Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
