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Excerpt from Fit Small Business -- "Cryptocurrency is treated as property for tax purposes. If you don’t convert it immediately to cash, you may have a capital gain or loss in the future when you eventually sell the currency. There is also the need to convert crypto into real currency for accounting and financial reporting purposes. For example, to report revenue, the crypto is required to be in your base currency, which is different from a company that has revenue in both dollars and euros but simply reports everything in dollars."

Excerpt from The Daily Beast -- "David Yermack, the chair of New York University’s finance department who teaches courses on cryptocurrency, said buyers of any cryptocurrency should read the fine print to understand what they’re purchasing. 'You have to encourage people to do their homework on what they’re buying,' Yermack told The Daily Beast. 'You see people thinking they’re going to make a profit and flip this to someone more gullible next week. It’s what we in finance call the greater fool theory.'"

Excerpt from Xinhua -- "'We're awaiting the Trump administration's tax policy proposals, if what we hear is correct, we anticipate that they will propose to reduce the corporate tax down to about 20 or 25 percent,' Robert Salomon, associate professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University, told Xinhua in a recent interview. 'They will also attempt to reduce the individual income tax rates down to about the highest rate of 35 percent more or less,' he said."

Excerpt from Xinhua -- "'There are probably a number of big reasons for this,' [Eggers] explained. Pop-up stores have been attractive because of lower cost of renting real estate, lack of demand for other types of stores, and entrepreneurs who want to try out their concept and get a chance to see how the public reacts to it in different ways."

Excerpt from NBC News -- "'Modern economies depend on the provision of credit and the ability to quickly obtain household credit risk,' key efficiencies that the agencies provide. 'When there are public goods involved, the public sector should be involved to make sure there are protections for this data,' [Schoenholtz] said."

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "...NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran suggests that unless Bitcoin becomes widely used to conduct transactions, it's just 'a lucrative, but dangerous, pricing game with no good ending.'"

Excerpt from the Associated Press -- "In a 2014 paper, two economists — Alexander Ljungqvist of New York University and Michael Smolyansky of the Federal Reserve — concluded that state corporate tax cuts did little to strengthen economic activity unless the cuts were made during a recession."

Excerpt from Fortune -- "Nordstrom Local, the latest of the upscale retailer’s initiatives as it experiments with new delivery formats, promises an in-store bar with wine, beer, coffee, and juices; eight fitting rooms; alterations; convenient merchandise pick-ups and returns; manicures; and expert image consulting advice from its knowledgeable personal stylists. Instead of a point of sale, the Local aspires to become a physical manifestation of the Nordstrom brand, creating indulgent customer experiences that can be completed with purchases through any of the retailer's other channels."

Excerpt from Engadget -- "'There are some parallels with Japan's protectionism of its auto industry, which runs very deep in its political and economic system,' said Anindya Ghose, a China business expert at NYU's Stern School of Business. ... 'The fact that Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube are all blocked in China has no doubt benefited the tech titans of China, such as Baidu, Weibo and Tencent,' said Ghose."

Excerpt from CityLab -- "Public charging stations in the U.S., by comparison, clock in at just 16,000. Still, 'I don’t think there are more than a couple dozen publicly available charging stations in any city,' Sabrina Howell, a New York University finance expert who focuses on China, tells CityLab in an email."

Excerpt from Talent Economy -- "'... very often, they might be too narrowly focused in their capabilities,' said Ari Ginsberg, professor of entrepreneurship and management at the NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business. 'For the company to meet its high-growth potential, that requires a different kind of talent.'"

Excerpt from BusinessBecause -- “The Internet under net neutrality has been an engine of growth for the tech sector and more broadly for the US economy. Killing it will have a devastating effect on entrepreneurs and new small businesses."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "I think a big part of the competition for the next digital device is going to be those connections they make to physical, real-world retail, getting the stuff that you want. And while Apple is a leader in digital commerce -- they've got the music, they've got iTunes -- they're still lagging behind in preparing for a reality where these mobile devices, they're not just the thing you show off to your friend or the thing you use to manage your digital life, they are the things that we use to interact with the physical world."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "...their ability to do what American Express did with the black card and cement its position as the premier product with the iPhone X, I think it's just going to be interesting to see how cool and sexy and aspirational it is as they move towards quadruple digits for a phone and trying to cement their position as the luxury brand in tech."

Excerpt from Label & Narrow -- "While many might think that the internet is having a negative impact on labels and packaging, Serdari took the opposite approach. 'Everything happening online and through digital channels is affecting–in a positive way–how the field of packaging is evolving,' said Serdari."

Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "Not only is the center centrally located — four blocks from the Capitol building and 15 minutes from the airport and Union Station — but it also allows the program’s structure and infrastructure to be entirely owned by NYU and Stern. That’s something Sundaram points to as an important factor in deciding to take the EMBA to a new region. He adds that the proximity from New York to Washington makes for relatively short commute for professors who teach in the program."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "We need a serious approach to address the skills gap. What I'd like to see, for instance... So we have $2.5 trillion sitting off shore, and we were talking about tax reform. ... Even if you said to U.S. firms, we're going to allow you to bring all those $2.5 trillion assets back tax-free, just a 5% charge, to fund a national skills development pool, that would give you a $250 billion endowment to begin thinking about seriously addressing the skills gap, for instance. I've seen nothing that bold on the table to really say that we're going to address the downsides of globalization."

Excerpt from Recode -- "'The logical next one would be Nordstrom,' Galloway said. 'It would be cheap, it’s in Seattle, they’re operationally very sound, it’s a great company and they’re [Amazon is] trying to establish relationships with high-end brands, which they have been unable to do.'"

Excerpt from The Real Deal -- "'They’ve been losing eyeballs,' said Robert Seamans, a professor at New York University, who in 2015 found that Craigslist cost newspapers $5 billion in classified ad revenue between 2000 and 2007."

Excerpt from Vogue -- "In a study published last year by the American Psychological Association, which examined how taking photos can affect experiences, results showed that, in many cases, photography can, in fact, boost the enjoyment of positive experiences by increasing one’s engagement. However, that may not necessarily be the case at the dinner table. 'There are limits. One is the distracting nature of the photo-taking that might come from the number of photos taken, or how bulky the photo-taking interface is,' explained Alixandra Barasch, an assistant professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, who performed the study with two other professionals in her field."

Excerpt from the Economic Times -- "A 2014 article co-authored by Pankaj Ghemawat and Herman Vantrappen in Harvard Business Review pointed out that India’s share of expat CEO exports stood at 30% and imports at 3%. This is in sharp contrast to, say, the UK where CEO exports stood at 32% and imports at 42%. The study was based on Fortune 500 data for 2013."

Excerpt from Big Think -- "'These findings have important implications for consumers, educators, and businesses,' Prof. Barasch said. Educators should think about how they present information and what they want students to walk away with. Businesses can concentrate on the impression they want customers to leave with. And, 'Individuals may think twice now before pulling out the camera.' Now that we understand how picture taking affects us, we can better decide whether or not to snap off a photo, by how it’ll impact our experience and memory of it."

Excerpt from New York Magazine -- "All this local controversy, in turn, became a temporary focus of the roiling national debate over campus activism, free speech, and so on. NYU professor Jonathan Haidt, a leading figure in that conversation, wrote a statement defending some of Wax’s claims and arguing that 'collective actions' like the letters published denouncing Wax 'are only appropriate when colleagues have clearly and flagrantly violated their professional duties.'"

Excerpt from Barron's -- "Benchmark deviants can swing high—or low. Funds with high active share—the percentage of holdings that differ from the fund's benchmark index—tend to outperform, so long as managers pick the right securities. Yakov Amihud, a professor of finance at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, says his research shows that every 10% deviation from an index affects annual return by eight percentage points."
 

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'The CEO of Equifax said that the breach is "disappointing" when he should have said it is a disaster of no less consequence than a car manufacturer telling you your tires are defective and are putting you at grave risk,' Dhar, who studies cybersecurity and financial technology, said. 'This is NO different and it reflects an old-world CEO mentality of treating this as a technical problem instead of a business one.'"