Robert Shiller interview on market bubbles and narratives driving them - Business Insider

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Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller forewarned investors about the dot-com and housing bubbles. Now he tells us which irrational market behaviors have him most worried.

"Something very strange is going on," Shiller told Business Insider by phone. "It seems unlikely that interest rates will stay so low for 30 years."The world's most accurate economic forecaster sees a 'prolonged global slowdown' on the horizon — and warns it can only be narrowly avoided

But Shiller identified at least two other narratives at play — and he explores several more that drive markets exuberance in a new book titled "First, Shiller noted that demographic changes have been a factor in the decline in yields. The rapid aging of baby boomers has sustained the demand for steady income that Treasurys offer.

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