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Excerpt from Reuters -- "'Investors anoint a new hedge fund demi-god all the time,' said professor Jim Liew, who teaches hedge fund strategies at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'But they are bound to be disappointed because the rule of thumb is that a manager who can be up 40 percent one year can be down 40 percent the next. They are absolutely human.'"

Excerpt from The New York Times Dealbook blog -- "Nouriel Roubini, a professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, recently argued in a Financial Times editorial that Italy’s debt should be reduced to 90 percent of the gross domestic product from 120 percent."

Excerpt from NDTV -- "[Nouriel Roubini] expects the Eurozone to slip back into recession as a consequence of the ongoing fiscal crisis and the fiscal austerity measures. He also expects growth in the US to remain anemic." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg UTV, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Edward Altman, finance professor at New York University, tallies 215 so-called 'Chapter 22' filings between 1984 and 2009."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "You will note prior comments by public intellectuals Niall Ferguson, Steven Pinker, Joseph Nye Jr., Paul Romer, Tim Harford, James Fallows and others in Chapter 7. Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Buying government bonds and pushing down interest rates, which are already at historical lows, could be 'close to irrelevant,' the New York University professor said." Additional coverage appeared in Yahoo! Finance, MindfulMoney and a Reuters video.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Investors anoint a new hedge fund demi-god all the time ... But they are bound to be disappointed because the rule of thumb is that a manager who can be up 40 percent one year can be down 40 percent the next. They are absolutely human." Additional coverage appeared in The Chicago Tribune.

Excerpt from Portfolio.com -- "The report ranks the mobile offerings of 'prestige brands' in the sectors of beauty/skincare, fashion, hospitality, retail, and watches/jewelry, looking at how "sticky" their mobile applications are and, of course, whether the brands have apps at all." Additional coverage appeared in two Marketing Vox News pieces and Warc.com.

Excerpt from DNAinfo -- "If somebody had told you 10 years ago that in 2010 over 1,000 kids would be born in Community District 1, nobody would have believed it." Additional coverage appeared in DNAinfo and Tribeca Trib.

Excerpt from PRWeb -- “Mobile competence may be a crystal ball for a brand’s global prospects. Ground zero for growth in prestige exists among consumers who are increasingly turning to a small screen to learn about, and ultimate consummate purchases of prestige brands.” Additional coverage appeared in Mashable.com.

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "There are other methods of valuing a bank (See Aswath Damodaran’s chapter on valuing financial service firms here)."

Excerpt from The Economic Times -- "The euro should be falling on a fundamental basis towards a parity with the US dollar to give a fighting chance for Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Spain to survive in the euro zone."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "India is 'better placed' in BRIC nations as Brazil faces slowing growth, Russia’s economy isn’t 'well diversified' and China’s model is being 'challenged,' New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said."

Excerpt from The New York Times Magazine -- "A variety of economists (including, notably, several at N.Y.U.’s Stern School of Business) have mounted strong evidence that, over the past decade or so, a significant part of Wall Street’s business has shifted from serving the financial needs of the nation to profiting from 'regulatory arbitrage' — making money by playing with the rules of the game."

Excerpt from New York Post -- "The three-year program is aimed at film industry types who want to be as comfortable on Wall Street as they are on the creative side, says Sam Craig."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "The answer: Nobody Knows Anything. Predicting exactly what's going to happen in the TV business in the next 36 months is like guaranteeing the Miami Heat will win the NBA Championship this year."

Excerpt from TIME -- "There is literal disgust and moral disgust, and the two overlap. Betrayal, hypocrisy, certain kinds of baseness trigger the brain's moral response."

Excerpt from StatePress.com -- “The influence on the market by the first lady has surprised everyone. At the State of the Union address in a few weeks, there will be people keenly interested in what Michelle wears.” Additional coverage appeared on TheGrio.com.

Excerpt from New York Observer -- "Currently his list counts him following four of his own publications, former Village Voice intern Esther Zuckerman, Mark Pincus, Radiolab’s Jad Aumrad, economist Nouriel Roubini, Peggy Noonan, Eric Cantor, Jack Dorsey, a director of MOBY as well as the accounts for AllThingsD and the conservative group Ricochet."

Excerpt from Entrepreneur -- "TV watching has actually increased by 25 percent over the past five years. People have found an additional hour for TV per day. The Web has actually enabled our audience to find and watch more TV that they love." Additional coverage appeared in MovieWeb.com and CableFax.com.

Excerpt from Forbes -- "We propose an innovative 'side-by-side' transition plan in which Fannie and Freddie will be phased out of existence: through a combination of a decrease in their investment holdings and an increase in the fees that they charge for their guarantees on their MBS."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Richard Sylla, chairman of the Museum of American Finance and an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, with Usman Nabi and Arik Ruchim, partners in H Partners, which invests in distressed companies."

Excerpt from Slate -- "... Michael Spence's "The Next Convergence" is largely about the crisis we should have had ..."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "According to Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, in-group loyalty plays a much larger role in the moral judgments of conservatives than those of liberals." Additional coverage appeared in The Atlantic.

Excerpt from Los Angeles Times -- "There's always a side of us that wants to believe we really are in that bedroom or in that situation with the characters."