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

• 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

• 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 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 (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

ARTICLES/OP-EDS ARCHIVE:
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Research

• Courting Disaster: How City, State May Bungle Budget Crisis Article,
• NY Nightmare: This Isn't Just a 'Budget Crisis' Article,
• The MTA Mess Article,
• Uncle Sam Can Bail Out Fannie, But Who'll Bail Out Uncle Sam? Article, July 18, 2008
• Big Dig's Lessons For Ground Zero Article, July 7, 2008
• Con Ed's Next Crisis Article, June 6, 2008
• The Rent Wars Return Article,
• Obsessive Branding Disorder Article, June 8, 2008
• The MTA's Construction Crisis Article,
• 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

• 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
• More City Journal Articles