Roubini Global Economics, a small economic consultancy for financial analysis. He said, "the world is my home, so everything about society and culture—no matter how —is worth knowing. I am an information junkie and created RGE Monitor to collect information about what's happening around the world." As of 2011, the firm was not profitable. Roubini said: "The most important thing in this kind of business is that you have to be right day in and day out. The fact that I made a right call a few years ago doesn’t matter." He closed the firm in 2016. Personal life Helaine Olen described Roubini as having "an accent reminiscent of a James Bond villain, and a laugh that seems to kick in on a one-second tape delay." The Financial Times wrote: "when you meet him, his unflinching, unsmiling, uncompromising negativity feels like a break with normal human coping mechanisms." New York Times journalist Stephen Mihm wrote: "With a dour manner and an aura of gloom about him, Roubini gives the impression of being permanently pained.... He rarely smiles, and when he does, his face... contorts into something more closely resembling a grimace." He speaks English, Persian, Italian, Hebrew, and conversational French. Roubini likes to refer to himself as a "global nomad", and said, "You can be sitting still surfing the Internet, and experience other worlds, ideas and societies. But I've found that there is nothing better than visiting a different country ...." He is identified as a Democrat in his profile on Wall Street Economists. Roubini announced on Twitter in early 2014 his new practice of Transcendental Meditation. Asked to describe his parties at his apartment, Roubini said: "I look for ten girls to one guy." He added that his friend Bill Clinton was a fan of this ratio. When Nick Denton, a journalist and the founder of Gawker, wrote a post labeling Roubini a playboy who lived in a "vulva-" and "vagina-encrusted Tribeca loft", Roubini posted a message on Denton's Facebook page, accusing him of "Nazi-style anti-Semitism"; Denton's mother is Jewish.Nick Denton (October 16, 2008). "'Nick Denton Is An Anti-Semite With A Nazi Mind,'" Gawker. Roubini also called Denton an ignorant antisemite with a Nazi mind, a McCarthyist bigot, and a hypocrite, noted that Denton was gay, accused him of being a stalker, and added: “You are a loser and an intellectual dwarf who cannot engage me on my widely