Nouriel Roubini does not mince his words. Earning the nickname of ‘Dr Doom’ after correctly predicting the 2008 financial crisis, the chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates has enjoyed courting controversy (and making headlines) with a series of dire pronouncements about threats to the global economy, not all of which came to pass.
Nonetheless his mid-November remarks about cryptocurrencies and those that promote them — made at the UAE government-sponsored Abu Dhabi Finance Week conference — raised eyebrows for their implicit criticism of the policies of the host country.
