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Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "U.S. economic data are looking 'mixed' and the economic recovery is "anemic," economist Nouriel Roubini said Friday."

Excerpt from CNN Money -- "'The overall economy is still relatively weak,' said Larry White, professor of economics at the NYU Stern School of Business. 'We are clearly in a better position than we were two or three years ago, but the Fed will probably be steady as she goes well into 2013.'"

Excerpt from China Daily -- "'What we are about to go through is this incredible acceleration of the pace of urbanization in the developing world,' Romer remarked."

Excerpt from Financial Times Germany -- "The argument that a collapse of the banking system must be prevented, is basically correct: without a functioning banking system is not functioning economy. But here is worth looking into detail. It is crucial not to confuse the rescue of banks to bail out their shareholders and bondholders (Translated from German)."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The reality is that most of the gains in good times – and until the PSI – were privatised while most of the losses have been now socialised. Taxpayers of Greece’s official creditors, not private bondholders, will end up paying for most of the losses deriving from Greece’s past, current and future insolvency."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "From a distribution perspective, watch and jewelery brands have traditionally sold through third-party retailers that not only manage inventory but also the relationship with the end consumer. The shift to digital requires both a shift in operations to facilitate a direct-to-consumer selling channel and a much larger strategy for managing these relationships"

Excerpt from Variety -- "'Today's content industry depends upon creative, business and technological excellence, and the opportunity for our students to combine forces has been truly inspiring for them and our faculty alike,' said Sam Craig, director of the entertainment, media and technology program at NYU's Stern School of Business."

Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "From the point of view of taxpayers, policy action to address the systemic threat is long overdue. Aside from the government-sponsored enterprises, the most glaring omission in the Dodd-Frank financial reform was the failure to address critical short-term markets such as those for money funds and repurchase agreements."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "'His skills in communication in that environment are so extraordinary,' said NYU Stern School of Business professor Kim Schoenholtz. 'What we've seen under Chairman Bernanke is the willingness to explore a variety of mechanisms to communicate the Fed's goals.'"

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'There is too much emphasis on getting out, and getting on with business rather than whether it is going to work,' said Ed Altman, the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "'With the iPad, Apple is relying on the fact that they have a package to offer with the iPhone, iPod and laptop at home and all the content under that umbrella,' said Eitan Muller."

Excerpt from The Epoch Times -- "'New York City has a long history of trying to encourage locally based smaller retailers and trying to discourage larger chains' retailers headquartered somewhere else,' said Lawrence J. White, professor of economics at NYU, mentioning the that the city has yet to have a Walmart and only recently opened a Target."

Excerpt from CNBC -- " ... if job creation continues at the 12-month average of some 142,000, more than 1.1 million jobs will be added by Election Day. 'He’s lucky that the recovery has taken so long, coming now rather than a year ago,' says White."

Excerpt from Financial News -- "If Bank of America should stumble again, and the FSOC had done nothing to prevent it, the political, as well as the economic, fallout could be devastating."

Excerpt from Crain's New York Business -- "'Cloud computing is increasingly used for things it wasn't used for before,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. He cited personal music collections that are now kept in Apple's cloud, and the use of the Web for everything from social networking to finding babysitters."

Excerpt from TIME -- " ... Ersner-Hershfield [have] come up with an imaginative way, by taking pictures of subjects and running them through software that adds 30 years to their age. People who see the self of tomorrow and then participate in a simulated 401(k) exercise put away more money than those who haven't gotten a glimpse of the person who awaits them three decades hence."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal Japan -- "Mr. Foudy ironically, currently, China also have the same problem. Both in the U.S., even if it has a bachelor's degree, many low-skill workers, fewer personnel he experienced moderate skill and technical knowledge. Company would have no choice but to increase the investment in vocational education and training. In any case, the story of the long-term in the span 10 to 20 years (Translated from Japanese) ."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Philippon's conclusion -- based on an analysis of the financial sector's output in recent decades, as well as what its workers have been collecting in profits and wages -- is that high finance is highly inefficient."

Excerpt from Women's Wear Daily -- "Galloway said publishers should be spending more with Facebook because it’s the least expensive way to target a young, affluent audience."

Excerpt from InformationWeek -- "I see it as a move where Google is reducing its own risk. But I'd like to see them be more forthright in spelling out what they will and won't do with customer data."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "Health care and government alone accounted for 40 percent of that growth, according to economist Michael Spence."

Excerpt from IR Update -- "Over the years, listening to corporate executives and observing what they do, I have concluded that many are captive to a web of misperceptions about the workings of capital markets."

Excerpt from SmartMoney -- "'A high-end restaurant will charge $32 for a steak because it makes it seem more luxurious than a steak for $31.99,' [Morwitz] says."

Excerpt from NPR -- "In 'The Righteous Mind,' Jonathan Haidt ... a moral perspective, he argues, is a feature of our evolutionary design. Morality has made it possible for human beings — unlike any other creatures — to forge large, cohesive, cooperative groups."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'Those numbers are just cash bonuses, but you don’t have the full compensation,' said Xavier Gabaix ... 'The comptroller should absolutely report deferred compensation. Otherwise, it’s hard to interpret the results.'"