Talk:Nouriel Roubini

message: There is a contradiction in this article, it states that he was born in Turkey yet further down it says Iran. According to an interview he stated that he was born in Iran and lived in Turkey. http://web.archive.org/web/20080420214641/http://www.janera.com/janera_words.php?id=44. Which source do we take? The one stating he was born in Iran is from him in an interview the other is stated by the new york times  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.196.101.93 (talk) 13:51, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Roubini Homepage link at the bottom of the article also has Turkey. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 16:48, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

text: Surely this is the kind of thing that he is more likely to be right about than the NYT. Additionally, major statements about his nationality in the article seem baseless. The claim that he is Iranian-American has no citation and I see no evidence for it, other than the claim he "lived briefly in Iran." Is that really enough to identify him as Iranian? Down in Categories, he's included as an Iranian Jew and "American people of Iranian-Jewish descent." I did get the FEELING from the article that his parents must have been Iranian Jews. But is that really how we're doing this?
2602:306:BC65:5FC9:1088:675E:B348:D256 (talk) 20:41, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  his nationality? 

message: According to this page: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies), his nationality should be mentioned in the first paragraph.-- And Rew 21:19, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe it should be rephrased per nationality guidelines. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 18:35, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding his nationality to the first sentence 

message: This article uses far too many quotes. Many of them are unsourced. Sometimes even entire paragraphs are quotes lifted from news articles. I even fixed one quote that was a false attribution. Fortune magazine had written about Roubini, but in this article Fortune's words were attributed to Roubini himself. This article also often uses present tense for quotes that were made in the past, e.g. "Roubini says..." rather than "Roubini said...". Please keep in mind that this is an encyclopedia, not a news article. Go easy on the quotes and make sure that the few quotes you do use are referenced. --JHP (talk) 01:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sloppy use of quotes 

message: If one watches TV, one might get the impression that Roubini is one of the most prominent economists of our age.  In the acedmic world, his impact is thus far rather moderate, as he is ranked 410 amongst economists they track for citation impact.  Is this material pertinent enough for the lead? Mwalla (talk) 16:29, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved it to fit better within the overall context of the lead. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 17:04, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  link to IDEAS 

message: Some recent edits by user 69.177.90.40 appear not well thought out. For instance, they took the following sentence in the lead,
:"Because his descriptions of the current economic crisis have proven to be accurate, he is today a major figure in the U.S. and international debate about the economy."
and replaced it with (emphasis added), 
:"Because some of his descriptions of the current economic crisis have proven to be descriptive, he is often quoted today in some parts of the news media."
Ironically, the reason given in the summary for the edits above were "cleaned up duplicate and advertorial material." Yet the detailed factual material in the original was then replaced by duplicated, non-factual, and essentially meaningless text. It should obviously be fixed. 
As a suggestion, major edits that are based on personal interpretations and opinions only, and which remove valid citations and quotes, especially in the bio of a living person should be done with more care and discussed in the talk section first, to avoid such restorations.--Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 18:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restoraton of strange edits 

message: An editor has deleted portions of the article containing early interviews by stating, "Janera does not meet NPOV criteria and is not a legitimate publication."  This is clearly untrue as Janera is an online magazine with numerous interviews with people from all professions and their purpose is stated: 
:"Through our salons held in cities around the world, our Web site and our weekly newsletters, we take international affairs out of the academic and activist circles and bring global topics to a diverse, savvy and influential urban audience. By generating deeper understanding through these encounters— both online and in-person—we strive to be a catalyst for change throughout the world."
Another editor, with a similar IP address, has said on this talk page that they were an investment author and have disputed Roubini's opinions by numerous similar deletions in the past. If the same editor is making these changes, that in itself would amount to a violation of NPOV and COI guidelines, and should thereby stop.  They may also amount to vandalism.
Suggest that any further mass deletions be discussed first. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 18:39, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restoring deletions by possible NPOV and COI source 

message: Is it normal practice in an encyclopedia to draw attention to a non-event?  The mention in this article that Roubini has never married is pointless.  Does W. have guidelines about such inclusions?Aliotra (talk) 01:01, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The majority of bios I've come across have a "Personal life" section which almost always goes into the person's marriages, children, divorces, etc. Some go into details way beyond the basics while this one seems pretty lean in comparison.--Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 02:06, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance of marital status 

message: I'm changing the color of the title bar to blue as it gives a better contrast to the photo, IMO. Because the photo already gives an orange tint to his face, having an orange bar above accentuates the overall orange tone. Blue, on the other hand, counteracts the orange tint and gives the photo a more neutral tone, by complementing the background blue. This is a BRD edit and some consensus should be allowed before reverting. Please compare and vote.
*Blue --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 04:37, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subtitle color 

message: The NYTimes piece that is already referenced by this article says (these are quotes):
* Roubini was known to be a perpetual pessimist, what economists call a “permabear.”
* Anirvan Banerji ... noted that Roubini’s predictions did not make use of mathematical models
There is an old saying, "a clock that is stopped shows the correct time twice a day", and in the same way, somebody who is always predicting bad will sometimes be right. This wikipedia article only cherrypicks the positive comments; it should talk about both sides of the issue. 71.190.72.157 (talk) 22:47, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is "too positive" about Roubini 

message: In the English wiki-version Nouriel Roubini was born March 28 in 1959. In the German version he was born March 29 1958. In his own blog he states that he was born in 1958 (http://nourielroubini.blogspot.de/2012/08/nouriel-roubini-biography-by-himself.html)
Which one is true now?  158.181.83.204 (talk) 17:06, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: per his own blog. Left day the same pending a source. --Wikiwatcher1 (talk) 22:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roubini's birth date 

message: I have made some Google searches such as "Nouriel Roubini" wrong ( 369.000 results) and "Nouriel Roubini" wrong again (51.900). Here are some notable results ordered by year. Please add more. New worl (talk) 03:59, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  To improve NPOV 

message: Roubini has been a perma bull on gold as well.
October 2009:
Gold Price: 1,069.
Nouriel Roubini: "I don't believe in gold. Gold can go up for only two reasons. [One is] inflation, and we are in a world where there are massive amounts of deflation because of a glut of capacity, and demand is weak. There's slack in the labor markets with unemployment peeking above 10 percent in all the advanced economies. So there's no inflation, and there's not going to be for the time being.  The only other case in which gold can go higher, with deflation, is if you have Armageddon, if you have another depression. But we've avoided that tail risk as well. So all the gold bugs who say Gold is going to go to $1500 or $2000, they're just speaking nonsense. Without inflation, or without a depression, there's nowhere for gold to go. Yeah, Gold can go above $1000, but it can't move up 20-30% unless we end up in a world of inflation or another depression. I don't see either of those being likely for the time being. Maybe three or four years from now, yes. But not anytime soon."  My comment:  From this point Gold went straight up to 1,900, almost 100% gain!. In June 2013 Roubini said gold would drop under $1,000 per ounce. Today it remains 25% above that figure. 
— Preceding unsigned comment added by TWehle (talk • contribs) 00:19, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold price predictions 

message: Roubini stirred up a few headlines with a series of tweets broadly critical of Bitcoin. Two sources of straight-forward coverage are:
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Some articles used the tweets more as a launchpad to cover the issues in more detail. I'm not sure a series of tweets is worthy of mention here, but they are getting reliable source coverage, and that in itself is kind of impressive for an economist outside the government. :-) Agyle (talk) 15:59, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the opinion that it is impressive and worthy of mention. Ladislav Mecir (talk) 20:46, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tweets on Bitcoin 

message: The following link from the "Writings" section was removed as not functioning:
:Other writings include:
* Europe’s Short Vacation: Europe's Short Vacation. Guest commentary by Nouriel Roubini. May 1, 2012. Available Online. Accessed on May 10, 2012.
This commentary by Roubini may be an interesting insight into his thoughts, but we need a functioning link.Rgdboer (talk) 02:33, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Europe's short vacation 

message: I think this page is missing a "see also" section, as almost all wiki pages have (and yes, it is written like advertising, as somebody pointed above). For example, I can provide a list of persons called "Dr.Doom" which are better known, in fact, never heard about this guy till now.Big fan of Peter Schiff here :P (albeit we don't share all the opinions). Joking apart, there have to be a lot of economists there out, with similar views or "results" worth mentioning. LaurV (talk) 10:25, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The advertising now seems to have been partially addressed. Though recently some new editor came along slashing out a few RS supported paragraphs they did not like "because he is a public figure". Those should be re-added; there was no wp reason to delete them. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:D407:BCE0:52F5:A808 (talk) 00:29, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also ? 

message: This article has many of the indicia of paid editing. 146.203.129.25 (talk) 19:22, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paid editing?