nouriel roubini
Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor, speaks at a panel discussion at the SALT conference in Las Vegas May 14, 2014.
  • Nouriel Roubini, the economist known as "Dr. Doom", has been warning of disaster for two decades. 
  • He rose to prominence after being among the commentators to call the 2008 financial crisis. 
  • Most recently, Roubini has warned that markets and the economy are sleepwalking into a new catastrophe. 

Nouriel Roubini has been everywhere lately. Wall Street's "Dr. Doom" has been out front in every big news event in markets in the last year ringing the alarm over catastrophe that he says is right around the corner.