Topic: Robert Shiller
The stock market is premised partially on the actual economy and partially on the emotional sentiments and temperaments of the people acting within the economy. For example, Google provides an actual set of services to people that enable it to accrue an ...
If you believe the price of a good you consume regularly is going to go up in the future, the best thing to do is to stock up now. Robert Shiller says there is a growing belief that the economy will have ...
This seems like a good question to have answered before we run off and regulate Wall Street and hopefully the mortgage brokerage industry as well. In fact, while Shiller himself has written a book explaining the causes of the recession, Paul Krugman ...
This seems like a good question to have answered before we run off and regulate Wall Street and hopefully the mortgage brokerage industry as well. In fact, while Shiller himself has written a book explaining the causes of the recession, Paul Krugman ...
Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes. Of course, we all know the proximate causes of an economic crisis: The state of economic knowledge was just as bad in the Great ...
The article reviews the books " How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It," by Robert J. Shiller, and "Financial Shock: A 360? Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis," by ...
Robert Shiller defends financial innovation: In defense of financial innovation, by Robert Shiller, Commentary, Financial Times: Many appear to think that the increasing complexity of financial products is the source of the world financial crisis. New products must have an interface with ...
Excoriating economists should be the new Olympic sport. And it is mostly unfortunate because it distracts attention from a serious discussion of the lessons to be learned from the financial crisis.. Did the economics profession really blow it by not foreseeing and ...
Did the phrase "green shoots" Robert Shiller wrote an interesting column in the Sunday Business section of the New York Times yesterday that discusses the important role that "social epidemics" play in the business cycle. As Shiller mentions later in the article, ...
Yale economist Robert Shiller was on Bloomberg yesterday talking about the need for more action by the U.S. government to ward off a dreaded " double-dip" recession..