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Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "Even the S&P 500, which is weighted by market value and is not rebalanced, undergoes 20 to 25 changes in an average year as companies are added to and removed from the index, according to a study by Jeffrey Wurgler, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "We are seeing wage inflation begin to pick up. We're seeing actual inflation rise a bit. I think that's why the Fed is going to be tightening because they're now confident that inflation will rise to their target."

Excerpt from CNNMoney -- "Trump has already argued that Dodd-Frank is holding back the American economy, even though data show that business lending and bank profits have never been higher. 'You can't get deregulation done unless you've got people in place. You can't just wipe regulations off the books. You need to do that in a formal fashion,' said NYU Stern professor Lawrence White."

Excerpt from NPR -- "'Ten years ago, before the iPad and iPhone were mainstream, the average person had an attention span of about 12 seconds,' Alter tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies. Now, he says, 'research suggests that there's been a drop from 12 to eight seconds ... shorter than the attention of the average goldfish, which is nine seconds.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The jobs that are lost to automation aren't coming back. I think seven out of eight jobs that we lost in manufacturing over the last 15 years were lost to automation, and maybe one was lost to China out of eight. It's a pretty significant force to contend with. The model of making a living in the future is going to be capital ownership. You own your own tiny business that you use to generate revenue, perhaps using some AI technology."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Roy Smith, professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business, and a former partner at Goldman Sachs, notes the new environment may require greater independence for those guarding large institutions. 'Maybe we need to make these guys a little bit more independent, particularly if they are challenging more than market risk,' says Smith."

Excerpt from TODAY.com -- "There will be certain high-end niches, but for the most part, and also it becomes a complicated conversation because there is an American manufacturing index - what car is the most manufactured car in the US? And the winner? The Toyota Camry. So what it means to be made in America is now taking on new meaning."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "Browsing Twitter this week, I came across an interview with Adam Alter, a New York University social psychologist. His book, Irresistible, details the addictive qualities of smartphones, social networks and other digital technologies. And while I once may have read the fleeting tweet and forgotten about it, instead I clicked a button on my web browser to save the story for later."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Used within reasonable limits, of course, these devices also offer us new graces. But we are not using them within reasonable limits. They are the masters; we are not. They are built to addict us, as the social psychologist Adam Alter’s new book 'Irresistible' points out — and to madden us, distract us, arouse us and deceive us."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'When something becomes a religion, we don’t choose the actions that are most likely to solve the problem,' said Haidt, the author of the 2012 best seller 'The Righteous Mind' and a professor at New York University. 'We do the things that are the most ritually satisfying.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Mr. Brenner, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who helped develop the first volatility index, now is focused on what he believes will be an actionable gauge of the kind of fear now pervading the markets. 'The VIX is low because it doesn’t measure ambiguity. The uncertainty is much bigger than that,' Mr. Brenner said. 'I believe that’s what ambiguity is going to capture.'"

Excerpt from eFinancialCareers -- "A director in the PhD program in data science at NYU, Dhar is also an entrepreneur in the field of finance. He founded SCT Capital Management, a hedge fund based on predictive models in 1998 and co-founded Deep Blue Analytics, a consulting company that applies data analysis to commercial problems in 2012."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "This overestimation is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. It is the cognitive bias that makes less competent people overestimate their own skills while underestimating the competence of others. The term was coined in 1999 in the publication of David Dunning and Justin Kruger. The psychologists had noticed in prior studies that in areas like reading comprehension, playing chess or driving a car, ignorance leads to confidence more often than knowledge does."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "The world has become so integrated or globalized, if you want. So it's very difficult to protect the US technology from falling to what the United States considers its enemies."

Excerpt from CIO -- "Rosa Abrantes-Metz, managing director of Global Economics Group, adjunct associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and a co-author of papers on price fixing involving gold, silver and LIBOR prices, said that 'with respect to gold and silver, the structure of these fixings and the empirical evidence were very telling in supporting collusion and manipulation.'"

Excerpt from Law360 -- "Earlier in the day, the petitioning investors called New York University professor Anindya Ghose to testify as an expert in online and mobile advertising. Ghose said that AOL had grown to become much more than an Internet service provider and had made in-roads into the digital marketplace. 'It was much more that a dial-up company,' Ghose said of AOL at the time of the Verizon deal. 'It was a global media tech company.'"

Excerpt from AFP -- "Scott Galloway, who teaches brand strategy and digital marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business, said Uber has little room for further error after these missteps. Galloway, who also founded business intelligence firm L2, said the news about Uber over the past month has been 'very damaging' but may be surmountable."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Any campus is a really interesting social environment where there are multiple moralities, multiple communities competing with each other and drawing recruits. And what we're seeing in the last few years... is the rise of a particular sub-group that is extremely passionate morally about equality, about fighting racism, and that's all great. But they've adopted a way that is kind of vindictive, that is all about calling people out. So people are afraid of them."

Excerpt from the Financial Times -- "[Alter] concludes that not only are humans peculiarly susceptible to becoming hooked to their devices, even if they do not enjoy the experience, but games and social media companies are expert at keeping them enthralled."

Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "'Tipping in the U.S. has so many dimensions,' said Priya Raghubir, chair of the marketing department at the NYU Stern School of Business, who added that the practice often isn't rational. 'People will routinely tip a cab driver but won't tip the person who makes up their room in the hotel, because they never see that person.'"

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "Anindya Ghose, marketing professor at NYU Stern Business School, predicts that the Alibaba-Paytm relationship is going to directly affect the future of Flipkart and Snapdeal in a non-trivial way. 'An M&A activity between Snapdeal and Alibaba is a solid possibility here, given that their attempt to acquire Flipkart last year did not go through. An acquisition of Snapdeal can be a part of Alibaba's grand plan to take on Amazon in India by strategic stake holdings in leading players of the region,' said Ghose."

Excerpt from Us Weekly -- "I recently read the business book Irresistible by New York University associate professor or marketing Adam Alter."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The technology is designed to hook us that way. Email is bottomless. Social media platforms are endless. Twitter? The feed never really ends. You could sit there 24 hours a day and you’ll never get to the end. And so you come back for more and more."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "As Aswath Damodaran says in his recent book, Narrative And Numbers, it would be a fallacy to look purely at numbers without understanding the narrative behind the numbers. Hence the commentary from Indian companies in their post-results analyst calls is probably more important than the reported numbers."

Excerpt from CRN Magazine -- "Solution providers need to look at the clichés, also known as 'best practices,' that make up their business model – and 'invert them, or turn them on their head,' he said. For instance, the channel should look at their current processes in place around interacting with clients, selling services and products, and pricing models."