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Is it time to play safe with investments?

In scary times like these, it is comforting to talk to someone who has seen and studied a lot of things – booms, busts, and everything in between. Enter Robert Shiller. The Yale University economics professor and Nobel Prize winner recently came out with an uncannily prescient book for the current moment, Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events. The 73-year-old spoke about how contagions shape much of our lives – whether we realise it or not.

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