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 lives in Manhattan.

Select Media

• 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

• 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 (This article also appeared on NRO Briefing, 04-08-08 and RealClearMarkets.com, 04-08-08 )
• The Bear Precedent Wall Street Journal, 03-19-08
• Weathering Wall Street Woes New York Post, 03-18-08
• 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
• Monkey, Business New York Post, 12-30-07
• W's Disastrous Mortgage 'Fix' New York Post, 12-07-07
• Deal To Save Borrowers, Lenders In Subprime Slide Has Fatal Flaws Investor's Business Daily, 12-04-07
• Spitzer's MTA Mess New York Post, 11-21-07
• Will Banks' $80 Billion Super-SIV Provide At Least A Temporary Fix? Investor's Business Daily, 11-09-07
• Budget Hole Blues New York Post, 10-30-07
• The Big Dig's Real Lesson Boston Herald, 10-24-07
• Klein's Gamble New York Post, 10-16-07
• NYC's Next Crisis New York Post, 10-04-07
• N.Y's Jobs Crunch New York Post, 09-26-07
• Irrational Excoriating New York Post, 09-23-07
• The Price of Delay New York Post, 09-13-07
• Is Wall Street Ready to Go Nuclear? Chief Executive, September 2007
• An Inconvenient Solution Frontpage Magazine, 09-05-07
• The Most Dangerous City OpinionJournal.com, 08-29-07
• What New Orleans Needs Now New York Post, 08-28-07 (This article originally appeared on City Journal Online, 08-28-07)
• Bridges Vs. Butter New York Post, 08-06-07
• John Edwards's Tax Muddle TownHall.com, 07-31-07
• MTA Baby Steps New York Post, 07-31-07
• Pensions & Plunder By Nicole Gelinas and E.J. McMahon, New York Post, 07-19-07
• The Ferrer Tax New York Sun, 07-16-07 (This article is adapted from City Journal Online)
• Bloomberg's Blackouts New York Post, 06-29-07
• The 9/11 Deniers New York Post, 06-27-07
• Mayor Mike's Poverty Perversity New York Post, 06-21-07
• The Budget Bad News New York Post, 06-15-07
• Mike Vs. the MTA New York Post, 06-11-07
• Dumb Decisions New York Post, 06-10-07 (This piece also appeared on RealClearPolitics, 6-10-07)
• HillaryCare for Tots TownHall, 05-28-07
• Baghdad on the Bayou RealClearPolitics, 05-26-07
• Clinton's Child-Care Flunks New York Sun, 05-25-07
• New Orleans still drowning in crime Dallas Morning News, 05-13-07
• Obama's "Healthcare for Hybrids" TownHall.com, 05-10-07
• NY'S Sick Transit New York Post, 04-24-07
• Baghdad on the Bayou FrontPageMag.com, 04-23-07
• Building Bridges Forbes, 04-23-07
• The Curse Of 2nd Avenue New York Post, 04-10-07
• What the Middle Class Needs New York Sun, 04-05-07
• Why Business Went Green New York Post, 04-01-07
• Wall Street's Mortgage Pain New York Post, 03-12-07
• They're All 'F' Trains Wall Street Journal, 03-05-07
• Eliot's Next Fight New York Post, 02-09-07
• How Spitzer Can Help N.Y.C. New York Post, 02-02-07
• Wall Street Woes New York Post, 01-23-07
• Make NYC Tax Cuts Permanent New York Post, 01-18-07

ARTICLES/OP-EDS ARCHIVE:
RECENT | 2006 | 2005

Research

• 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 Safe Haven for Investors, 29 April 2008
• Words Not Deeds, 14 April 2008
• A Feckless Foreclosure Fix, 7 April 2008
• Memo to Governor Paterson, 18 March 2008
• New York Gets Steamrolled, 11 March 2008
• Criminalizing Capitalism, Winter 2008
• Mitt Romney’s Smart Tax Plan, 31 January 2008
• Don’t Foreclose the Possibilities, 25 January 2008
• For Whom the Roads Toll, 14 January 2008
• Intellectual’s Survival Guide, 4 January 2008
• Banks, Shot, 02 January 2008
• The Best Disinfectant, 19 December 2007
• Henry Paulson’s Mortgage Mulligan, 3 December 2007
• Super SIV to the Rescue?, 8 November 2007
• Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig, Autumn 2007
• San Diego Saints, 30 October 2007
• Are Poor Students Worth More?, 16 October 2007
• Foul-Weather Friends, 4 October 2007
• Lower Manhattan’s Next Challenge, 11 September 2007
• The Most Dangerous City, 28 August 2007
• An Inconvenient Solution, Summer 2007
• Notes from the Underground, 23 August 2007
• The Crumbling of America, 3 August 2007
• John Edwards’s Tax Muddle, 31 July 2007
• DC’s Freddy Ferrer Tax, 17 July 2007
• NY’s Mini-Blackout Warning, 29 June 2007
• Rewriting Ground Zero’s Reality, 27 June 2007
• Patronizing the Poor, 21 June 2007
• Shop ’Til You Drop, 18 June 2007
• The Obstacle to Bloomberg’s Master Plan, 8 June 2007
• HillaryCare for Tots, 25 May 2007
• Obama’s “Health Care for Hybrids”, 9 May 2007
• The Other Green in Bloomberg’s Plan, 24 April 2007
• Mass Murder, Martyrdom, and the Media, 19 April 2007
• How Not to Save the Middle Class, 6 April 2007
• Baghdad on the Bayou, Spring 2007
• Many Happy Returns, Spring 2007
• The Foundations That Wouldn’t Die, 30 March 2007
• Congress to the Rescue?, 16 March 2007
• Don’t Knock Down New Orleans’s Projects, 23 February 2007
• The JetBlue Way, 20 February 2007
• Spitzer’s Radical Medicaid Surgery?, 8 February 2007
• Wall Street Worries, 22 January 2007
• Help Us, Governor Spitzer!, Winter 2007
• Bonus Boom, But . . ., Winter 2007
• Kill Off Atlantic Yards, 19 December 2006
• The BoNY-Mellon Merger, 7 December 2006
• Who Will Run Albany?, 8 November 2006
• A Social-Uplift Program That Works, Autumn 2006
• CUNY’s Virtuous Circle, Autumn 2006
• New York Isn’t Mexico, 20 October 2006
• Freeing Us from the Freedom Tower, 21 September 2006
• Katrina’s Real Lesson, 28 August 2006
• Spare Some Electricity, Mr. Mayor?, 25 July 2006
• The MTA and the MTA, 14 July 2006
• Is There a New York Housing Crisis?, Summer 2006
• Stop Storm Dallying, Summer 2006
• Subverting the War on Terror, 27 June 2006
• Homeland Insecurity, 2 June 2006
• Not NYSE for New York, 24 May 2006
• Downtown Rising, 23 May 2006
• Did the Big Easy’s Election Matter?, 22 May 2006
• Half a Loaf at Ground Zero, 26 April 2006
• Katrina Kids Suffering?, 20 April 2006
• Crimes and Motives, 12 April 2006
• Choreographing a New Budget Dance, 7 April 2006
• Houston’s Noble Experiment, Spring 2006
• Downtown Rising, Spring 2006
• Criminal Negligence, Spring 2006
• Financial Follies at Ground Zero, 22 March 2006
• Criminal Negligence, 8 March 2006
• Reconstructing New Orleans, 3 February 2006
• Why Didn’t Anyone Save Nixzmary?, 18 January 2006
• Katrina Refugees Shoot Up Houston, 4 January 2006
• Gotham Needs Wall Street; Does Wall Street Need Gotham?, Winter 2006
• Transit Strike Lessons, Winter 2006
• Mayor Bloomberg: Get the Buses Running., 21 December 2005
• It’s Time to Privatize Gotham’s Buses, 19 December 2005
• Putting Teeth in the Taylor Law, 14 December 2005
• Solving the President’s New Orleans Problem, 11 November 2005
• A Fair Fare, 20 October 2005
• Who’s Killing New Orleans?, Autumn 2005
• They’re Taking Away Your Property for What?, Autumn 2005
• A Perfect Storm of Lawlessness, 1 September 2005
• Will New Orleans Recover?, 31 August 2005
• Bulldozing Small Businesses, 24 August 2005
• How Not to Fight Urban Terror, 29 July 2005
• Through a Tunnel Darkly, 19 July 2005
• Phew, No Olympic Gold for New York, 7 July 2005
• A Feasible Fix for Social Security, Summer 2005
• Cheating Great Teachers, Summer 2005
• Imminent domain?, 30 June 2005
• Harlem Kids Rising, 27 June 2005
• Cheating Great Teachers, 16 June 2005
• West Side Profits?, 3 June 2005
• Criminal Mischief, 24 May 2005
• How to Save the Subways—Before It’s Too Late, Spring 2005
• Pension Funds vs. Free Speech, 30 March 2005
• Corporate America’s New Stealth Raiders, Winter 2005
• Where’s All the School Money Going?, 18 May 2005