# Professor Aswath Damodaran's blog post on low interest rates is highlighted

1 Faculty News June 17, 2016 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/06/17/everything-is-more-expensive-than-it-looks/) -- "[Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a finance professor at New York University and an expert on valuing companies, points out that companies’ past earnings come from a period in which the risk-free rate was much higher."

[Read more](http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/06/17/everything-is-more-expensive-than-it-looks/)