There is nowhere to hide. We have for the first time in decades a global synchronized recession. Markets have become perfectly correlated and economies are also becoming perfectly correlated. This is not your kind of traditional minor recession.

Nobody’s in favor of long-term ownership of the U.S. banking system by the government, but if you don’t do it this way you end up like Japan where you kept alive for decade zombie banks that were never restructured. That’s going to be much worse. It’s better to clean it up, nationalize it and sell it to the private sector.

—Roubini