Nouriel Roubini Preaches Doom But Parties Hard
Who says practitioners of the “dismal science” are all work and no play?
From the Surekha Ratnatunga of NYULocal.com (daily campus newsblog of New York University) this morning:
NYU Stern Professor Nouriel Roubini is famous for anticipating the current economic crisis and infamous for his wild partying. He did a bit of both on Sunday, predicting the end of the world in the morning and accordingly partying like it was his last day on earth at night.
Just like those obnoxious kids from your high school who clog up your news feed with three albums chronicling their trashy Halloween 30 seconds after it ended, Roubini posted photos on his Facebook of his shindig with Oliver Stone along with a caption, “We hanged [sic] out in my loft Sunday after Halloween for a post-Halloween survival dinner and party.”
According to John Cook of New York City media and gossip site Gawker.com today:
Some genius once dubbed New York University economist Nouriel Roubini “the Joe Francis of Pessimism Porn,” and yesterday’s one-two punch of a Eurotrashy post-Halloween loft party with Oliver Stone and a doomsaying op-ed in the Financial Times proves the point.
We frankly don’t understand Roubini’s latest apocalyptic pronouncement, published yesterday in the FT, but it has something to do with how “quantitative easing” and “hot money” have created another massive asset bubble that is going to burst and kill us all…
And he’s got to pay for all those parties at his vulva-studded TriBeCa loft somehow. Last night—on the very day his latest black pronouncement was published—Roubini had Wall Street II director Oliver Stone and some ladies over for post-Halloween merriment. Or as Roubini put it his Facebook update: “We hanged out.”
Gawker has a nice collection of photos from the party here.
And the lesson for other dismal scientists?
You, too, can be popular with the opposite sex if you can correctly-call the direction of the economy.
And if you also have a nice place. And are friends with a Hollywood director…
Sources:
“Stern Professor Roubini Chases Op-Eds with Partying”
Surekha Ratnatunga
NYULocal.com, November 2, 2009
“Nouriel Roubini Still Partying with Hot Chicks While the World Ends”
John Cook
Gawker.com, November 2, 2009
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