Ilya Marritz

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Fred Mogul reports on efforts to build a science park in Manhattan.

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Jerry Storch, CEO of Toys R Us, on weathering the recession.

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How New York Publishers are coping with the financial turmoil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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