Transcript: U.S. Economist Robert Shiller Prescribes 'More Derivatives'

From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

He was one of the few people to accurately predict the bursting of not one but two financial "bubbles." The dot-com collapse in technology stocks at the beginning of the decade, and the U.S. housing-market collapse that triggered the current economic crisis. So when Yale professor Robert Shiller comes up with suggestions for a way forward, they're likely worth hearing. One is about derivatives, the complex financial instruments -- many based on mortgages -- that were blamed for fueling the crisis. Shiller's prescription: not fewer derivatives, but more of them. RFE/RL's Kathleen Moore asked him why.

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