# Professor Lawrence White comments on the impact of tensions with North Korea on financial markets

1 Faculty News August 11, 2017 ![NBC News online logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_037262.gif?itok=6hhedDRK)>

Excerpt from [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/why-stock-market-taking-trump-kim-war-words-its-stride-n791551) -- "'I think a lot of people do believe this is just huffing and puffing — and when push comes to shove, there’s not going to be any pushing,' [Lawrence White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business, told NBC News."

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