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Excerpt from Barron's -- "New York University finance professor Baruch Lev admits to being thankful for 'our divided government and do-nothing Congress.' Lev adds, 'With a unified Congress, we would have stringent climate-change laws, higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and public-employee pension-fund bailouts.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Acronyms may be catchy, says Richard Bernstein, chief executive of Richard Bernstein Advisors, 'but anytime you hear one, you have to wonder what part of the story hasn't been told.'"

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "Authors as varied as the economist Robert H. Frank (1999's 'Luxury Fever') and the political theorist Benjamin R. Barber (2007's 'Consumed') have ganged up on what they see as the particularly unequal and excessive American spending habits." Additional coverage appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Nouriel Roubini, economics professor at New York university, points out that the failure makes a double-dip recession as soon as next year likely as it results not only in automatic cuts that begin in 2013 but also endangers other measures that were to be part of the compromise."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "The U.S. market is the best house on a bad block. The dollar has been telling you this for awhile."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I'm jealous. I'd love to have this problem, you know, having people noticing my hair was a little misplaced."

Excerpt from ClearAdmit.com -- "A Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating in the U.S.! Today’s Campus Chronicles hails from New York City and The Stern Opportunity, the newspaper serving the MBA community at NYU Stern."

Excerpt from Jamaica Gleaner -- "Peter B Henry, the Jamaica-born dean of New York University Stern School of Business being interviewed in New York for the 'OnePeople' documentary project by producer Justine Henzell."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "It has been argued that raising interest rates will do little to bring down food prices. But here’s what Subbarao said in a speech at the Stern School of Business, New York University, in September: 'Rising incomes, especially in rural areas, have resulted in a shift in dietary habits away from cereals and toward protein-based foods.'"

Excerpt from Arab News -- "One of the main ideas of the book is that individual interests expressed in free markets do not always produce outcomes that are best from the perspective of the group. This Darwinian understanding of the competition, according to the author, is currently lacking in our view of things."

Excerpt from Yahoo! Finance -- "The contagion has now gone viral, cross Atlantic and global." Additional coverage appeared in Business Insider, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal blog.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Whether his recent rise in the polls is lasting or not, Newt Gingrich has already shifted Campaign 2012 for the better. The feisty former speaker of the House has reminded us through his debate performances that knowledge is an important part of a president’s work." Additional coverage appeared in Brainerd Dispatch, New York Post, NewsMax.com, and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Excerpt from Benzinga.com -- "Dr. Altman developed the widely-used Altman Z-score, which was initially designed to estimate the probability of a firm defaulting. Recently, he has reworked his metrics to apply them toward analyzing sovereign risk."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Few people actually want to shop in the wee hours, and the purchases that do occur then are presumably offset, dollar for dollar, by reduced sales during normal business hours." Additional coverage appeared in The Washington Post, Wicked Local, Forbes, Telegraph.co.uk, Business Insider, Newser.com and The New American.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Fourteen out of 20 prominent academics, former policymakers and independent thinkers polled over the last 10 days agreed the euro zone's make-up would change."

Excerpt from The Economic Times -- "Sankar knew an MBA was important for her to gain management skills as her NGO increases in scope. 'I am a researcher with two doctorates but I am basically an introvert. I was skeptical about how I am going to cope with the aggressive business guys. The experience has been amazing.'"

Excerpt from The Media Briefing -- "Galloway argues that media brands have dropped the ball on social media. The thing they are (were?) good at was connecting with people – but in a digital age its brands that are taking over."

Excerpt from Seeking Alpha -- "NYU Stern School of Business has come up with a global ranking of financials instead of just a ranking for U.S. financials."

Excerpt from Hospitalitynet.org -- "The EHL delegation seized the opportunity to meet with distinguished representatives of the Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, the Stern School of Business and with the Swiss Society in New York for potential future collaborations."

Excerpt from VoxEU -- "The aim of the recapitalisation is to ensure that European banks can absorb potential losses from sovereign-debt restructuring." Additional coverage appeared in the Financial Times blog.

Excerpt from Strategy + Business -- "The fact that "The Next Convergence" covers so much ground means that it has little time for the folksiness and redundancy that make for easy reading. The payoff is coherence — the argument of the book fits together as tightly as the formal models that Spence once built for a living." Additional coverage appeared in Science Mag.

Excerpt from Financial News -- “Bankers will have to do all this – and when they have, the markets are likely to create further opportunities to exchange privately held Irish and Portuguese debt in the same way, maybe even Spanish and Italian debt, too ... Banks handled exchange offers of Brady Bonds for 17 countries in the 1990s, why not again?”

Excerpt from Fast Company -- "'We're looking for Bluefin to add something new,' says CBS chief research officer David Poltrack, who is intrigued by the product."

Excerpt from The Malaysia Star -- "As described by economist Robert H. Frank, the desire to keep up with the Joneses is similar to the arms race among countries."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "They had gathered for the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation gala honoring U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg and his wife, Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg, and featuring a performance by Carole King, including the apt 'You’ve Got a Friend.'"