Roubini: Global Markets Could Soon Crash

Dan Weil
Newsmax
October 31, 2009

[efoods]The global markets are at risk of crashing when the dollar rebounds, says economist Nouriel Roubini.

Roubini, a professor at NYU, is credited with long predicting the financial collapse of 2007 and 2008.

“In the short run what’s happening is there’s a wall of liquidity, not just in the U.S., but around the world, that is chasing assets,” he told CNBC.

“It’s equities, it’s commodities, it’s credit, it’s gold, it’s emerging market asset classes.”

And what does that amount to? “Now we are in the mother of all carry trades,” Roubini says.

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