Yale Economist Robert Shiller says he’s not sure if the housing market has bottomed, and says it’s likely that an environment of austerity is behind the recent economic slowdown. Shiller tells CNBC that another round of quantitative easing “might help, but I don’t know that it’s going to overwhelm the general mood of austerity which [...]
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Shiller: Housing Could Fall Further — But Not By Much
April 24, 2012
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Yale Economist Robert Shiller, who predicted the housing market crash, says he thinks home prices could fall further, but he doesn’t expect more major declines. Shiller tells FOX Business Network that he thinks prices “could fall further — not that much probably — because there’s a readjustment in our thinking. … Our long-run opinions about real [...]
Read moreShiller on Why Housing Isn’t a Great Investment
April 13, 2012
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Yale Economist Robert Shiller famously called the housing bubble that led to the Great Recession and financial crisis. And in a recent interview with Brian Richards on The Motley Fool, he talked about how the myth of housing being a “great investment” came into being — and why it’s a myth.
Read moreValuation Expert Says Market Only “Slightly Expensive”
March 28, 2012
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An expert on stock valuation who warned about the late-1990s Internet bubble says that stocks aren’t near bubble territory today. Stocks are only “slightly expensive relative to their long-term average,” John Campbell, who is the chairman of Harvard’s Economics Department — and who was with Robert Shiller the co-author of a late-1996 paper that warned Federal Reserve [...]
Read moreShiller Not Convinced Housing Has Bottomed
March 26, 2012
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Yale Economist Robert Shiller says he’s not sure the housing market has yet hit the turning point that some analysts say it has hit. Shiller tells CNBC that prices have been falling for four months now, but that indicators are looking stronger for the future. “I give it a chance that this could be a turning [...]
Read moreShiller on Stocks, Housing
March 2, 2012
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Yale economist Robert Shiller, one of the few to foresee the bursting of both the Internet and housing bubbles, says that while stocks are pricey right now, he still prefers them over inflation-indexed bonds over the long haul. “Stocks,” Shiller told the Associated Press when asked whether he would rather have his money in stocks [...]
Read moreIs There A Hole In The CAPE?
February 2, 2012
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While some prominent strategists, including Jeremy Grantham and Robert Shiller, have pointed to the 10-year cyclically-adjusted price/earnings ratio (“CAPE”) as evidence that stocks (in particular the S&P 500) are very overvalued, Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel says there’s a flaw in the metric. The flaw, Siegel said at a TD Ameritrade Institutional conference, involves the 2008 year, [...]
Read moreShiller Sees Signs of Hope
January 24, 2012
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Yale Economist Robert Shiller says a number of factors are keeping unemployment high, which, in turn, is keeping the economic recovery tepid. But, he seems optimistic about the U.S.’s longer-term prospects. “The question is: What have we lost?” Shiller asks in an interview with IndexUniverse. “We’ve lost some kind of mass-production industrial capability. But I’m [...]
Read moreShiller on “The Neuroeconomic Revolution”
November 21, 2011
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The field of neuroeconomics has gained a lot of traction in recent years. But Yale Economist Robert Shiller says a “neuroeconomics revolution” has only just begun. In an article for Project Syndicate, Shiller says this revolution has “passed some key milestones quite recently”, in particular the publication of Paul Glimcher’s Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis. “Much of [...]
Read moreShiller Talks Housing, Bubbles
September 23, 2011
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Yale Economist and housing guru Robert Shiller says the government still isn’t doing enough to help the housing market. Shiller, who called the bursting of both the tech stock and housing bubbles, tells Fox Business Network that he’s worried we could see more downside for housing prices. He also says that he has a “gut feeling” [...]
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