Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
This is an anxiety driven world - the whole world is driven by anxiety. It is anxiety about the aftermath of the global financial… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this year? Yet… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Diversify, because that helps reduce risk. And you can diversify outside the United States. Some people would never invest in Europe - I think… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
When I see the Trump supporters on television explaining themselves, I don't get a feeling of supreme confidence. They've created a revolution, and now… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
I didn't vote for Trump. So we've got him. Let's hope for the best. He might do something good. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
