A few weeks ago in New York, I was sitting at a dinner organized to discuss American trade when the conversation swiftly turned to China. Well-credentialed experts took opposite stances: Some supported President Trump’s muscular, aggressive positions, while others pushed for a less confrontational, more conventional approach. I am no expert on trade, but I […]
President Trump indisputably dominated 2025. Only the second president to be elected to nonconsecutive terms, the reinvigorated Mr. Trump plunged back into office with a muscularity unmatched by any other president in my lifetime. Ignoring convention, precedent and, at times, the law, he rammed through vast changes aimed at curtailing immigration, walling off our economy […]
Another Federal Reserve meeting, another loss for President Trump. And we should all be grateful for that. A few hours ago, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 10 to 2 to reduce interest rates by just 0.25 percent, disregarding Mr. Trump’s regular exhortations that rates should be as much as two full percentage points lower. […]
“[a] surprisingly modest account…Rattner has a journalistic talent for the telling detail, resulting in a memorable tale of life in the middle of the economic meltdown...Rattner deftly draws portraits of the inhabitants of "the Oval" and the West Wing...Rattner has proved himself a gifted chronicler.”
-Time Magazine
