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Excerpt from Forbes -- "For JPMorgan and Goldman the drop off has been manageable, but the rest of the field has been forced to pitch securities businesses to investors as a loss leader. At current activity levels both JPMorgan and Goldman 'can operate in a viable business model in which their return on equity is equal or greater than their cost on equity capital. That is not true for anybody else,' says Roy C. Smith, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and former Goldman Sachs limited partner."

Excerpt from OZY -- "Vasant Dhar, a professor at NYU Stern Business School who specializes in data and cloud technologies, says it’s likely to be three or four years before clear winners emerge in these worlds: 'There’s a huge opportunity, but also huge amounts of uncertainty.'"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Rate movement is almost never going to happen in a vacuum,” Damodaran said by phone. 'If rates go up because the economy is going stronger and you ask me what the effect on stocks will be -- it depends. It depends on how much the economy getting stronger pushes up earnings.'"

Excerpt from Real Time with Bill Maher -- "I'd say, long-term, China's the biggest threat because it's the only country with a global strategy. They're spending over a trillion dollars. They're trying to align countries towards themselves [which] ultimately undermines the dollar, and that's going to affect all of us. But in the near-term, it's the single most powerful individual in the world, Vladimir Putin, who is in decline and very unhappy and wants to punish us. ... We're punishing him and ... he wants the Americans to understand that that's not costless for us."

Excerpt from NPR -- "'I'm not sure this explains hierarchies,' Blader said. 'This does not mean that the masses are tolerant of unfairness or slow to perceive it, just that there's an amplification of the deed among the powerful.'"

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "Congress must not give away its prerogatives to pressure groups. Congress must reject 'fast track.' Our elected representatives should be willing to, and empowered to, change new proposed trade arrangements before they go into effect."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The delay in the payment to the IMF is an escalation of the confrontation,' Nicholas Economides, an economics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'It increases the risk of bankruptcy and Grexit.'"

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "The political scientist and global risk strategist Ian Bremmer, a foreign-affairs columnist at Time, has written a book asking Americans themselves to decide what our policy should be, and offering what he sees as three central options. 'America,' he writes, 'will remain the world’s only superpower for the foreseeable future. But what sort of superpower should it be? What role should America play in the world? What role do you want America to play?'"

Excerpt from Yahoo! Finance -- "'When companies distract people with sideshows and entertainment, it’s pretty clear that they’re trying to draw attention from some of their labor practices,' [Yermack] said."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Dominique Ansel is undoubtedly the most celebrated and innovative pastry chef in the Western Hemisphere and for good reason. Aside from creating the Cronut phenomenon, he has innovated in so many other ways. He combines magic, entertainment, craft, nostalgia, analogies, complexity, surprise, shapes, interesting presentations, contrasting textures and temperatures, and wow factor into his creations."

Excerpt from TIME -- "China continuing to grow economically and challenging the American economic system does automatically mean less American influence. And the question is, how is the US going to respond to that? One way to respond to it is by saying, you know what, we can't do global anymore. We'd like to do a global trade agreement, but we can't. We have to support coalitions of the willing. So the more attractive the United States looks as a market, the more over time, China is likely to reform its own economic systems to challenge the US less even as it continues to grow."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'The odds are much, much lower for a bank CEO becoming a billionaire than a guy going to a hedge fund or private equity,' said Roy Smith, a professor at New York University Stern School of Business and a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner who started on Wall Street in 1966. 'The real lucre in this business has always been on the transactional side. The CEOs of Wall Street have to deal with litigation, regulation and the relatively short tenures you have at the top of the pile.'"

Excerpt from Quartz -- "'The announcement of charges is an important first step toward accountability,' Labowitz told Quartz. 'But there is still a long way to go before anyone is brought to justice.'"

Excerpt from Luxury Daily -- "'Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli are a modern version of what used to be the lone creative genius, which Valentino, the man, and other great couturiers used to be,' said Thomaï Serdari, Ph.D., founder of PIQLuxury and adjunct professor of luxury marketing at New York University, New York. 'Today, we see a much more collaborative approach to creativity even in the great famed houses of high fashion.'"

Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "The [visual] comes courtesy of NYU urban scholars Solly Angel and Patrick Lamson-Hall. It tracks neighborhood population densities on the island from 1800 to 2010 using historical maps, aerial photographs, and census ward statistics. The basic narrative sees density cluster first in Lower Manhattan, then slowly reach northward and spread out more evenly, then generally subside closer to modern times—waves of growth that, spliced back to back, make the city seem like it’s breathing."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Companies that loaded up on debt during the credit boom of the early-to-mid-2000s were more likely to fire workers and shut down stores once the 2007-2009 recession hit than were companies that hadn’t levered up, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper issued in April. That’s because they couldn’t raise additional funds. The weakened balance sheets among the more highly levered firms were 'instrumental in the propagation of shocks' during the crisis, Xavier Giroud and Holger Mueller wrote in the report."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "What would a good deal contain? Besides the fiscal issues, a good deal should emphasize the microeconomic reforms. It should reduce the huge and inefficient state sector that weighs down on the private sector and the taxpayers. Pensions should become proportional to contributions. The procurement mechanisms of the state should become competitive so that lower prices are achieved and corruption is reduced. Greece should proceed with the privatization of trains, airports, ports, and the energy sector. The "closed sectors" (such as pharmacies) should be opened to competition. The labor market should be liberalized. The business taxes and bureaucratic procedures should be reduced to attract new investment."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "'Who are brands obsessed with? High-income teens and people in their 20s,' said Scott Galloway, a New York University marketing professor and chairman of L2, a research firm that studies how consumer brands use social media. 'Those people are leaving Facebook. Where are they going? Instagram. Facebook has shored up its rear flank with this important cohort with Instagram.'"

Excerpt from Al Jazeera -- "More important, in the last 20 years the Council of Europe has dramatically expanded to include more than two dozen members from the former Soviet bloc and elsewhere. Many of these relatively new democracies still struggle to build national systems that can reliably protect their people. It is also for the people in these places that the United Kingdom needs to keep its seat at the table and be a leader, not a outlier, and work to strengthen the protection of fundamental human rights throughout Europe. Cameron may wish to exert his nationalist bona fides after his electoral victory, but jettisoning Britain’s European human rights commitments isn’t a productive way to do so."

Excerpt from The Real Deal -- "Investors have poured more than $3.7 billion into several dozen projects around New York City via the EB-5 program since 2009. And while the industry lacks a comprehensive database, The Real Deal zeroed in on some of the city’s largest and most notable projects to date, using data culled by researchers at New York University and referenced in a report by Professor Jeanne Calderon and attorney Gary Friedland."

Excerpt from Macleans -- "'People are very impressionable,” says Thomaï Serdari, an adjunct associate professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'Everyone is adding the adjective of luxury. You see this all the time with condos. They’re advertised as luxury, but you walk in and the walls are so cheap.'"

Excerpt from The Hill -- "Once out in the light of day ISDS [Investor State Dispute Settlement] will perish. This is the outcome that 'fast track' seeks to avoid. We have here a dagger aimed at the very heart of democracy. We should not give up our national system of laws based on a constitution and a long legal history. We should reject 'fast track,' and if we fail at that we should fight on and reject TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership]. TPP ties together a contentious trade pact with a process to protect corporate profits that is above our democratic processes. We should stand up for democracy."

Excerpt from Eyewitness News -- "Marketing professor Michelle Greenwald said Americans are beginning to become more aware of their health, looking for natural foods without artificial ingredients. She said customers are even willing to pay more for healthier products. 'Getting back to more natural ingredients,' she said. 'It’s a quality of life issue that’s kind of an affordable indulgence.'"

Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "Work by Max Bazerman and Dolly Chugh on the concept of 'bounded awareness' has identified two common decision-making errors related to managers’ use of information. First, managers often overlook information that could improve their decision-making....Second, managers often allow information that is irrelevant to the decision at hand to influence their choice."