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Excerpt from Reuters -- "Here are the last 10 winners of the Economics prize: 2011 Thomas Sargent (United States) ... 2003 Robert Engle (United States) ... "  Additional coverage appeared on CNBC.

Excerpt from Reason Magazine -- "Free market thinkers such as Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, market soothsayer Peter Schiff, and economic historian Amity Shlaes offer their best ideas for creating a legislative and regulatory framework more conducive to job creation."

Excerpt from BigThink -- "Though the Bush administration never admitted it, its tax cuts would almost certainly push the incomes of rich and poor further apart."

Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "Ten years ago: ... Americans George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in economics."  Additional coverage appeared on ABC News, Digtriad.com and Redbluffdailynews.com.

Excerpt from Social Good Consulting -- "Sharon Badal (Moderator) is the head of Tribeca Film Festival short film programmer. She was at the festival since its inception and produced special projects for various organizations, Tribeca since 1999. She is the author of swimming upstream – Rescue Short Film Classification Guide."

Excerpt from Investment Weekly News -- "We find that in two recent periods, Libor rates depart significantly from the expected Benford reference distribution."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "One simple source of confusion is the distinction between a fund and its manager, said Marcin Kacperczyk, a finance professor at New York University. People often know and follow funds by name, even as managers come and go. Yet the manager can matter a lot."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Loading up on policies 'makes sense as a psychological phenomenon, but it doesn't make financial sense,' says Zur Shapira."

Excerpt from Cincinnati.com -- "New York University economist Paul Romer observes that investment in human capital, given its ability to continually innovate, has almost limitless potential returns."

Excerpt from BigThink -- "This past spring, Big Think convened a roundtable of distinguished economists moderated by Parag Khanna, that included Dambisa Moyo, Daniel Altman and Anand Giridharadas."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Most advanced economies are lapsing into recession while the U.S. is already contracting, Nouriel Roubini, the economist who predicted the bubble in U.S. housing before the market peaked in 2006, said in New York last month."  Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, CNBC, New York Post and MoneyControl.com.

Excerpt from Barron's -- "In an interview, Brenner pointed out that it's hard to know what effect VIX options and VIX futures will have on the behavior of the VIX itself."  Additional coverage appeared on Dow Jones.

Excerpt from Economics Week -- "The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business will co-host a "Systemic Risk and Data Issues" conference, October 5-6, 2011, at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, Washington, D.C. The Smith School has partnered with the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at the NYU Stern School of Business ..."

Excerpt from The Independent -- "The psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that conservatism taps into more wellsprings of moral passion than liberalism, which gives the Right a powerful electoral advantage."

Excerpt from the Innovation Investment Journal -- "'Ideas are the recipes we use to rearrange things to create new value and wealth,' Frog Design Fellow Luke Williams reading of economist Paul Romer. "

Excerpt from Financial Post --"In her excellent book, 'The Forgotten Man,' Amity Shlaes notes that the 1932 tax increases were not the result of any 'fundamentalist' commitment to balanced budgets, but of fears about a run on the dollar."  Additional coverage appeared in The Phoenix and American Spectator.

Excerpt from AdAge -- "While Nielsen today is a major public corporation, it is still imbued with the spirit of a proud family-owned business dedicated to the best principles and practices of the research profession."  Additional coverage appeared in the Associated Press.

Excerpt from AddPR -- "Hugo’s screenplays had been cycling in industry circles and widely revered by film industry connoisseurs such as director/UCLA professor Philip Frank Messina, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Sharon Badal ... "

Excerpt from BigThink -- "Last week my colleagues at New York University’s Stern School of Business hosted a lecture by the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Duvvuri Subbarao, in which he openly sympathized with Bernanke’s plight. ... Flooding the economy with money is all Bernanke can do."

Excerpt from RepoWatch -- "Liquidity risk – which was at the heart of the September 2008 financial meltdown and explains regulatory concerns about a Greek default today – remains an open issue in financial regulatory reform."

Excerpt from The Economist -- " ... the vast majority of job growth has been in areas like education and health care, where productivity and wages are stagnant, a trend well documented by Michael Spence."  Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post.

Excerpt from ABC News -- "He wasn't flaunting it like Donald Trump. ... He didn't do Architectural Digest. Do you even know what his wife looks like?"  Additional coverage appeared in Deseret News, Moneywatch and San Antonio Feeds!

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "I felt the combination of these two degrees was going to make me a little more unique and give me that extra look for a job."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "In a way, the fall of '08 was a great time to be coming into business school. It gave me a little bit of protection. ... As much as [the mood] was uncertain, it was also very hopeful that things would change by the time we graduated."

During an interview, Professor Lawrence White discusses the economy