In today’s New York Times article, Professor Robert Shiller “>voices his concern about a real estate bubble. Professor Schiller is well-known for predicting the last stock market correction and possibly influencing Fed Chairman Greenspan’s use of the phrase irrational exuberance, the name of Professor Shiller’s subsequent book.
According to the article, origins of a housing bubble began with the Dutch about 400 years ago. Recently, a Dutch economist, Piet M. A. Eichholtz, a professor of Maastricht University, used Mr. Schiller’s method for converting actual sales into an index and found that the housing market saw a series of booms and busts. They found that in the long run, there was no long term trend and that prices match gains in personal income.
Mr. Shiller has a Norwegian housing index and a US Index that shows a similar pattern and is concerned that the recent run-up shows we are in a bubble.
Source: New York Times
To his critics, he says that housing charts generally go back to the 1970’s and stock market charts go back almost a century.
Tags: Robert Shiller, Alan Greenspan
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