Yale’s Shiller: World in a ‘Late Great Depression’

“The global economy is mired in a “late Great Depression” despite central bank stimulus policies, says Yale economist and author Robert Shiller.

“Our whole economy has been affected by variations in confidence. Central banks are sort of trusted, but the actions they have often affect people’s confidence by appearance rather than substance. We’re not in the most trusting mood now,” Shiller tells CNBC.

The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England have propped up their respective economies via liquidity injections known as quantitative easing, tools designed to spur recovery but dubbed by critics as printing money out of thin air.

He says the world is in a “new age of austerity.”

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