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Excerpt from Insurancenewsnet.com -- "William Berkley, chairman and chief executive officer of W.R. Berkley Group, said what many U.S. insurance industry representatives have said of Solvency II: 'It is tremendously invasive.'"

Excerpt from NPR: All Things Considered -- "Our long-term proposal is to reduce the extent of home ownership subsidies that we are providing, so wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the long run, and second, remove the tax deductibility of mortgage interest rates so we are not distorting the system to over-borrow on houses." Additional coverage appeared on WBUR.org, WNYC and KOSU.org.

Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "Taking a class in a personal interest like cooking or creative writing may be exciting, but digging through local schools' websites to find and compare available options can be tedious. CourseHorse, a startup that won $75,000 in the New York University New Venture Competition in April, aims to simplify the hunt."  Additional coverage appeared on NYConvergence.

Excerpt from Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- "I think when this is all over and things get to be more normal again, we'll look back on it and say, 'Well, Bernanke didn't turn things around right away, but he prevented something much worse from happening.'"  Additional coverage appeared in Credit Writedowns.

Excerpt from Barron's -- "April Klein of the Stern School of Business at NYU, along with Seoyoung Kim and James Rosenthal, both of Emory University's Goizueta School of Business, tracked more than 1,600 reverse splits done from 1962 through 2001."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "New York's billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg disclosed earlier this year that he will declare no net capital gains on his 2010 tax return. Robert Gordon, who heads Twenty-First Securities, believes that, in part, is due to wise loss harvesting during the 2008 meltdown."

Excerpt from Miami Herald -- "'There are 100 ways to restore your self worth,' says Nathan Pettit, an assistant professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from The Australian -- "Economic guru Nouriel Roubini, predictor of the global financial crisis, says 'most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession' ... US Nobel laureate economist Michael Spence, visiting Australia, warns the world is facing a 'pretty tough decade.'"

Excerpt from International Herald Tribune -- ‘‘'In a crisis, spreads widen because no one wants to lend long term,’' said Mr. Acharya, who has studied the interbank market."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- "As Sidney Homer and Richard Sylla point out in their wonk classic 'A History of Interest Rates': During the years 1932-1936 business recovered substantially and commodity prices rose 35%."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Longer run, if we don't get out from under the AA rating, we may have to pay a slightly higher interest rate, but it's not the end of the world."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "I don’t think there’s a solution to the employment problem in the short run."  Additional coverage appeared in India PR Wire, Asia Sentinel and BusinessFinance Magazine.

Excerpt from Times of India -- "NRN then is a template to follow. He is best typified in his own words, culled from a pre-commencement address he made at the New York University, Stern School of Business a few years ago: 'I believe that we have all at some time eaten the fruit from trees that we did not plant...'"

Excerpt from Economics Week -- "Financial risk management has generally focused on short-term risks rather than long-term risks, and arguably this was an important component of the recent financial crisis."

Excerpt from BBC -- " ... continued pursuance of present policy is threatening a double dip recession (Morgan Stanley, the Bank of England's Andy Haldane), a 1930s-style monetary collapse (Fed dissenter Richard Fisher), Eurozone breakup (Nouriel Roubini) and political mayhem (Jeff Sachs)."  Additional coverage appeared in The Telegraph, Seeking Alpha, Coffee House Spectator blog, FXStreet.com, Benzinga.com, Times Union blog, Motley Fool and BusinessWorld Online.

Excerpt from Elle -- "Target’s renewing their contract to sponsor the space and NYU’s Stern School of Business will give the designers a chance to partner with MBA students on finance and business plans."  Additional coverage appeared in Woman's Wear Daily, Fashionista.com and a New York Magazine blog.

Excerpt from New York Post -- “In a difficult economic environment, consumers may pay 3D premiums for compelling entertainment but ignore others, for example, ‘Drive Angry 3D.'"

Excerpt from Detroit News -- "Amity Shlaes writes in 'The Forgotten Man,' Roosevelt denounced the 'economic royalists' for trashing the economy."  Additional coverage appeared in Town Hall and The Washington Examiner.

Excerpt from The Atlantic Wire -- "Richard Sylla, a professor at NYU, told the Times a case from the Justice Department would have, 'a major impact if there was a successful fraud case that would suggest there would be momentum for legislation that would force them to change their business model.'"

Excerpt from ContactMusic.com -- "Amir Malin of Qualia Capital told the New York Post in a difficult economic environment, consumers may pay 3D premiums for compelling entertainment but ignore others.'"

Excerpt from The Independent Review -- "The basic argument for bailing out large banks is that a single failure of such a firm can contaminate the whole financial system, which is a public good that the government must safeguard."  Additional coverage appeared in Heartlander.

Excerpt from BusinessDay -- "New York University’s Stern School recently set up a campus in Abu Dhabi; and so have many universities in the United States and Australia that are tapping into governments eager and serious to raise standards and willing students (not unlike their Nigerian counterparts) focused on getting foreign degrees."

Excerpt from ITWord -- "Mundie's remarks were made in a speech to The New York University Stern School of Business, and it is one of the earliest trial balloons for the Microsoft concept of shared source, where just a little source code is opened to select customers and not really shared with anyone else."

Excerpt from CampaignAsia.com -- "In all, the study measured the online impacts of 87 magazine brands according to the quality and integration of their respective websites, digital marketing, social media and mobile presences." Additional coverage appeared on CampaignAsia.com.

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Professor Sylla said that the ratings agencies could be forced to stop making their money off the entities they rate and instead charge investors who use the ratings. ... The ratings agencies lost a bit of ground on their First Amendment protections in the recent financial reform bill, which put the ratings firms on the same legal liability level as accounting firms, Professor White said." Additional coverage appeared on CNBC, Sacramento Bee, Herald T ribune, Gainsville.com and Seattle Times.