Washington Post
The superbly crafted rescue plan that the Treasury announced Sunday represents not an end to the perils of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but merely the beginning of a new chapter. Conservatorship of the government-sponsored enterprises does not resolve the long-term questions, and the hardest part of the job lies ahead.
Washington Post
Amid the cascade of worrisome economic news, nowhere has the data been more disturbing than in the housing arena.
Financial Times
Whither private equity, in the wake of its descent from a “golden age” to the dog house in a handful of months? Few businesses or individuals (save, perhaps, Bear Stearns or Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor) have fallen so far, so 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
