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Excerpt from WalletHub -- "Consumers need to be aware that while these deep discounts are often very good, they are offered to lure customers into the store with the hope that once they are there they will buy more. So, consumers should plan and be disciplined about what they want to buy and where they want to buy it and have done their homework before on who offers the best prices for the items they want to buy. Consumers who go after these deals should have a back up plan made ahead of time of what they will do if they are not one of the lucky ones to get the deal."

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'It’s not a very well informed debate,' said Robert Engle, a professor of finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Nobel Laureate in economics. 'Ultimately there are going to be enormous costs involved. The costs to business and society I think are likely to be enormous. Even so far as saying that life as we know it can’t survive, that’s the ultimate risk.'"

Excerpt from ABC News -- "Priya Raghubir, marketing department chair at New York University's Stern School of Business, said the ads made her 'laugh out loud.' 'I was surprised because ... Hallmark’s commercials are annoyingly sweet,' she told ABC News. 'I wouldn’t expect this from Hallmark. The company is making fun of its own stereotype, this picture-perfect world.'"

Excerpt from Newsroom America -- "'This very interesting research demonstrates the prediction of election outcomes at the state and county levels based on an analysis of television viewership across the country,' says Big Data Editor-in-Chief Vasant Dhar, Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University. 'The results from the predictive model provide useful insights into some of the major drivers that drove 2012 election results. It will be very interesting to see the model applied to the 2016 elections.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg View -- "Ironically, the solution to Europe’s immigration crisis is of the kind that Europe could not reach during the euro crisis: the issuing of security and mobility bonds (SMBs). These bonds offer the kind of financial engineering, macroeconomic policy and political economy Europe needs to mobilize collective resources and fund its immigration policy while preserving open internal borders."
 

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "There's no question that French government first and foremost is having a much harder time dealing with this than they did after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January. That's probably the biggest takeaway. Three months guaranteed of state of emergency, coming into Christmas season. It's going to hurt the economy. It's going to hurt Hollande."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "We're not going to have a global recession because China is going to be able to avoid a hard landing. Therefore, the stock market is going to go up there. Their currency is going to be stable. And therefore, it's not going to be a contagion to other emerging markets."

Excerpt from MIT Sloan Management Review -- "Today’s rapid pace of technological change has fundamentally transformed global IT outsourcing. Traditionally viewed as a cost-saving measure, IT outsourcing is increasingly leveraged as a strategic tool for acquiring cutting-edge innovation. Many companies are expanding their portfolios of IT suppliers to include smaller, highly innovative companies. This pursuit of emerging technologies and capabilities, however, has elevated the complexity of managing supplier portfolios. The outsourcing practices that companies have been maturing in the past decade are under a new level of duress. Today, organizations need to reimagine IT outsourcing strategies in increasingly turbulent business environments."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "'This recession has been more persistent than others because it was perceived as an extremely unlikely event,' wrote the economists in a new study. 'Observing the crisis in 2008-09 caused agents to re-estimate macro risk. For example, in 2006, no one raised the possibility of financial panic. Today, the question of whether the financial crisis might repeat itself arises frequently and option prices continue to reflect heightened tail risk (defined as the probability of large adverse shocks).'"

Excerpt from The Boston Globe -- "'A Ferrari costs 10 times as much as a good car, and 7,000 people make that purchase each year. You can get great speakers for a 100th of $80,000,' [Galloway] said. 'I don’t doubt these are better speakers, but are they 100 times better?'"

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I'll tell you the two ways you can justify investing in Amazon and then I'll tell you why I would not invest in either. The first is to think of it as a trade. You buy at $625, you sell at $650, you're going to make money. And if the momentum in the stock carries it forward, you're going to make money. Forget about value; play it as a pricing game. The other is, there is a story out there that you can actually use to get to $625. It's a plausible story. It's a story where Amazon dominates three different businesses: the retail business, the entertainment business and the cloud-computing business. And you could get to $625. And if that's the reason you're investing in Amazon, then all the more power to you. From my perspective, though, the odds of that story unfolding are low, so as an investor, I'm not that interested in Amazon. I love it as a company, but as an investment, it's not for me."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “'All large European banks are under great pressure from regulatory changes and low stock prices to change their business models,' Roy Smith, a finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, said in an e-mail. 'These changes have to be quite significant to make enough difference.'”

Excerpt from Xinhua -- "'I think in the short term the GDP could get worse, [and] the process of rebalancing could actually be painful, but a short-term pain to make the country healthier and more vibrant in the future,' said Foudy."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "On October 26th, an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Michael Spence and Kevin Warsh, both of Stanford University, argued that the Federal Reserve’s $3 trillion bond-buying programme, which was designed to push down long-term rates and boost corporate borrowing, has actually caused business investment to fall. The authors write that the Fed’s unconventional policies to expand the money supply, known as quantitative easing (QE), have made short-term financial assets like stocks and bonds more appealing as their capital value increases, thereby diverting capital from more productive longer-term investments in the 'real economy'. The result has been low investment growth, weak productivity, and stagnant wages."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'I think it’s just become wildly overblown because everything gets wildly overblown today,' Professor Winer said. 'The total amount of attention that Starbucks gets and the reaction to it is something that could, in fact, work in their favor.'"

Excerpt from Marketplace -- "'Gold isn't produced fast enough to keep up with the growth of the economy,' said Richard Sylla, professor of economics at New York University."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I don't think an outfit like Fidelity has any business being in this space, to be quite honest. I don't think they know how to play the pricing game and I think when you get these public company investors in private spaces, you're really asking for trouble."

Excerpt from WIRED -- "'The moment that they began making their own films they had to recognize that they were without many opportunities to pursue international business,' says Alvin Lieberman, executive director of the Entertainment, Media, and Technology Initiative at NYU’s Stern School of Business. After all, most major film studios now make more money from international markets than the United States, and have adjusted the development process to accommodate that change."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The first thing I came up with for right now has got to be the refugee crisis in Europe. I mean, we've got some 5 million nearly refugees coming just from Syria. Only 6% made it to Europe thus far. A lot more are coming. The ability of the Europeans to integrate these people is virtually nil. The cultural backlash. The populism that comes in the European capitals as a consequence."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Jonathan Haidt, a professor of social psychology at N.Y.U., noted in an email that for liberals, 'compassion for those who are suffering is the most crucial virtue.' Conservatives, in contrast, 'believe more in "just deserts" and making criminals pay.'"

Excerpt from Pudong Times -- "Emerging markets, especially in China, have recently accelerated liberalization processes in numerous financial sectors. Nobel winner Robert Engle, Director of the Volatility Institute at NYU Stern School of Business, gave a speech about the risks of 2016. The audience took part in a wide discussion of financial topics."

Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle -- "'Their narratives are grounded in the truth,' [Sundararajan] said. 'Uber creates a form of work for hundreds of thousands of people. Airbnb’s hundreds of thousands of hosts are leading better lives because they can supplement their income with their Airbnb revenues.' Although they are multibillion-dollar companies, their models 'actually do share a pretty large fraction of the value created (by renting rooms or giving rides) with the people providing the service.'"

Excerpt from LiveMint -- "Pankaj Ghemawat (No. 19) is based at New York’s Stern School and IESE Business School in Spain. Nominated for the 2013 Thinkers50 Global Solutions Award for his Global Connectedness Index, Ghemawat was the youngest full professor at Harvard Business School. His 2011 book World 3.0 won the Thinkers50 Book Award."   

Excerpt from Investor's Business Daily -- "It has a potential to be a game changer,' said Anindya Ghose, professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. 'I think the rest of the world will look to (the U.S.) to shape the agenda and make the rules.'"

Excerpt from Les Echos -- "For a long time we lived with the idea that the world had become flat and the border had completely disappeared, thanks to globalization. This was never the case! Economic, cultural, administrative and political differences between countries have always existed. Today, the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2014, on which I worked, measures levels of integration between countries, and shows that we are almost back to the state where we were before the crisis, the same 'levels' of globalization. But if we look in detail, it is the flow of people and information that have increased, while the growth in trade and capital transfers, which affect the operation of enterprises, are stagnating."