Sunday, July 04, 2010

Roubini On Eurozone And US Economic Growth

Dr. Doom has spoken. Roubini is not talking double dip recession, at least for the remainder of this year.

He does predict very low economic growth for the Eurozone and the US. We are talking close to zero in Europe and between 1% and 2% in the USA.

Is this good or bad news? Well I guess it depends. Its good news from the point of view of no recession and bad news from the point of view of a stagnant, non job creating economy.

Reuters: Roubini sees eurozone 2010 growth "closer to zero"
The currency bloc does not face a double-dip recession, however, despite deteriorating financial-market confidence over economic growth in an age of fiscal austerity...


Growth in the U.S. economy could slow in the second half of this year to 1.5 percent from 3 percent in the first...

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Double dip u ahead. It's only a Recession for people with jobs for the rest of us it's a Depression.

Jim Sande said...

Can there really be economic growth year after year. This is such a miserable time for bank and corporate greed given the stretched problems the world is facing.