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Excerpt from iStockAnalyst.com -- "Banks need to be induced to write down the principals on mortgages and give households debt relief so they can resume spending." Additional coverage appeared on ABC News.

Excerpt from NTN24 -- "Nicholas Economides, an adviser to the Federal Trade Commission USA, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal and the Central Bank of Greece, spoke to NTN24 about the goals of this year and how they will suffer the eurozone (translated from Spanish to Engish)."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'Investors today are looking for ways to maximize returns while managing risk,' said Mr. Bernstein."  Additional coverage appeared on 4-traders.com.

Excerpt from PR Newswire -- "AQR Capital Management, a $40-billion asset management firm with a particular focus on alternatives, today announced a new award for applied academic papers in finance: The AQR Insight Award. This $100,000 annual competition seeks to identify the current academic finance papers that have the most significant practical implication for investors."  Excerpt from PIOnline and Insurance News Net.

Excerpt from a Wall Street Journal blog -- [A]s an industry (both technology and venture), we are like the jilted lover who, after 20 years still stares longingly out to the horizon, waiting for our soulmate to return….The public markets as they exist today are never going to be what they were and we need to recognize this and change accordingly.”

Excerpt from Washington Square News -- "New York is a state with relatively high taxes, high costs and lots of regulation, [and] businesses generally would prefer less of all [these] things."

Excerpt from LiveScience -- "Economics wasn't on the original list of prizes envisioned by Alfred Nobel. In 1968, Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, donated money to the Nobel Foundation to extend a prize to economists. In 1969, the first Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded according to the same criteria used for the original prizes."  Additional coverage appeared on SIgnonSanDiego.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Europe must raise the amount of funds it has earmarked to arrest its fiscal crisis and deploy a 2 trillion-euro ($2.7 trillion) 'bazooka' before time runs out, said Nouriel Roubini." Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg.

Excerpt from The Denver Post -- "The historical record suggests that a president who is good for business isn't always the same as a president who is a businessman."

Excerpt from The Telegraph -- "Chinese corporate structures remain very rigid, and, according to Daniel Altman, a consultant at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, original ideas 'have to percolate through so many layers of hierarchy that most won’t survive to the top.'"

Excerpt from MetroWest Daily News -- "Sylla’s research shows that markets have risen and fallen in consistent waves for more than 200 years, with the pattern becoming even steadier since World War II."

Excerpt from WHIOTV.com -- "Americans George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph E. Stiglitz win the Nobel Prize in economics for research into how the control of information influences everything from used car sales to the rise and collapse in high-tech stocks."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "This is at the heart of a lot of the work of William Baumol, trying to untangle what it is that makes some societies innovate furiously, others not so much."  Additional coverage appeared in New Statesman.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The least-volatile quintile of the 1,000 biggest stocks in the U.S. returned 10.2% annually from 1968 to 2010, while the most-volatile quintile gained 6.6%, according to Brendan Bradley of Acadian Asset Management in Boston, who earlier this year published a study on the returns of low-volatility stocks with Malcolm Baker of Harvard University and Jeffrey Wurgler of New York University."

Excerpt from BioPharm International -- "We contacted Dr. Sonia Kansal-Kalavar, associate director of Biotherapeutics and Vaccine Outsourcing at Pfizer, who noted that the single most important trend in outsourcing today is the ability for chief officers to cull 'the most qualified vendor to fit the gaps in their drug development.'"

Excerpt from Outlook India -- "I think Italy is not too big to fail if the world is willing to live with a non-Euro-centric union."  Additional coverage appeared in Outlook India.

Excerpt from Shanghai Daily -- "Nouriel Roubini, a farsighted economist, warns of a wild ride ahead and explains how to calm the waters."

Excerpt from MSN Philippines -- "Kolsrud meanwhile guessed the prize could go to research on economic growth, where Robert Barro and Paul Romer topped his list."

Excerpt from US News & World Report -- "Social Media for Brand Managers, taught by adjunct marketing professor Joel Rubinson, is intended to equip marketing students to contribute to and even run cross-functional social media teams in a marketing world that is moving from brands broadcasting a message to brands listening and then engaging with people."

Excerpt from Science Magazine -- “Half of what we thought was peer influence was really just homophily and other confounding factors."

Excerpt from Voice of America -- “In normal circumstances, high-frequency traders act as market-makers. That means, they stand by passively waiting to buy or sell from whoever comes into the market needing to trade. In that capacity, they actually help stabilize the market.”

Excerpt from CNBC -- "Nobody cares about volatility if the markets are going up. people care about volatility if markets go down. so we measure risks different."

Excerpt from CNBC -- In an exclusive interview, Nobel Laureate Professor Michael Spence discusses the negative aspects of globalization.

WIN is a Social Networks Summit intended to foster collaboration and to build community. The increasing availability of massive networked data is revolutionizing the scientific study of a variety of phenomena in fields as diverse as Computer Science, Economics, Physics and Sociology. WIN brings together leading researchers studying ‘information in networks’ – its distribution, its diffusion, its value, and its influence on social and economic outcomes – in order to lay the foundation for ongoing relationships and to build a lasting multidisciplinary research community.

Excerpt from MBA Social -- "Then I sat in a classroom with my Stern peers and realized that I had about a million options for my future, and I realized that getting my MBA was more than just another degree – it was more like a golden ticket to the world, where I would have all the tools and resources I needed to be successful in any venture."