Roubini was one of the analysts warning of the housing bubble a decade or so ago

He does tend to warn of dangers quite regularly, which has earned him a 'Doctor Doom' moniker. He heads Roubini Macro Associates.

  • "My base case is ... the trade and tech war between the U.S. and China is going to get worse.
  • It has already been in the data - the collapse of capex. And once the capex is down, then the industrial production is down and the employment is down, and you have the beginning of a global recession that starts in tech, then in manufacturing, then in industry and then goes to services"

This from a Bloomberg TV interview Tuesday US time, so its not new.

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