Hizzoner says no but Charlie Gasparino is hearing a “nuance” in his tone. [FBN]

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As he dies on the inside and considers begging. Please– PLEASE!– you can’t take the plaster vulvas away from him.

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Earlier: Charlie Gasparino Is Worried About The Nouriel Roubini Hype

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First, off, Charlie Gasparino would just like to start by saying he means no disrespect to Nouriel Roubini. The little mezza fanook’s clearly got some smarts on him and the guy throws a great party (should Chaz ever be invited back, he swears there won’t be another unfortunate alleged incident– and besides, who among us hasn’t been pulled aside at told by the host that “there have been some complaints”? So he grabbed a dame’s cans– so what? She wouldn’t have made such a stink about it if his meathooks hadn’t had dip on them at the time. Broad needs to loosen up).

Roubini may be the most recognizable economist on the planet. He’s a New York University professor, with the nickname “Dr. Doom,” who is famous for soirées in his TriBeCa loft that attract a combination of attractive foreign women and financial celebrities. On a personal level, he’s smart, engaging and a pretty nice guy.

Having said that, Gaspo had some time to think about things this weekend and something about the Doc has been plaguing him.

Here’s an interesting question: If Nouriel Roubini is so prescient, if he really did predict the housing bubble and the financial crisis as the mainstream media claims, why is he basically ignored by so many sophisticated investors?

(Chaz knows Roubini is ignored because he did his research.)

In my unofficial survey, I couldn’t find a single investor who regular uses his research. What gives?

The answer I received from market forecasters and investors is that Roubini’s research often doesn’t live up to its media-hyped reputation. Based on my research, it wasn’t until about August 2006 that Roubini began talking about a housing crisis, and he was hardly alone. Several economists and investors, from John Paulson to Stan Druckenmiller and around this time Goldman Sachs, were also predicting the housing decline. Roubini, for his part, wasn’t available for comment, but a spokesman said in a statement that he has “built a strong and rapidly growing business,” and has more than “1,000 institutional clients.”

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My point is not to pick on Nouriel Roubini as much as it is to draw attention to his record as he becomes a prominent voice in Washington policy-making circles. Roubini, for example, supported President Obama’s failed $800 billion stimulus plan, and has even called for more spending to get the economy rolling, although you didn’t hear him fret much about the Chinese boycotting our debt when he said that. (He opposes a second stimulus.) He said there’s now a good chance the country is heading for a double-dip recession.

Despite the hype, Dr. Doom isn’t always right — and Obama and the media should keep that in mind when they take his advice.

Roubini’s Doom In His Predictions [NYP]

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Earlier: From Whom And How Does Charlie Gasparino Get His Scoops?

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Here’s one: how many times have you watched Charlie Gasparino break a story and wonder to yourself, “How does this guy do it? Where does he get these stories? Who are his sources? How does he get them to crack?” Whether it’s the Goldman prop situation, Jimmy Cayne’s uromysitisis condition or Dick Fuld’s inability to post bail after getting arrested for going ape-shit on a CostoCo employee, Gaspo’s always got it. Is it that Chaz:

a) Has put in quality time with this broad, who knows all?

b) Leaves threatening voicemails on people’s machines, suggesting if he doesn’t get the story, he’ll break off their cojones and boil them in motor oil, which typically motivates them to give him the dirt?

c) Tails Andrew Ross Sorkin to his source meetings, waits for him outside and proceeds to rub a chloroform soaked rag on ARS’s face, steal his notes and make a mad dash for Elaine’s, where no one will ask questions?

d) Has an army of San Pietro bus boys on payroll who report back anything they heard from the movers and shakers dining at the restaurant after their shift?

e) Has realized that it’s the interns in every organization who hold the secrets, and to that end has endeared himself to the ones at the major banks by taking them out for drinks at Tropix, his favorite joint in Rego Park, where they have a lax policy on underage drinking?

This morning, Charlie revealed the answer.

Apparently it’s the interns.

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He says it’s his policy not to do walk and talks but Charlie Gasparino knows better. This guy’s got something to hide.

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A couple days back one of Charlie’s former colleagues and I had a conversations re: if absolutely forced to pick between two former and current CNBC colleagues with which to liaise, who she’d go with. She went with option C, which was that she’d have to kill herself or go on life-support. I suggested the situation might still be appealing to Charlie Gasparino. Today he responded to that discussion on-air asking “She’s gotta be comatose?” and adding “She’s gonna be comatose” before his mic was cut. I’m not even sure what any of this means (was he saying he’s going to put her in a state of comatosis via his schlong?) but regardless I’m nervous.
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Fortunately, this attention by the SEC has not stopped Gregory from going after the $230 million he’s owed in deferred comp.

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Joseph Collins had a novel reaction to “Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors.” The 2005 book by Charles Gasparino, now of Fox Business News, inspired Collins to create a potentially revolutionary Internet communications tool. “I was reading Charlie’s book and I thought it was very unfair that Eliot Spitzer could just walk into companies and demand their email,” Collins recalled. Spitzer was New York’s Attorney General when the Internet busted, and he exposed a steady stream of embarrassing emails from Wall Street cheats. Some of the most memorable were from Merrill Lynch’s former star Internet analyst Henry Blodget calling a company he was publicly hyping “a pos.” That stood for “piece of” something I can’t even spell in this column. What the world really needed, Collins decided after reading Gasparino’s book, were emails that couldn’t be copied, forwarded or saved. That way, people could speak candidly without worrying about overreaching snoops like Spitzer.Collins, 32, a Northwestern University graduate, was struggling to build a chain of gas stations amid rising real estate and gasoline prices. He saw a brighter future in designing disappearing emails. The result is VaporStream electronic conversation software, which is available on a free-trial basis at www.vaporstream.com. “It’s just a new form of instant messaging or email,” Collins said. “We like to think of it as the natural evolution of online communications.”

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If you haven’t been keeping up with your financial talking head drama, you (like me) might’ve missed the fact that yesterday on CNBC, Joe Kernen referred to Fox Business as a bunch of “wing-nuts.” Fox did not like this! And you know who at Fox really didn’t like it? Charles Gasparino. How dare Kernen refer to Chaz’s new employer as such. “Fuck that guy Joe,” Gaspo said to the girl doing his make-up as he worked himself into a frenzy over the offense. “Who does he is, thinking he can condesend to my people,” Gaspo asked her before shouting “I said easy on the blusher, easy!”  There was only one way to let Kernen know CG would not be taking this offense sitting down– by taking to the airwaves and telling everyone about how he used to inspire prison rape fantasies in JK. (FYI, this is not the first time Chaz has mentioned himself/Kernen and soap dropping on live TV. To wit, two years ago CG commented breathlessly: “Joe is a little intimidated by me. Every time Joe sees me in the CNBC locker room, half naked with a towel around my waist and my tattoo showing he gets a flash back from a prison movie. Joe’s workout is 2.7 miles every other day on the treadmill.”)
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