# Prof. Nouriel Roubini on global economic risk

1 Faculty News February 27, 2012 ![BBC News logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030504.jpg?itok=xD3gBRnr)>

Excerpt from [BBC blog](http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/02/europe_the_riskiest_banking_mo.html) -- "[Nouriel Roubini](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nouriel-roubini) thinks the oil price spike out of the Arab revolts could push the world economy into stagflation. There is also the risk that currency war breaks out into open trade war."

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