Nouriel Roubini, Mark Jones and The World Economic Forum
Nouriel, please tell me you didn’t personally write or approve this foolish sychophantic article.
What’s the point, Nouriel? What’s the point?
Brexit could also be the beginning of a new EU.
It could rain tomorrow.
Britain’s departure could cause the EU to thrive despite the ill-will of you and your chorus of doomsday prophets.
An EU that all its members want to be part of.
I find your silly neo-liberal scaremongering most irksome.
Oh, so you’re a hotshot economist.
Remember the one about Che Guevara being governor or the Cuban central bank? You must know that one, Nouriel:
In the euphoric days after the revolution, Castro was making a speech in
front of a crowd of his supporters, including his famous comrade Ernesto
“Che” Guevara.
Castro did not have a viable candidate for the post of Minister of Economy
in his government, so he asked the crowd: “Is there an economist here?”
Che enthusiastically stood up to Castro’s call. Castro promptly made Che
Minister of Economy in his regime.
A little later while in private Castro said to Che: “I did not know you
were an economist. I thought you were a doctor” [which he was]. Che
appeared confused and answered: “Of course I’m not an ECONOMIST. I thought
you asked if there was a COMMUNIST in the crowd, and I was surprised no
one but me answered your call.”
Oh, my, you’ve got a World Economic Forum badge on your article.
Oh my, oh my.
My 13-year-old sons have enough economic insight to figure out what appears to be the core premise of your article: that this event has created a “bunch of uncertainties”. Is this what you learned from all those years at Harvard? Didn’t your fancy education give you some good idea; a new and brilliant idea that you could share with us?
Were you asleep in your hotel room at the last IT conference you attended when you should have been attending the How To Provide Value on Social Media seminar?
I found this listicle after a two-second search. Here’s the first way to provide value on social media:
Providing expert advice and a tremendously high level of professionalism.
So you predicted the housing crash.
Probability theory never was my strong suit but this I know: there are so many economists predicting such a variety of stuff, one of them is bound to be right sometime.
It’s nice that you have a degree in political economy from Bocconi. It is a respected university. I was offered a place on their MBA program back in ’98 but I choose IESE instead. Oh yeah, and my Harvard-educated professors from back then assured me that the internet was just a fad.
Harvard is probably a good place to study too but it rarely ranks in the top five MBA schools. George Bush went there — that kinda pulls down its desirability for me.
If nothing else, let’s hope that the Brits have learned one thing from this debate:
Take the scaremongering of self-styled experts-even if they have fancy degrees from Bocconi-with a pinch of salt
Note: To Mark Jones who presumably okay’ed this article:
Stop tossing this glorified fortune-telling onto Medium and cluttering up my feed with it. Is this part of your “digital strategy”?
I no longer care anymore about the silly predictions of ivory-tower economists; and certainly not one who has a vested interest in generating a crisis so he can hawk his consulting services — special price for you, my friend.
This is paper-tiger hidden-agenda padding. The agenda isn’t even particularly well hidden, if you know what you’re looking for; it’s right there on Nouriel’s Twitter profile.
Mark, if you want my positive attention, upload an article from your employer with some expert advice or a tremendously high level of professionalism.
Let me give you an example of an article by Thin Man (actually a comment) that is bursting at the seams with VALUE:
