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Excerpt from CNN -- “'It’s pretty much concentration and lack of competition. What is most striking is that it was the opposite 20 years ago. So when I came to the US from Europe 20 years ago, I noticed that the US was the land of low prices and free markets, where you had lots of choices and very low prices, be it for flying around, for buying a cell phone, or for getting on the internet. And somehow over the 20 years that I’ve been here, I’ve seen these markets become more and more concentrated, controlled by a few large players, so that today US households have fewer choices, and they pay higher prices.'”

Excerpt from Observer -- “'He comes from the most profitable side of the business where operations matter,' Allen Adamson, co-founder of Metaforce and an adjunct at NYU Stern, told Observer. 'He knows how to run complicated operations. Parks and entertainment is a lot like making a movie in that it’s a detail-oriented process business. It’s intense management and less creative. That’s a skill set that’s critical now that Disney’s so big.'”

Excerpt from The New York Times -- Long-term interest rates are likely to be much lower going into the next downturn than they were going into any recession in the past 75 years,' a set of top economists wrote in a paper prepared for the conference. 'This will clearly limit the potential for old and new monetary policy tools to ease financial conditions and bolster economic outcomes.'”
 

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "Roubini doesn’t think the damage caused by the coronavirus will be enough to tip the U.S. economy into recession, though he said economic growth in the U.S. and Europe may 'surprise on the downside.' He sees U.S. economic growth slowing from 2 percent to 1.7 percent, or a little more."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "'Going forward, low global bond yields likely will hamper any attempt to lower safe interest rates using either old or new monetary policy tools,' economists Stephen Cecchetti, Michael Feroli, Anil Kashyap, Catherine Mann and Kermit Schoenholtz wrote in the paper."
 

Excerpt from Politico -- "Alison Taylor, Executive Director for ethical system at NYU’s Stern School of Business, kick-started a great conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn about the ethical responsibilities of business. The replies showed a keen sense that large companies are hypocritical on tax and lobbying issues, and that ethical behavior is still seen by some as a choice rather than an imperative."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "I am reading a delightful book by Simon Bowmaker, When the President Calls: Conversations with Economic Policymakers ( MIT Press, 2019). Bowmaker interviewed 35 former top government officials who worked in administrations as far back as Harry Truman and as recently as Donald Trump, most of whom also had strong ties to universities before and/or after government service."

Excerpt from LiveWire -- "Ironically, acquired intangibles can show up on the acquirers’ balance sheet, precisely because a value was placed on the asset by third parties during the (arms’ length) acquisition transaction. These different accounting treatments create a contradiction, as NYU Stern School of Business Professor Baruch Lev and University of Buffalo Professor Feng Gu point out."

Excerpt from Crain's New York -- "'The optimistic story assumes Netflix achieves economies of scale and brings the content monster under control,' Damodaran said. 'But the growth machine is driven by subscribers trained to expect more and more content tailored to their tastes. My worry is that this new content is almost like a drug you have to feed consumers to keep them coming back.'"

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- I used to share their skepticism. But my study of 'behavioral contagion' — social scientists’ term for how ideas and behaviors can spread through populations like infectious diseases — has changed my view. The environmental impact of seemingly insignificant voluntary actions is far greater than most people realize, for two related reasons."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "I am reading a delightful book by Simon Bowmaker, When the President Calls: Conversations with Economic Policymakers ( MIT Press, 2019). Bowmaker interviewed 35 former top government officials who worked in administrations as far back as Harry Truman and as recently as Donald Trump, most of whom also had strong ties to universities before and/or after government service."

Excerpt from CanIndia -- "'A lot of economists look at trade as ships going back and forth carrying cars and TV sets and grain and soybeans and they say well, that’s what’s really important, and the trade deficit is just a spin-off. But you could look at it another way and I say that maybe the finance is more important than the trade,' NYU’s Richard Sylla told IANS here on Wednesday in response to a question on an elusive India-US trade deal that’s been dogged by escalating tensions and constantly shifting goalposts."

Excerpt from Yahoo News -- “'Humans are very sensitive to losses, and we don’t notice we've lost something until we've enjoyed it and then it disappears,' Adam Alter, PhD, an associate professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business and author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, tells Yahoo."

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Excerpt from The Motley Fool -- "A reverse split conveys a lack of confidence, and it's not just the initial hit that weighs on most of the companies that have gone this route. A study by researchers at NYU Stern School of Business and Emory University looked at 1,612 reverse splits that were executed in a 40-year span of time through 2001."

Excerpt from PBS Frontline -- "So Amazon has these Darth Vader-like abilities to just look at a sector and begin choking it of oxygen without even touching it. Amazon can begin beating competitors without even competing.'

'Once you start connecting the dots, you see that Amazon is building all of the invisible infrastructure for our futures.'"

Excerpt from Scientific American -- "But critics of climate science close to the White House believe the effort could take a more adversarial approach compared with earlier versions. Steve Koonin, a physics professor at New York University, said he has pitched Droegemeier on the idea of incorporating a red-team review into the National Climate Assessment. The exercise could allow science critics to use discredited theories to challenge consensus research on rising temperatures, scientists have said."

Excerpt from Decrypt -- “'The US regulatory approach to selling instruments for fundraising is of tremendous importance to the entire industry. No question,' Drew Hinkes, an attorney with Carlton Fields and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and School of Law, told Decrypt. 'I can't think of a stakeholder who wouldn't be interested in the outcome of this,' he said."

Excerpt from Yahoo Finance -- "'This is an additional reminder of why companies need to diversify away from China,' says Joseph Foudy, an expert on global business and professor at NYU’s business school."

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "New York University business professor Scott Galloway notes that the health insurance industry shed billions of dollars in value on the morning after Amazon merely hinted, in a news release, at an interest in health-care costs. 'Amazon has these Darth Vader-like abilities to just look at a sector and begin choking it of oxygen,' he says."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "One of the studies’ psychologists, Adam Alter, explains to Wired, 'When we can process a piece of information more easily, when it's easier to comprehend, we come to like it more.'"

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "The economist Viral Acharya and three of his colleagues at the New York University business school saw the first President Bush’s reckless housing plan as the “Rubicon” on the way to the financial crisis that, in the following century, would nearly destroy the world economy under the presidency of Mr. Bush’s even more reckless son."

Excerpt from Axios -- "Economist Thomas Philippon, on Twitter, looked at after-hours price rises in AT&T and Verizon stock to conclude that those companies will be about $11 billion better off as a result of the merger. But those price gains failed to hold when the market opened on Tuesday."
 

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "'This is an extraordinarily positive turn of events, after 40 years of stagnation,' says Peter Henry, dean emeritus and professor of economics and finance at New York University's Stern School of Business, whose parents emigrated from Jamaica decades ago. 'It shows that countries actually have agency. If Jamaica can do this, my goodness, everyone can . . . It’s a hopeful message.'”

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Unlike businesses such as Facebook Inc. or Alphabet Inc.’s Google that operate mostly online, Airbnb straddles both the digital and analog worlds, which is why it has faced 'a harder regulatory and legal path than their predecessors,' said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at NYU who has written books on the sharing economy."
 

Excerpt from The Environmental Magazine -- “'Across industries, companies are beginning to recognize that sustainable business is good business,' says Tensie Whelan, professor at NYU Stern, and her statement is clearly backed by consumer purchasing habits in a variety of industries – everything from tourism to fashion."