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Robert Shiller On The Stock Market – Business Insider

Mark Lennihan/APYale Professor Robert J. Shiller has a new piece examining the market up at The New York Times in which he notes that stocks are indeed expensive:The United States stock market looks very expensive right now. The CAPE ratio, a stock-price measure I helped develop — is hovering at a worrisome level.I wrote with some concern about the high […]

August 17, 2014 ByJoe Weisenthal business, economy, major, professor, real, sociology, space, standard, united Comments Off read more

2014/02/20 Big Mechanism Seeks the “Whys” Hidden in Big Data

February 20, 2014Program aims to leapfrog state-of-the-art big data analytics by developing automated technologies to help explain the causes and effects that drive complicated systems During the 1854 cholera epidemic in London, Dr. John Snow plotted cholera deaths on a map, and in the corner of a particularly hard-hit quadrangle of buildings was a water pump. Snow’s maps, a 19th-century version […]

February 20, 2014 ByDARPA Public Affairs Office agency, beautiful, big-mechanism, cancer, cohen, disease, mechanism, science, sociology, youtube Comments Off read more