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Excerpt from International Herald Tribune -- ‘‘Customers may be happy to employ R&R, and pay some fees, but a public vouching may be more than the customer wants to do."  Additional coverage appeared on a New York Times blog.

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "I think this is one of the many two-scenario situations where we could get a sufficient commitment from the European Union and the eurozone to prevent Italy from spiraling out of control even with a credible reform program or we could get some kind of deadlock in the process as they try to figure out what a fiscal union would look like and then I think most of us would probably want to take cover." Additional coverage appeared in Yahoo! Finance and Bloomberg Radio.

Excerpt from Insurance News Net -- "William R. Berkley, chairman and chief executive officer of W. R. Berkley Corp., said smart insurance companies should be making strong moves to position themselves as the market continues to show signs of hardening."

Excerpt from The Villager -- "America Reads and Counts tutors come from almost every college at N.Y.U. About one-third of the tutors are enrolled in the Steinhardt School; one-third in the College and Graduate School of Arts and Science; and the remaining tutors are enrolled in the Tisch School of the Arts, Wagner School of Public Service, Stern School of Business, Silver School of Social Work, the Gallatin School for Individualized Study and the Liberal Studies Program."

Excerpt from About.com -- "An assistant professor of Marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business, Hershfield found young people were more motivated to save for retirement when they saw older versions of themselves in a virtual world."

Excerpt from TV Guide -- "But the biggest change impacting late night is DVR playback, according to CBS research chief David Poltrack. Poltrack says DVR usage at 11:30 p.m. would collectively rate a 3.0 in adults 18-49, nearly doubling what Leno and Letterman rate combined."

Excerpt from Council on Foreign Relations -- "Experts analyze the current economic conditions around the world and discuss potential threats in 2012." Additional coverage appeared in Xinhua.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "'The stock price gains of the companies whose clothes she wore in public appearances are cumulative abnormal returns. That is, the returns cannot be attributed to normal market variations. The stock price gains persist days after the outfit is worn and in some cases even trend slightly higher three weeks later,' [Yermack] told Harvard Business Review."

Excerpt from New York Observer -- "Little, Brown also just signed an Occupy anthology, "The Occupy Handbook," edited by Janet Byrne and including contributions from Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Nouriel Roubini, Robert Shiller, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Bethany McLean, among others."

Excerpt from Marketplace Radio -- "This year the GOP is fielding plenty of new candidates. John Huntsman and Mitt Romney have not represented a state in Washington. But Newt Gingrich is gaining popularity. Newt is not new."

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "He'd been out of the game for 10 years. And this is a very difficult game to leave for such a long time. Very hard to just go away for 10 years and come back and assume everything is the same."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "Stephen Brown, a finance professor at New York University, says his research shows other investors don't lose out when investors like Mr. Buffett hide their stakes from the public. 'There's no way to make money' with a 'copycat' portfolio, he says."

Excerpt from Scientific American blog -- "Meet Jonathan Haidt, a professor ... who studies morality and emotion. If social psychology was a sport, Haidt would be a Phil Mickelson or Rodger Federer – likable, fun to watch and one of the best."

Excerpt from WNYC -- "A deep recession likely will lead to another financial panic that could spread around the world — an outcome that will be 'very painful,' [Roubini] said." Additional coverage appeared in NPR and The Huffington Post.

Excerpt from Slate -- "A progressive consumption tax may be our only politically realistic hope for ending the downturn quickly and limiting the growth in consumption inequality that has made life so much more difficult for the 99 percent." Additional coverage appeared on a Washington Post blog, Boston Review, Slate blog and Princeton University Press.

Excerpt from New York Post -- "The eurozone financial system is at serious risk of collapse — which would mean calamity for the US system, too. But our government’s not prepared."

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "Sims and Sargent won the Nobel prize for research on the cause-and-effect relationship between the economy and government policy, which helps policymakers determine if governments should cut deficits or spend more to help invigorate the global economy." Additional coverage appeared in Financial Times.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In the name of making Americans feel less bad about their situation now, lawmakers are proposing something that sounds good, but will actually make our financial future worse."

Excerpt from The American Prospect -- "If we want a company to produce in the U.S., let’s reward companies for doing that, for producing more value-added within the U.S. Give them better tax rates."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "Michael Spence, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, points out that the United States got out of the Great Depression because of the spending associated with World War II but also because during the war, it dramatically reduced its consumption and expanded investments. People spent less, saved more and bought war bonds."

Excerpt from Jing Daily -- "The functions of the China chapter are to be a thought leader in every segment of retail, consulting, and publishing so as to better serve the best customers, to better educate the best customers about what makes luxury worth the price." Additional coverage appeared in another Jing Daily piece.

Excerpt from Motley Fool -- "NYU Stern School of Business recently has come up with a global ranking of financials in regards to Systemic risk and I love this list."

Excerpt from Media Life Magazine -- "At yesterday's UBS media conference in New York Poltrack presented his forecast, which predicted that broadcast ad revenue will rise 7.3 percent in 2012." Additional coverage appeared in MediaPost.com, MediaPost, and MultiChannel.com.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "'A euro bond that was clearly backed by some kind of euro-wide fiscal authority would have the same kinds of advantages that U.S. treasury bills do now,' added Sims, who will share the 2011 Nobel prize for economics with Thomas Sargent."

Excerpt from National Review -- "I am keenly aware that I am, in Jonathan Haidt’s terms, a person who prizes in-group loyalty very highly. This has defined my personal relationships, and also, I increasingly realize, my mental model of partisanship."