# Professor Ari Ginsberg comments on a recent report by Yelp predicting a forthcoming economic slowdown

1 Faculty News January 31, 2019 ![Inc. logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032187.jpg?itok=TSGPgNt6)>

Excerpt from [Inc.](https://www.inc.com/michelle-cheng/yelp-economic-index-predicts-downturn-local-businesses.html) -- "'\[Yelp's average\] is a new source of data and is a valuable source--but it has to be analyzed so you're not basically crowning it as the new source,' says [Ari Ginsberg](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ari-ginsberg), a professor of entrepreneurship and management at New York University's Stern School of Business."

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