On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining the consequences of the Senate’s latest tax plan. Upon return from this week’s Thanksgiving recess, the Republican bill will be considered – one that would provide little benefit to the … Continue reading →
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday, Steven Rattner discussed the implications of President Trump’s latest health care related executive orders that stand to adversely affect millions of Americans. With Congress having failed to pass legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable … Continue reading →
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts on President Trump’s tax reform proposal. While many details were left unresolved, we learned enough to know that it would favor business, increase the national debt substantially and hurt badly residents … Continue reading →
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented three charts assessing the Graham-Cassidy health care bill and made the points in the notes below: The Graham-Cassidy health care bill is on life support – and for good reason. Contrary to … Continue reading →
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented new data on higher incomes in 2016, especially for women, but huge income inequalities persist. The biggest news was that median household incomes, after adjustment for inflation, rose by 3.2% last year … Continue reading →
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining how President Trump has been doing a lot of bragging on Twitter and in interviews about his economic accomplishments, but the evidence suggests that he doesn’t have that much to … Continue reading →
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining how President Trump has been dispatching self-congratulatory tweets about his economic stewardship but the reality is that apart from the stock market, he has little to brag about. The economy … Continue reading →
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining how moving beyond 10 year budget “scoring” and using longer term projections – including some newly released analyses – shows more dramatically the ways in which the bill would favor … Continue reading →
The Congressional Budget Office released its “score” of the Senate health care bill and while it confirms the impression that the Senate bill is ever so slightly less draconian than the House bill, the result is still disastrous for the … Continue reading →
President Trump is trying to pivot from investigations to policy but he may not find much happiness among his base as the impact of his proposals on them becomes clear. Let’s look at three examples: … Continue reading →
