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What Does a Record Stock Market Mean?

We asked Yale SOM’s William Goetzmann, an expert on financial markets and the history of finance, what soaring stock prices say about the economy and the future of the markets.

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  • Why Is Healthcare So Expensive?

    Yale’s Zack Cooper discusses new findings on what drives the high costs of healthcare and how to rein them in.

    Background
  • How Are Hedge Funds Changing?

    Putnam Coes ’94 of Paulson & Co. says that starting a new fund is harder than ever.

  • What's Next for the Eurozone?

    Despite debt crises, a flood of refugees, and struggling economies, there are reasons to be optimistic about the Eurozone.

  • Don’t Assume a Fed Action Will Move the Market

    Robert Shiller writes that our responses to a rate hike are unpredictable, even when we know in advance that it will happen.

  • Where Did Madoff's Money Go?

    Yale SOM’s Rick Antle on the complexities of making restitution in the wake of a Ponzi scheme.

    Rick Antle speaking
  • Are Public-Private Partnerships the Best Way to Provide Government Services?

    HEC’s Bertrand Quelin says that such projects are generally successful—but they aren’t always perceived that way.

  • Can Research Generate Returns?

    Andrea Frazzini, a principal at research-oriented hedge fund AQR Capital Management, discusses what it takes to put an academic idea to work creating investment advantage.

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  • Does the Fed Need a Foreign Policy?

    As the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates—a move that will be felt globally—Professor Jeffrey E. Garten outlines a foreign policy agenda for the Fed.

  • Can the National Defense Be a Global Business?

    Vivek Lall, the head of global strategy for General Atomics, says that the industry, responding to many of the same pressures as other businesses, is becoming increasingly globalized.

    Can the National Defense Be a Global Business?
  • The Housing Market Still Isn’t Rational

    In a New York Times op-ed, Robert J. Shiller explains why the housing market “is far less rational than even the often irrational stock market.”