That's the provocative title of a Working Paper newly posted on the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The answer, in a word, is "yes." The co-authors of the paper, which focuses on strikes by nurses in New York between 1984... Read More
The l in today's New York Times profiles the 10 highest-earning hedge fund managers. A quick Google search indicates that only three of the firms run by these superstars -- Soros Fund Management, Paulson & Co., and Harbinger Capital Pa Read More
As its 2009-10 fiscal year draws to a close, New York is on track to collect roughly $500 million less than originally projected from last year's temporary "millionaire tax," which raised the marginal income tax rate by up to 31 percent on taxpayers Read More
The MTA's Jay Walder has , former Bear Stearns managing director, to the authority's chief financial officer post. Problem is -- Foran enabled the creation of a lot of the MTA's problems in the first place. One of the MTA's many disaster areas is wh Read More
Senator Chris Dodd's financial-regulatory includes some of what the press calls the "Volcker Rule" (p478): banning FDIC-insured banks and their affiliates or parent companies from what's known as "proprietary trading" or betting supposedly safe ban Read More
New York State entities continue to scrape the bottom of the barrel to scare up a few dollars. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will issue $475 million in short-term notes this week. The MTA pledges to repay the debt as soon as it get Read More
Governor David Paterson began his tenure in the spring of 2008 on a promising note by embracing , almost exactly as proposed by the . But when the Senate actually passed his bill a few months later, he backed off and dropped the issue. Last year, Read More
The outlook for a timely and fiscally responsible New York State budget is as poor as it has ever been at this point in a fiscal year that ends March 31. [caption id="attachment_2489" align="alignright" width="178" caption="We like NY's proactiv Read More