En av årets ekonomipristagare till Alfred Nobels minne, Robert Shiller, intervjuas av Fox ekonominyheter som efter att gratulera honom går rakt på de viktiga frågorna om hans bakgrund.
Programledaren: ”You grew up in Detroit… Were you a nerd? Did people pick on you because your brain was probably bigger than the rest of your body when you were 12?
Shiller: “Well… At a class reunion last year it felt that my status has improved. I could hug all the pretty girls now.”
Programledaren: “Hey, you´ve got a really good head of hair and you got a Nobel prize, so there you go…”
Sedan får han faktiskt en intressant fråga om det motsägelsefulla med att han (förutom Lars Peter Hansen) delar priset med Eugene Fama som står på en teoretisk grund som egentligen går på tvärs med Shillers.
Programledaren: ”Fama and you have actually been rivals through the years. You see the world differently, yet the committee recognizes what you´ve both done.”
Shiller: “They are at the university of Chicago school and I´m at Yale, and I suppose that colors our thinking. That Chicago school tends to not think of anything contrary to markets… There´s this idea that market solutions are perfect. I actually like markets, but I don´t think of them as perfect, I think they need regulation.”
Till sist får han frågan om vilket tillgångsslag man ska investera i just nu.
Programledaren: “What’s most perfectly prized right now?”
Shiller: “In the short run, real estate. The stock market is overprized, I think. But in the long run it might be exactly the reversed.”
Alexander Norén 