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    Double-dip recession likely: Roubini

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    Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the financial crisis, said the chance of a double-dip recession is increasing because of risks related to ending global monetary and fiscal stimulus.

    SINGAPORE: Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the financial crisis, said the chance of a double-dip recession is increasing because of risks related to ending global monetary and fiscal stimulus.

    The global economy will bottom out in the second half of 2009, Roubini wrote in a Financial Times commentary on Monday. The recession in the US, the UK, and some European countries will not be ���formally over��� before the end of the year, while the recovery has started in nations such as China, France, Germany, Australia and Japan, he said.
    Governments around the world have pledged about $2 trillion in stimulus measures amid the worst worldwide recession since the Great Depression. Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke and other global policy makers have cautioned that the recovery is likely to be muted, indicating they would not soon remove all the stimulus injected into the financial system.

    ���There are risks associated with exit strategies from the massive monetary and fiscal easing,��� he said. Government and central bank officials may undermine the recovery and tip their economies back into ���stagdeflation��� if they mop up excess liquidity in their systems to reduce deficits, he added.


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