Roubini Says Stocks Will Drop as Banks Go ‘Belly Up’

U.S. stocks will fall and the government will nationalize more banks as the economy contracts through the end of 2009, said Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted last year’s economic crisis. “The stock market is a bit ahead of the real macroeconomic and financial news,” Roubini, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the chairman of consulting firm Roubini Global Economics, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in London today. “We’ll have some major banks going belly up that will need to be taken over.” The global equity rebound in March that sent the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its best monthly advance in 17 years is a... Full Story