Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Drop Dead City” falls into a category of documentary I think of as wonkish but gripping. Produced and directed by Peter Yost and ...

A new documentary about the 1975 fiscal crisis, Drop Dead City, is entertaining to watch but dangerously misleading as history—or politics. Ad Policy Sins of the father: Drop Dead City, a documentary ...

Fifty years ago today, this newspaper ran our famous front page headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” with President Jerry Ford saying New York City would get no help in our deepest financial crisis.

“Drop Dead City” falls into a category of documentary I think of as wonkish but gripping. Produced and directed by Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn, the film is about the financial cataclysm that hit ...