Ilya Marritz

Ilya Marritz appears in the following:

411: Doubleday Doubles Down, Random House Reduces

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

How New York Publishers are coping with the financial turmoil.

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Cuomo Applauds AIG Pay Cuts, Fed Announces an $800 Billion Debt Package

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the self-appointed cop of troubled insurer AIG, announced today that Edward Liddy, AIG's chief executive, is taking a pay cut. He'll make $1 a year henceforth, and other executives will have their salaries frozen. US taxpayers own a more ...

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Questions for Timothy Geithner

Monday, November 24, 2008

The next Treasury secretary was there when Bear Stearns was rescued, and Lehman Brothers drowned. What should senators ask him before they give him the keys to the Treasury?

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Downturn Means Fewer Free Drinks

Monday, November 24, 2008

HOST: New York is a mecca for people who like to do things for free. There are free concerts, free food, even free cocktails. In fact there’s a whole promotions industry around free events. As WNYC’s Ilya Marritz reports, the people who work in the ...

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Influencers Change Their Tactics

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Marketing companies love New York City because of the high concentration of so-called “influencers”. But with the downturn in the economy, some marketers who target the young and hip are revising their business plans. WNYC’s Ilya Marritz brings us this report from the liquor promotions ...

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A Closer Look at Federal Reserve Loans

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says one reason he's abandoned plans to buy up toxic mortgage securities is that they are just too hard to put a concrete value on, since no one else is interested in buying them.

But that hasn't stopped his colleagues at the ...

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The “Millionaire’s Tax” – Pro and Con

Monday, November 17, 2008

Should Albany raise taxes on the very richest New Yorkers in order to plug the budget hole?

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“Our aim should not be more government -- it should be smarter government”

Thursday, November 13, 2008

President Bush warns against too much oversight of Wall Street, but Michael Greenber of the University of Maryland thinks differently.

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Gas Drilling in Upstate New York Atracts Foreign Investors

Thursday, November 13, 2008

How valuable are upstate New York's untapped natural gas reserves? No one knows for sure. But as WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports, a new joint venture gives some clues.

REPORTER: StatoilHydro, a Norwegian company, will pay $3.4 billion dollars for a one-third share in Chesapeake Energy's northeast ...

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About Those Troubled Assets…

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Treasury says no bailout money will go to mortgage-backed securities. New York contemplates “green jobs” and Douglas Holtz-Eakin says he is “underwhelmed” by Paulson’s performance.

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Why Does Everyone Want to be a Bank Holding Company?

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Amex’s decision to reclassify itself, plus job hunt tips for out-of-work Wall Streeters.

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Shaky Economy Threatens New Jersey Commuters

Monday, November 10, 2008

The taxpayer bailout of AIG is growing. Over the weekend, the Fed and the Treasury brokered an additional $40 billion for the mega-insurer, bringing the total rescue package to $150 billion.

And now a local lesson in why AIG was considered too big to fail, and ...

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Chasing That Good Old New-car Smell

Thursday, November 06, 2008

New Jersey auto dealers feel stranded as credit and consumer confidence both dry up.

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Obamanomics

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

What president-elect Obama can do to re-set America’s financial system.

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What’s Black and White and Shrinking?

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Blogger Jeff Jarvis on newspaper and magazine layoffs, and what media can do to save itself.

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The New York (Business) State of Mind

Monday, November 03, 2008

From Buffalo to Long Island, state businesses are suffering from a nosedive in consumer confidence.

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The Art of the Possible

Friday, October 31, 2008

As donations dry up, museums are dusting off their permanent collections.

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Plastic Wrap

Thursday, October 30, 2008

How credit cards are using sophisticated data analysis to tighten up consumer lending.

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Dial Back 101 Years, Part II

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Financial historian Richard Sylla on what the response to the Panic of 1907 may tell us about the mess we’re in today.

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Dial Back 101 Years, Part I

Monday, October 27, 2008

Financial historian Richard Sylla explains how today’s financial crisis is a lot like the Panic of 1907 – and how the Panic influenced the 1908 presidential election.

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