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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'Hamilton has a lot to contribute to today's discussion,' said Richard Sylla, the chairman of the Museum of American Finance and an economics professor at New York University who is working on a book about Hamilton's foresight."

Excerpt from Slate.com -- "Our brains generally are a mechanism that is supposed to make sense of the world. ... Many times when we see something for the first time our brains kind of have a signal flag that says, 'this is the first time I'm seeing it and it doesn't make sense.'"

Excerpt from Science Daily -- "The authors discovered that under certain circumstances higher status consumers are more likely to emulate the choices of lower status people, a phenomenon called the 'low status user effect.'"  Additional coverage appeared on Eurekalert, UPI.com, TruthDive.com and Daily Mail.

Excerpt from BVWire News -- "Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern School of Business, is teaching one class this year—valuation—and you are invited to attend."

Excerpt from Variety -- "When it comes to equity, we're far more comfortable partnering with a studio. ... When it comes to an independent film, we're much more comfortable with debt."

Excerpt from Triple Pundit -- “What makes the current situation so hard is that we’re trying to solve a long-term problem with a very constrained fiscal situation."  Additional coverage appeared on a Council on Foreign Relations blog.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek - "Marx has gotten an attentive reading recently from the likes of New York University economist Nouriel Roubini and George Magnus, the London-based senior economic adviser to UBS Investment Bank."  Additional coverage appeared in Livemint.

Excerpt from Investor's Business Daily -- "'He was good at sensing when to get in and out of things,' said Richard Sylla, professor of the history of financial institutions and markets at New York University's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- “With relatively high yields, if there is a credible plan in Italy -- Italy has very low private debt, its public debt is relatively stable if they adopt sensible policies -- so could be quite a good investment as well.”  Additional coverage appeared on Channel News Asia.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Spence, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, stopped short of saying the U.S. is in a crisis. 'We have a debt problem, we have a political problem dealing with it, and we certainly have a growth and unemployment problem, but it’s not a crisis,' he said."  Additional coverage appeared in Washington Times.

Excerpt from KCRW -- "Moran Cerf tells the story of what it's like to try and subdue a science fiction monster as it threatens to devour years of serious research."

Excerpt from The Independent -- "I was also struck by this chart in Vickers, based on work by a paper by Viral Acharya, Itamar Drechsler and Philipp Schnabl of NYU-Stern, which shows the movement over time of credit default swaps (CDS) in the Irish and British banking sectors, and also the movement over time of the CDS of Irish and British government bonds."

Excerpt from Xinhua -- "'China has a Five-Year Plan. It's easy to read, it's understandable,' Spence said of China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015)."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Can you wage war against an economic downturn by attacking it like a military opponent? If so, can you win such a war? In "The New Deal," a blow-by-blow account of Roosevelt's campaign against the Great Depression, Michael Hiltzik implicitly answers both questions with a 'yes.'"

Excerpt from the Boston College Financial Security Project -- "Economists’ explanation for why people don’t save for retirement is that they “discount” the future, placing a higher value on today’s pleasures."

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "Audi took the top rank in the second-annual Prestige 100®: China IQ, which measures the digital footprint of 100 prestige brands in China, the world's fastest-growing luxury market."  Additional coverage appeared on Newswise, MarketWatch, Betanews, StreetInsider.com, Yahoo! News, TheStreet.com, At the Center of it All, Newsblaze.com and Bradenton.com.

Excerpt from Brainerd Daily Dispatch -- “If a stimulus doesn’t take effect quickly, it isn’t really a stimulus, which is what Obama discovered after many millions of his 2009 spending package went unspent.”

Excerpt from CNBC -- "The big risk for Mongolia, however, remains its dependence on mining exports, especially to China. A crash landing for China’s economy forecasted by hedge fund investors such as Jim Chanos and economist Nouriel Roubini, could set back the country’s ambitious GDP growth targets."

Excerpt from Washington Square News -- "For their dedication to New York's business community, the Stern School of Business's Berkley Center was presented the first-ever Outstanding Professionals for their Entrepreneurial Leadership award last week."

Excerpt from New York Observer -- "At the beginning, ToVieFor had incredible momentum. The startup won the $75,000 grand prize at NYU’s Stern School business plan competition, debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt and went on to make the cut into the first TechStars NY class that ended April 15"

Excerpt from PBS Nightly Business Report -- "A recent paper by Stanford economists Paul Romer and Charles Jones summarizes the state of growth econ."

Excerpt from TIME -- "You get the feeling that some of these items have an extremely tangential connection to 9/11, and they seem to want to trade on the event. ... At certain times, it feels excessive."

Excerpt from the USC Annenberg blog -- “Even in the presence of congestion, Net Neutrality can maximize welfare."

Excerpt from Xconomy.com -- “One of the hurdles New York City has is, as good as the tech scene is, you’ve got to get those people together.”  Additional coverage appeared on XYDO.com and NYConvergence.