On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts showing how Georgia’s early state re-opening has not translated into a rebound of economic activity. Data is now arriving from states like Georgia that reopened early and to the surprise of many, infection rates have generally not trended upward. That’s because Georgians (and residents of other […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts detailing how the rapid deterioration in employment has disproportionately hit women, low income workers and minorities. With much of the country still shut down and little visibility as to when that will end, economists have been ratcheting up their forecasts for unemployment as new data shows […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner reviewed the latest employment figures which revealed broad-based losses in April with low-income workers and small firms hit especially hard. While Friday will bring the most significant economic indicator since COVID-19 struck – the April jobs announcement – the employment report yesterday by payrolls processor ADP provided some […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts detailing the impact that coronavirus has had on the economy. Even if stay-at-home policies ease, conditions are unlikely to return to pre-crisis levels anytime soon. Americans need to understand that even if the remain-in-place policies are eased, the economy is unlikely to snap back to anything […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts showing how the coronavirus crisis has rocked financial markets and re-ignited recession fears. Stock markets plunged, oil prices collapsed and bond yields fell to new record lows – all in response to the spreading of the coronavirus. It was the worst day on Wall Street since […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts that put the sheer size of Sanders’s agenda into perspective – not only would he double the size of the federal government, but he has yet explain how he’d pay for roughly half of it. Joe Biden’s strong performance in South Carolina likely accounted for much […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented the latest 2020 campaign finance figures, which show that among the non-billionaire candidates, Sanders maintains a commanding, cash-flush lead. Money isn’t everything but in politics, it’s something and by any measure, Bernie Sanders is winning the “money primary.” The important consequence of that news is that Sanders […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner set the record straight regarding Trump’s claims of an “Economic Boom” while crediting President Obama for turning the country around. President Trump took to Twitter again on Monday to proclaim the success of the economy on his watch (and rebut a tweet from President Obama implicitly pointing out […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that Trump has not only fallen short of his economic promises, he has fallen short of Obama’s last 3 years in office. Not surprisingly, in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Trump did his best to reinforce the impression that the […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner examined the surprising rise of Sanders and corresponding decline of support for Warren in the 2020 polls – two Presidential hopefuls that share similar policy beliefs but with differing degrees of progressivism. Bernie Sanders’ rise in 2020 public opinion polls has nearly mirrored Elizabeth Warren’s fall. That’s not […]
