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Excerpt from El Cronista Comercial -- "Thomas Philippon, a professor at the Stern School at New York University, estimates that the sector's share of U.S. GDP increased from about 3% in 1950 to over 8% in 2010 (Spanish to English translation)."

Excerpt from USA Today -- "The NYU team says Fannie's and Freddie's federal subsidies should be phased out, turning mortgage finance gradually over to the private sector, even though it will mean more mortgage rates will resemble those for jumbo loans, usually about half a percentage point more."

Excerpt from The Chronicle of Higher Education -- "We compare ourselves with relevant others (the economist Robert Frank has written several books about this over the years). We compare ourselves today with ourselves yesterday."

Excerpt from The Economist -- "In his excellent new book 'Winning Investors Over,' Baruch Lev of New York University’s Stern School of Business writes that in this new world 'the lonely CEO now often faces a ‘team of rivals’, sometimes adversaries.'"

Excerpt from The Australian -- "(Developing) economies are now the main engine of global growth. The advanced economies face slow growth, high unemployment, fiscal distress and a lengthy period of unwinding high levels of debt."

Excerpt from The Guardian -- "R is for Roubini Back in 2007, Nouriel Roubini was one of the few economists to see the global crash coming. Dr Doom, as he has come to be known will set the tone on Wednesday in a session called The Seeds of Dystopia. Not one for the faint-hearted." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg and Financial Times.

Excerpt from Toronto Star -- “Liberals think if you’re opposed to having the government protect people you want to leave individuals on their own. But conservatives favour a minimal role for government in mid-level institutions. Government needs to be the referee, but it shouldn’t be a partner in your economic affairs.”

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- " ... the field has expanded in the world of distressed investing ... but Icahn has practiced it longer and more successfully than most."

Excerpt from Xinhua -- "As film began its path to obsolescence, Kodak missed the opportunity on several occasions to jump into the digital world. It first underestimated the impact that digital would have on its business and then it ignored what it might mean for its business."

Excerpt from The Globe and Mail -- "Without economic growth, the debt is not sustainable. It becomes a vicious circle. Markets force you into austerity, which makes the recession worse, which deepens the fiscal deficit, requiring more austerity."

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- “It’s hard to say with certainty. But if he is or was a general partner in deals, it’s safe to say he has benefitted from carried interest."

Excerpt from CNC World -- "Unfortunately, when the digital revolution occurred, film became something that increasingly became obsolete. And as film began its path to obsolescence, Kodak missed the opportunity on several occasions to jump into the digital world."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “It’s going to be a significant growth slowdown this year. Housing is deflating. Export growth is slowing down." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Taipei Times, Financial Post and another Bloomberg piece.

Excerpt from MIT Sloan Management Review -- "Although active-personalized viral messages are more effective in encouraging adoption per message and are correlated with more user engagement and sustained product use, passive-broadcast messaging is used more often, generating more total peer adoption in the network."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- “If you think about all these tail risks about the global economy, the reality is many of them are not temporary. Many of them are not transitory and many of them are not random events. They’re going to be sources of volatility.”

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- " ... former Intel chief Andy Grove, former HP CEO John Young, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew LIveris, former IBM Chief Scientist and Sloan Foundation President Ralph Gomory, Harvard Economist Dani Rodrik, and author Pat Choate have warned of declining U.S. competitiveness and its devastating economic and security implications."

Excerpt from Finance Professionals' Post -- "This smartphone App provides the client with timely assessments of the credit risk and probability of default of companies on a global basis based on the famed and well tested Altman Z-Score family of models." Additional coverage appeared in Business Insider.

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "According to 'The Financial Professional's Post,' Professor Altman and Business Compass LLC teamed up to develop a smartphone app so that credit analysts can carry the power of the Altman Z-Score in the palm of their hands."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "The Fed needs to get out of the housing business, and indeed, the rest of day-to-day commerce. And it needs to spend more energy on building the trust that Sapienza tries to quantify."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "The five terms defined by Anindya Ghose on FT Lexicon this week are: digital marketing; user-generated content (UGC); mobile internet; sponsored search advertising; and crowdfunding."

Excerpt from Home Media Magazine -- “It’s always been a question of access. Now we have universal access, and consumers love the concept.” Additional coverage appeared on Fora.tv, GigaOm.com and PaleyCenter.org.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal -- "For big clients, Jerry was the man. He was the iconic rock star…and he knew how to work that magic."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- “The resource orientation of Canada is one the sources of its strength. While there may be a slowdown in China, the forces that lead to demand for commodities being high and rising -- urbanization, industrialization, population growth, per capita income growth in emerging markets -- I don’t think they’re going to change even if there are some bumps down the road.” Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg.

Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal blog -- “US job growth is still too mediocre to make a dent in the overall unemployment rate and on labor income." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily Beast.

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Economists—notably Nobel Laureate Thomas Sargent—and the news media have drawn comparisons between the troubled eurozone today and the United States assuming states' debts in the 1790s."