The economy can’t fully recover without longer-term help from Washington. Originally published in the New York Times Like dutiful soldiers, President Trump’s top economic advisers have been ardently echoing their boss’s optimism about the likelihood of a quick economic snapback, while downplaying the need for another rescue package. Regrettably, that’s dead wrong on both counts, as even Mr. […]
Congress gets an A+ for speed but a B- for quality. Originally published in a New York Times Op-Ed The next round of economic stimulus has now emerged from Congress’s sausage factory, with more rescue efforts inevitably to follow. Hats off to Congress for moving quickly, particularly in passing the gargantuan $2.2 trillion package late […]
To save American jobs, we need to save American businesses. Originally published in the New York Times Here we go again. With business activity having declined precipitously, bailouts of troubled companies are appropriately back on the table. Distasteful as they may be, we need rescue plans urgently, for both small and large business, and we need […]
“[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
