Introduction

Nouriel Roubini is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Stern School of Business and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, a global macro economics consultancy. He's also recently written a book warning about other threats to the global economy. Nouriel was born in Istanbul, Turkey, but he's not a Turk. His parents are originally from Iran, Persian, Jews. And when he was a year old, we left Istanbul, went back to Tehran. When I was three years old, we went from Iran to Israel, to Tel Aviv. And then by the age of four, we moved to Milano,. And then finally, we settled in Milano.