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Excerpt from CNBC -- "The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business will co-host a "Systemic Risk and Data Issues" conference, October 5-6, 2011, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, D.C." Additional coverage appeared in States News Service, PR Newswire, SunHerald.com, TheStreet.com, Street Insider and StockHouse.com.

Professor Richard Sylla on the value of credit ratings agencies, such as S&P.

Excerpt from Bloomberg TV -- "The reason why there's such compensation of CEOs and it's so exorbitant, is they are so incredibly important in terms of the right guy or gal, and having stability at the top."  Additional coverage appeared on Bloomberg.

Excerpt from Project-Syndicate -- "As the American economy continues to sputter three years after the global financial crisis erupted, one thing has become clear: the United States cannot generate higher rates of growth in GDP and employment without a change in the mix of the economy’s domestic and export-oriented components." Additional coverage appeared in China Daily, Global Public Square, Sunday's Zaman, Joins.com, The Independent and The Daily News Egypt.

Excerpt from The Huffington Post -- "According to Jonathan Haidt's 'The Happiness Hypothesis,' 'When husbands and wives estimate the percentage of housework each does, their estimates total more than 120 percent.'"  Additional coverage appeared on HometownAnnapolis.com and Jewish Journal.

Excerpt from Variety -- "CBS research guru David Poltrack keeps trying to find novel ways to change the conversation about ratings and demographics."

In an interview, Professor Thomas Pugel discusses the economy.

Excerpt from USA Today -- "In her book, The 11 Laws of Likability, Lederman outlines some ways to bolster your self-image and help you project an authentic image that will attract others and help lead you to the success you desire."

Excerpt from Washington Square News -- "If the idea takes off, it will be pretty easy for competitors to replicate the business model. In fact, Amazon has been thinking about a similar idea using 7-11 stores."

Excerpt from SYS-CON -- "Watch the interview below with Scott Galloway, a thought leader in consumer trends and digital innovation (he's with L2 Think Tank), as he explains the implications of bifurcation."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "New York University economist Nouriel Roubini said at a forum in Shanghai on July 26 that chances of a 'hard landing' in China will increase after 2013 as the nation grapples with a rising debt burden."

Excerpt from American Thinker -- "Yet it is generally recognized today that by pursuing these policies FDR prolonged the Great Depression by another 5-7 years. (See Amity Shlaes: 'The Forgotten Man.')"

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Nouriel Roubini, co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics LLC, and Absa Group Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Maria Ramos are due to speak at a leadership summit hosted by Discovery Holdings Ltd."

Excerpt from Financial Times -- "Nouriel Roubini of the Stern School, New York University, has argued in the Financial Times this week that Greece should both default and exit."  Additional coverage appeared in two CNBC pieces, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Financial Post, Reuters blog, NPR, Business Spectator, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Businessweek and a TIME blog.

Excerpt from The Moderate Voice -- "In the Wall Street Journal survey, if you look at the extreme outcomes, either extremely bad outcomes or extremely good outcomes, you see that those people who correctly predicted either extremely good or extremely bad outcomes, they’re likely to have overall lower level of accuracy."

Excerpt from MIT Technology Review -- "Another important discovery Ipeirotis made is that there is a significant disparity between what people talk about in reviews and what actually moves product."

Excerpt from CNBC -- "I think the politics are such that the Fed is basically hog tied. 'Operation Twist' is not new stimulus. It's carrying on. What the Fed is trying to do is flatten the curve so they bring longer term rates down."  Additional coverage appeared in Business Day.

Excerpt from Rapid City Journal -- "'A crisis is a terrible thing to waste,' according to the famous quote by Stanford economist Paul Romer, pointing out that in a contentious democracy such as ours, competing interests suspend their differences only when they have to confront a common threat." Additional coverage appeared on DAWN.com and Business Insider.

Excerpt from Globalresearch.ca -- " ... the title of Akerlof and Romer’s article says it all, 'Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit.' The firm fails but the executives walk away rich."

Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Republicans can't stop talking about the vaccine for human papilloma virus. Governor Rick Perry of Texas, a presidential candidate, is under fire for having issued an executive order in 2007 that allowed his health commissioner to mandate inoculation against the virus for girls entering sixth grade."  Additional coverage appeared in Kaiser Health News, Cincinnati.com and Bloomberg.

Excerpt from The Press Trust of India Limited -- "As I look back over the past 13 years as a member of the Infosys board, I feel a great sense of satisfaction. During this period, the company's revenues, profits and employee strength has grown one hundred times."

Excerpt from Metro New York -- “We try to find out things about ourselves by comparing to the other. Downward comparisons proved to be surprisingly powerful.”  Additional coverage appeared in Metro London, Daily Mail and Times of London.

Excerpt from Information Technology Newsweekly -- "This paper is the first study that integrates econometric, text mining, and predictive modeling techniques toward a more complete analysis of the information captured by user-generated online reviews in order to estimate their helpfulness and economic impact."

Excerpt from a Reuters blog -- "Last week, Nouriel Roubini released a paper, 'A Radical Policy Response to the Rising Risks of a Depression and Financial Crisis.'"  Additional coverage appeared in Reuters, CNBC, Livemint, Economic Times and Mining Weekly.

Excerpt from the Financial Times A-List series -- "Greece must now begin an orderly default, voluntarily exit the eurozone and return to the drachma."  Additional coverage appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal blog, Financial Times and Reuters.