Manhattan Institute Scholar

Nicole Gelinas is the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Gelinas writes on urban economics and finance, municipal and corporate finance, business issues, and crime. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts.

Gelinas has published analysis and opinion pieces on the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, the New York Sun, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and the Boston Herald. She has also written for Crain's New York Business and National Review Online.

Before coming to City Journal, Gelinas was a business journalist for Thomson Financial in New York, where she covered the international syndicated-loan and private-debt markets. She also wrote a regular op-ed column for the New York Post.

Gelinas graduated from the Newcomb College of Tulane University with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature. She and her husband live in Manhattan.

Select Media

New York Voices, WNET (PBS), 9-23-08
Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, 8-4-08
Your World with Neil Cavuto, Fox News, 04-08-08
The Small Business Advocate, 04-02-08
Small Business Advocate with Jim Blasingame Program, Small Business Network, 02-15-08
Squawk on the Street, CNBC, 10-05-07
Inside City Hall, NY 1, 06-28-07

Articles/Op-eds

The MTA Mess, New York Post, 11-21-08
Mike's Labor Pains, New York Post, 11-10-08
New York Is Headed for Dark Days Unless Bloomberg Changes Course, OpinionJournal.com, 11-08-08
New York Is Headed for Dark Days Unless Bloomberg Changes Course, Wall Street Journal, 11-08-08
Obama 2012: A Term Of Fi$cal Pain, New York Post, 11-01-08
The Keys To Rebuilding Wall Street, New York Post, 10-31-08
Storm-Proofing the Economy, Wall Street Journal, 10-28-08
Facing NYC's Addiction: Step One, New York Post, 10-23-08
Letting Bad Companies Go Bust, New York Post, 10-17-08
To Fix US Finance, New York Post, 10-16-08
Forgive Us Our Debts?, In Character, 10-15-08
The Missing Piece Of The 'Rescue', New York Post, 10-09-08
How a Conservative Strategy (Mostly) Saved Goldman Sachs, New York Post, 10-05-08
The Uncertainty Act of 2008, New York Post, 09-30-08
'Mark-To-Market' Isn't To Blame For Meltdown That Led To Crisis, Investor's Business Daily, 09-26-08
NYC's Debt Disaster, New York Post, 09-23-08
Wall St. Debt Knell, New York Post, 09-22-08
Wall St. Woes: Fear For The Future, New York Post, 09-16-08
Will Growing Number Of Bailouts Make Economic Problems Worse?, Investor's Business Daily, 09-11-08
In Gustav's Wake, New York Post, 09-02-08
Rewrite This Review!, New York Post, 08-24-08
A Genuine Sherriff of Wall St., New York Post, 08-15-08
Courting Disaster: How City, State May Bungle Budget Crisis, New York Post, 07-30-08
NY Nightmare: This Isn't Just a 'Budget Crisis', New York Post, 07-29-08
The MTA Mess, New York Post, 07-24-08
Uncle Sam Can Bail Out Fannie, But Who'll Bail Out Uncle Sam?, Investor's Business Daily, 07-18-08
Big Dig's Lessons For Ground Zero, New York Post, 07-07-08
Con Ed's Next Crisis, New York Post, 06-30-08
The Rent Wars Return, New York Post, 06-19-08
Obsessive Branding Disorder, New York Post, 06-08-08
The MTA's Construction Crisis, New York Post, 05-15-08
The Big Easy rebuilds, bottom up, The Dallas Morning News, 05-11-08
Foreclosure Fix, New York Post, 05-06-08
Bank Robbery, New York Post, 04-20-08
MTA Budget Blues, New York Post, 04-16-08
Be Brave, Dave, and Just Cut It Out, New York Post, 04-13-08
A Horrible Housing 'Fix', New York Post, 04-08-08
The Bear Precedent, Wall Street Journal, 03-19-08
Weathering Wall Street Woes, New York Post, 03-18-08
Wall Street's Mortgage Pain, New York Post, 03-12-07
Meddling by Public Pension Funds Is Picking California's Pocket, Los Angeles Times, 01-14-05
Newark Crime Fighters Offer N.O. Working Plan New Orleans City Business, 03-10-08
Hitting Stock Bottom New York Post, 03-02-08
'Solutions' the Public Hates New York Post, 02-26-08
The Bond Mess: Eliot's Bad Fix New York Post, 02-21-08
Post-Enron Fixes Solved Nothing, As Mortgage-Related Mess Shows Investor's Business Daily, 02-12-08
Criminalizing Capitalism RealClearMarkets.com, 02-11-08
The Rise of the Mortgage 'Walkers' Wall Street Journal, 02-08-08
NYC Budget Blues New York Post, 01-29-08
Putting The Con In Colonial New York Post, 01-27-08
Jersey's Toll Tax New York Post, 01-14-08
'08: More Wall Street Wailing New York Post, 01-02-08

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Research

Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'Will Growing Number Of Bailouts Make Economic Problems Worse?' Podcast: Commentary, September 12, 2008
Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'In Gustav's Wake' Podcast: Commentary, September 3, 2008
Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'New York Gets Steamrolled' Podcast: Commentary, March 11, 2008
Market, Economic Turmoil May Finally Bust Up New York's Record Tax Boom Fiscalwatch Memo, October 3, 2007
Nuclear Power: The Investment Outlook Energy Policy & the Environment Report 1, June 2007
Surpluses... but not for taxpayers, unless Bloomberg acts Fiscalwatch Memo, July 27, 2006
Mayor Bloomberg & The Limits of Pragmatism Civic Report 46, November 2005
The Cost of Their Intentions 2005: An Analysis of the Democratic Mayoral Candidates' Spending and Tax Proposals Civic Report 45, September 2005
Gotham's spending continues to outpace inflation, economy—and sure deficits loom Fiscalwatch Memo, July 25, 2005
The Biggest Public Pension Investment Policy Shift You've Probably Never Heard Of Fiscalwatch Memo, June 13, 2005

City Journal articles

A Tale of Two Paulsons, 21 November 2008
Paulson Bails Out the Bailout, 12 November 2008
Notes on the Election, 7 November 2008
Bloomberg’s Missed Chance, 4 November 2008
Sheltering Speculation, 29 October 2008
Gotham’s “Uncontrollable” Crisis, Autumn 2008
Storm-Proofing the Economy, Autumn 2008
Senator Uncertainty, 10 October 2008
A Better Bailout, 7 October 2008
Wall Street Explodes, 1 October 2008
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