# "Guaranteed to Fail" by NYU Stern Faculty is named a Top Business Book

1 Faculty News February 17, 2012 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-18/jamie-dimon-dust-up-shoddy-fed-data-enliven-top-business-books.html) -- "'Guaranteed to Fail' by [Viral V. Acharya](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/viral-acharya), [Matthew Richardson](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/matthew-richardson), [Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/stijn-van-nieuwerburgh) and [Lawrence J. White](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white) (Princeton). Four professors at New York University’s Stern School of Business explain how Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac got so big and why we must fix them."

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