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Here Comes Another Newsletter: Presenting Nouriel Unplugged - "Economic Insights Of A Global Nomad"
Guess that sale of Roubini's RGE consultancy didn't go quite as planned. Recall from three years ago:
It seems that everyone's favorite Dr.Doom is selling his consultancy after only several years of operation, David Faber reports. The consultancy, according to confidential sales materials, will generate $11MM in revenue and $2MM of losses. The bulk of clients of the 85 person shop, Faber reports, is corporations, not actual investors, making the buyside wonder "who incremental clients will be." We wonder just how any potential buyer will be able to lock up Roubini for several years, without whose presence RGE will have questionable going concern value. We wish @Nouriel the best of luck in his sales process, whose successful conclusion (or otherwise) probably means that Roubini will end up as a blogger and paid panelist.
We should have added "newsletter writer" because moments ago Dr Doom unveiled... Nouriel Unplugged.
From Roubini:
Dear friends,
Throughout my 25-year career as a macroeconomist, my work has been to interpret conflicting economic and market signals. In short, to make sense of the data inside of the noise - either in an academic setting or for governments and institutional investors.
Today it's my great pleasure to introduce you to a new direction in my research - dedicated specifically to individual investors - and the launch of my most personal project yet.
In the nearly seven years since the beginning of the Great Recession, one of the questions I'm most frequently asked is about the role that macroeconomics plays in the lives of individual investors - and more specifically, which economic information relates directly to their lives.
This is a critically important question and one that my work - which has been applied to academic and institutional macroeconomic research - has not, until now, explored.
During the last year, I have given a great deal of thought to how best to answer this question. How to develop new ways of making the ideas that I'm most passionate about available to individual investors and readers such as you, who are interested in the global economy.
My goal has been to create a new format that's less technical, more conversational, and engages the curiosity of a wider audience, all with the aim of providing the news and information I think is most important to your financial future.
With that goal in mind, I've decided to create a letter dedicated to individual investors, called Nouriel Unplugged. Because of the current and ongoing uncertainties in the global economy, understanding macroeconomic trends is of paramount importance to the individual - and that's the reason why I am making this letter available free of charge.
As I travel, sometimes the most important lessons I learn occur in the moments between policy and business meetings. Nouriel Unplugged ties together those stories - economics, culture, politics, government, art, and society - to tell a story that can't be conveyed with the traditional use of economic data alone.
In short, in Nouriel Unplugged, my goal is to not only tell the stories behind the data but to explain how they relate to you.
Recently, I sat down with journalist Salimah Ebrahim for a five-part series of video interviews that are well worth watching. Topics run the gamut from the lack of financial literacy in the Western world, to what is in store for emerging markets, to the regrettable level of dysfunction in Washington, DC, and more.
As soon as these videos are posted on the Roubini's Edge site, you will receive an email with a video link in your inbox, for your viewing pleasure.
It's very exciting for me to begin a new phase of my career - talking to individual investors about the challenges and opportunities that a macroeconomic perspective on the markets can provide.
As one of my readers, you don't have to take any action to begin receiving Nouriel Unplugged - each issue will be delivered to your email inbox biweekly, free of charge. Of course, if you would prefer not to receive Nouriel Unplugged, please feel free to opt out by clicking here.
I'm delighted to have you follow along with me in my future travels via Nouriel Unplugged, where I will share my impressions of the places I visit and the broader ideas that shape our world and drive our financial markets.
I look forward to continuing our conversation in the near future.
Cordially,
Nouriel Roubini
Chairman
Roubini's Edge
If Roubini's newsletter is even remotely as valuable as Gartman's, we can already predict (with the appropriate hockeystick chart of course) the first billionaire economist in the world.
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There's a sucker born every second. Or something close to it anyway.
All the best Dr. Doom.
Nuriel "Gene Simmons" Roubini - economic freak show.
Nuriel, please unplug yourself.
Or you could check out Barron's Roundtable twice a year,
and get his advice for the price of a Starbucks coffee.
Kinda sad really.
Nouriel was completely correct in predicting the economic crisis and was one of the first to do so.
But, then he sold-out to the Keynesians in advocating 'nationalization' of the bad banks - dumping their private gambling losses on the taxpayers...
Hate to ruin your week but Nouriel was a charlatan who was correct once, he was the last one onto the subprime train, long after David, Bill and 80% of the funds had either told him, or he gleaned their ground-up research.
Since the collapse Nouriel, like Dennis has made zero alpha on failing to call the top down, or pick individual short targets. Therefore, he's doing what all who can't do: "Teach" or Consult. either, or.
Take it away Nouriel...
"One person who has had a great impact on me intellectually was my adviser at Harvard, Jeffrey Sachs. For me he’s the model of a great intellectual. He is both a rigorous academic and very human, involved in big picture issues such as poverty, AIDS, and Africa. He’s someone with a great mind that is also very engaged with the world. Another intellectual hero is Larry Summers, the former President of Harvard, an amazing intellectual and academic, who is very deeply involved with the policy world. I worked for him for many years in the US Treasury during the Clinton Administration.[6]"
~Nouriel Rubini
We need to Elect Auditors to Congress for 30 years to fix the current mess.
No more Lawyers in Congress or as Cabinet heads or Ambassadors or Bankers in Treasury or CBO. And Screw Economist, they obviously can audit, make good calls, and probably had their education designed by John D. Rockefeller. Screw the Economists.
- Haven't we learned what Lawyers are capable of
- Don't we all see 120 years of Money Trust Bankers killing USA
- Isn't money in Politics Corruption = Bankers & Lawyers
Look for Auditors for a new Generation of US Politicians
- Audit the FED, Audit SEC, DOJ, FBI, CIA, IRS, FTC, FINRA, US Financial Ratings Agencies, TBTF Banks, Shadow Banking and Congressional Conflict of Interest
Jeffrey Sachs who helped with the looting of Russia in the early 1990s and Summers who helped rig gold at Treasury.
At least Roubini let's us know what he is about.
Kinda sounds like a butt boy doesn't he.
Probably I looked at one of his books before. Glad I didn't buy it or read much of it. Sounds like it would be the inside account of the Financial Crisis written by a reporter who was watching events and granted access as an Embedded Reporter.
Embedded Reporter with TBTF Banks, writes history-propaganda just like those with US Troops.
Summers who lost most of the Harvard endowment? Hero??
Was that Jeffrey "give it your best shot" Sachs per chance? Prick.
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What a complete and utter tool.
I am Chumbawamba.
Between Two Ferns with Nouriel Roubini.
-Chumblez.
Who's that?
I don't want to read any of this turd's rubbish. I'm going to go drop a Krugman in the toilet bowl.
Make sure you wipe carefully. Sometimes those little pieces of obama hide in the shadows.
I wipe wit FRNs, they're cheaper than toilet paper, and they're better at getting rid of those pesky obamberries.
lol, One day hopefully in our lifetime , I can literally take a shit and wipe my ass with a handful of 100's knowing its true worth. Benjamin meet Mo-DAD
What do the Starship Enterprise and toilet paper have in common?
They both circle Uranus looking for Klingons.
Roubini needs $ for more plaster wall vaginas.
I'll pass Nouriel.
Got as far as 'dear friends', probably says something about a secret weight-loss pill or nigerian lottery syndicate after that...
Houdini Roubini swami ami Rafsanjani the spririts are about to speak.
Nouriel Unplugged?
Is there some way to short the marketing firm that came up with this gem?
Too bad that he's not running for office, as you could show a clip of him yammering on tee-vee, and have someone yank the plug out of the socket.
I read the tag line too fast. I thought it said "Economic Insights Of A Noble Gonad"
Wow, what happened to him? He's been in hiding since being pro-Bernanke and brown-nosing Obama for a economics cabinet position.
Has he been busy boot-licking Krugman?
Working on his "Wall of Vaginas" I'd assume.
Wasn't Nouriel consistently wrong about damn near everything?
And now the market is free to crash.
Economic Insights of a Garden Gnome
This is just so he can write his blog from his jacuzzi.
Bimbos in bikinis while the bozo blogs
Nouriel 'I've got bills too' Roubini.....
simply cut & paste an intro financial letter off google and he is off to the races....
Isn't it widely known that, "macro economists" make for shitty traders?
I think you have to put on a different hat to be a successful trader.
Didn't Roubini used to hang out with models at Manhattan cocktail parties?
What happened to that scene?
Nouriel Roubini = Simon Black?!?
Where's Stolper, Goldman's FX muppet pimp, these days. Many on ZH made a lot of money trading against his recommendations.
like.. unplugged from fundamentals?