66 Quotes by Nouriel Roubini

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called “demographic dividend” has brought change.

I am just a normal human being – I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

I think globalization actually maintains and fosters various elements of national and cultural identities. I don’t think everything is being homogenized. If anything, your food, your culture, and your ethnicity might become part of the globalized world, and thus absorbed by other countries.

I think it’s true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don’t fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

I’m a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ’07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.

If we didn’t have greed, market economies wouldn’t be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don’t systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.