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Excerpt from Project-Syndicate -- "Lahart cites the conclusion of New York University’s Thomas Philippon that today’s US financial sector is outsized by two percentage points of GDP."

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Recently I gave a group of my MBA students at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business in New York this assignment: Identify the most questionable new products of the year and analyze what made them so ill conceived."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "Decision-makers are running out of options again. Currency Impairment is a zero-sum game, because all countries can not devalue the currency and improve the export balance simultaneously." Additional coverage appeared in Dagens Næringsliv, Handelszeitung.ch, and The Irish Times.

Excerpt from PJStar.com -- "Yet the more information people were given about different brands of beer or cereal, the worse they did in terms of choosing well, said Jacob Jacoby, a marketing professor at New York University, according to Carlin Flora’s 2004 article in Psychology Today."

Excerpt from Plainview Patch -- "Justin Silver, an alumni and former DECA president at JFK, delivered the keynote speech. Silver is currently a senior at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "So, to those of you who hate TV -- I have to say, you really don't know what you're missing. To those of you who love TV -- it looks like a great year ahead."

Excerpt from National Review Online -- " ... it is interesting to consider the vigorous virtues in light of Jonathan Haidt’s 'moral foundations' thesis. Specifically, loyalty to friends and robustness against enemies are qualities that are particularly prized by conservatives." Additional coverage appeared in American Thinker.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Politics these days is dominated by phrases such as “baseline,” “progressivity” and “payroll tax.” These words are budget-ese, lexical obscurities." Additional coverage appeared in Yahoo! Finance and Brainer Dispatch.

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "Private investors and the markets in general are uncertain about whether this program will succeed and receive political support and do its job. They're also uncertain about the level of support that will be forthcoming from the ECB and Europe generally." Additional coverage appeared in CNC World.

Excerpt from Estereofonica.com -- "Fourteen students from the University of New York (NYU), work for two weeks with the Clay Foundation in Medellin developing financial sustainability strategies and educational programs for 2012." Additional coverage appeared in ACIMedellin.org, Columbia.com, Globedia, and Medellin.gov.

Excerpt from AdvisorOne -- "Other programs of potential interest to mid-career professionals include the Sloan Fellows program or the Trium program. ... the latter is a single program run jointly by NYU Stern, HEC Paris and the London School of Economics."

Excerpt from BigThink -- "Meritocracy is a fundamental driver of economic growth. It ensures that we take full advantage of the opportunities created in new business and industries. Without it, an opportunity that might have gone to a poor but talented person is more likely to go to a rich but not-so-bright person."

Excerpt from Investors Daily Business -- "In a terrific passage from Amity Shlaes' great book about his era, 'The Forgotten Man,' President Roosevelt is shown one morning in 1933 romping in his bedroom in the White House with his grandchildren." Additional coverage appeared in Culpeper Star Exponent and PhillyBurbs.com.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Nouriel Roubini ... is calling for 'a recession in Europe, anemic growth at best in the United States, and a sharp slowdown in China and in most emerging market economies.'" Additional coverage appeared in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The Atlantic.

Excerpt from The Australian -- "Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business, says the revenue growth rate of the 'median' IPO company is 15 per cent higher than the revenue growth rate of other companies in the sector one year after the IPO."

Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald -- "So why does Frank think economists will come to see Darwin as the true father of economics rather than Smith? Because Darwin's study of the natural world led him to a deeper insight about the often flawed nature of competition." Additional coverage appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and Barron's.

Excerpt from Outlook Business (India) -- "Research has shown that venture capital (VC) funds are more willing to invest in companies with executives that share the same ethnicity as the partners of the VC fund."

Excerpt from VoxEU -- "I've made a fearless prediction that in 100 years time, people like you and me will check Darwin's name when they're asked to fill out a survey identifying the father of modern economics."

Excerpt from International Business Times -- " ... the thief steals an iPhone because it's there, not because the thief has affection for Apple's iPhone, but because society does."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "You can make a good argument — as Romer and others do — that the greatest opportunities for progress today lie with better rules and systems. Improving schools is more about process than laptops." Additional coverage appeared in Nassau Guardian.

Excerpt from Financial Times video -- "...although the economy is not in an ideal situation, I would say I'm definitely optimistic about the future."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Interesting new research about how people think, behave and operate in society is quickly repackaged for broader audiences. The new literati of the genre include David Brooks, Jonathan Haidt, Dan Ariely, and Daniel Kahneman."

Excerpt from Reuters blog -- “My main problem with Basel III Accords is that they’re a lot like Basel II, which are a lot like Basel I. And that approach does not seem to work. It chooses winners and losers by the way they impose capital requirements. It’s very institution-based so it allows systemic risk to build up in the system.”

Excerpt from New York Post -- "George W. Bush dined at Robert at Columbus Circle with John and Margo Catsimatidis, Henry Kravis, Chris Ruddy, Ambassador Bruce Gelb, Ambassador Brenda Johnson, Seth Lipsky, Amity Shlaes and Alexandra Preate."

Excerpt from Washington Post -- "My entry is the attached graph of what I call the Toil Index. It's an index I constructed to portray the most dramatic element of the middle-class squeeze -- the effort required to rent a house served by a school of average quality. "