Originally appeared in the New York Times A FEW days ago, I visited the shiny headquarters of the Peterson Institute for International Economics on “think tank row” in Washington — basically, the locker room of the Team Globalization and Free Trade cheering squad. I was there to take part in a discussion of an old […]
Originally published in The New York Times By the end of 2015, the economy — still leaving too many Americans behind — has regrettably almost disappeared from the news, overshadowed by the twin evils of Donald J. Trump and the Islamic State. Meanwhile, Congress continued to burnish its record of doing little that was constructive, […]
Originally appeared in The New York Times IF Ben S. Bernanke were to write a sequel to his recently published memoir, “The Courage to Act,” he might well want to call it “The Courage Not to Act.” For that’s what the Federal Reserve needs at its rate-setting meeting today and at least some of those […]
“[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
