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, and business issues. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts. Her most recent book, After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington was published on November 2009 by Encounter Books.

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 B.A. in English literature. She and her husband live in Manhattan.

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Articles/Op-eds

• Will Mike Strike Out?, New York Post, 01-21-13
• Mike Bloomberg's End Times, New York Post, 01-30-13
• Andrew's $andy $pending $torm, New York Post, 01-24-13
• Will Mike Strike Out?, New York Post, 01-21-13
• Quiet, Please!, New York Post, 01-13-13
• Andy's Fuzzy Math, New York Post, 01-13-13
• Sandy and the Entitled, Washington Examiner, 01-11-13
• Schoolbus Stakes, New York Post, 01-08-13
• An Unlucky 2013, New York Post, 01-02-13
• Hide & Sick, New York Post, 12-23-12
• Tappan Zee Mystery, New York Post, 12-20-12
• Lhota Work Remains, New York Post, 12-11-12
• The Trouble Before Sandy, New York Post, 11-27-12
• Call it 'LIPAsuction', New York Post, 11-19-12
• Christie's Hurricane Sandy Response Could Lay Groundwork for Presidential Run, New Jersey Online, 11-18-12
• Cuomo's NY Cash Grab, New York Post, 11-14-12
• Albany's Power Vacuum, New York Post, 11-12-12
• What Election 2012 Means for America: Three Manhattan Institute Scholars Weigh In On the Next Four Years, Washington Examiner, 11-09-12
• Tell Truth to Storm-Slammed 'Hoods, New York Post, 11-06-12
• To Fix Traffic Chaos, New York Post, 11-01-12
• The End of the Housing Crisis, The Boston Globe, 10-31-12
• More Articles >>

Books

• After The Fall: Saving Capitalism From Wall Street—and Washington, October 2009

Research

• Roundtable: Are You Better Off than You Were Four Years Ago? Issues 2012 31, October 2012
• Wall Street and Dodd-Frank: The Right Questions to Ask the Candidates Issues 2012 26, October 2012
• The Volcker Rule Distraction: There Is a Better Way to Fix "Too Big to Fail" Issues 2012 15, May 2012
• Protecting the Economy from Wall Street: Can the financial industry pay for its own bailout? Issue Brief 3, April 2010
• 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

Podcasts

• Nicole Gelinas discusses her recent Winter 2013 City Journal piece, "New York's Sandy Scorecard." , 01-31-13
• Nicole Gelinas discusses her article "The Port Authority's Cloudy Future" with Ben Plotinsky, 11-25-12
• Nicole Gelinas discusses her City Journal article, "Dodd-Frank's Protection Racket.", 07-25-12
• E21's Chris Papagianis talks with Nicole Gelinas about her article "Presidential Candidates Should Get Real On Mortgages", 06-23-11
• Nicole Gelinas discusses her article from the winter 2011 issue of City Journal, "Twenty-First-Century Reaganomics", with Brian Anderson., 01-14-11
• Nicole Gelinas and Nouriel Roubini discuss his book, Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, and what lead to the financial crisis, 07-20-10
• Nicole Gelinas and Roger Lowenstein discuss his book and what lead to the financial crisis, 07-16-10
• Nicole Gelinas and Philip Augar, former British banker and author of Reckless: The Rise and Fall of the City, discuss his book and what lead to the financial crisis, 07-14-10
• E.J. McMahon, director of the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center discusses MTA salaries with Nicole Gelinas, a contributing editor of City Journal, 06-11-10
• Nicole Gelinas and Brian Anderson Discusses Her New Book, 12-01-09
• Brian Anderson and Nicole Gelinas discuss her article "Transit for Tomorrow"., 07-08-09
• Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'Stimulating Some Thinking', 02-03-09
• Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'Mike's Doomsday Budget? If Only', 02-03-09
• Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'The President's First Roadblock', 01-28-09
• Nicole Gelinas discusses her article 'Can the Feds Uncrunch Credit?', 01-22-09
• Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'Detroit: The Abyss Awaiting NYC?', 01-15-09
• Nicole Gelinas discusses her article and the MTA's financial crisis with Paul Beston, 12-05-08
• Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'Will Growing Number Of Bailouts Make Economic Problems Worse?', 09-12-08
• Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'In Gustav's Wake', 09-03-08
• Nicole Gelinas reads her article 'New York Gets Steamrolled', 03-11-08
• More Podcasts >>

City Journal articles

• New York’s Sandy Scorecard, WInter 2013
• Preaching to the Choir on Housing, 28 January 2013
• What New York Can Learn from Britain’s Rail Fiasco, 13 January 2013
• The Port Authority’s Cloudy Future, Autumn 2012
• Gas-Guzzling Sandy, 9 November 2012
• Why Romney Lost, 7 November 2012
• The Underground Economy, 2 November 2012
• Reading the Financial Crisis, 26 October 2012
• The Problem with “Four Sore Years”, 17 October 2012
• No Laughing Matter, 12 October 2012
• Gotham to D.C.: Drop Dead, 9 October 2012
• Capitalism for Financial Capitalists, 7 October 2012
• Romney’s Stock Market Problem, 30 September 2012
• Paralympics Fever, 4 September 2012
• Radicalizing Romney-Ryan, 13 August 2012
• The Muni-Bond Bulls, 10 August 2012
• Rag Drag, 27 July 2012
• Decadence Destiny, 20 July 2012
• Seized by the Wrong Strategy, 12 July 2012
• Three Days a Week, 10 July 2012
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