Originally appeared in The New York Times. MEMO to Republican legislators biting your nails over the New York primary, wondering if you can finally derail Donald J. Trump’s candidacy with, gulp, Ted Cruz: You brought it on yourselves. Not just by failing for too long to take Mr. Trump seriously or by lacking an effective […]
Originally appeared in the New York Times. ECONOMIC alarm bells are ringing: Financial markets have wilted. Forecasters have been slicing their projections for future growth. And some leading wise men — including the megabillionaire George Soros — are predicting a return to disastrous 2008 conditions. That’s almost certainly an overly pessimistic view. But without a […]
Originally appeared in the New York Times. THANKS disproportionately to their mother, my kids have a gratifyingly acute sense of the urgency of addressing the dire straits in which far too much of the world’s population lives. For my part, I wanted them to understand the key role that capitalism, which has brought more people […]
“[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
