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Excerpt from Xinhua/CNC World News -- "First, there is disagreements over who is going to bear the losses. There's going to be some losses. Greece cannot fully repay its debts. So then the question is: Who is going to bear the losses?"

Excerpt from New York Daily News -- "Netflix needs to get into damage control mode, perhaps by offering back the old pricing plans, maybe even discounting it."

Excerpt from Reuters -- "Investors, at least in conference calls, are less interested in these big movements from managers. They want managers to focus on the specifics of the business."  Additional coverage appeared on MoneyControl.com, NewsDaily.com, Real Clear Markets, Yahoo! Finance, CNBC, Portfolio.com and Zimbio.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- " ... sparing the rich from paying taxes creates jobs. This is especially true for the capital-gains tax, the levy that defines the rentier class that the protesters resent." Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, iStockAnalyst and San Francisco Chronicle.

Excerpt from Knowledge@Wharton -- "We have shown how textual data can be used to learn consumers' relative preferences for different product features and also how text can be used for predictive modeling of future changes in sales."

Excerpt from a Reuters blog -- “Allowing underwater homeowners to refinance is really the definition of no-brainer." Additional coverage appeared in Ethiopian Review.

Excerpt from VoxEU -- "There are two especially worrying outcomes of the Dodd-Frank Act and its implementation. One concerns the ex ante rather than ex post charges for systemic risk. The second concerns the calculation of capital charges for systemically important financial institutions." Additional coverage appeared on MoneyScience.com.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "In early September, the institute assembled a group called the Council for the Future of Europe. It includes former government leaders Gerhard Schroeder of Germany and Felipe Gonzalez of Spain, former European Commission President Jacques Delors, as well as economists Nouriel Roubini ... " Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Excerpt from LehighValleyLive.com -- "While attaining her Ph.D. at New York University, Rothman and colleagues Elizabeth Morrison (NYU), Kelly See (NYU), and Jack Soll (Duke University) joined forces to develop research regarding power, confidence and the likelihood of one in power to seek advice."

Excerpt from Insurance News Net -- "The only thing that would allow SEC to strip you of (NRSRO status) would be a malfeasance in the filing, not incompetency in the rating."

Excerpt from Financial-Planning.com -- "In behavioral finance, decision-making usually comes down to getting an investor’s rational functions to override impulsive behavior and steer the investor toward better decisions ... Jonathan Haidt ... James called it “the elephant and rider dynamic."

Excerpt from FOX Business -- " ... economist Nouriel Roubini ... said that China faces the risk of a hard landing in coming years as the world economy slows."  Additional coverage appeared on a Financial Times blog, Reuters Africa and Livemint.

Excerpt from GuruFocus -- "As Aswath Damodaran pointed out ... the danger of relative valuation is the mere fact its use makes implicit assumptions on growth."

Excerpt from NPR -- "Wall Street just got to be the place where you went to do your banking, when you went to buy and sell your stocks and bonds. The House of Morgan was here, National City Banks was here. The First National Bank was here." Additional coverage appeared on WNYC.

Excerpt from Bloomberg Businessweek -- "The slowdown in emerging market economies has been moderate so far, Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC, said in a speech in Jakarta today, adding that such economies are strong and resilient."  Additional coverage appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek and two Bloomberg pieces.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "To move the electorate, an effective response requires adopting more rational, scientifically-based communication strategies, regrettably, something missing from the 2010 campaign."

Excerpt from Psychology Today -- "Many of the concepts that we measure in the social world are difficult to measure objectively, in the absence of reference points, so we're compelled to rely on constantly changing yardsticks."

Excerpt from The Takeaway -- "[Spence] thinks there is a fifty percent chance of the global economy slipping into another recession."

Excerpt from Targeted News Service -- "The students on Hamilton's NYC program attended a lecture at NYU's Stern School of Business, hosted by David Backus '75, a professor of economics at Stern."

Excerpt from National Post -- “If you’re an entertainer, you don’t necessarily have to play to a packed house in Madison Square Garden.”

Excerpt from USA Today -- "Europe is a short-term trading issue ... U.S. investors with any reasonable time horizon should focus on economic indicators and not the yelling about European banks."  Additional coverage appeared on iStockAnalyst.

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Nouriel Roubini ... said today there’s a 50 percent risk that the U.S., the U.K. and the euro region will fall into recession in the next 12 months."  Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg, two CNBC pieces, MarketWatch, Forbes, AFP and Reuters.

Excerpt from Motley Fool -- "Renowned finance professor and valuation expert Aswath Damodaran has said that the value of a brand is directly correlated with a company's pricing power."

Excerpt from The Spectator -- "Artwork is an uncorrelated asset ... It doesn't relate to anything that happens in other assets, like oil or gold or the price of wheat or corn. That improves its allure."  Additional coverage appeared on Bizcommunity.com.

Excerpt from Reuters -- "For all of the Eurozone countries faced with unsustainable fiscal policies the solution will involve considerable pain in the form of budget cuts, shrinking public sectors and increases in tax collections."  Additional coverage appeared in a Reuters blog.