# Prof. Roubini's comments on the art market are highlighted

1 Faculty News April 7, 2015 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a91a1608-d887-11e4-8a23-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3WjH1Mp8H) -- "'You can buy something for half a million, not show a passport and ship it. Plenty of people are using it for laundering,' [Mr Roubini](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nouriel-roubini), a passionate art collector, told a panel hosted by the FT at Davos in January."

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