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Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Robert Frank ... has equated payday lending with 'handing a suicidal person a noose.'"

Excerpt from Politico -- "Hamilton’s approach provides a roadmap for Europe to rescue not just the euro, but the entire euro-area financial system." Additional coverage appeared on Politico.

Excerpt from The Washington Post -- "There’s a new paper out from Bryan Bollinger of NYU’s Stern School and Kenneth Gillingham of Yale finding that, in California, solar power seems to be contagious." Additional coverage appeared in Forbes.

Excerpt from China Economic Net -- "Mei Jianping, finance professor of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and co-founder of the Mei Moses Art Index, suggested that he was optimistic about this year's autumn auction."

Excerpt from Deadline -- "[Poltrack] says that the broadcast networks are in for a great 2012 with ad sales up 7.3% — and not just because of the quadrennial effect. Even without the impact of political spending and the Olympics, broadcast sales would be up 5% he says."

Excerpt from The American -- "Romer is best known for several breakthrough papers in the theory of economic growth. I draw not so much on the technique of those papers but a few of Romer's ideas about ideas, most importantly that ideas are sunk costs."

Excerpt from New York Times -- “We believe that consumer spending will continue to increase ... fueling that recovery.” Additional coverage appeared in TV Week.

Excerpt from New York Post -- “'China wants to dramatically increase its outbound investments,' Spence said, and could learn how to invest like a buyout firm by working closely for a time with the industry giants."

Excerpt from Kimmel Cancer Center blog -- "About 150 people joined Richard Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson, Leonard Gomella, M.D., Chair, Department of Urology at Jefferson and 2011 Men’s Event Co-Chairs Edward Glickman, President of Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, and Joseph Weiss, Chairman, Electronic Ink, for an evening of cocktails, dinner, entertainment, auctions and friends."

Excerpt from Slate -- "In short, the growing income inequality that OWS protesters are calling to our attention is not the nonissue that many of the movement’s critics say it is. Growing income disparities have imposed enormous costs on almost everyone." Additional coverage appeared in New America Foundation.

Excerpt from Mother Jones -- "The cost of intermediation in the US is between 1.3% and 2.3% over 130 years. However, the finance cost index has been trending upward, especially since the 1970s." Additional coverage appeared on AdvisorOne.

Excerpt from Business Daily Africa -- "Providing earnings guidance is just a start. Giving more information to investors generally, and doing it in an honest and understandable way, is good business."

Excerpt from The New York Times -- "Google 'Thomas Sargent' and 'rational expectations' and you’ll get hundreds of hits. ... Mr. Sargent is widely considered one of the founders of the theory, though he says it had many earlier proponents, including Keynes." Additional coverage appeared in The New York Times blog.

Excerpt from The News Journal -- "Nobel Prize-winning economist Michael Spence warns that Americans have to start thinking differently about jobs. The current downturn is part of a cycle. It will end. Companies will spend and hire."

Excerpt from Associated Press -- "Shlaes said on air that McGovern had taken 'a spill' and wasn't able to be on the program as planned, but she said he was fine."

Excerpt from CNC World -- "Europe was able to prosper for basically 40 years from the late 1940s until 1999 on the basis of separate national currencies. The euro was mostly a political effort to try to bring greater unity, greater unification."

Excerpt from Rag Radio -- "In The Darwin Economy, Frank argues against Adam Smith's theory of the 'invisible hand' which says that competition channels self-interest for the common good."

Excerpt from VoxEU -- "The cost of intermediation in the US is between 1.3% and 2.3% over 130 years. However, the finance cost index has been trending upward, especially since the 1970s. This is counter-intuitive. If anything, the technological development of the past 40 years – in IT in particular – should have disproportionately increased efficiency in the finance industry."

Excerpt from National Journal -- “The [potential] shock we’re talking about is of very large magnitude. ... If you’re just having an Armageddon coming your way, [America’s] buffers may not be adequate.”

Excerpt from Garden City News -- "Dolly Chugh is an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations Department at New York University Stern School of Business. She teaches two courses (Leadership in Organizations' and 'Collaboration, Conflict, and Negotiation') to MBA students."

Excerpt from Strategy + Business -- "The main advantage of my CSR maxim is that, in contrast to the oft-suggested innocuous slogans — CSR should be an integral part of the company’s strategy, CSR should be embedded in the corporate genes, doing good while doing well, and the like — my 'anything you, the shareholder, can do, I can do better' criterion is operational."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Europe’s debt crisis has stoked concern that the region may slip into recession, endangering the global expansion. There is a 50 percent chance of recessions in the U.S., the U.K. and euro zone economies in the next 12 months, Nouriel Roubini, co- founder of Roubini Global Economics LLC, said in October. " Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Excerpt from Il Fatto Quotidiano -- "Everybody knew that the program imposed on Greece in May 2010 would not work (Italian to English translation)."

Excerpt from National Post -- "These revelations are sparked by his review of a history entitled 'The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression' by Amity Shlaes."