03-06-2013 - LIREG to hold networking breakfast

Long Island Real Estate Group (LIREG) will be hosting a networking breakfast on March 6 at Old Westbury Golf & Country Club, 270 Wheatley Rd. Manhattan Institute fellow Nicole Gelinas will speak on "The Case for Privatizing the Long Island Power Authority." The event is free to LIREG members, $60 for non-members. RSVP to [email protected] or 631-721-7400 Gelinas is the Searle Freedom Trust Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Gelinas writes on urban economics and finance, municipal and corporate finance, and business issues. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts. Her most recent book, "After the Fall: Savings Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington," was published in November 2009 by Encounter Books. Gelinas has published analysis and opinion pieces on the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union Tribune, the New York Sun, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and the Boston Herald. She has also written for Crain's New York Business and National Review Online. Before coming to City Journal, Gelinas was a business journalist for Thomson Financial in New York, where she covered the international syndicated-loan and private-debt markets. She also wrote a regular op-ed column for the New York Post. Gelinas graduated from the Newcomb College of Tulane University with a B.A. in English literature. She and her husband live in Manhattan.