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Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "Ireland’s economy is 'clearly double-dipping,' New York University professor Nouriel Roubini said today, after a report showed the country’s services sector shrank in December for the first time last year." Additional coverage appeared in Financial Times and Independent.

Excerpt from Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review -- "New York University Professor Ed Altman, who is known for his work predicting corporate defaults, expects the dollar-denominated rate, which is usually lower than the issuer-denominated rates offered by S&P and Moody's, to be north of 3.5% by the end of the year."

Excerpt from BigThink -- "Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, beat Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, by just eight votes in the Iowa caucuses. But the really interesting thing was how the people who tried to forecast the result fared."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "There's no denying they have unbelievable assets. The key is -- are the people who are in charge of these assets -- are they going to unlock the value of these assets? I would argue that this move is another data point in the gang that can't shoot straight."

Excerpt from Business Insider -- "Since this p-value is so small, it leads us to reject this null hypothesis, and start to believe instead that the two candidates are now running neck and neck."

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "I must say, however, Hipsters are not a new TV phenomenon. With thick glasses, just-so-avant-garde fashion and knowing smirks, Hipsters have had a special place on TV since the beginning of the medium -- even before the birth of the term." Additional coverage appeared in Popbytes.com.

Excerpt from OnlineMBA.com -- "College professors are not all old, stuffy windbags. Many of them are youngish professionals who are embracing social media as a way to interact with students and colleagues and keep up with trends in their fields. Here are 50 business profs with Twitter feeds worth following."

Excerpt from Forbes -- "Even well regarded economists like Nouriel Roubini of New York University worry that China’s growth could sink to 5 percent or less in 2013 or 2014." Additional coverage appeared in The Atlantic.

Excerpt from CFA Institute blog -- "His presentation titled 'Valuation Inferno: Dante Meets DCF — Avoiding Common Mistakes in Valuation Analysis' is a step-by-step dissection of traditional DCF analysis wherein he guides the audience through the process of calculating a more accurate estimate of fair market value."

Excerpt from Malta Independent -- "As long as American economic policy remains focused primarily on deficits, domestic demand, exchange rates, and backsliding on trade openness, its investment deficiencies will remain unaddressed." Additional coverage appeared in The Daily News Egypt.

Excerpt from Financial Times (Germany) -- "Except for the bonds, the banks would then calculate the risk of the securities themselves largely. 'The proposal is basically a step in the right direction, because it limits the power of the three major rating agencies,' said Professor Lawrence White of the Stern School of Business at New York University" (German to English translation).

Excerpt from Marketing Vox News -- "Almost 100 percent of brands cite Facebook as a source of upstream traffic."

Excerpt from Silicon India -- "According to Michael Spence, the economic climate will be marked by instability in various economic and finance sectors which will impose the risk on summative national income, consumption, and investment."

Excerpt from The Jakarta Post -- "Most notable economists like Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, Michael Spence, Joseph Stiglitz and Nouriel Roubini agreed that 2012 would offer a 50-50 chance of global and US recession."

Excerpt from Mid Hudson News -- “Those who are determined to gamble will find some way to do so, but why lend government’s imprimatur to predators’ efforts to exploit people who can least afford to bear the inevitable losses?”

Excerpt from Broadway World -- "... [videos] will be shown at a TED 2012 talk, hosted by Professor Jonathan Haidt, a visiting professor at NYU, and on PBS."

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "I think it's a smart move. Social media is sort of the equivalent, or this generation's equivalent of skinny jeans -- it makes whoever's doing it look younger."

Excerpt from National Review Online -- "Among others, Alan Blinder and Michael Spence and Sandile Hlatshwayo have described offshoring as a potential threat to U.S. employment levels, and not just for less-skilled workers." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg.

Excerpt from Slate -- "Robert Frank says we should have a progressive consumption tax and so does Columbia's Glenn Hubbard, but one's on the left and one's on the right." Additional coverage appeared in Hindu Business Line.

Excerpt from MSNBC -- "We've got two challenges. One is we are still leveraging. We have a fragile housing market. We have balance sheets that are not healthy again. The excess consumption is not coming back so we have to sell more to people in the rest of the world and we have structural problems."

Excerpt from Edge.org -- "People second-guess situations, they stop to make sense of a chain of events before acting, and sometimes pride and the fear of looking foolish prevent them from acting at all."

Excerpt from PyschCentral.com -- "Despite the emphasis our culture has on logic and self-control, the emotional part of everyone’s brain is pretty powerful, particularly given the right circumstances. Jonathan Haidt, in "The Happiness Hypothesis," talks about the brain being like an elephant with a rider."

Excerpt from Kirkus Reviews -- "An evenhanded discussion and study guide on unemployment. Bittle and Johnson draw on solid statistical sources including the National Association of Manufacturers, trade-union organizations, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute and the Economic Policy Institute, and they also rely on expertise from, among others, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman of Princeton, Nouriel Roubini of NYU's Stern School ... "

Excerpt from Foreign Policy -- We could enact a steeply progressive surtax on the annual consumption of the wealthiest households, while making sure it's scheduled for gradual phase-in only after the economy has returned to full employment.

Excerpt from McDonough School of Business -- "Throughout the spring 2012 semester, the Center for Financial Markets and Policy will host a number of speakers at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business."