Author: Jonathan D. Miller
Executive Bio
Jonathan Miller is a partner and co-owner of Miller Ryan LLC, a strategic marketing communications consulting firm to the financial services and real estate industries. Miller has more than 25 years of communications and marketing experience in the real estate industry, counseling many leading executives. For the past 15 years he has also authored Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) premier annual industry forecast and speaks extensively on suburban and urban issues. He is also author of ULI's Infrastructure 2008: A Global Perspectives, a major analysis on the looming changes facing the
U.S. on infrastructure and land use issues. He has led marketing/communications teams at Equitable Real Estate, Lend Lease, and GMAC Commercial Mortgage (Capmark Finance), overseeing re-branding programs for those firms as well as for COMPASS, Boston Financial and Amresco when they were acquired by Lend Lease. He has extensive crisis communications and corporate-change experience. Miller graduated with honors from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and earned a law degree cum laude from American University. Contact Jonathan Miller.
Archive
Infrastructure, the Economy: Hello! - They´re Linked!
I recently wrote the following article for the Citistates Group, a network of journalists, speakers and civic leaders which I belong to. The group focuses on building competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions. FULL STORY
Saturday night. Roof top 40th birthday party--Chrysler Building and assorted other skyscrapers shimmering over the cityscape in the distance. The host, a hedge fund guy, thanks everyone for coming "in spite of the tough week." Champagne is passed and a lemon scented birthday cake rolled in on... FULL STORY
Warren Buffett makes his bets (on GE and Goldman) and proves once again in tough times cash is king -- he's in a position to make what could be big scores. On the other hand if you are in a debt driven business or have used a lot of leverage on your investments you are more likely to be flat on your back.... FULL STORY
Here are some numbers that put into perspective the sorry state of the federal government and our fiscal predicament: FULL STORY
Americans have been good at making assumptions--housing prices would continue to spiral, Fannie and Freddie would never need a government backstop, borrowing increasingly more would never come back to haunt us, and our major investment banks-managed by financial geniuses-- were impervious. One by one,... FULL STORY
The Incredible Shrinking Industry
As heads spin and iconic Wall Street companies disappear, the financial industry diminishes before our very eyes. How many jobs will be lost in these various shotgun marriages, bankruptcies, and shut downs? The toll will be huge--many tens of thousands, including a high percentage of big ticket bankers... FULL STORY
The Incredible Shrinking Industry
As heads spin and iconic Wall Street companies disappear, the financial industry diminishes before our very eyes. How many jobs will be lost in these various shotgun marriages, bankruptcies, and shut downs? The toll will be huge -- many tens of thousands, including a high percentage of big ticket bankers... FULL STORY
Well, no wonder those four star Manhattan restaurants were so empty last week. Hold the Krystal, this week promises to be even worse... On the other hand, corner bars may be doing much better at least selling their cheapest brews. FULL STORY
Bear's gone. Lehman's going, going, well not yet. Fannie and Freddie are in conservatorship. WAMU teeters. Wachovia lurches. How bad will the next quarterly reports be from Morgan Stanley and Citicorp? And when will the Federal government just stand by and let a big financial institution fail? FULL STORY
