| When Robert Shiller, co-creator of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices , speaks, he tends to make headlines, and yesterday was no different. Claiming that he wasn't making any predictions, he predicted that home prices could fall another 25 percent.
"That wouldn't surprise me at all," he hedged. And there was the headline, tragic as it is.I happened to be at the conference yesterday where he said that. In fact, I was a speaker/panelist at the Standard and Poors "Housing Summit 2011: Boom, Bust and Beyond." And, no offense, but that wasn't the headline. What really struck me was what he said right before that.............................................Full Article: Source |