Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a columnist at the New York Post. Gelinas holds a B.A. in English literature from Tulane University and writes on urban economics and finance.

Gelinas has published analysis and opinion pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. Previously, she was a business journalist for Thomson Financial, where she covered the international syndicated-loan and private-debt markets. Gelinas is a CFA charterholder and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington (2011).