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, 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 Streetâ€”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
Will Next Mayor Save The Subway?, New York Post, 06-17-13
Running For Neighborhood Mayor , City & State, 05-29-13
Weiner Stands Tall, New York Post, 05-27-13
An MTA Fiscal Flood, New York Post, 05-20-13
Gore de France, New York Post, 05-19-13
Mike's Mountain Of IOUs, New York Post, 05-07-13
Cop Out, New York Post, 05-05-13
A Not-So-Taxing Decision On Internet Sales, Washington Examiner, 05-03-13
Someone Must Take A Painful Hit For Municipal Peace, Financial Times, 05-02-13
The Real FAA Lesson, National Review Online, 04-26-13
Healing in Cambridge, New York Post, 04-25-13
Bonded To Reality, New York Post, 04-23-13
Britain's Mix Of Higher Taxes, Quick-Fix Austerity Hasn't Worked, Investor's Business Daily, 04-23-13
The Q(uinn) Train, New York Post, 04-15-13
Blame All Around In Stockton, Los Angeles Times, 04-11-13
How London's Botch Can Shore Up Wall Street, New York Post, 03-27-13
Food Fight: Restricting Food Stamp Use To Fight Obesity, City & State, 03-26-13
Quinn's Sick Daze, New York Post, 03-25-13
Osborne's "Help to Buy" Violates Every Principle Of Economics - And Of Fiscal Governance, Too, Conservative Home, 03-22-13
Long Islanders Are Still Paying For Three LIPA Bailouts, Newsday, 03-13-13
Death By Nuisance, New York Post, 03-08-13
Subway Stupidity, New York Post, 02-28-13
Congestion Zoning, City & State, 02-28-13
An End to the Inside Job?, New York Times Room for Debate, 02-12-13
The True Subway Peril, New York Post, 02-11-13
Beating The Bus Strike, New York Post, 02-05-13
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
Andy's Fuzzy Math, New York Post, 01-13-13
Quiet, Please!, 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
A Flooded-out Economy, New York Post, 10-30-12
Head in the Clouds, New York Post, 10-22-12
Tip for Transit Bosses: Don't Throw City's Middle Class Under the Bus, New York Post, 10-16-12
Leave New York Alone!, New York Post, 10-14-12
Losing NY's Golden Goose, New York Post, 10-11-12
The NFL vs. the Free Market, National Review Online, 09-25-12
Re: Is Obama Being Carterized?, National Review Online, 09-18-12
The Worst Scandal, New York Post, 09-17-12
Why Romney Needs to Talk about Bailouts, National Review Online, 09-15-12
O's stimulus & The Rotten Jobs News, New York Post, 09-10-12
New Orleans owes W, New York Post, 08-30-12
A Foul Fare Ruling, New York Post, 08-28-12
To Buy a New Bridge, New York Post, 08-13-12
This Benefits Bill Is Sick, New York Post, 08-07-12
It's a Problem of Political Will, New York Times Room for Debate, 08-07-12
Bumps Down the Track, New York Post, 07-30-12
Pension Tension & the Crime Spike, New York Post, 07-16-12
Fifty Shades of Pay, New York Post, 07-09-12
Crime Wave Below: Why NYC Subway Felonies Are Rising, New York Post, 07-01-12
Hello, One-Shot City, New York Post, 06-27-12
The Tappan Zee Mystery, New York Post, 06-25-12
'Freece', National Review Online, 06-18-12
Where Does It End? Bailing Out Spanish Banks Hurts Britain and the Rest of the West, Daily Mail UK, 06-13-12
The Giveaway Gang, New York Post, 06-13-12
The Next Bank-Bailout Blame Game, New York Post, 06-07-12
Private vs. Public Employment, National Review Online, 06-04-12
Finally, It's Mortgage Do-Over Time, Los Angeles Times, 05-30-12
The jobs of NYC's future, New York Post, 05-29-12
JPMorgan Chase: Is it actually London's problem?, Daily Mail UK, 05-28-12
Taylored for the Unions, New York Post, 05-21-12
Back to 2008, Washington Examiner, 05-18-12
Bankers & Mayors, New York Post, 05-15-12
Re: The Debate Over Austerity Continues, National Review Online, 05-08-12
After Mike, the Deluge, New York Post, 05-04-12
Sarkozy vs. Hollande, National Review Online, 05-02-12
Wages of Quinn, New York Post, 05-01-12
Rules for Bailouts, National Review Online, 05-01-12
Krugman, National Review Online, 04-29-12
Andrew's Transit Travesty, New York Post, 04-25-12
Zero to Crash Speed: NY's Next Peril, New York Post, 04-23-12
Livingstone's Promise on Tube Fares Means Higher Costs - And More Accidents - Later, Conservative Home, 04-20-12
Romney and Taxes (No, Not His, Yours), National Review Online, 04-16-12
A Bogus Comparison, New York Post, 04-16-12
Regulators Should Practice Civil Disobedience of Dodd-Frank, American Banker, 04-11-12
Christie's Crossroads, New York Post, 04-09-12
The Four Lessons Of Dodd-Frank We Need To Learn, Investor's Business Daily, 03-27-12
Deadly Demolitions, New York Post, 03-26-12
Goldman Sachs' woes are Gotham's, RealClearMarkets, 03-21-12
George Osborne's Plans For Government-Backed Credit Will Be A Terrible Mistake, City A.M., 03-21-12
Good Jobs -- But No Boom, New York Post, 03-06-12
Bank Services Are Available to Those Who Want Them, Wall Street Journal, 03-06-12
NY's Risky Luxury Investments, New York Post, 03-03-12
Risky Bridge-Ness, New York Post, 02-29-12
Santorum on Housing: Privatize Gain, Socialize Loss, National Review Online, 02-27-12
John Liu, 'The Lion King', New York Post, 02-20-12
Knight In Shining Bailout: Bankers Shouldn't Be So Perplexed, Seeking Alpha, 02-06-12
How The West Worsens Crises By Denying Market Signals, Investor's Business Daily, 02-06-12
Six Years of Gloom, New York Post, 02-03-12
'Public-Private' Poppycock, New York Post, 01-31-12
Mitt, Newt, and Paula Deen, National Review Online, 01-24-12
The Great MTA Talks Show, New York Post, 01-23-12
A Man's Home Is The Government's Castle, New York Post, 01-15-12
Will the MTA Cave?, New York Post, 01-10-12
Gov's State of Denial, New York Post, 01-05-12
Americans Should Fear Dodd-Frank, Not Free Markets, Investor's Business Daily, 12-13-11
Tax-Hike Cheers: NY Biz's Big Bungle, New York Post, 12-12-11
Tax Deal Slaps Straphangers, New York Post, 12-08-11
How Taxes Drive Down Home Values, National Review Online, 12-01-11
Do What Most People Do, New York Times Room for Debate, 11-29-11
London Calling for Gingrich, National Review Online, 11-22-11
Funny Finance and the Pension Puzzle, New York Post, 11-21-11
Time to Let Wall Street Fail, New York Post, 11-06-11
As Baby Boomers Retire, The Times Will Be A-Changin', Los Angeles Times, 11-06-11
Re: Joe Weisenthal Digs a Ditch (and Nicole Joins Him), National Review Online, 11-03-11
Labor-Law Racket, New York Post, 11-01-11
New 'Rules' For Finance Are Politics By Any Name, Investor's Business Daily, 10-26-11
Liu's Pension Whitewash, New York Post, 10-24-11
Have Regulations Hurt Bank Profits?, New York Times Room for Debate, 10-19-11
Bronx Bid for a Bad Bond Bailout, New York Post, 10-17-11
Re: Romney and Taxes, National Review Online, 10-12-11
Governor Romney and 'Too Big to Fail', National Review Online, 10-12-11
Wall Street's Winter, New York Post, 10-07-11
Re: Re: Re: Romney Camp: Perry Wants to 'Dismantle' Social Security, National Review Online, 09-21-11
Where Bam Needs To Think Bigger, New York Post, 09-21-11
The Vanished Skyline, Investor's Business Daily, 09-12-11
Liberty Misspent, New York Post, 09-06-11
Irene vs. the Tea Party, The Boston Globe, 09-02-11
Huntsman's Tax Plan . . ., National Review Online, 09-01-11
Call Irene a Warning, New York Post, 08-30-11
Obama's Food-Stamp Fizzle, National Review Online, 08-22-11
Why the PA Should Sell Off the WTC, New York Post, 08-21-11
Does Anyone Have a Real Economic Plan?, Research Magazine, 08-09-11
Down on the Downgrade?, National Review Online, 08-09-11
America's Road To Discredit, New York Post, 08-08-11
Political Derivatives, National Review Online, 08-03-11
Let The Free Market Pop The Bubble, Los Angeles Times, 07-31-11
Then There Were Those Who Didn't Riot In London, Washington Examiner, 07-31-11
Another Cup of Tea, Los Angeles Times, 07-31-11
MTA Budget is Still a Trainwreck, New York Post, 07-28-11
Can The Next MTA Chief Be A Fighter?, New York Post, 07-22-11
Mike's Reform Dud, New York Post, 07-15-11
MTA's Too-Nice Pay, New York Post, 07-13-11
Some Not-So-Horrid News in the Jobs Report, National Review Online, 07-10-11
What's Good For the Dodgers Isn't Good For America, Washington Examiner, 07-06-11
Meet Mayor Mulgrew, New York Post, 06-29-11
A Desperation Move, New York Post, 06-27-11
Greece For Sale, or Maybe Not, National Review Online, 06-21-11
Presidential Candidates Should Get Real On Mortgages, Washington Examiner, 06-15-11
A Real Rent Reform, New York Post, 06-07-11
Breaking News from NYC: Economics Works, National Review Online, 06-01-11
Pawlenty & The Bridge, National Review Online, 05-23-11
Re: Pawlenty's Pledge: 'Change . . . For The Better', National Review Online, 05-23-11
No Comment, National Review Online, 05-16-11
Chasing Wealth Away, New York Post, 05-12-11
Budget Weirdness, New York Post, 05-09-11
Xanadu Isn't Infrastructure, Unless You're A Teenage Girl, Star Ledger, 05-08-11
Don't Call It Closure, New York Post, 05-03-11
Hard To See Who Are The Real Brats In This Toy War, Washington Examiner, 04-28-11
The Birth of the Fed News Conference, National Review Online, 04-27-11
Replace The Tappan Zee Now, New York Post, 04-20-11
Silver's Wrong On Rent, New York Post, 04-17-11
China Gags Economic Speech Too, Los Angeles Times, 04-14-11
Winning the 'Right Now' of Medicaid, National Review Online, 04-14-11
Tax â€˜Expendituresâ€™, National Review Online, 04-05-11
Is Privatization a Bad Deal for Cities and States?, New York Times Room for Debate, 04-03-11
Public-Sector Pension Mediation to the Rescue, National Review Online, 03-31-11
The Rent Is Too Damn Regulated, New York Post, 03-26-11
Albany's Rent Racket, New York Post, 03-22-11
Japan's Tragedy Will Impact The Global Economy, Washington Examiner, 03-15-11
Curbing Union Excess, New York Post, 03-14-11
Not So Radical Now, New York Post, 02-24-11
Re: Republicans Should Take Up 'Too Big to Fail', National Review Online, 02-24-11
Treading Water, New York Post, 02-18-11
In Defense of Col. Allen West, National Review Online, 02-16-11
Third-World Trains, New York Post, 02-09-11
Opposing View On TARP: The Hidden Costs, USA Today, 02-09-11
Rediscovering Reaganomics, National Post, 02-07-11
A Nonpartisan Conclusion, New York Times Room for Debate, 01-30-11
We Need a Dose Of 21st-Century Reaganomics, RealClearMarkets, 01-29-11
What Would Reagan do?, Washington Times, 01-24-11
Bankruptcy: No Cure for Broke States, New York Post, 01-24-11
The Market Won't Fix States' Woes, The Boston Globe, 01-23-11
State of the Christmas Trees, National Review Online, 01-19-11
MTA's Tarnished Brass, New York Post, 01-17-11
Dangerous debt games, Washington Examiner, 01-05-11
Just Friends, or a Secret Club?, National Review Online, 01-05-11
No Time To Waste, New York Post, 01-04-11
Itâ€™s Never a Great Morning . . ., National Review Online, 12-13-10
Tax-Reform Peril, New York Post, 12-13-10
Re: Obama Speaks, National Review Online, 12-07-10
What Have We Learned?, National Review Online, 12-02-10
Re: Merkel, Raving, National Review Online, 11-17-10
States On The Brink, New York Post, 11-17-10
Re: Conservatives, QE2, and "Rejecting the Requiem", National Review Online, 11-16-10
A Lesson in Recovery, The Times-Picayune, 11-13-10
The Fed vs. New York, New York Post, 11-08-10
Nevadans May Say: What Happens in Washington . . ., National Review Online, 10-25-10
To Fix The Economy, Let Bad Banks Die, Los Angeles Times, 10-24-10
Ignoring the Cri$i$ at the MTA, New York Post, 10-22-10
Wonk Wars: What's The Future of NYC's Financial Jobs?, WNYC, 10-19-10
First the Stimulus, Now the Hangover, New York Post, 10-12-10
Tunneling Through the State Pension Burden, National Review Online, 10-11-10
Will Unions Eat The ARC?, New York Post, 10-06-10
Mega-Success for a Mega-Project, The Boston Globe, 10-03-10
How Healthy Is New York City's Economy?, The New York Times, 08-31-10
DC Missed the Train, New York Post, 08-25-10
Cuomo's Big Bank Heist, New York Post, 08-22-10
Bell's Debt Tolls, Wall Street Journal, 08-20-10
Gross Has No Mortgage-Market Magic Bullet, National Review Online, 08-19-10
Re: The Cost of Promoting Home Ownership, National Review Online, 08-19-10
Bellâ€™s Debt Tolls, RealClearMarkets, 08-06-10
MTA's Free Pass For Labor, New York Post, 08-03-10
Europe’s Debt Crisis — And Ours, Research Magazine, 08-01-10
Don't Bank On NYC's 'Early' Recovery, New York Post, 07-26-10
Surveying the Wreckage of the Financial Crisis, The Fiscal Times, 07-19-10
Now He Tells Us: Dodd's Belated Fin-Reg Wisdom, National Review Online, 07-15-10
Better Stimulus For States: Cash For Cuts, Investor's Business Daily, 07-12-10
Where The MTA Should Be Saving, New York Post, 07-07-10
The Recovery Prevention Act of 2010, Washington Examiner, 07-07-10
A Rotten 'Reform', New York Post, 06-28-10
A Stimulus to Ruin, New York Post, 06-15-10
Too Loathed to Fail, National Review Online, 06-10-10
Why BP Will Be the Next Bailout, New York Post, 06-07-10
What Will Wall Street Look Like Next Year?, The New York Times, 05-21-10
As Senate Democrats Try to Vote, the GOP Should Ask: Whither Derivatives?, National Review Online, 05-20-10
A Big, Fat 'Greek' Budget, New York Post, 05-09-10
The IMF, the U.S., and Greece, National Review Online, 05-07-10
Rx For Train Wrecks, New York Post, 05-06-10
A Simple GOP Plan for Wall Street, Roll Call, 05-04-10
Fixing Big Finance, Chief Executive Magazine, 05-03-10
Beware Of The Muni Bond Bubble: States And Cities Can Fail As Well, Investor's Business Daily, 04-29-10
From the Trading Desk, National Review Online, 04-29-10
How To Save Wall Street, New York Post, 04-29-10
What Brown Can Do To Fix Banks, The Boston Globe, 04-23-10
The Details Matter And Obama's Got Them All Wrong, FoxNews.com, 04-23-10
O's Hollow Promises, New York Post, 04-22-10
Is Goldman Sachs Guilty of Fraud?, National Review Online, 04-22-10
The Panic Next Time, New York Post, 04-19-10
What Goldman’s Conduct Reveals, The New York Times, 04-16-10
Wall St. Bailouts Would Be Invited, Not Prevented, Under Dodd's Bill, Investor's Business Daily, 04-16-10
Would the Dodd Bill Prevent Bailouts?, National Review Online, 04-14-10
How 'Soaking the Rich' Clobbers You, New York Post, 04-14-10
Bank Secrets and Size, National Review Online, 04-06-10
Could a New Federal Agency Catch The Next Madoff?, Washington Examiner, 03-31-10
NYC Crunch Time, New York Post, 03-30-10
Chris Dodd's Cloudy Crystal Ball, Forbes.com, 03-29-10
A Slap Upside the Head of the Government, National Review Online, 03-23-10
It's All Greek to NY, New York Post, 03-10-10
How 'Eminent Domain' Makes Blight, New York Post, 02-21-10
Paulson's Op-ed, National Review Online, 02-16-10
A Greek Solution For A Greek Problem, Forbes.com, 02-16-10
The Volcker Rule and Congress' Unlearned Lesson, The Motley Fool, 02-11-10
Blame Goldberg, National Review Online, 02-11-10
Derailing New York, New York Post, 02-10-10
Commercial Banks' 'Safety Net', National Review Online, 02-03-10
What Obama Should Say In His State of the Union, Washington Examiner, 01-27-10
Bam's Bank Bumble, New York Post, 01-25-10
We Need Limits on Borrowing, Not Repudiation of Bankers, Washington Examiner, 01-20-10
MTA 'Vision': The Same Old Denial, New York Post, 01-19-10
Why O's 'Bank Tax' Won't Fix Wall St., New York Post, 01-13-10
A Disappointing Jobs Report, National Review Online, 01-08-10
Big Trouble for Geithner?, National Review Online, 01-07-10
Congress, Bernanke Should Know That Regulators Aren’t Soothsayers, Investor's Business Daily, 01-07-10
Saving Capitalism, Research Magazine, 01-01-10
Extend Old Principles To New Markets, Pioneer Press, 12-31-09
Stop Digging, National Review Online, 12-30-09
NY State's Owe Woes, New York Post, 12-30-09
Say No To Financial Big Brother, Delaware Online, 12-30-09
Sensible Financial Reform, Los Angeles Times, 12-25-09
Trainwreck, New York Post, 12-16-09
Too Big Not To Fail, New Orleans City Business, 12-14-09
The Wall Street Lenders' Protection Act, National Review Online, 12-14-09
Another MTA Meltdown, New York Post, 12-11-09
Bailing Out the States' Bailout, National Review Online, 12-08-09
Get a Job, National Review Online, 12-03-09
Public-Private Partnerships Are A Valuable Tool for Government, Though Not A Panacea, CitiesOnAHill.org, 12-03-09
Borrowing Limits, Not Bailouts, Prevent Market Failure, Washington Examiner, 12-02-09
Dubai's Dilemma: A Warning To NY, New York Post, 12-01-09
Goldman Sachs Can't Fix Washington's Problem â€” and Ours, National Review Online, 11-23-09
Market Discipline vs. Mob Discipline, National Review Online, 11-21-09
Bad for the Economy and Society, The New York Times, 11-19-09
The Empire State and Eminent Domain, Wall Street Journal, 11-13-09
Phony Fixes For The Wall St. Mess, New York Post, 11-13-09
To Cleanse the MTA, New York Post, 11-11-09
Global Finance Remains Mired in a Primitive State, Washington Examiner, 11-04-09
Mike's New 'Musts', New York Post, 11-04-09
A Beneficial Loss, National Review Online, 10-27-09
NYC's Fiscal Future, New York Post, 10-27-09
Let the Markets Regulate, The New York Times, 10-22-09
The Public Option, National Review Online, 10-22-09
The Subway's Future, New York Post, 10-21-09
Fight the 'Outrage', New York Post, 10-13-09
Don't Worry, You're Safe with Us, National Review Online, 10-06-09
Thompson Loves the TWU, New York Post, 10-06-09
Uncertainty Rate, National Review Online, 10-04-09
Credit in the Real World, National Review Online, 09-26-09
John Liu: In Denial, New York Post, 09-25-09
The Flaw In O's Wall Street Fixes, New York Post, 09-15-09
Get control over the pensions, Newsday, 09-13-09
Where's Walder?, New York Post, 09-09-09
Affordable BribesFor Banks, New York Post, 09-07-09
Tough Love Needed, New York Post, 08-28-09
Sunshine Needed For NY Labor Pacts, New York Post, 08-17-09
It's Time To End 'Too Big To Fail', New York Post, 08-17-09
Trainwreck Of A Contract, New York Post, 08-12-09
Wanted: Old principles, not new institutions, San Francisco Examiner, 08-12-09
Get Rail, Mike, New York Post, 08-06-09
An Empty Boom, New York Post, 07-29-09
Perilous MTA Pick, New York Post, 07-15-09
Save The Subways, New York Post, 07-08-09
An Outrageous Giveaway, New York Post, 06-23-09
Bailout Fallout, New York Post, 06-19-09
White House: 'Too Big to Fail' Is Here to Stay, National Review Online, 06-17-09
Mike's Achilles' Heel, New York Post, 06-04-09
Patterson's Fall Guy, New York Post, 05-11-09
Cross Your Fingers, New York Post, 05-07-09
Spendthrift Sunbelt States, Forbes.com, 05-03-09
A Desperate Gimmick, New York Post, 04-30-09
Million-Dollar Babies, New York Post, 04-28-09
New York's Subway Woes Could Have Been Avoided, Wall Street Journal, 04-25-09
Rotten Rescue, New York Post, 04-22-09
It's The Labor Costs, New York Post, 04-02-09
Blood On The Tracks, New York Post, 03-26-09
Slapping The Subways, New York Post, 03-24-09
Cutting Back -- Except for Transit, Gotham Gazette, 03-23-09
Baying for AIG Blood, RealClearMarkets, 03-23-09
Invitation To A Scam How To Safeguard NY Pensions, New York Post, 03-21-09
A Phony MTA Fix, New York Post, 03-18-09
The Coming Local Government Credit Crunch, Wall Street Journal, 03-10-09
Blame Game, New York Post, 03-10-09
A Grim Portent, New York Post, 03-04-09
Manhattan Moment: Failure Should Be An Option For Financial Regulation, Washington Examiner, 03-03-09
The MTA Meltdown, New York Post, 02-25-09
Windfall No Cure-All, New York Post, 02-19-09
Bold Endeavors, New York Post, 02-15-09
Stimulus = Death?, New York Post, 02-13-09
Salary Cap Sends The Right Message: Bailed-Out Firms Now Wards Of State, Investor's Business Daily, 02-04-09
Mike's Doomsday Budget? If Only, New York Post, 02-02-09
Are Banks Able To Be Banks Again As Securitization Market Dries Up?, Investor's Business Daily, 01-21-09
Bungled 'Stimulus': How House Bill Stiffs Transit, New York Post, 01-21-09
Mike's Omission, New York Post, 01-16-09
Price-Fixing Begins At Home, Forbes.com, 01-15-09
Detroit: The Abyss Awaiting NYC?, New York Post, 01-14-09
MTA's Fatal Dodge, New York Post, 01-11-09
DC Can't Save Us, New York Post, 01-05-09
Bootstrap Transit, New York Post, 12-30-08
MTA Madness: The Politicians Haven't Helped, New York Post, 12-19-08
Playing Bridge, National Review Online, 12-18-08
How to Do Public Works Right, Wall Street Journal, 12-08-08
Devilish MTA Details, New York Post, 12-05-08
The True Lessons Of Citi's Collapse, New York Post, 11-25-08
A Tale of Two Paulsons, City Journal, 11-24-08
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, 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
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, 02-18-08
The Rise of the Mortgage 'Walkers', Wall Street Journal, 02-08-08
Putting The Con In Colonial, New York Post, 01-29-08
NYC Budget Blues, New York Post, 01-29-08
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, 12-03-07
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, 11-08-07
Budget Hole Blues, New York Post, 10-30-07
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 Magazine, 09-10-07
An Inconvenient Solution, Front Page Magazine, 09-05-07
The Most Dangerous City, OpinionJournal.com, 08-29-07
What New Orleans Needs Now, New York Post, 08-28-07
Bridges Vs. Butter, New York Post, 08-06-07
MTA Baby Steps, New York Post, 07-31-07
John Edwardsâ€™s Tax Muddle, Townhall.com, 07-31-07
Pensions & Plunder, New York Post, 07-19-07
The Ferrer Tax, The New Yorker, 07-17-07
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
HillaryCare for Tots, Townhall.com, 05-28-07
Baghdad on the Bayou, RealClearPolitics, 05-26-07
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
Building Bridges, Forbes, 04-23-07
Baghdad on the Bayou, Front Page Magazine, 04-23-07
The Curse Of 2nd Avenue, New York Post, 04-10-07
What the Middle Class Needs, The 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
Wall Street Woes, New York Post, 01-23-07
Make NYC Tax Cuts Permanent, New York Post, 01-18-07
How Spitzer Can Help N.Y.C., New York Post, 01-02-07
A Bit of Everything Wrong, The New York Sun, 12-19-06
The Bloomberg Borrowing Binge, New York Post, 12-12-06
Joining the Competition, The New York Sun, 12-07-06
San Diego Charges, Wall Street Journal, 11-27-06
Will Spitzer or Silver Run Albany?, The New York Sun, 11-08-06
The Real Scandal, New York Post, 10-26-06
Constructing Better Property Taxes, The New York Sun, 10-23-06
NY's Tax Test, New York Post, 10-05-06
Free To Build, New York Post, 09-22-06
The Real Lesson of Katrina, New York Post, 08-29-06
Eliot's Rent Reversal, New York Post, 08-18-06
Plot's NY Lessons, New York Post, 08-14-06
Spitzer's Sting, New York Post, 08-06-06
Monopoly Power, The New York Times, 07-30-06
Room for Tax Cuts, The New York Sun, 07-27-06
Bloomberg's Housing Horror, New York Post, 07-25-06
Hurricane in the Hamptons, Wall Street Journal, 07-13-06
Ground Zero Risks, New York Post, 07-07-06
A Bounced Fact-Check, New York Post, 06-30-06
New Orleans' Criminal Chaos, New York Post, 06-21-06
The Feds' Foul, New York Post, 06-06-06
NYSE's Euro Vacation, New York Post, 05-30-06
Hero's Task, Dallas Morning News, 04-30-06
Rebuilding & Hidden Agendas: Not a Done Deal, New York Post, 04-26-06
New Orleans Needs a Rudy, National Review Online, 04-21-06
Downtown Rising, New York Post, 04-16-06
Creative Credit, New York Post, 03-31-06
Dooming Downtown, New York Post, 03-24-06
WTC Rebuilding Wrongs: Mike's Guess VS. Larry's, New York Post, 03-14-06
'We Need Help', Dallas Morning News, 02-26-06
Token Gesture, New York Post, 02-01-06
After Nixzmary Brown, The New York Sun, 01-20-06
Losing Wall Street, New York Post, 01-18-06
The Cost of Neighborliness, OpinionJournal.com, 01-08-06
Get the Buses Running, The New York Sun, 12-22-05
Privatize the Buses, The New York Sun, 12-20-05
Put Teeth in Taylor, The New York Sun, 12-15-05
Off the Rails, The New York Times, 12-13-05
Peril for the City, New York Post, 11-07-05
The Transportation Bond Act: Vote No, Gotham Gazette, 10-17-05
N.Y. & New Orleans, New York Post, 10-11-05
The Price of Delay, New York Post, 09-11-05
Feeble 4's Fiscal Follies, New York Post, 09-08-05
Rebuilding New Orleans will take a miracle, Dallas Morning News, 09-05-05
Will New Orleans Recover?, The New York Sun, 09-01-05
Bulldozing Small Business, The New York Sun, 08-29-05
Weld's Fiscal Record Looks Too Familiar, Newsday, 08-23-05
Spike the Tax Hike, The New York Sun, 08-08-05
Through a Tunnel Darkly, The New York Sun, 07-20-05
Graduation Puts Charter School On Map, New York Daily News, 07-13-05
Olympian Triumph, The New York Sun, 07-13-05
Imminent Domain?, The New York Sun, 07-06-05
Time for Merit Pay For Teachers, The New York Sun, 06-20-05
West Side Profits?, The New York Sun, 06-06-05
A Permanent Pension-Fund Fix For San Diego, The San Diego Union-Tribune, 06-01-05
Meddling by Public Pension Funds Is Picking California's Pocket, Los Angeles Times, 01-14-05
Dodd-Frank's Many Questions, AdvisorOne, 00-00-00

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
Nuclear Power: The Investment Outlook Energy Policy & the Environment Report 1, June 2007
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

Podcasts

City Journal articles

Bike Share’s Promise and Peril, 30 May 2013
The British Evasion, Spring 2013
Freedom, Privacy, and Boston, 26 April 2013
Thatcher’s Lesson for Today, 12 April 2013
Bold Cyprus, 20 March 2013
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
Dodd-Frank’s Protection Racket, Summer 2012
Libor Pangs, 6 July 2012
A Medicaid Dilemma, 28 June 2012
Europe Still Doesn’t Get It, 21 June 2012
Ungridlocked, Spring 2012
It’s Not About Jamie Dimon, 14 May 2012
What Should Never Be For Sale, 11 May 2012
The Life of Zachary, 4 May 2012
Get the Government Out of Student Loans, 2 May 2012
Of Muppets and Manhattan, 15 March 2012
Bailing Out Mitt, 24 February 2012
The Rental Mania That Wasn’t, 14 February 2012
Farewell to the Free Market?, Winter 2012
Who Pays?, 3 February 2012
A Triple-A Headache, 17 January 2012
Remembering, Autumn 2011
The Ratner Seven, 18 November 2011
The Bubble President, 13 November 2011
Is There a Retirement Crisis?, Autumn 2011
Occupy Europe, 1 November 2011
Greed Is Not Good, 28 October 2011
Hell, No, We Won’t Toe, 17 October 2011
Apples and Oranges, 7 October 2011
Christie Doesn’t Go to China, 30 September 2011
The Vanished Skyline, 8 September 2011
The Britain That Doesn’t Rage, 26 August 2011
The Mortgage Hangover, Summer 2011
Government-Sponsored Looting, 18 August 2011
TARP’s Shadow, 15 July 2011
Why We Don’t Recover, 10 July 2011
Food Is the Real Thing, 9 June 2011
Too Radioactive to Fail, 1 June 2011
Hollywood Explains the Economy, Part 2, 31 May 2011
Hollywood Explains the Economy, 25 May 2011
The Tappan Zee Is Falling Down, Spring 2011
9/11’s New Eyes, 2 May 2011
GOP, Beware the S&P, 18 April 2011
Policing the Big Easy, 4 April 2011
Chris Christie’s Second Act, 24 February 2011
Hidden in Plain Sight, 10 February 2011
Dealing with Failure, 4 February 2011
Nation-Building in Washington, Winter 2011
Twenty-First-Century Reaganomics, Winter 2011
The Benefits Storm, 4 January 2011
Keep the Cuts, Cut the Breaks, 30 November 2010
Big Easy Rising, Autumn 2010
Can TARP R.I.P.?, 15 October 2010
Debating the Wreckage, 19 September 2010
Eurocrash, Summer 2010
Bell’s Debt Tolls, 6 August 2010
Gotham’s Capital Chance, 13 July 2010
Surveying the Wreckage, Summer 2010
Don’t Prop Up BP, 17 June 2010
Who’s Resurrecting New Orleans?, Spring 2010
Why Enron Couldn’t Take Manhattan, 13 May 2010
Beware the Muni-Bond Bubble, Spring 2010
Supply-Side Financial Reform, 8 March 2010
Eminent Domain as Central Planning, Winter 2010
My Big Fat Greek Restructuring, 16 February 2010
Deriving the Truth, 14 January 2010
Global Finance’s State of Nature, Autumn 2009
Arguing the Economy, 18 November 2009
The Bear Truth, 11 November 2009
Bloomberg at the Warning Track, 4 November 2009
Our Subprime Federal Government, 20 October 2009
The Downtown Development Drag, 6 October 2009
Global Warning, 17 September 2009
Krugman, Keynes, and Ketchup, 9 September 2009
Failing Up, 1 September 2009
“Too Big to Fail” Must Die, Summer 2009
Express Track to New York’s Tomorrow?, 6 August 2009
Transit for Tomorrow, 8 July 2009
A Better, Simpler Financial Fix, 19 June 2009
Spendthrift Sunbelt States, Spring 2009
The Perils of P-PIP, 7 April 2009
Baying for AIG Blood, 23 March 2009
Jindal’s Missed Opportunity, 25 February 2009
The Developers’ Bailout, 24 February 2009
Public-Private Peril, 11 February 2009
Cap and Bail, 5 February 2009
Stimulating Some Thinking, 2 February 2009
The President’s First Roadblock, 23 January 2009
Can the Feds Uncrunch Credit?, Winter 2009
Stalling Out, 14 January 2009
Gotham’s Problems Are Camelot-Proof, 6 January 2009
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
Five Questions About the Bailout . . ., 26 September 2008
Mark-to-Market Isn’t to Blame, 25 September 2008
Throwing Bad Debt After Bad—Again!, 18 September 2008
Construction Safety Woes, Summer 2008
Going for Broke, 11 September 2008
Driving Lessons, 5 September 2008
Katrina, Three Years Later, 28 August 2008
Andrew Cuomo’s Civil Approach, 12 August 2008
New York’s Next Fiscal Crisis, Summer 2008
America, Too Big to Fail . . . Probably, 16 July 2008
New Twin Towers?, 6 July 2008
Tangled Power Lines, 30 June 2008
Boston Battles Foreclosures, Spring 2008
Stock Characters, 6 June 2008
Leave Jindal Alone!, 22 May 2008
The Big Easy Rebuilds, Bottom Up, Spring 2008
Matters of Trust, 14 May 2008
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
The Bailout Society?, 26 February 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, 2 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