Robert Shiller: ‘Wild West’ mentality is gripping housing, stocks and crypto

Robert Shiller: ‘Wild West’ mentality is gripping housing, stocks and crypto

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Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller is worried a bubble is forming in some of the market’s hottest trades.

He’s notably concerned about housing, stocks and cryptocurrencies, where he sees a “Wild West” mentality among investors.

“I haven’t done that in print. I’ve been saying that,” the Yale University professor told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Friday.

Even though the record run in stocks and cryptos has been taking a break over the past couple of weeks, Shiller is worried. He’s particularly uneasy about the latest housing boom.

“In real terms, the home prices have never

Yale Happiness Course Now Taught In High Schools

Yale Happiness Course Now Taught In High Schools

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from weforum.org Yale University’s happiness course is now being taught in high schools Study at a Beijing high school showed that happiness lessons had positive outcomes among students. In the US, ‘happiness professor’ Laurie Santos’s Psychology and the Good Life course will be rolled out to students in low-income high schools. COVID-19 pandemic has negatively…

Class Colloquium 11: Richard Breitman – Refugees & Immigration, 1930s and now

Class Colloquium 11: Richard Breitman – Refugees & Immigration, 1930s and now

ByArthur Segal

Some say that the challenges we face today resonate with what the country faced in the 1930s, specifically about refugees wanting asylum in the US.

One of the jewels of our Class, Richard Breitman, has made a career writing. researching and teaching about that period. 

Register today for Class Colloquium 11, set for July 14th (Bastille Day!) at 2:00 pm EDT for a presentation and rich Q&A, where Richard shares some observations about that period of American History — and converses with you about what it means for us today. Click through to learn more!

Richard Seltzer publishes Breeze, his latest novel

Richard Seltzer publishes Breeze, his latest novel

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Breeze (Amazon), a young woman in present-day Connecticut, goes into a medically inexplicable coma.  Her boyfriend, Yannie, a senior at Yale, has to get her the help she needs to survive while trying to solve the mystery of this goddess-like free spirit who appeared out of nowhere two months before.

In part two, Breeze awakens in a different body in a […]

Bail set at $20 million for man charged in Yale grad student killing

Bail set at $20 million for man charged in Yale grad student killing

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from  nhregister.com Bail set at $20 million for man charged in Yale grad student killing May. 20th, 2021  Pan attended his arraignment virtually in a gray shirt and gray shorts Thursday, and at one point appeared to lean forward to better hear Judge Brian Fischer. Prosecutor Stacey Miranda alleged Pan, 30, had been renting an…

Op-Ed: Reflections on the Death of Charles Hill, Co-founder of the Program in Grand Strategy at Yale

Op-Ed: Reflections on the Death of Charles Hill, Co-founder of the Program in Grand Strategy at Yale

ByJim Sleeper

Editor’s Note: This is an Op-Ed that our classmate, Jim Sleeper, wrote for Salon, upon the passing (and subsequent memorial service at Yale) of one of the founders and leaders of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, Charles Hill.

Class History: 1969 to 2018
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Class History: 1969 to 2018

ByReed Hundt

[Editors Note:  Originally published on 26 May 2019;  This is fifth in a series of re-published Essays from the 50th Reunion ClassBook.]   Back again, your whilom class historian here reviews our half-century of adulthood by examining the world and American culture at the milestones of our graduation in 1969, the 25th reunion in 1994, and…

The Hoop & The Tree: A Compass for Finding a Deeper Relationship with All Life

The Hoop & The Tree: A Compass for Finding a Deeper Relationship with All Life

ByWayne Willis

Editor’s Note: In addition to three books of poetry, Chris Hoffman just released a revised and expanded edition of his seminal book of ecopsychology, The Hoop & The Tree: A Compass for Finding a Deeper Relationship with All Life.

The Hoop & The Tree is a book on psychology, spirituality, and native wisdom, which The Bloomsbury Review called “therapeutic, enlightening, and a joy to read.” Professionally, Chris has combined his backgrounds in psychology (Licensed Professional Counselor and M.Ed. in Community Mental Health) and business (M.B.A.) to facilitate […]

Rock & Revolution: How The Electrifying Sounds Of Our Youth Transformed America

Rock & Revolution: How The Electrifying Sounds Of Our Youth Transformed America

ByWayne Willis

Register for the next Class Colloquium about how our music galvanized support for then-radical goals like an end to war, Black Power, women’s liberation and even “sex, drugs, rock & roll.”

Professor Angharad Davis, who created and taught the “Music and Revolution” course last year, will share highlights for this special alumni-oriented session, to be held Thursday, May 20 at 4 pm ET (register now). It’s being offered by the Yale Boom group (classes 67-73) and hosted by ’74. The [very enjoyable] pre-event assignment is to listen to a Spotify or YouTube playlist that Davis created for her course.

Big Chill + 40

Big Chill + 40

ByDavid Howorth

Scott Herstin hosted five fellow Davenporters —Ned Culver, Brad Davenport, Dave Howorth, Dick Tucker, Harry Wise, plus spouses and fiancées—for a week on Kiawah Island. My report: Scott is living in Naples, FL, where he takes an interest in Everglades restoration and reads Randy Wayne White novels. Ned splits the year between homes in Charleston,…

Yale elects first Muslim student body president in school’s 320 year history

Yale elects first Muslim student body president in school’s 320 year history

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From WFSB, Channel 3, in Hartford Yale elects first Muslim student body president in school’s 320 year history For the first time in the school’s history, Yale University will have a Muslim Student Body President. Bayan Galal of the class of 2023 ran for Yale College Council President. On Friday, she received more than 56…

Historian Beverly Gage nominated to National Council on the Humanities

Historian Beverly Gage nominated to National Council on the Humanities

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  news.yale.edu Historian Beverly Gage nominated to National Council on the Humanities By Susan Gonzalez|Apr. 30th, 2021 President Joe Biden has nominated Yale historian Beverly Gage ’94 B.A. to the National Council on the Humanities, a board of 26 distinguished private citizens who advise the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the White House announced on April 28. Gage,…