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Excerpt from Times of India -- "NRN then is a template to follow. He is best typified in his own words, culled from a pre-commencement address he made at the New York University, Stern School of Business a few years ago: 'I believe that we have all at some time eaten the fruit from trees that we did not plant...'"

Excerpt from Economics Week -- "Financial risk management has generally focused on short-term risks rather than long-term risks, and arguably this was an important component of the recent financial crisis."

Excerpt from BBC -- " ... continued pursuance of present policy is threatening a double dip recession (Morgan Stanley, the Bank of England's Andy Haldane), a 1930s-style monetary collapse (Fed dissenter Richard Fisher), Eurozone breakup (Nouriel Roubini) and political mayhem (Jeff Sachs)."  Additional coverage appeared in The Telegraph, Seeking Alpha, Coffee House Spectator blog, FXStreet.com, Benzinga.com, Times Union blog, Motley Fool and BusinessWorld Online.

Excerpt from Elle -- "Target’s renewing their contract to sponsor the space and NYU’s Stern School of Business will give the designers a chance to partner with MBA students on finance and business plans."  Additional coverage appeared in Woman's Wear Daily, Fashionista.com and a New York Magazine blog.

Excerpt from New York Post -- “In a difficult economic environment, consumers may pay 3D premiums for compelling entertainment but ignore others, for example, ‘Drive Angry 3D.'"

Excerpt from Detroit News -- "Amity Shlaes writes in 'The Forgotten Man,' Roosevelt denounced the 'economic royalists' for trashing the economy."  Additional coverage appeared in Town Hall and The Washington Examiner.

Excerpt from The Atlantic Wire -- "Richard Sylla, a professor at NYU, told the Times a case from the Justice Department would have, 'a major impact if there was a successful fraud case that would suggest there would be momentum for legislation that would force them to change their business model.'"

Excerpt from ContactMusic.com -- "Amir Malin of Qualia Capital told the New York Post in a difficult economic environment, consumers may pay 3D premiums for compelling entertainment but ignore others.'"

Excerpt from The Independent Review -- "The basic argument for bailing out large banks is that a single failure of such a firm can contaminate the whole financial system, which is a public good that the government must safeguard."  Additional coverage appeared in Heartlander.

Excerpt from BusinessDay -- "New York University’s Stern School recently set up a campus in Abu Dhabi; and so have many universities in the United States and Australia that are tapping into governments eager and serious to raise standards and willing students (not unlike their Nigerian counterparts) focused on getting foreign degrees."

Excerpt from ITWord -- "Mundie's remarks were made in a speech to The New York University Stern School of Business, and it is one of the earliest trial balloons for the Microsoft concept of shared source, where just a little source code is opened to select customers and not really shared with anyone else."

Excerpt from CampaignAsia.com -- "In all, the study measured the online impacts of 87 magazine brands according to the quality and integration of their respective websites, digital marketing, social media and mobile presences." Additional coverage appeared on CampaignAsia.com.

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Professor Sylla said that the ratings agencies could be forced to stop making their money off the entities they rate and instead charge investors who use the ratings. ... The ratings agencies lost a bit of ground on their First Amendment protections in the recent financial reform bill, which put the ratings firms on the same legal liability level as accounting firms, Professor White said." Additional coverage appeared on CNBC, Sacramento Bee, Herald T ribune, Gainsville.com and Seattle Times.

Excerpt from Times Live -- "The CDE report quotes the Treasury and internationally-renowned growth economist, Professor Paul Romer, who both argue that inequality is not the best measure of social inclusion."

Excerpt from The Australian -- "In Canberra today Nobel Laureate economist Professor Michael Spence will address the National Press Club on 'The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.'"  Additional coverage appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Roubini reminded of the obvious: 'We destroyed our fiscal sustainability before [President Obama] came to power.'"  Additional coverage appeared in International Business Times.

Excerpt from Euromoney -- "In an August interview with Euromoney Ed Altman, Max Heine professor of finance at the Stern Business School at NYU, warns that all triple-A rated eurozone sovereigns could be downgraded before the crisis is over."

Excerpt from The New York Times Dealbook blog -- "Though its roots stretch back to the venerable E.M. Warburg & Company, Warburg Pincus dates to 1966, when Lionel I. Pincus and John Vogelstein created a partnership aimed at investing in a variety of companies."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "That said, weaning housing finance off the government cannot happen overnight. We liken this to the way one would treat a patient with a drug addiction. One would not double the dose (which is arguably what we have been doing), but neither would one go cold turkey. Existing subsidies would be honored. And to minimize the system-wide shock of closing Fannie and Freddie and removing government support, we envision a decade-long transition from where we are today to where we need to be."  Additional coverage appeared on Realtor.org.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The result, as Lawrence J. White, an economics professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, put it in a paper last year, was that financial groups 'could satisfy the safety requirements of their regulators by just heeding the ratings, rather than their own evaluations of the risks of the bonds.'"

Excerpt from Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- "Countries like Australia and Canada, the United States, if we're on our game, we're gonna, you know, be highly competitive, we'll be playing in an enormous global economy but there's no reason to think that we won't do just fine."  Additional coverage appeared on BNet.com.

Excerpt from Australian Financial Review -- "Nobel Laureate economist Michael Spence says the current global economic woes are a signal that a major power shift is occurring."  Additional coverage appeared in Hattiesburg American, EconoMonitor, Foreign Policy, Trading Room, Superior Telegram and Eurasia Review.

Excerpt from Calgary Herald -- "As Nobel-prize winning economist Michael Spence recently wrote in an article for Foreign Affairs Magazine, the ranks of the employed in the United States grew from 122 million to 149 million between 1990 and 2008, with about 98 per cent of the jobs created being in the so-called 'nontradable' sector of the economy; the goods and services produced and consumed domestically."  Additional coverage appeared on Foreign Policy.

Excerpt from Reuters blog -- "Perhaps more important for the performance of the market in the short-term, however, is that the Congressional committee charged with coming up with an additional $1.5 trillion in spending cuts is likely to be fractious enough to lead to what we might term the 'Amity Shlaes' problem1 - the uncertainty and the unpleasantness surrounding the nature of future cuts in spending is likely to lead capital to go on strike."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "In terms of the United States, the one place I think people should be very cautious is financials. We have been, and continue to be, quite cautious on financials."