# Professor Nicholas Economides comments on Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras' television debate

1 Faculty News September 9, 2015 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg_0.jpg?itok=qy2YlnxP)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-09/greece-s-tsipras-defends-record-as-opposition-lashes-out-at-him) -- "'It was a series of short monologues with the camera focused on a single person only,” said [Nicholas Economides](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas-economides), a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'The crucial economic issues seemed to have been only touched at the surface.'"

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