Roubini Global Economics (RGE), formerly RGE Monitor, was a small economic consultancy for

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.Daniel Altman (October 8, 2012)
"Nouriel Roubini; He may not be perfect, but there's never been a better time to be in the prophet of doom business,"
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History

Roubini Global Economics was founded in 2004 by

Nouriel Roubini Nouriel Roubini (; born March 29, 1958) is a Turkish-born Iranian-American economic consultant, economist, speaker and writer. He is a professor emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University. Roubini earned a BA in p ...

, former senior adviser in the

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and to the

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and a professor at

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, and Camille LeBlanc, a serial entrepreneur in the

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sector. LeBlanc was the founding CEO, and was responsible for building the initial team and seeding the product in 3,000 accounts in the public and private financial sector. The company re-branded itself as Roubini Global Economics in 2010. As of 2011, the firm was not profitable.Loch Adamson (October 12, 2011)
"How Nouriel Roubini Became a Research Brand,"
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''. Roubini said: "The most important thing in this kind of business is that you have to be right day in and day out. The fact that I made a right call a few years ago doesn’t matter." In July 2012, RGE announced that it had acquired Country Insights. Roubini closed the firm in 2016.

Footnotes

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