"regardless" of what? many of those financial services businesses were moving out of the City, another term of Dinkins, and many more would have. how was NYC going to benefit from the tax revenues "regardless" of who was Mayor, if the businesses left the City?
Are you saying that the New York Stock Exchange was planning to leave the city? Are you saying that the high level brokers and traders were going to have offices in New Jersey and not on Wall Street? Those people (and they were the ones who really added to NYC's tax base) were never leaving NYC. What moved out of NYC were support services because with advances in communications, it no longer made financial sense for them to be there.
Let me ask you this, which companies RETURNED to NYC because of Rudy?
All I'm saying is that the entire economy prospered during the 90s and if Rudy tries to take credit for it, the media will be all over the place giving the Clintons the credit.