When asked about the exchange by a reporter for The Guardian, the reporter said Roubini then "reprises the rant, embellishing it with references to the KGB, Denton's sexual orientation, and a sweary suggestion of what the man might do with himself, which he belatedly asks me not to quote.... the piece of art in question is described by Roubini as the work of a highly regarded feminist artist whom he won't name and which doesn't, he assures me, look anything like a vulva."Emma Brockes (January 23, 2009). "He told us so," The Guardian. Denton for his part commented: "How can such a brilliant economist, at the height of his reputation, be quite so clueless?"
