From Business Week:

One of the most prominent voices of the financial crisis has been Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist and chairman of economic consulting firm RGE Monitor. Credited with predicting the housing and financial crisis that crescendoed last fall, his outlook has remained consistently bleaker than those of many other economists, but so far he has often been borne out. As he is fond of pointing out lately, the International Monetary Fund recently revised its estimate of global and U.S. bank losses upward to figures similar to his own.

I sat down with him (and the Washington Post’s national economy correspondent, Neil Irwin) on Sunday afternoon, to talk about securitization, the Federal Reserve and the big banks.

The economy: