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Excerpt from Slate -- "Robert Frank says we should have a progressive consumption tax and so does Columbia's Glenn Hubbard, but one's on the left and one's on the right." Additional coverage appeared in Hindu Business Line.

Excerpt from MSNBC -- "We've got two challenges. One is we are still leveraging. We have a fragile housing market. We have balance sheets that are not healthy again. The excess consumption is not coming back so we have to sell more to people in the rest of the world and we have structural problems."

Excerpt from Edge.org -- "People second-guess situations, they stop to make sense of a chain of events before acting, and sometimes pride and the fear of looking foolish prevent them from acting at all."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Bill Silber is something of a legend at the NYU Stern School of Business. He is so good at his job that when Stern students go for interviews at investment banks, the interviewer will ask if they took Professor Silber's introduction to finance." Additional coverage appeared in Equity News.

Excerpt from PyschCentral.com -- "Despite the emphasis our culture has on logic and self-control, the emotional part of everyone’s brain is pretty powerful, particularly given the right circumstances. Jonathan Haidt, in "The Happiness Hypothesis," talks about the brain being like an elephant with a rider."

Excerpt from Kirkus Reviews -- "An evenhanded discussion and study guide on unemployment. Bittle and Johnson draw on solid statistical sources including the National Association of Manufacturers, trade-union organizations, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Economic Policy Institute, and they also rely on expertise from, among others, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman of Princeton, Nouriel Roubini of NYU's Stern School ... "

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- We could enact a steeply progressive surtax on the annual consumption of the wealthiest households, while making sure it's scheduled for gradual phase-in only after the economy has returned to full employment.

Excerpt from McDonough School of Business -- "Throughout the spring 2012 semester, the Center for Financial Markets and Policy will host a number of speakers at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business."

Excerpt from The Times of India -- "The increase in the toil index has been spectacular. From a postwar low of 41 hours a month in 1970, it rose to more than 100 hours in 2005. Although it has fallen since the housing bubble burst, the middle-class squeeze persists."

Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "Haidt is blazing some very important trails. The five value systems approach is intriguing, his data sets are impressive and clearly he has added much to our understanding of differences between liberal and conservative values." Additional coverage appeared in Philadelphia Magazine.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “If the Italian yields start to rise, you could quickly turn a manageable situation into an insolvent one." Additional coverage appeared in Mindful Money.

Excerpt from Kathimerini -- "If it becomes uncontrolled bankruptcy, Greece will be cut completely from the international banking system, and will be forced to create a public sector surplus (Greek to English translation)."

Excerpt from Financial Post -- "Professors Robert Hockett of Cornell University, Nouriel Roubini of New York University and Daniel Alpert, a partner with Westwood Capital ... outline the causes of the current fiscal calamity and propose sweeping global policies to repair and renovate the global economy."

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Bloomberg Businessweek asked each school ranked among our top 30 MBA programs to show us what they’ve got when it comes to supporting student entrepreneurs. This list is a compilation of those resources."

Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- "Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel): Take in his economic genius."

Excerpt from Amsterdam News -- "In addition to exploring the age of revolution, the Historical Society will host several other public events including 'The Money Trust' on Jan. 18 featuring James Grant, Paul Gigot and Richard Sylla."

Excerpt from Standard-Examiner -- "The enormous problems these mortgage-backed securities create was recognized by a former chief economist at Solomon Brothers, Henry Kaufman: the relationship between 'the creditor and debtor is loosened because creditors are not permanent holders of the debt ... In a securitized world, the Fed will inherit the problem of the troublesome debtor.'"

Excerpt from Financial News -- "Based on changing markets and increasing regulatory pressures, it is time to unwind the mega-banks into smaller, simpler, less risky business models."

Excerpt from MBA Social -- "As a new student at Stern I’ve been surprised at the categorical acknowledgement by my peers of how bankrupt our country is both economically and politically."

Excerpt from San Francisco Chronicle -- "Professor Richard Sylla of New York University has studied stock market returns going back more than a century and has concluded that stocks have a solid chance of returning to posting 6.5% annual real returns, as they have historically."

Excerpt from MBA Mission -- "The annual NYU Stern ProMotion Pictures Film Competition brings together students from the business school and from the university’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television to produce and direct branded entertainment for major corporations."

Excerpt from Project-Syndicate -- "Lahart cites the conclusion of New York University’s Thomas Philippon that today’s US financial sector is outsized by two percentage points of GDP."

Excerpt from Inc. -- "Recently I gave a group of my MBA students at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business in New York this assignment: Identify the most questionable new products of the year and analyze what made them so ill conceived."

Excerpt from Livemint -- "Decision-makers are running out of options again. Currency Impairment is a zero-sum game, because all countries can not devalue the currency and improve the export balance simultaneously." Additional coverage appeared in Dagens Næringsliv, Handelszeitung.ch, and The Irish Times.

Excerpt from PJStar.com -- "Yet the more information people were given about different brands of beer or cereal, the worse they did in terms of choosing well, said Jacob Jacoby, a marketing professor at New York University, according to Carlin Flora’s 2004 article in Psychology Today."