Robert Shiller, Author at Retirement Income Journal

Do Spectacular Earnings Justify Spectacular Stock Prices?

By Robert Shiller Fri, Oct 5, 2018

'A bear market could come without warning or apparent reason, or with the next recession, which would negatively affect corporate earnings. That outcome is hardly assured, but it would...

Published October 5, 2018

The Old Allure of New Money

By Robert Shiller Thu, May 24, 2018

'The cryptocurrencies are a statement of faith in a new community of entrepreneurial cosmopolitans who hold themselves above national governments,' writes the Nobel Prize-winning economist, author and Yale professor....

Published May 24, 2018

The World’s Priciest Stock Market

By Robert Shiller Thu, Jan 25, 2018

'In pricing stock markets, people don’t seem to be relying on any good forecast of the next ten years’ earnings. They just seem to look at the past ten...

Published January 25, 2018

Another Nobel Surprise for Economics

By Robert Shiller Thu, Oct 12, 2017

The Nobel committee just honored Richard Thaler, one of the founders of behavioral economics. Our guest columnist calls the choice controversial but appropriate.

Published October 12, 2017

The Illusions Driving Up US Asset Prices

By Robert Shiller Mon, Jan 23, 2017

'The Dow is up only 19% in real (inflation-adjusted) terms since 2000. A 19% increase in 17 years is underwhelming, and the national home price index that Karl Case...

Published January 26, 2017

Inspiring Economic Growth

By Robert Shiller Thu, May 21, 2015

The Nobel Prize-winning Yale economist believes that a big, inspiring fiscal stimulus, akin to the 1960s space program of the 1960s, might cure what ails America.

Published May 21, 2015

Parallels to 1937

By Robert Shiller Thu, Sep 11, 2014

"Now, as then, people have been disappointed for a long time, and many are despairing," writes the 2013 Nobel laureate in economics.

Published September 11, 2014

Booming Until It Hurts?

By Robert Shiller Thu, Jul 24, 2014

As usual, the stock market appears to be climbing a wall of worry. This 2013 Nobel laureate believes that such worries are healthy, but only as long as they...

Published July 24, 2014

The Opposite of Austerity

By Robert Shiller Wed, Mar 20, 2013

The respected Yale economist argues that temporarily higher taxes and higher spending is a better path to recovery than permanently lower taxes and lower spending.

Published March 21, 2013

A Man Without a Plan

By Robert Shiller Thu, Nov 15, 2012

Obama’s chief economic adviser is Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council. Unlike the typical academic economist, Sperling concentrates on practical things that might lift the economy, writes...

Published November 15, 2012

Put Your Money Where Your Neurons Are

By Robert Shiller Tue, Nov 22, 2011

The author of "Rational Exuberance" and co-creator of the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices heralds a new science that will help us understand economics by studying the physical structures that...

Published November 23, 2011

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