Robert Shiller

Are Equities Still a Better Investment Than Housing? (at Seeking Alpha)

by: Matthew Rafat November 18, 2008 | about stocks: Matthew Rafat About this author: According to an article in Charles Schwab on Investing, Fall 2007 (p. 7), which looks like it was written by Matt Wood, stocks are a better...

Sparks fly over auto bailout

Sparks fly over auto bailout Critics want line drawn at banks; others worry about impact on economy of a Detroit 3 failure queryvar="sparks,fly,over,auto,bailout"; Neil Roland Financial Week November 17, 2008 - 11:08 am ET A...

Robert Shiller (and me) on housing

A shameless plug here that I participated in a 30-minute segment on the "state of the housing market" on NPR's Talk of the Nation show yesterday, along with noted Yale economist Robert Shiller. Here's a link to the audiocast,...

Investing in Housing (Without Buying a House) (U.S.News & World Report)

Is it possible to be a real estate investor even though you don't own any real estate ? Sure thing, says Sam Masucci, president and CEO of MacroMarkets, an exchange-traded fund manager cofounded by housing expert Robert Shiller .

U.S. stocks tally another week of losses on ailing economy

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE U.S. stocks on Friday fall sharply to tally a second straight week of losses as a record decline in retail sales and a warning of falling mobile-phone sales hammered home the ongoing fallout of the ailing...

NewsWatch: Initial jobless claims top 500,000, highest in over seven years

First-time filings for state unemployment benefits hit their highest level since September 2001 in the latest week, rising to 516,000 in another sign of a struggling labor market, U.S. data show. See full story. Mortgage...

Investment advice for a wild market

Your retirement nest egg might have lost 40% of its value since this summer and 10% the last 2 weeks. What should you do? Here's the advice I've been giving to friends who ask, as well as what I've been doing with my own...

Do You Know How Much Your House Is Worth...

With home values in a steep decline, many homeowners have been forced to sell their houses for less than they paid for them. Still, experts insist that owning a home in a failing economy can be a good thing. Dean Foust and...

Mark Hulbert: Stocks over the past dozen years are behind T-bills

ANNANDALE, Va. (MarketWatch) -- It was almost exactly a dozen years ago that Yale University finance professor Robert Shiller bent Alan Greenspan's ear, prompting the Fed chairman to give his famous "irrational exuberance"...

Shak: In crisis, mindset at fault

Published Thursday, November 13, 2008 As the United States economy crumbles, people have pointed fingers in all directions. Few as of yet, though, have dared to admit that our crisis stems from a fault in the American mind-set....

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