As the financial crisis has intensified, Alex has frequently pointed us to the thoughts of NYU’s Nouriel Roubini, a long-time prophet of economic doom (see here, here and here). Given his warnings of “systemic meltdown”, you might imagine that Professor Roubini is a dour figure. Not so. In a bizarre twist to the Demise Of Capitalism As We Know It, gossip blog Gawker has gone to war with the prof:
It’s time to call bullshit. The image of Dr. Doom may satisfy the needs of the media and partygoers this Halloween—but Roubini is anything but dour. The 50-year-old Iranian-Jewish economist is a promiscuous Facebook friend who draws a cosmopolitan crowd to the frequent parties at his Tribeca loft—an apartment with walls indented with plaster vulvas, incidentally.
I’ll leave you to investigate Gawker’s initial assault and follow-up post, which includes recent correspondence on the current crisis from, er, St. Tropez. Still, in this time of generalized panic and depression, it’s good to see that one of our gurus is having a good time (and pretty hot for 51 too!).
