prominent economist Nuriel Roubini slammed author Michael Lewis, He called him a “hired footman/vulture sucking on powerful financial crooks” after receiving news of the author’s forthcoming book FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried.

Roubini also noted how Lewis called him a “doomsdayer” and then continued to write ‘The Great Short Circuit’ later.

Lewis is a hired footman/vulture who sucks on powerful fin crooks until they drop, then makes quarterback on Monday morning. He called me “sissies”, “ninnies” & doomsayer when I warned of the coming crisis in 2007, only to write the Big Short afterwards. As shabby as SBF https://t.co/jGCm0XIhvr

— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) November 14, 2022

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Roubini quotes tweeted epsilon theory Creator Ben Hunts Tweet that also criticized Lewis and his upcoming book.

“If Michael Lewis spent 6 months ’embedded’ with Bankman-Fried and didn’t realize the guy was a scammer then I have no interest in his book,” Hunt tweeted.

To to a report by The AnkelLewis embedded with FTX FTT/USD founder Bankmann-Fried in the last six months and made cryptocurrency exchanges the subject of his next book. The report cited an email from the CAA agent Matthew Snyder originally sent out to potential buyers on Friday.

On Crypto: Roubini has criticized the crypto industry and has openly expressed his skepticism.

“Crypto exchanges/platforms exhibit huge maturity differentials, lack of transparency, and toxic commingling of investor funds. This is the recipe for the mother of all bank runs. Everything will collapse!” he tweeted on Monday.

“S***tcoins, dogcoins are the pillars of all crappy cryptos. Dogecoin started out as a literal joke, as revealed by its founder. But people like Elon Musk Pump and Dump Dogecoin. This crypto cesspool of the house of cards is now collapsing,” he tweeted.

Roubini’s comments come amid a crypto bloodbath last week caused by the collapse of FTX that…