# Prof. Richard Sylla discusses the Nasdaq's recent 15-year high

1 Faculty News March 5, 2015 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/06/business/a-changed-nasdaq-makes-the-long-climb-back-to-5000.html) -- "Professor [Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla) suggested that investors, now twice burned by market plunges in 2000 and 2008, were far more cautious than in the late 1990s. 'The dot-com bubble was just 15, 16 years ago, so just about everyone 35 or older, an age when people begin to have money to invest, remembers it,' he said. 'These folks have learned some lessons about bubbles, fortunately. So current valuations, while high by most historical standards, are more reasonable than they were 15 years ago.'"

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