Word: shiller
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...lively history of finance. Even more improbably, the book is gorgeous. You can see the crimson illumination on the Ligatio pecuniae and read the fine print on a futures contract from the Dutch West India Co. Each chapter is a minihistory written by stars like Niall Ferguson and Robert Shiller, who explain in rich prose the connections between Chinese pawnshops, Greek moneylenders and, ultimately, the cash in your pocket. --By Jyoti Thottam
...SHILLER It is not reasonable that the risk premium should be zero. You can buy inflation indexed bonds at 4% [risk free]. That's why I am a big advocate of index bonds. It is one of my campaigns...
...SHILLER That's short term...
...SHILLER But consider one 20-year period, which was '29 to '49, [the return] was just about zero. If you look at a broad indication of the world and history, it has been at times very risky, and it certainly has the potential to be risky in the next century, which is the future. Not the past...
...Robert Shiller is a professor of economics at Yale. James Glassman and Kevin Hassett are resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute