By Angela Monaghan, and Richard Fletcher, Davos
12:44PM GMT 28 Jan 2012
“The eurozone is a slow-motion train wreck,” Mr Roubini said. “Countries – and not just Greece – are insolvent. I think Greece will leave the eurozone in the next 12 months, and Portugal after.”
The New York University professor of economics was speaking at one of the final sessions of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.
“There is a 50pc chance that the eurozone will break up in the next three to five years. This doesn’t look like a G20 world it looks like a G-Zero world because there is no agreement on global imbalances, how to change the international monetary system, international trade, banking regulation, on all the fundamental issues.”
The economist also warned that if the US and Iran went to war, oil prices would spike 50pc and there’ll be a global recession.
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It would be nice to see a PPT Screen of possible Euro stocks to short in case of a collapse.