Ilya Marritz appears in the following:
Life Insurance...Not So Dull After All!
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Life Insurance Needs a Lifeboat
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
New York, NY —
How bad bets are sinking life insurers. Guest: Aaron Elstein, Crain’s New York Business.
"The H&R Block Tax Stimulus Plan"
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Interesting tidbit, via today's Financial 411 guest Anya Kamenetz: the president's stimulus package contains a huge, unintended boost for tax preparers: a more complicated tax code.
John Hewitt, founder of Jackson-Hewitt, even referred to it as "the H&R Block and Liberty Tax Stimulus Plan" in an interview ...
Making Tax Prep Pay
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
New York, NY —
Why H&R Block’s share price rose 25 percent last year. Guest: Anya Kamenetz.
Does H&R Block Do Well By Doing Badly?
Business Services Among Worst Hit in NYC Job Loss
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
New York, NY —
The pace of job loss in the New York City area is picking up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 193,000 jobs disappeared between February of 2008 and last February.
Business services are among the worst hit areas that includes everything from janitors to accountants - ...
Tim’s Electronic Transition
Monday, April 06, 2009
New York, NY —
How Tim Geithner brought derivatives trading into the computer age. Guest: Jeff Gerth, ProPublica
SUNY Budget Raises Ire
Friday, April 03, 2009
New York, NY —
Some students and administrators are protesting next fiscal year's proposed budget for SUNY schools. Shirley Strum Kenny, the president of SUNY Stony Brook, is angry that diminishing state aid will effectively offset revenue from recent tuition hikes.
KENNY: It is being hijacked to go into the ...
Not So NYSE After All?
Friday, April 03, 2009
New York, NY —
New York Stock Exchange shareholders are angry. Guest: Greg David, Crain’s New York Business.
London Calling
Thursday, April 02, 2009
New York, NY —
Topshop and the G20 Summit. NPR’s Laura Conaway interviews Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute.
New York Housing Prices Slump Again in First Quarter
Thursday, April 02, 2009
New York, NY —
Those looking for bottom in the New York housing market will have to wait a little longer. The city's biggest real estate brokers released their first quarter figures today, and the vital signs do not look good.
Brown Harris Stevens recorded a $15,000 drop in the ...
SCOTUS: The EPA Can Consider Cost of Upgrades to Nuclear Power Plants
Thursday, April 02, 2009
New York, NY —
For years, environmentalists have worked to close down two aging nuclear plants near New York City. But they had two setbacks yesterday. WNYC's Ilya Marritz reports.
REPORTER: Forty miles north of New York City, there's the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station. The group Riverkeeper says the ...
Car Making By Fiat
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
New York, NY —
How Chrysler could be saved by a resilient Italian automaker. Guest: Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
Feds to Decide Future of Oyster Creek Power Plant
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
New York, NY —
A decision could come today on the future of the nation's oldest operating nuclear power plant. WNYC's Ilya Marritz has more.
REPORTER: New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear power station was built on a tidal marsh north of Atlantic City. On April 10th - the plant's 40th ...
Call Me In 2010
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
New York, NY —
Law firms defer job offers. Guest: Kris Fischer, New York Law Journal.
X Marks the Spot
Monday, March 30, 2009
New York, NY —
The IRS seeks hidden treasure in offshore tax havens. Guest: Tom Herman, Wall Street Journal reporter.
Dimon in the Rough
Friday, March 27, 2009
New York, NY —
JPMorgan’s CEO says March has been “a little tough”. Guest: Greg David, Crain’s New York Business.
More Regulation ≠ Better Regulation?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
New York, NY —
One Congressman’s take on designing new rules for Wall Street. Guest: Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ – 5th District).
Scrutinizing DeSantis
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
This was probably inevitable...a pitch from a publicist speculating on the legality of Jake DeSantis' very public letter of resignation from AIG.
The pitch suggests DeSantis could have violated confidentiality clauses in his contract with the company. If his contract in fact contained such language.
For the record, a ...
Must Read: Why I'm Leaving AIG
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Finally! A voice from inside the most vilified shop on Wall Street, AIG's financial products division.
Check out this Times op ed by Jake DeSantis, an AIG executive vice president. Actually, it's his resignation letter. DeSantis says he had nothing to do with the credit default swaps that ...
Cash Flow Kings
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
New York, NY —
How innovators and unconventional thinkers made money in ’08. Guest: Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Magazine.