The walls are closing in on artificial intelligence: moratoriums on new data center construction, job-loss concerns and rising alarm over safety. All valid worries. But none are sufficient to turn away from one of the greatest technological innovations in history, one with the potential to reinvigorate our slow-growth economy and make it easier to address […]
“Promises made, promises kept.” Other presidents have employed variations of that phrase, although few with the gusto of President Trump; he even proclaims it on the White House website. When it comes to the economy, though, “promises not kept” would be a more apt description of the first 19 months of Trump 2.0. And many […]
Kevin Warsh finally won the prize he long pursued: becoming chairman of the Federal Reserve. Now, as he presides over this first meeting, comes the harder part. Mr. Warsh finds himself in a Bermuda triangle of policy pressures, greater challenges than any new Fed chairman since the Jimmy Carter era. The new chairman is caught […]
“[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
