On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts documenting the ever-rising mass shooting tragedies made possible by the outstanding number of guns owned in the US. Further, he shows how gun control can work. Mass shootings keep rising, charts show Steve Rattner’s charts show a rise in mass shootings across the country, a correlation […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining how the passage of the G.O.P.’s most recent budget deal, layered on top of the tax package, puts the debt (relative to the size of the economy) profile on track to exceed post-WWII levels. Such fiscal irresponsibility has begun to rock the markets. (Please also […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts to explain some key culprits behind the stock markets’ recent decline. Rattner’s charts: Making sense of Monday’s Dow drop The Dow recovered Monday after briefly dropping 1,500 points, the largest intraday drop in the index’s history, to break below the level of 25,000. Steve Rattner joins […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discussed charts showing that hardly a day goes by without Donald Trump tweet-bragging about record stock prices – as if soaring equity markets have much to do with the wealth, jobs or wages of the average American, the folks who made him president. For charts, click here. Half of […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that amidst front page issues like North Korea and the tax bill, less attention is being paid to one of President Trump’s more significant “successes”: appointing judges, many of them younger, most of them white and several of them demonstrably unqualified. This is of great importance […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that President Trump’s casual relationship with the truth is well known but his lies about taxes and the economy are extraordinary. For charts, click here. Rattner’s charts: Tax bill is not the largest ever Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Rattner breaks down the GOP tax bill […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that the Republican tax bill that emerged from conference late last week is no better for either average Americans or the nation’s growing deficit problems and is clearly worse in at least one important respect – any real hope of reforming the nation’s overly complicated tax […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that with the passage of the tax bill by the Senate, a major restructuring of the tax system seems almost certain to occur – with enormous adverse effects for residents of high tax states, almost all of them dominated by Democrats, as well as substantially […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts showing how the proposed tax cut – contrary to its sponsors’ claims that it is oriented toward the middle class – would reward business and the wealthy, while exploding the deficit. For charts, click here. Trump would get over $40M in benefits from bill: Rattner The […]
On Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining the consequences of the Senate’s latest tax plan. For charts, click here. Top earners would benefit most from tax cut Under the Senate GOP tax plan, the country’s wealthiest would do better than the middle class and more than $2T of new debt would be added […]