Financial Times
In a fusillade of debates and speeches President Barack Obama and his Republican challengers have firmly established the economic policy combat lines for next year. What an electoral battle it will be – a clash of ideologies the likes of which America has not seen in decades.
New York Times
IN the middle of all the debt default drama and stock market turbulence, the leading Republican presidential candidates have begun to fill in the shadowy outlines of their positions on major economic issues.
Financial Times
Read what you choose into the gyrating US stock market. Blame, if you like, the dysfunction in Washington and the unsatisfying deal that led Standard & Poor’s to remove America’s triple A rating. Or worry about Europe, lurching from one phase of its sovereign debt crisis to another. And of course, many investors fear that torrid growth in emerging market countries is slowing quickly.
“[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
