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Excerpt from Project Syndicate -- "When prices go up, a president’s poll ratings go down. But, in view of America’s long history of neglect of energy security and resilience, the notion that Barack Obama’s administration is responsible for rising gas prices makes little sense."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Public pressures – as well as confrontations with presidents and Congress – to avoid high interest rates have derailed the Fed’s best intentions throughout history."

Excerpt from MSN Money Frugal Cool blog -- "'We'd rather have something now than wait for (the reward) to be bigger in the future. The future exists in a vague and murky way,' notes Hershfield, an assistant professor of marketing."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate in Economics (2001), and Paul Romer wrote the definitive economics article on financial fraud in 1993 ('Looting: the Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit')."

Excerpt from The New York Times DealBook blog -- "'The industry is suffering from a reputation problem,' said Roy Smith, a professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. 'This creates an opportunity for boutiques.'"

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "Most of the U.S. wireless companies are at risk of bankruptcy based on this Altman Z dividing line, though Sprint is the only carrier that has an Altman Z score that is negative."

Excerpt from Inc. Magazine -- "There are many ways to make products more sustainable, but if you want to do as much as possible and benefit financially as much as possible, sustainability should be the goal at the start of product development."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "We are going into a dark tunnel of regulatory constraints on trading, and the effects on markets are still uncertain. ... We've been on a 20-year journey towards more deregulated markets, but the pendulum is swinging back towards more regulation."

Excerpt from PopTech.org -- "Helping consumers find products is not the only application of social network influence. The same theories and methods can also be applied to promote social good. Imagine if social influence was systematically activated and channeled to encourage friends to take an HIV test, to de-escalate a violent event, or to contribute to a local charity."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "What a brief review of 'The Righteous Mind' can only touch upon is the scientific ambition of Mr. Haidt's project. His observations about American politics are just the most accessible part of a wider argument about the nature and origins of morality itself."

Excerpt from The New York Times blog -- " ... we’ve seen the sudden re-emergence of the older culture war — the one between the religious right and the secular left that raged for so many years before the financial crisis and the rise of the Tea Party. When sacred objects are threatened, we can expect a ferocious tribal response."

Excerpt from TheStreet.com -- "'We can create opportunities online that would have been impossible before,' Sproull says. 'We can connect volunteers around the world with community development projects in Africa that need specific expertise they're not going to find on the ground.'"

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "On Wall Street, and generally in the financial industry, moral and ethical behavior has another name, fiduciary responsibility."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "It's what the brand represents, not necessarily only lifestyle. So lifestyle could be part of it but the overall personality, what it signals to that consumer about the consumer themselves, which is smart, innovative, cutting edge, and worth a few extra dollars."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "As shown by research conducted by New York University economist Thomas Philippon, the cost of financial intermediation—what the financial sector charges the rest of the economy for its services—began a move around 2000 that would take it by 2010 to its highest level in 140 years."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "NYU’s Smith ... said Wall Street’s culture has changed because trading has become a more important source of revenue than the fees banks get from advising companies on takeovers or financing."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The Securities and Exchange Commission should use its existing authority to protect investors by requiring that corporations disclose their political contributions."

Excerpt from Fox Business -- "['Citigroup has] come a long way from where they were in 2008. I don’t see this as necessarily a smack down of them. It’s a mixed bag of news,' said David Yermack, a finance professor at the NYU School of Business."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "When the EBA gets a fourth turn at bat this year, the authority can -- and should -- make use of a growing body of knowledge and experience regarding stress tests. And supportive actions by the European Central Bank and the fiscal authorities may raise the chances of success."

Excerpt from VoxEU -- "Systemic risk should not be described in terms of a financial firm’s failure per se but in the context of a firm’s overall contribution to system-wide failure. The intuition is straightforward. When only an individual financial firm’s capital is low, the firm can no longer financially intermediate."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Rather than opposing the EU, we urge your administration to support their efforts to price carbon in the context of the ICAO."

Excerpt from MarketWatch -- "'I can see a situation where the center of trading a Swiss stock will migrate in time to another market,' Amihud added. London, for example, could be a more suitable trading platform for Swiss stocks because of its time zone compared with New York."

Excerpt from MSNBC -- "White said the Fed will probably let its 'Operation Twist' wind down later this year as planned, and is unlikely to announce any further actions to increase the money supply."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "[Crowdfunding] provides entrepreneurs with 'market validation' ahead of a launch, he says. 'You know there is demand, you are combining market research with raising funds.'"

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "In their well-documented book, 'A History of Interest Rates,' Sidney Homer & Richard Sylla trace the evolution of credit and the influence of the religious communities almost every step of the way in the process."