Originally appeared in The New York Times. Ever since President Obama unveiled his health care plan in 2009, critics have questioned its lofty promise to bring affordable health insurance to millions of Americans. Now statistics for the second year are largely in hand and the verdict is indisputable: Its disastrous 2013 rollout notwithstanding, the Affordable […]
Originally appeared in Business Insider. I’m flattered that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman – Nobel prize winning economist and darling of crunchies everywhere – has seen fit to attack me not once, but twice, over a recent Times Op-Ed column of mine about the Eurozone mess. The nub of my sin, says Krugman, is […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times. TOO often the debate over how to restart Europe’s economy veers into the conveniently crisp alternatives of stimulus versus austerity. Should the pressure to reduce government deficits be relaxed? Should central bank actions to lower interest rates have come sooner and been more aggressive? That simplistic debate has […]
“[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
