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Prof. Kim Schoenholtz on Janet Yellen's recent remark about stock valuations

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Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "Kim Schoenholtz, a economics professor at NYU Stern School of Business, said that Greenspan’s comment [on financial markets in 1996] is remembered because it was so rare during that time for central bankers to discuss asset prices. 'When Greenspan did that, it seemed to many observers to be out of place,' Schoenholtz said. Now it is part of the normal obligation of a central bank to alert people about the risks that markets and financial institutions pose to the financial system and the economy, he said."

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