is a highly controversial character. His delivery style in particular is highly abrasive, and his economic pieces always deeply tainted by his politics. I'd read with having researched his background first. edit: his twitter stream doesn't exactly feel like what an educated, well-read academic would produce. You be the judge: https://twitter.com/Nouriel https://twitter.com/Nouriel

jm__87 7y ago
From his Wikipedia page: After receiving a BA in political economics at Bocconi University, Milan and a doctorate in international economics at Harvard University, he became an academic at Yale and a visiting researcher/advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Federal Reserve, World Bank, and Bank of Israel. Much of his early research focused on emerging markets. During the administration of President Bill Clinton, he was a senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, later moving to the United States Treasury Department as a senior adviser to Timothy Geithner, who in 2009 became Treasury Secretary. Yes, clearly Nouriel Roubini is not an educated, well-read academic. /s