gawker.com/5063337/the-secret-pleasures-of-dr-doom
The NYU professor's once-mocked warnings--of a real-estate collapse, equity market slaughter, the systemic bust of the banking system--have largely come to pass.
With a dour manner and an aura of gloom about him, Roubini gives the impression of being permanently pained, as if the burden of what he knows is almost too much for him to bear. He rarely smiles, and when he does, his face, topped by an unruly mop of brown hair, contorts into something more closely resembling a grimace." Doom may satisfy the needs of the media and partygoers this Halloween--but Roubini is anything but dour.
promiscuous Facebook friend who draws a cosmopolitan crowd to the frequent parties at his Tribeca loft--an apartment with walls indented with plaster vulvas, incidentally. As this party photograph shows (right), the professor's gloomy public image is entirely at odds with his playboy lifestyle. In a Facebook message, Roubini makes no apology: Dear Nick, I work very very hard and I also enjoy life. My home is also partially a cultural salon where I host book parties, debate and election night events, independent film screnings, live music nights, theater/performance acts, fashion shows, dinner parties and even plain old fashioned dance parties. I have this professional Dr Doom nickname but I am quite a cheerful person with a few close friends and eclectic group of friends who, like most New Yorkers, are members of the creative class. The innovations of lawyers and bankers can be as creative as those of visual or performing artists, at times too creative you may say given the current financial meltdown.
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