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Nouriel Roubini

Economist Nouriel Roubini is tweeting?doom about the London Olympics this morning.

From @Nouriel:

• UK policymakers scared so much folks before the Olympic that London is a deserted city: non-olympic tourists are away; londoners are gone!
• The Olympics are an economic failure as London is totally empty:hotels, restaurants, streets. They scared all off with crowd excess warnings
• By scaring every1 to stay out of London with warnings about too many people coming here it turns that London is totally empty, a zombie city
• RT?@Notgiamatti?The Yogi Berra effect! Nobody goes there, it's too crowded.
• The West End - usually packed on any Saturday night - was an empty waste land last nite: barely a soul to be found in theaters, bars, etc
• They scared away all non-olympic tourists that pack london all summer;they pushed most londoners to escape;they told 2million to work @ home
• RT?@_garrilla?that's the 'olympic economy' - all dispacement & deadweight (oh, and hot air)

Meanwhile London retailers are begging the transport system to stop warning about congestion problems, according to Telegraph's Graham Ruddick.

Retail chief Richard Dickenson told Ruddick:??We know there is a displacement effect. Instead of normal tourists you get sports tourists, we knew that. But we didn?t expect the impact on the London catchment and commuters."

London taxi drivers have reported a 20-to-40 percent drop in income this month, with industry representative Steve McNamara calling the Games "a complete and utter disaster."

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/roubini-the-london-olympics-are-an-economic-failure-as-london-is-totally-empty-2012-8

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