Economic Issues

New York City Hit With Another Park Artist Lawsuit, Allegations of B.S. Arrest

Another day, another report of legal drama between New York artists and City admins, it seems. Here's what's going on today: as we reported just yesterday, there are currently two lawsuits -- one filed at the state level, the other filed at the federal level -- which will basically decide whether N ... More >>

Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus

Harvard Crimson OWS Editorial: Leave Poor Goldman Sachs Alone

Protesters from Occupy Harvard (it exists) tried to disrupt a Goldman Sachs recruiting event on campus. Not particularly unusual or surprising for an Occupy-related group, right? Not so fast. The Harvard Crimson is not impressed, as made clear in a staff editorial in today's issue. It reads in pa ... More >>

"How Would You Design a Better NYC?" Website Asks

​Two organizations, the Institute for Urban Design and Project for Public Spaces, have joined forces to create a competition entitled "By the City, For the City." Addressing the city's need for public input and innovation, they've asked for your opinion on a seemingly trivial question: "How wo ... More >>

The Poorest Congressional District in America? Right Here, in New York City

​There are 435 congressional districts in the United States of America. And the poorest one in the country is right here in New York City. Can you guess which one it is?

Dr. Doom ("Nouriel Roubini"): 40% Chance of "Renewed Recession" for American Economy Is

​Nouriel Roubini -- who's basically living like a rap star after screaming about how utterly fucked the American economy was before it happened, watching it happen, and telling everyone how he told them so -- just made a headline tonight when he put the chances of a "renewed recession" for Ame ... More >>

Shots Fired: New York Times Columnists Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman's Beef Officially Cooked

Pictured, Left to Right: Youth and Skill, Old Age and Treachery​Well-paid media celebrity and (purportedly) boyishly good looking New York Times' star finance reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is, as they say on the streets, "starting some shit." And he's starting it inside the New York Times, with ... More >>

Sanction-busting Investigation Could Threaten Nets Deal, Atlantic Yards

​Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-NJ) tells the Post that he's requesting a Treasury Department investigation to see if Mikhail Prokhorov, the russian investor who's trying to buy stakes in both the Nets and the planned Nets Arena in Brooklyn, has violated Bush-era sanctions against doing business wi ... More >>

Atlantic Yards, Bloomberg get national bad press

The press in other places have​ discovered the Mayor's pet Atlantic Yards project, with a scathing AP piece on the human cost of eminent domain and a firebreathing George Will column on how much the Founding Fathers would have disapproved. Neither mentions the mayor, but both make it far more ... More >>

On the Jobless Front in NYC: Now You Can See How Poorly Your Own Neighborhood is Doing

One Depression-era approach to dealing with the unemployed.Those of you who insist on leavening your holiday happiness with doses of grim reality can now check out a new neighborhood-by-neighborhood breakdown of unemployment in New York City, courtesy of the Fiscal Policy Institute. The FPI clai ... More >>

Court Deals Blow to Columbia's $6.3 Billion Harlem Land Grab (Updated)

A State Court of Appeals decided this afternoon that New York State was wrong to grant Columbia University eminent domain rights that enabled it to seize land from property owners whose businesses were located in the footprint of the university's expansion. This ruling marks the culmination of a ... More >>

Did Atlantic Yards Ruling Pass the Buck on 'Blight'?

Tuesday's Atlantic Yards decision, in which New York's highest court upheld the right of the state to seize private property on behalf of a mega-developer, will doubtlessly impact the lives of thousands of Brooklyn residents and be discussed for years to come. But the court backed off from a cen ... More >>

As Appeal Goes Forward, MTA Hit With New Atlantic Yards Suit

Bruce Ratner and his Atlantic Yards project are really getting it in the neck this week. Tomorrow an appeal by landholders of the eminent domain seizure of their properties for the sports, shopping, office and residential mega-plan gets going in court. And now Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, state s ... More >>

City Says It Paid Former Queens Beep and Lobbyist for "Outreach," Not Lobbying

Way back in October, the Willets Point Industry and Realty Association, a group strenuously opposed to the city's attempt to throw their businesses out of Willets Point so it could be redeveloped, accused former Queens borough president Claire Shulman of being an unregistered lobbyist for the Bloomb ... More >>

Council Caves on Coney; Sitt-to-City Deal Still in Works?

Photo (cc) Spuz. The way things are going, the never-ending Coney Island rezoning process is going to have more "final hearings" than Astroland had last days. Originally scheduled to meet last week to weigh in on the shape of Coney's future, the city council's land use committee instead repeatedl ... More >>

The Bloomberg Dilemma: Favorite? Or Just No Obvious Alternative?

Being for the mayor while against him

Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

Lousy Economy Good News for Economics Teachers

Daily Flog: For the recession, some remedial English lessons

Daily Flog: California, here we go; crisis also sweeps through Asia

Protest, Bloggers Keep Heat on Willets Point Plan

Daily Flog: Wall Street's little piggies don't want to go mark-to-market; meanwhile, more huffing and puffing

Columbia Ignores Peril

When Klaus Jacob talks, important people take action. Except the important people paying him.

Daily Blog: Shock and awe; you just lost at Monopoly; Al Jazeera talks to a Jewish banker

Protesters Tell Gristede's King Catsimatidis: Give Us Back Our Supermarket

The Union Square Pavilion Picnic Protest

Capitalist Kumbaya

From Community Group to Condo: The Saga of 49 E. Houston and Times Up!

Harlem Residents to Proclaim Rezoning 'Ain't Over' on Saturday

No Joy in Mudville

Robert Jackson to Audience: "Shut Up"

Wolfie Crony Finally Ousted

Brooklyn Residents Chant 'Save Our Neighborhood, Yo'

Hula Girls

Wolfie Watchdog Site 'Sabotaged'

Wolfie's Scandal-Scarred Aide OK'd Riza's Move

Morning Report 1/24/06
Wolfie at the Door

Morning Report 12/19/05
Guise of the Year

Morning Report 12/16/05
Wolfie Does Some Trust-Busting at the World Bank

Morning Report 9/22/05
Wolfowitz Sends His Gal to State Dept. — To Work With Cheney's Daughter

World Piece

Message in a Bottle

Rustic eccentrics wax philosophical and 'terroirists' denounce globalizers in wine doc

The Numbers Beyond the Bling

In the streets of America, people are worse off, and more of them are in jail

Black Panthers 35 Years Later

Not Your Daddy's Reunion

Against The Wall

Anti-Corporate Protesters Reassert Their Vocal Presence

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Prague

Rewiring the World

Technology Sparks Debate at Beijing+5

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Part 6: Ending the Epidemic

African Prostitutes May Play a Crucial Role in Developing an HIV Vaccine