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Excerpt from Barron's -- "The euro is an economic solution to a political problem: What to do with a united Germany? But the euro zone that's going to survive isn't the same as the one that was born. It's a bit like what Ben Franklin said about hanging alone if you don't hang together."

Excerpt from New America Foundation -- "Recovery from what already has been dubbed the “Great Recession” has been so weak thus far that real GDP has yet to surpass its previous peak. And yet, already there are signs of renewed recession."  Additional coverage appeared on Yahoo! Finance, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post.

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- "It takes a lot of different manifestations, but we live in a world with a lot of economic insecurity, of worries about the future, of inequality, poverty, of concerns about jobs."  Additional coverage appeared in a New York Times blog.

Excerpt from USA Today -- "People are spreading primetime throughout the day to watch their favorite programs at their convenience."

Excerpt from Science Magazine -- "NYU economist David Backus says Sargent and Sims have had a profound influence on hundreds of students ... Both are known for their devotion to mentoring, Backus says."

Excerpt from International Business Times -- "My obsession with understanding how people change recently led to a psychologist ... Jonathan Haidt. He has a change model that I think is one of the best that I have ever come across, because of its simplicity."

Excerpt from the University of Texas at Austin News -- "Litan's book "Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity" (co-authored with Kauffman Foundation president Carl Schramm and New York University professor William Baumol) has been translated into 10 languages and is used as a college text around the world."  Additional coverage appeared in the University of Texas School of Law Magazine.

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 ... "