Yesterday, another New York art auction went , with a Christie's sale bringing in $146.7 million against a "low" estimate of $240.7 million. "Of the 82 works for sale, 36, or more than 40 percent, of the auction went unsold," the Times repo Read More
IBM chief Sam Palmisano gave a to the Council on Foreign Relations today in which he proposed a private-public "smart systems"-led recovery for the economy. Read More
Governor Paterson's projects that New York State will lose more than 160,000 jobs during "the current downturn." But if history is any guide, that could turn out to be very optimistic. As illustrated below, the state lost 500,000 private sec Read More
Today, Mayor Bloomberg held his mid-year budget update at City Hall. Here is the big picture: The mayor is still planning for a severe but temporary downturn in revenues. But there's a very real risk -- one that went unmentioned by the mayor Read More
Technology giant Sun Microsystems reported yesterday that its tech sales to the northeastern United States' financial industry were down 20 percent last quarter compared to the same period a year earlier, the Journal reports. The financial Read More
Forecasters at the Centre for Economics and Business Research in London think that securities-industry bonuses there will plummet 60 percent this winter. London bankers reaped the equivalent of $17 billion in bonuses in 2006, the peak year; in New Read More
At a Crain's breakfast this morning, City Comptroller (and 2009 mayoral candidate) Bill Thompson acknowledged a vital truth. "Budget growth has lately been out of balance with the growth of our local economy. Had we started to tie city spending to [ Read More
With the city comptroller's office now a loss of 35,000 jobs in New York-based investment banking and other financial services occupations, what's the next thing that will drive profits and employment in a Wall Street recovery? In a recent "On th Read More