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Professor Robert Barbera featured in Wall Street Journal

Screenshot of article with text "Greenland Clash Risks Undermining America’s Place in World Economic Order The U.S. has long been a beacon of safety when uncertainty reigns. That is changing."

Johns Hopkins Economics Lecturer and Director of the Center for Financial Economics, Robert Barbera, was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal:

“Although the erosion of America’s safe-haven status might be gradual, the caution flags, including past tariff actions and the country’s high level of debt, have been there for investors to worry about for a while, said Robert Barbera, a Johns Hopkins University economist. Markets can move quickly, he points out, and it doesn’t help that stocks appear extremely expensive relative to the past. 

“This market can fall a lot before anybody can stand up and say, ‘God, do they look cheap,” Barbera said.”

Read the article, ‘Greenland Clash Risks Undermining America’s Place in World Economic Order’