Source: Diário do Centro do Mundo

Nouriel Roubini is the closest thing to a celebrity economist that exists.

In Davos, several days ago, Roubini was constantly surrounded by journalists. A video in which he discussed the U.S. economy with a Bloomberg correspondent went viral.

Everyone wants to know what Roubini, an Iranian based in the U.S., is thinking.

And for good reason.

He is credited with having been the first to predict the economic collapse of 2008 from which the world has yet to recover.

Despite all that, when Roubini visited Brazil to give a lecture yesterday at Credite Suisse, he was ignored by the local press at a time when economics is all anyone talks about.