Roubini Sees German, U.S Debt as Havens in Face of ‘Fragility’

Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist credited with predicting the financial crisis, said that government bonds of countries such as Germany, Canada and the U.S. will represent a haven from increasingly volatile markets in coming months.

“It is going to be a period of economic and financial fragility,” Roubini said in an interview in Aix en Provence, France. “The short-term and long-term debt of countries not yet subject to sovereign debt concern will be havens,” he said.