Notebook (Emma Jacobs) : This week, we heard that Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economics professor, who recently warned of the danger of a double-dip recession, has been offered a cameo role in Oliver Stone's upcoming Wall Street sequel. Despite prophesying the economic crisis, he told me, he would never have predicted being offered a role in a Hollywood film.
Mr Stone approached Professor Roubini to discuss the financial meltdown as part of his research. "The focus of the scripts two or three years ago was hedge funds, now it has turned to commercial banks," says Prof Roubini, who threw a cocktail party so that the Hollywood director and the actor Shia LaBoeuf could talk to asset and hedge fund managers and bankers.
