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Excerpt from The Washington Post blog -- "It’s much easier for regulators to write complex rules than simple rules."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "Fashion, technology, energy and a very wealthy private and corporate sector -- which Greece does not have, and there's no chance for a country to survive over the long run without some sort of competitive advantages."

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- “Once you start micro-managing the data looking for patterns, you will find them simply because there is so much data that there have to be patterns."

Excerpt from VoxEU.org -- "Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims gave us a coherent framework with which to think about and discuss these critical policy issues. And they fully anticipated the difficult dilemmas we now face as a consequence of recent fiscal policy."  Additional coverage appeared on Wall Street Pit.

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Visionary politics from both the left and right has caused deadlock in our legislative system. And, given eminent domain, public goods and free rider issues, plus the American love of a bureaucratic planning wrangle, we couldn't get politics out of infrastructure even if Ron Paul were king." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "I think that the claim that anybody who favors higher taxes is morally obliged to pay more than they legally owe shows a fundamental misconception about the basis for the social compact we call government." Additional coverage appeared in AllVoices, Reuters, CNNMoney, ABC News, The Huffington Post, CommonDreams.org, enewspf.com, Accounting Today, Afro.com and ThirdAge.

Excerpt from International Business Times -- "Marciano pointed out that in this economy, it may be politically toxic to approve of a merger that would lead to significant job cuts."

Excerpt from MacCleans -- “He’s a walking example of innovation, differentiation, value-adding and the bizarre. ... These are exactly the things we teach business students to do.”

Excerpt from Downtown Express -- "When Peck Slip opens in 2015, the neighborhood’s overall school capacity will be four years behind its demand, according to Eric Greenleaf, a professor of New York University’s Stern School of Business and an active member of NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s School Overcrowding Task Force."

Excerpt from Foreign Affairs -- "As development economist Daniel Altman recently explained, in a global economy, 'these people are your consumers, your workers, your investors.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The fundamental difficulty throughout has been the failure to understand the nature of the crisis. Nouriel Roubini of New York University’s Stern School of Business makes the relevant points in a recent paper."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Tulin Erdem, a professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, said the campaign tried to keep up 'with the times without sounding too trendy,' while 'mocking lightheartedly the soap industry.'"

Excerpt from Financial Times -- “If Indonesia is going to grow, it is important that this increasing demand is met by supply. It needs more investment in infrastructure, but also in human capital."

Excerpt from O'Reilly Radar -- "The problem with sentiment analysis ... is that it tends to be rather generic, and it's not customized to the context in which people read." Additional coverage appeared in Forbes

Excerpt from Huffington Post -- "Chang acknowledges his work is grounded on welfare economics and market failure theories; he cites Joseph Stieglitz, Amartya Sen and William Baumol among his influences."

Excerpt from Estadao -- "Banks are liquid and solid, the country has grown well in recent years, and the administration of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was a significant reduction of social inequity from the improvement in income distribution, with the increased generation of jobs (translated from Portuguese to English)."

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "Previous Bastiat Prize winners were: ... 2002: Sauvik Chakraverti (Economic Times, India) and Amity Shlaes (The Financial Times). ..."

Excerpt from The New York Times Paul Krugman blog -- "The international experience of 'internal devaluations' is mostly one of failure. Argentina tried the deflation route to a real depreciation and, after three years of an ever-deepening recession/depression, it defaulted and exited its currency board peg."

Excerpt from Forbes -- “What happened to MF Global could happen to Jefferies, Barclays, Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley. Leverage & maturity mismatch can lead to runs."  Additional coverage appeared in Forbes and Crain's New York Business.

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "This year's selection committee consists of: ... Viral Acharya is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern). ..."

Excerpt from Wireless News -- "Joining Ferik in the panel discussion was ... Lawrence White, economics professor and economics department deputy chair at New York University's Stern School of Business and co-author of Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, published earlier this year."

Excerpt from Investment Week -- "The academic evidence on the long-term successes of IPOs is, to be generous, mixed. For example, a study of 5,821 IPOs highlighted by Loughran and Ritter in Investment Fables by Aswath Damodaran, calculated that IPO firms underperformed peers by high single digits per annum for up to four years."

Excerpt from MediaPost -- "Magazine publishers received a public scolding at the American Magazine Conference from L2 founder Scott Galloway, who warned that magazines are behind the curve when it comes to social media."

Excerpt from BizCommunity.com -- "Professor Scott Galloway's NYU-based think tank, LuxuryLab released fascinating findings in their third annual 'Digital IQ" report this week. The report assessed the digital competence of 49 global fashion and leather goods firms, to a small number of media outlets."